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Is this Game Dead or Alive?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

It is clear from the opening scenes that this game will provide you with awesome eye candy. The graphics are nothing less than perfect. It is so amazing how the fabric on the characters' clothes even moves when they are jumping around. Hey, even body parts jiggle in this game. I was also impressed by the intricate martial arts movements each character possessed. And many of the awesome movements are simple to key in using your controller. These aspects of the game are truly Alive.

Now for what I consider to be the dead aspects of the game: First, the game play is not captivating. I had this game for about two days before I was totally bored with it. Everything about this game seems redundant. In an age of dynamic games for dynamic gamers, this game is simply to "Street Fighter-Like." Once you defeat this game a few times (does not take very long), you are left with a shell without any reusable content.

This game is both Dead and Alive. I still give it four stars for the attempt at highly intricate movements and graphics. Nice to have in your Xbox collection for those days when all your video game friends are over and you all want to challenge each other.

AWESOME!!![...]

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: September 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think this is a great game, make sure you look at the backgrounds in pictures,they are amazing,and the fire, oh the fire is outstanding!!! [...]whoever looks at this and you are getting an xbox-make sure you get this game!!!

Real

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is exactly that, so real graphically. When playing DOA2 the graphics seem cartoony in comparison, the eyes painted onto shoddy models. Not so on DOA3... the snow impacted by your feet... the leaves swept by your motions... the glass broken by your back, the falls immense, the water fluid, the clouds true-- you can feel the mist... clothes that don't distort their texture, you can tell it's felt, or leather, or fur...

This isn't the PS2 fanboys DOA, it's all XBox, and impossible to produce on any other platform.

This game is amazing, if your looking for a story, go play Munch though, this game is about having a lot of fun just fighting it out.

Simply amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I personally do not own this game. In fact, I don't even have an Xbox (shame on me!). I never wanted to get an Xbox, because I thought that they acted too cocky...then my friend brought over his Xbox and Dead or Alive 3. This game is the best fighting game I have ever played. Ever. Unlike other games where it just looks like you are just trying to do special moves, THIS game makes it look like you are really fighting with somebody. The graphics are fluid and the gameplay is tight. That is why I am amazed that it did not get 5 stars over all.

I own a Playstation 2 and I own Tekken Tag Tournament. I had a feeling that I shouldn't have played DoA3...ever since I picked up that controller (that feels like a two potatoes, which is really comfortable. I compared, and they are like potatoes!), I have stopped playing Tekken and all of my PS2 games. That is why for the next few weeks I am going to be working everyday until I can get myself an Xbox. And guess which game is going to be the first one I buy? That's right, Dead or Alive 3. If you own an Xbox, buy this game; you will not regret it.

DEAD OR ALIVE 3=THE BEST FIGHTING GAME ON XBOX

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The future of fighting games has arrived. DEAD OR ALIVE 3 delivers an in your-face experience unlike any other! The incredible tag-battle feature lets up four players pummel each other with exciting tag team moves until one duo stands victorius. Drool over the lush fighting enviroments and muti-tired stages as you kick, punch, and throw your opponents over balconies, through walls, and off of cliffs! DEAD OR ALIVE 3 is the most dynamic, jaw-dropping fighting game out there, and the slick control makes it easy to puck up and lay the smackdown. The future is now. Are you ready?!.

amazing graphics - but also amazing physics & gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Many people are saying that this game has awesome graphics - but that other elements of the game are not as worthy. I disagree... the gameplay is just as good as the graphics. Keep in mind that many of the reviews prior to mid-November (the Xbox release date) are from people who have never even played the game - they are merely speculating. It is a very solid fighting game - not just a pretty first-generation xbox game. After playing it for 6 or so hours a day for the last 4 days, it holds a permanent place in my xbox gaming collection.

The Reason I Bought XBOX...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Back in the day (around May) when I was still looken for a game system, I headed over to the demo section, and tried a game for the Gamecube (Rogue Leader), the PS2 (NCAA Gameday 2002), and and XBOX. Unlike with the other demos, XBOX had several games you could try. I tried DOA3, and I was amazed:

1. The options are amazing! There must be 3 or 4 dozen moves to try, and I still haven't figured them all out yet. To begin with, there are over 12 characters to choose from, ranging from fighting styles of former wrestlers to ninjas. The envirements to chose from are incredible! Half the fun of the game is looking for secrets in the 2 dozen levels. You can either do story mode (my least favorite part), versus mode (fight each other 2-4 player), team battle, survival mode (my persounal favorite), tag battle, and movies. In the versus mode, 2 to 4 people can fight tag team against each other. It's a real blast. My persounal favorite in this game (besides multiplayer), is survival mode. Beating as many openants as u can. Each oponnant gets harder until you're literally fighting for your life. A great game in terms of options, you'll spend hours upon hours fighting DOA3 style.

2. The gameplay in this game is awsome! It never gets to easy, and I still can't beat the computer on the setting >very hard< after a 100 hours of gameplay; it's mouth watering! The moves are fun and graceful, and the overall gameplay in just about everything (survival mode, story, team battle) is good enough to keep u entertained. The gameplay, I'm very happy to say, does not fail here.

3. The graphics: what really made this game! Every single fighting arena is huge, beautiful, and has the best graphics I've ever seen. When your fighting in a snow covered forrest, your feet leave footprints, and being knocked into a tree causes snow to fall from it in clumps. In an aquarium setting, whales and dolphins actually glide by you while fighting. In hill top setting, you can knock off the oppenant for dozens of stories onto lower hill tops. Water in this game looks like real water, and the crispness of everything is just amazing! The people look so real you'll grimace when they get hit (well, maybe not quite that much). No gore, but it seriously looks like a real fight is going on.

Overall, you should get this game. Especially counsidering the price drop recently. A classic game, this was the reason I bought XBOX, and it may be the reason you should to!

They nailed their target demographic

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I like the game, but admittedly it is not overly deep. They have a great graphics engine, and beautiful characters, but you can get away with a lot of button mashing. I believe most of the game designer's energy went into making sure (...) that the female characters underwear looks right from all angles. A good game for people that aren't good at fighting games, but probably a rental for most.

Best Fighting Game Period

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the must have XBox games. The graphics are fantastic but that's not even the best part. The fighting gameplay in this game is unbelievable. It actually feels like you're fighting. Plus different fighting styles are accurately simulated. Thai boxers fight with muy thai kicks and elbows, Karate fighters use the standard Tae Kwon Do fighting stance and use the fast punches and kicks of that style, the Russian fighters use a slower and much more powerfull style that incorporates arm bars and leg bars (Brazilian JuiJitSu). I couldn't believe it when I started playing the game and saw how accurate the fighting was.

The only downside of this game is that it really doesn't have much of a story and it's pretty easy to beat the story mode. There are other modes that present more of a challenge though and I don't get fighters like this for the story anyway. I'm more interested in fight simulation, and in that respect DOA3 completely surpassed my expectations. I've yet to see anything even close to it.

Unbelievable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Next to Rallisport Challenge this is the coolest game for the XBox. Christie's movie is unbelievable in terms of both graphics and content. It happened to be the first one I unlocked, and it certainly motivated me to unlock other movies!

The story mode, as just about everyone else has pointed out, is weak aside from the character movies. But this game is about game-play enjoyment and graphics. Game-play is easy to pick up, as evidenced by my 3-1/2-year old's quick learning of the basic moves. The scenes (the beach and the aquarium in particular) are amazing and the characters (I happen to be biased toward the women) are beautifully rendered.

Even without a better story mode this could be the best XBox game available if Tecmo simply added more women fighters and removed some fabric from the costumes!

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