After riding Steel Vengeance this past weekend I feel that I can say without a doubt, this isn't going to live up to anything I was looking forward to. SV is a massive, long, widing, fast, beast of a ride. Subtract the lift hill and you have at least a minute and a half of pure, high speed, drunk coaster designer thrill. Smoothest coaster by far, smoother then anything else I've rode in a opening season. It took 11 years but Maverick was finally dethroned as my favorite coaster of all time.
SV has a deep story, probably as deep as this coaster. Ready? Three antiheroes wanted to run Maverick (neighboring coaster turned character) out of town. So guess what they did? Build a bigger and badder coaster. That's it.
Two different kinds of coasters, sure. But anything I was looking forward to with this just had it's hopes blown out of the water. SV is my new benchmark for coasters.