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Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Whether you just want a few minutes of fun, or are looking for hours of intense gameplay, this is the beat-em-up game you want to get. Graphics are fantastic, moves are plentiful, and gameplay is rewarding.
This is actually the first xBox game I ever played. This has been a while ago. It certainly was the game that made me buy this console (well, alright, I would have probably bought it no matter what...)

HD AV pitfalls

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DOA3 was one of 4 four games I picked up today with my Xbox. All worked great except DOA3 when using the High Definition connector I purchased with the system (I'm using Microsoft's not Monster if anyone cares). I get audio but no video. Composite video works fine. I find this very disappointing. I don't want to switch between video connectors just to play this game. I have a call into Tecmo tech support, but no response yet...

Update: I've talked with the Tecmo folks, and the HD issue is a usablity problem with the Xbox. If you select either HD modes a game doesn't support or that your digital monitor doesn't support the only indication you get it a blank screen when you run some games.

Now that I can get DOA3 to run, I think it is great!

Flashy and sexy, but not very deep

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dead or Alive 3 is a fast paced and graphically outstanding fighting game. The game is three dimensional and the comabt is based on a mix of punches, kicks, throws, and counters - moves that catch punches and kicks and reverse them, usually damaging the opponent.

The standard mix of modes are available: story or arcade mode, versus mode, a practice mode, team battles, a timed attack mode (beat eight enemies as fast as you can), and a survival mode (beat as many enemies as you can before you fall). There are "tag battle" modes available in the versus mode, which allows you to control two characters and tag them in and out during a fight. You can even get them both on the screen at once for special combo attacks.

Graphically, Dead or Alive 3 is one of the ost stunning games made thus far. The visuals are absolutely breathtaking.

Dead or Alive 3 has one, major flaw: it is not very deep. Well, actually, that isn't fair, the depth is there, but it is nearly inaccessible. Good fighting games are built on strategies that go several layers deep and we have that in DOA3. Counters can defeat punches and kicks, throws can defeat counters, and strikes can defeat throws. The different characters all have a huge assortment of moves in each category and each move does varying amounts of damage and works at varying ranges. Furthermore, none of the characters are broken or unfair, so all the elements are there for an outstanding fighting system. Unfortunately, the game is too bloody fast and the moves are too hard to do. This observation may just be a reflection on my skill as a gamer, but I don't believe it is. The pace of the combat is simply too fast and the number of options is simply too large to allow combat to evolve very far from button mashing.

DOA3 is still a lot of fun to play with your friends, and its lack of real depth actually keeps the game balanced between veterans and beginners. Veterans will definitely have the edge as they will be able to get at some the depth that should be there and exploit strategies the beginners can't, but anyone can still fall sometimes to some wild button mashing.

All in all, if you really have to have a fighter, you'll be able to enjoy DOA3 as a quick fix for your addiction, but it won't provide the sort of lasting satisfaction and near infinite replay value that some of the classic fighting games have given us.

Multiplayer Mayhem

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off, I don't normally play fighting games. With very few exceptions they all look alike and mortal combat just doesn't have the OOMPH of games like Deus Ex. DOA3, however, blew me away.

Let me say right off the bat, story mode is a joke. Its only purpose is to defeat the big bad guy with each character to unlock mini-movies. But if I were you, I wouldn't buy this game for the story.

More to the point, this game is a fantastic multiplayer title.
The control that is afforded to you allows human to human deathmatches to get very interesting. Especially once both players learn the logic behind the numerous blocks, holds, throws, and counters.

While the combat system for the entire game is slick, the inclusion of some very responsive and innovative designs insure that your character will be fighting like Neo in no time. The stellar graphics speak for themselves, this is THE title that you need to show off your Xbox hardware. And each and every single character has their own style, not just their own attacks. They all move in their own manner, coupled with huge and terifically animated warriors with a frighteningly deep combat system and drop dead gorgeous graphics, you've got one hell of a game to play with friends over.

Amazing graphics, Ample cleavage, little else

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: January 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Dead or Alive 3 seems to aim right for the gut [or a little lower]. Its graphics deliver the best images I've ever seen in a fighting game, and the characters look, um, interesting. I wonder how necessary it really was to utilize the graphics engine to animate the characters' breasts. Don't get me wrong - the jiggling is amusing for the first hour or so. But the gratuitous panty shots get a little embarassing, especially when you try to convince your friends to play the game with you.

I was a little disappointed with the lack of a sensical storyline. Are we supposed to care about the "movies"? They are certainly not worth the "trouble" of fighting your way through Omega, the pointless boss at the end of every single-person fighting campaign. I think of everything in this game, the Omega character is the worst. The perspective suddenly changes, making it initially impossible to figure out how to move. Furthermore, he fights with long-range energy pulses, fireballs, and charging attacks that you simply cannot dodge completely. The absolute worst is that every time you knock him down, you take damage. Couldn't the designers have come up with a more interesting way to end the fighting?

The game was fun for about 10 hours. But since then, I get almost embarassed every time I play it. Hopefully someone will soon develop a fighting game that focuses on the fighting and not on the abundant curves of the girlish characters.

Not for the ladies...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 39
Date: September 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This one might offend some women, either who plan on playing or watching the game being played. Dubed "the bounciest fighter around", this game uses sex appeal to reach into the wallets or teens and young adults. Just don't let your girlfriend see what you've been playing....

WHOA....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: October 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't have this game yet, but it's looking great. Just as good as the PS2's Dead or Alive 2. I hope that DOA3 has a storyline that is worth having. I don't like fighting games that don't have storylines on why they are fighting. Anyway, the graphics are so good in this game that if I didn't know any better, I'd say that these characters were either real people or characterized after real people. The XBOX is using the power that they have for this next-gen console, unlike they are doing for some games that they have coming out. I am looking forward to this game. I've heard that you can smash your opponents through walls...I hope so!!! I hope that this review has helped you on the choosing for your games on the XBOX...

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is awesome - a must have for any xbox owner

1. The graphics are breathtaking, perhaps one of the very few games that does justice to xbox
2. There's plenty of variety
- you keep getting to know new features that keep you glued.

Incredible fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think the professional game critics have been rather harsh toward this game because they claim that everything have been done before, it just have pretty graphics.
But they got be fair also, even though supposely everything is done before, but this game does everything better. I used to be a Takken fun, own both Takken 3 and Takken Tag Team, I think this game have much better gameplay than those two. Yes, in all fighting games, on the easy level, you can smash buttons quickly you will win. What sets DOA3 apart from Takken series is that the counter, and the interactive and multileveled environment add a lot of depth and strategy to the game. Even supposely it didn't change much gameplay from DOA2, but then again, if a it is not broken, do not fix it. Besides, until virtual reality and touch similators are available for the home, there is really not much new stuff people can add to a 3-D fighter nowadays. This is just about as perfect as a 3-D figher could be given current technology.

Of course, no one denies the graphics are amazing.

Definitely Alive (and Kicking)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The best 3-D fighting game I have ever played. The graphics are superior to any fighting game for any other platform or in the arcade. There are may fighting styles and charcters to choose from. These range from Ninjitsu, pro-wrestling and even drunken boxing. The variety of charcters and special moves makes this fighting game exceptional.

The CGI movies are incredible.

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