I've played with random fighters but random top fighters ie. Brock,Mir, Rampage and etc. But I played a match with me as Mir and the cpu as Cro Cop and I destroyed him. I then fought Brock and he's too strong. There is a huge difference in difficulty when fighting a elite fighter and a not so great fighter. The announcing is superb, when I high kicked Cro Cop Rogan comes out with a cool line and says "Cro Cop was just Cro Coped" which I found pretty cool. So Yeah forget about #1.