The most fun I've ever had punching a girl! Well, second most fun...
And I sucked at Dead or Alive 4.
So I kept playing, and I kept playing, and then all of a sudden..!
I still sucked at Dead or Alive 4.
But that doesn't mean it is a bad game. In fact, I went back, and kept going back and now I am actually good at DoA4! Yay me!
And that, in its self is a testament to the kind of game that DoA4 is. I wanted to be good at it. Normally I would have just returned the game, got something else and hoped I was good at that to try and boost my gamer ego back up. But, after going through the story mode with a few characters (and almost crying every time I got to the stupid final fight! Dumb electric bit-) I found myself adapting to each characters fighting style.
In only one or two fights I could quickly throw together a game plan that played to the characters strengths and would start winning! Yay me, again!
And going through the story modes was actually quite rewarding. At the end of each character's story, you unlock something, normally a costume, but sometimes an extra character or something. But the real reward were the movies, with some of them being genuinely laugh out loud funny.
So, while this might not me up to the Tekken's of the world as far as serious fighting goes, or the Mortal Kombat's as far as gore goes this fighter ranks high with me because it is fun. And if that isn't worth a recomendation, then I don't know what could be.
Oh, and just in case my mom reads this; I've never really punched a girl.
Seriously.