Dead or Alive 4 has everything a next-gen game should have: wonderful graphics, amazing sound/music, a great character scheme, and some very nice features. But with every good game comes bad things, even Halo isn’t perfect. More plot depth is needed. You fight a fair amount of one on ones and then K.O. this really hard final boss to get a nice movie and some un-lockable features (costumes, viewing the end movie for each character you beat the game with, and so on) I know that some people like the “all fight and little story” type of game so give us an option under the game settings to have that in our game. That way we can all be happy. Another thing, not much of a tutorial, yes there is a nice “press these buttons to do this attack” feature, but it doesn’t really explain everything on a nice silver platter. But I digress. All in all DoA 4 is an amazing game and worth the wait. Despite a few flaws I would recommend this game to any arcade fighter fan or to someone who was interested I would advise them to rent it and give it a fair chance, it is a challenging game but it is worth learning.
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By Madskillz999 | Review Date: Jan 02, 2006 | X360
Dead or Alive 4, the most recent iteration of the popular DOA series, is an incredible experience. Everything is superb. The character models-though still cartoony in appearance-are still detailed enough to drop a few ja... Read Full Review
It's hard to describe my feelings towards DOA4 after spending a fair chunk of time with the game. In trying to get rid of the "DOA is for button bashers" image, Tecmo tried to incorporate more elements in DOA4 that would... Read Full Review
