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Great Fighter............Great Girls!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DOA2 is a pure and awesome fighter.

FIGHTING ENGINE - It has a complete freestyle fighting system. This means that you can string together combos, change ups, and counters as the fight changes. It makes the battles that much more fierce and brutal.

ARENAS - The arenas in the game are beautiful and interactive. Wind blows costumes and hair, the clouds roll overhead, water laps in the Aerial Garden. Some are multi-leveled so you can knock your opponent down a cliff or over a building taking off a huge chunk of health. There has never been anything quite like it, before or since.

CHARACTERS - With 14 different playable characters you have plenty of variety. Each has a unique fighting style and various costumes you can earn as you play through the game. Lastly you can't beat a game that has 5 tough, beautiful, A$$ kicking girls, it's just awesome, and adds a certain level to the game ;-).

This is a fantastic game, I can't find anything wrong with it, other than it compels me to play it for hours on end.

Best fighting experience on PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Most people have heard a lot more of Tekken Tag Tournament than DOA2:Hardcore. But DOA is a better game. Although tekken has great gameplay and graphics. DOA fairly outdoes them. The game may not be a very cinimatic experience (i mean, in the story mode you would have though that a monkey with a knife stuck in his head wrote it, it makes NO SENSE at all but is quite amusing) but has incredible replay value and the best fighting engine. You probobly know why by the other reviews. Also, the game keeps you coming back for more because of the many unlockable secrets. So if you are going to buy tekken and haven't played it or DOA, at least rent them so you will make a good desision.

Very, very nice.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: November 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I find this game the best fighting game ever made. Not perfect, but the top. It features two new characters over the DreamCast version, several new costumes, and more levels. It's graphics are dramatically improved. The detail in the textures was upped, and the framerate doubled. The only notable problem is slight jagged edges. But until I went looking for them, they weren't noticeable. Very good game. Lots of secrets to unlock and fun to be had. I reccomend this game to anyone who owns a PS2, and maybe even those who don't, but plan to.

Not as good as the Dreamcast version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Lets face it people, what's more important? Slightly better graphics with a few more color schemes for the same costumes and two or three new arenas, or more responsive controls?

That's right, more responsive controls.

All the eye-candy in the world won't amount to squat if the game is more sluggish!

Being a vet of DOA2 for Dreamcast, I was excited about the PS2 version, so I bought it. For some reason, I can't execute counters as intuitively as I could on the DC version. This is a very serious problem, because counters are vital in DOA2.

I can't stress the importance of this lack of responsiveness in the game except to advise you to buy the Dreamcast version, if possible, or Tekken Tag for PS2. This will satisfy your fighting needs as well as DOA2.

I feel the PS2 version isn't as responsive because the game was designed on Dreamcast hardware, and ported over to the PS2.

What a shame...

Very Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: January 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Am I the only gamer who lost interest in these tekken types of games? Graphics of DOA2 is anime-like and has many good looking female fighters. Too bad they don't make up for the terrible game-play though. Juggle and special moves are phony and are getting old. If you like games like virtua fighter4, you might like this game. I'm not sure if tekken tag fans would like this game, but I sure don't. In my opinion, Tekken requires more strategy in comparison to DOA2. DOA2 yields beginners about the same chance of winning if they smash buttons. There is no need for skills in this game. Learning difficult moves doesn't reward you. What's so good about a fighting game if you can't get good at it? Also, if you're a fan of mixed-martial-arts, know how MMA fights go, and prefer a simulation of MMA fights, stay away from this game. Wait until Pride FC is available.

Can you handle the learning curve?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For months, DOA2 on the PS2 was competing for my attention with "Soul Calibur" for the Dreamcast at the office. SC is surely more approachable, easier to get good at, and has better extras, but D0A2 has a fighting engine that is arguably superior.

