 "Still the best fighting game, (sorry S. Calibur4 and S.Fighter. IV)" | 2009-02-26 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3M1P5QWKX49BY |
This is the best fighting game on the 360, and it's one of the cheapest games too!
great fighting, great graphics, great gameplay !
Having bought Soul Calibur 4 and Street fighter 4 I come back to the basics, DOA rules !!
Those guys of the negative reviews obviously think that pac-man its way too complicated for them, heheh , just kidding. But seriously, this is not an easy game. |
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 "DOA4 an average fighter" | 2008-10-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1EHPSG1JK3C0V |
I have played Dead or Alive since the second one released on the dreamcast and have enjoyed the series up until this one. Dead or Alive 3 being my most favorite. I really tried to enjoy this game but through all the changes I couldn't enjoy it as it was more frustrating than fun.
Graphics: As always the Tecmo team does an excellent job with graphics pushing them as far as the system will let them take it. All you have to do is look at the characters and the different levels and know that it is gorgeous.
Storyline: Well, as always the story rarely makes sense and doesn't explain why you're fighting who you're fighting. Its a common thing between all fighter games. Unless you've played DOA from the begining don't even try to make since of it. The story mode is alright and the end boss is crazy and hard as can be. Unless you wanna buy the costumes online you will be going through storymode a bunch of times which I have and it sucked. I have only one character to unlock and that's Tengu, as for the others Ein is awesome, Leon and Gen Fu but why Tengu and Alpha-152?? The new characters added to the linup are Kokoro, Eliot and Lisa. My favorite one was Kokoro who is hard to use in fights and no flashy moves. Eliot took Gen Fu's spot and with Lisa all you do is push buttons and she goes crazy.
Combat System: They sped up the character movements and changed up the counter system, which makes this game tougher and very very frustrating. As always you have a list of moves you can go through in sparring mode to learn the new moves and old ones to try and come up with chains and all that on your own. However, when fighting against the cpu (on normal or hardest, I found to be the same) you end up getting mad because the cpu counters 75% of your moves and blocks 15% of them so that leaves you 10% chance of hitting the cpu. So what happens, you forget trying to string up a combo and just start mashing buttons and dont' even think about trying to get a grab combo on the cpu.
Online mode: Its hard to say as its different with everyone's connection and one second you can be hitting someone the next you're getting the beat down. I didn't play it that much and with the lag and all I didn't find it that much fun.
Music: The music goes well with the fighting and the creator loves Aerosmith which is fine by me.
Overall the frustration of trying to get combos off and getting countered and blocked most of the time get very annoying and are not easily overlooked because its a fighting game. One of those things where you get mad throw the conroller across the room and scream "I'll never play this stupid game again!!" but five minutes later your back trying to win. This game gets a frustrating 3 stars out of 5, which kills because I love the dead or alive series up to this point. |
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 "I am Death" | 2008-05-30 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1LT4H1GV0TMHV |
There is a level for begginers. But if you can't handle exicuting half of the moves in Training (more than likely because you are hitting the buttons to slow), then you won't do well. I play several games and sometimes I don't come back to this one for a while. But if you want a hard fighting game, or think that this is hard, try Tekken. The secret to this game is learning your combos, knowing 4 counters, predicting when you should use the counters, ability to stop using the same moves over and over (you know, change it up a bit), and to know your opponent.
For some reason I counter better with Lei Fang. I fight humans best with Christie (may favorite character). I fight the computer best with Ein (second best with Hitomi). I have never played on Xbox Live, but I have a friend that is ranked somewhere in the hundreds in this game, and I mop him up. But you don't have to dedicate your life to getting good at this game. Just do what I do, don't play a game by the genre, but as the game individually. You wouldn't go into a shooter game the same way you would a RPG or fighting. So try applying that to this game. I can alternate between KOF (I am pretty good at), to MK (I can only rock 2 characters- I don't play MK much), to Soul Caliber (awesome), to Bloody Roar (awesome), to Tekken (very awesome), and Arcana Heart (pretty good) in any order and don't have any problems with the transistion. Just need a couple of moments to get use to the game (but I have that prob with all games).
