One of the Best Fighters Out There
THE GOOD: Fighting is solid and, simply put, really cool. The theatrical style moves really make you say "Whoa!" Easy to pick up, but also one for the masters. Umm... oh yeah, ONLINE PLAY.
THE BAD: If you really like the game and its fast-paced, free-form style of fighting, you'll have to listen to all the Sony fan's bullcrap about how much better any other fighting game is compared to it. 'Cause pausing for a whole second after you messed up on the button combination for that particular attack even though you tried to press other buttons to do something else makes sense, right Soul Caliber and Tekken fans?
REVIEW: This is a great fighting game, and I wouldn't be ashamed to say that it is the best 3D fighter either. The fast-paced action of the game really gets you into it, especially right when you pull off an awesome cinematic technique that usually makes you laugh and say "That was incredible! Even though they did that to me, man that was cool." The Videos received from completing a character's story is usually something perverted, but gladly accepted. Online play is great. The Lobby is a little weird, but doesn't affect the online's play at all. The stuttering of the previous DOA online play has been fixed, being replaced with a slow-motion things instead, so you still see what happens. Just remember not to play with anyone who's busy downloading porn, otherwise a single fight could take 15 minutes. The free-style fighting system really makes this game stand out. Most fighters out there now have a combination system, requiring you to press a sequence of buttons to pull off a long combination of kicks and punches, or in Soul Caliber's case, press any 2 buttons at a time and you'll do some flashy special move. True, Dead or Alive has a combination system too, but the difference is when you mess up on ANY other of these "great" fighting games, your fighter stops, pauses, then goes back to their basic stance. In DOA, if you mess up, you simply do some other less-effective combination, taking away from the pausing and slow-paced garbage.
- Martial Arts Master: "Oh crap, I messed up. Here, let me just think about this for a second... okay, now I stand like this and... alright, I'm ready to go again!"
This is the sort of situation you get in something like Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and Soul Caliber, but not in Dead or Alive's case.
- Other Martial Arts Master: "Punch, kick, uh-oh. Sorry, I meant to punch you again, but instead I kicked. Oh well, as long as I still hit you without taking a breather."
Yes, I know, I'm very bitter, but I'm tired of hearing all this crap about DOA. IT"S A GOOD FIGHTING GAME. SHUT UP.
Oh yeah, it also got a bad rap from being the first game with a boob-bouncing system. While all the female fighters of DOA still have big breasts, this cannot compare to the gargantuan size of Taki's breasts, which only seem to double in size and bounciness with each Soul Caliber. Just drop this stupid antic. Everyone likes it, they're just too embarrassed to admit it.
With really fun and in-depth gameplay, incredible graphics and online play to boot, you got a great game. The Real King of Fighters.