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Challenging, but Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've been excited about DOA4 for a long time now. I was thinking about DOA3 when I first got my xbox and DOAU when that came out, but I decided to wait. The wait paid off. The game is amazing! The graphics are unbelievable (except the hair that goes through the body and looks like blocks). The scenery, lighting, and color are all very amazing. I'm not sure if this is true of the other games in the series (this is my first one) but this game is one of the hardest and most frustrating games I've ever played! It is up in the ranks of Midnight Club. Unless you are a pro, get used to an annoying female voice saying "KO! You Lose!" It seems that every move is countered and it is almost impossible to win. I admit, I took the time (5+ hours) to beat all of the different character's story modes and it is hard, but fun. Even though it will take a while to get good at the game, it will be fun after a while. I would suggest buying this game for the sheer beauty, and the fun of the gameplay if you are willing to lose about 5 times as many fights as you win. Even though Team Ninja and Tecmo created quite possibly the hardest fighter (I've ever played), they still have themselves a winner.

I am Death

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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?)

Rick's dead or alive review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game was fun but i had hoped they would bring the swimsuits back from other games.

DOA4

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 22
Date: January 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It the worst of the series, just because it is for the newest system out doesn't mean it the best.

DOA4 awesome game!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Dead or Alive 4 is an awesome game. It provides entertainment for hours. After completing the story mode, which only took about a day or so.....there are challenges on LIVE...keeping you entertained by playing against people all over the world.

There are only two problems I have found with the game. (1) After beating the story mode and unlocking all of the characters, the game deleted by progress, causing all my characters to disappear. Team Ninja is supposed to be putting out a patch to fix this. (2) When playing on LIVE there is alot of times the game will freeze....when it plays, it is awesome, but when it freezes, the only way to get out of it is wait for about 5-10 minutes or exit LIVE and go back in.

I highly recommend this game.....it reminds me alot of my favorite game of all time, Tekken.....but the moves are better!

WOW... what a waste of great graphix

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game in a bundle with my xbox 360... I will have to say that I would never have bought this off the shelf and for good reason. This is a great example of how a company can throw some of the best graphix out there into a complete pile of crap. The game has less content to it then the first street fighter, online play is a complete joke, and the controls are extremely sloppy. Not only would i recommend not buying this game, I would recommend breaking or burning it if you got it in some package.

what the hell !!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We all seem to be missing the big point with this game, after spending hours trying to unlock stuff, costumes and such the game delete its memory,damn that's anoying.

Nice Graphics and Sound - if you like fighting games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Suberb graphics and visual. Excellent sound. Nice choice for those who like fighting games...

BUY THIS

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you have an x-box 360 this is a must have game. The most amazeing graphics ive ever seen, buy this game its just amazing.

good looks is deceiving

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you want to have fun don not buy this game is just like ninja gaiden, HARD!!!!!!!!!!!! if you want just good looks this is the game

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