DOA2's controls include a button called "free", which must be understood and mastered before this game can be any fun at all. While used for sidesteps and movement into the foreground/background (a trigger press also accomplishes this), the main point of "free" is to do "holds", which allow you to reverse an opponents attack and hurt him/her much worse than he/she was going to hurt you. To hold a mid-level attack, just press free and back. High and low attacks are held with free and diagonal backs on the d-pad.

It takes a LONG time to get the hang of this, but it is incredibly rewarding once you've done so, because it eliminates the "tennis match" style (DailyRadar's term) prevalent in so many fighting games -- one player unleashes a combo, the other player retaliates, etc. Instead, you can dismantle the combo when it begins or (sometimes) halfway through. Attackers can no longer use easy go-to moves on every series, because the defender will see it coming. Instead, you have to conceal your style, or widen your offensive pallette.

The game also makes use of the arena -- instead of "ring outs" ending the match (as in Soul Calibur), two things can happen to an unlucky defender who's run out of room. They may get knocked to a different level of the environment, sustaining damage, or they may be knocked into a hazard like an electified wall, taking heaps of damage.

As we'd expect from the PS2, the visuals are sumptuous. Facial expressions in the story-mode close-ups are creepily realistic at times, even given the usual anime stylings.

Story mode is a ridiculous mush of character moments and melodrama -- suitably "hardcore" single players may just want to play survival mode repeatedly to skip the incoherent babbling. As you'd expect, playing against real people is much more fun, particularly the four-player tag-team, although you'll need to spend ... for extra controllers and a multi-tap to try it.

What's not to like? Well, the characters have a certain sameness to them, although that may be a design choice to avoid the cartoonishness of other fighting games (Tekken's ogres, giant pandas and wooden men are nowhere to be seen). Also, the overt cheesecake factor may be offensive to some, although it is at times so over-the-top that you have to think the developers are pushing outrage for outrage's sake. And if you don't understand that, unlock a few of Tina's costumes.

Wipes the floor with Tekken Tag

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This simply has to be the best game out on the PS2 at the moment. Unlike T.T.T, it is fully 3d, and you can punch your enemies through walls, windows, and in the case of the danger zone, into missiles!I suggest that any ps2 owner wanting to buy a descent beat em up, should check this out!Oh yes, one other thing, all the female fighters have bouncy.........!

DOA2 RULES!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm a huge fan of the 1st game on the PSX.. This one totally blows away the original in every way! This has gorgeous graphics, and I do mean gorgeous! The back grounds are simply amazing.. The characters are well designed, especially the babes! : ) Whenever you do a high kick w/ them, you get a little peek at their pretty little undies, heh. Anyway, besides that, the game runs smoothe as silk, and the fighting is great, this is just as good as lets say 'Tekken Tag..' Controls are pretty simple, you get used to them after a few tries.. This also has some pretty decent re-play value.. you keep on fighting till you receive costumes for the characters.. I think some alternate for the babes are like bikkinis! : ) Well, what are you waiting for?? Go buy this killer fighting game and enjoy. Doa2 rules!

Liked it better than Tekken Tag

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I actually liked DOA2 better than Tekken Tag Tournament. I found the visuals to be more befitting of the PlayStation 2 console, showing off the fantastic rendering speed and quality the unit can achieve. I also find DOA2's fighting to be quite a bit quicker than Tekken, making it much more of a challenge.

The only thing keeping me from rating it five stars is that Tekken does have far more characters to play. With what they achieved with the game as it is, I would have liked to have seen more characters.

Pure addiction and no less.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? My roommates and I recently acquired a PS2 through a raffle, and DOA2 was definitely our first love. For four players I think that the gameplay and the fun level that DOA2 has to offer is unparalleled by any other game. The graphics are far above average for the console world, and the characters are rendered beautifully (especially the girls.... I mean, in how many other games can you control a woman's jubliness?). The only downside I have to write about this game is that it's just too darn addicitive. At the moment, it's the middle of finals period here and look at me: I'm so hooked that I'm even reading and writing reviews about the game!!

So, if you're looking for some hot, neverending, multiplayer action, look no further.

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