But now to the game. The story runs fairly smoothly but sometimes it seems as though they were reaching out for an excuse to make a fight (i.e. Hitomi and Lei). Zach's ending (as always) is always comical (cartoony). They didn't get rid of the gay outfit the Zach wears either (you know the one, Just one word for it: Teletubbies). They do leave a lot of holes in the story, some get filled if you know the story from early in the series. They modified alot of the combos, Some for the better, some for worse. The wall counting system (how many times a person hits a wall before they just fall to the ground) has gotten better. It is easier to get up when knocked down (but for some reason the computer can jump on me and land an attack that is soley for when you are laying down, if they initiate the jump before I get up, while I am fully standing). They still need to change the term in Training from Standing, because if you are not touching any buttons from the get go- you are standing. They could call it Standing Up, or Up from Crouch. I think the word that they use in Japanese does translate to standing but in contect to standing up or to make stand (I need a better dictionary, I have four, but none of them have the full word that is used.
I am waiting for when they finnaly have Christie say (note if this does get used I want my money da---rn it)"Get lost and die". I am also waiting for when Hitomi can say, "Hitomi, power up!" in a more fluid english, she says it in english just with a VERY thick japanese accent. I don't even speak japanese, but what little bit I do say, I have a very soft american accent (and I prefer western japanese accent) but it is not so much that you almost don't understand what I am saying. And when are they going to get rid of the gay outfit? (Zach is american and he is dressing up like a teletubby, WTF people? WTF?) |
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| "Great graphics and fun!" | 2007-07-02 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1WZ15MXASDZQB |
Odd thing is, I read so many reviews how difficult this game is, that I wasn't sure I wanted to buy this at all.
But when I played it - I realized how EASY this game actually is!
This game truly looks beautiful, there's a lot of details in the backgrounds. I especially loved the "Dinosaur arena" where you see dinosaurs walk around in the background. They had such great textures!
This is not your regular fighting game where you defend with a button and do some combo attack that makes fire/whatever like Guilty Gear, Mortal Kombat e.t.c
Instead, you fight for real, and you have to figure out how you should defeat your opponent.
For example, you play with Lei Fang who does great kicking. Your opponent is Bayman who will counterattack every little thing you do. So what do you do?
Well, you certainly will loose the fight within seconds when you try to kick and hit him as much as you can, because he will just grab you and smash you to the ground.
So instead you observe, watch what combos works the best, should you kick high or low, does he come to you so you can grab him, e.t.c
This makes the game not just a button masher game, you have to figure out how to beat your opponents.
I played with Ayane on the last boss, I tried 345783 times to beat it. What did I do? I stopped kicking, then I defeated the boss within seconds.
So even though it looks insanely hard since your opponents do loads of combos in a row, it's actually your own mistakes that makes them take advantage of it, so with the right combination of moves, you can defeat them within seconds.
This makes the game quick, you defeat the opponents fast and if they defeat you, just press Start 3 times quickly and you're ready to pummel opponents again.
There's no real "Defend Button" in this game, instead, I just try to defeat the opponents anyway. Sure I loose 17 times in a row sometimes, but once I get a hang of it, the opponents go down within seconds.
This game is not for a person who dosen't like to loose 7-20 times in a row, starting over and over again. This game requires you to start the fight again (you can start with the same opponent, no need to start it all over), because you have to figure out how to defeat them. |
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| "My fingers hurt!" | 2007-03-05 |
| - Reviewed By rizzen76 |
| Yes it's frustrating at times but I think the majority of the issues were patched and corrected. I'm not a young man anymore and my reflexes are not what they were but I didn't have much difficulty progressing in the game. The game is beautiful even though the game is now "old". Content wise it's your standard fare for a fighter. Good game overall .. I would have to disagree with everyone saying the game is too hard. |
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| "Great graphics" | 2007-01-16 |
| - Reviewed By elwayneman |
| I've owned this and all the DOA's. Great game, great price. Enough said. |
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