My first DOA game, aswell as one of my first online experiences. This game was challenging.
Each characters story ended in a ridiculous fashion, nothing compelling. I had no idea what was going on most of the time - and didn't really care. For the first time ever I felt like skipping parts of the story, it was just hard to watch. One particular ending involved someone imagining they were a mermaid. What? That doesn't conclude the story in anyway! Seriously, it was stupid.
The controls, on the other hand, were great. Alot of cool combo's to pull off and it never felt like a button mashing game.
Luckily there was also large number of unlockables and achievments to make up for the bad story and such to keep me going, aswell as a pretty good roster of characters. Overall, it's a decent fighting game, but just isn't as solid as a game like Tekken or Soul Caliber.