It's funny how you can have no story for a fighting game but need a story for a shooting game.

You don't need a reason to fight but need a reason to shoot, really?

I'm just pointing out the terrible review systems in place.

I don't play fighting games like Street Fighter or MvC for story. Except for Tekken cause they're more in your face with the story and there are more cutscenes and stuff during story battle/arcade mode than previously mentioned games.

But what the hell! They put C.Viper in there instead of a handful of other better characters and made combat even easier.
It's good, but not awesome or 5/5 game. I think we hyped this one a little too much seeing as how it's a half-assed step up from MvC2. Barely.

The majority of shooters have a story, so it is the standard in that genre to have a good story. Fighting games usually don't have story's, so that portion is overlooked. It goes both ways, a Single Player only shooter can get stellar reviews (look at Bioshock and Half Life) while if a fighting game didn't have multiplayer it would be detrimental to the score.

Its a fighting game.