Remember tekken 4? It had more combo's than dead or alive 4 and I personally think was executed more better, not to mention the fantastic story in contrast with dead or alive's shabby one. A super human being has been created, your not told why. And each character just happens to have something to do with it. Once again for most of them your not told why, you just either fight with the cooperation making the superhuman or you face them. I think its a pathetic story even for a fighting game with much to be desired. So thats 1-0 for Tekken. The combo's are short with not much of them, mainly consisting of tapping different buttons. The highest combo I think is about 8 button combinations? Tekken had double that and you could even string together combo's unlike Dead or alive 4. 2-0 to Tekken. The characters have all been done before, the drunk man copying the policeman of Tekken and the girl wrestler copying eddies dancing type fighting. It's all been done before 3-0 to Tekken. The only difference to Dead or alive is the graphic's, which may I add seems to focus very hard on breasts and legs... Your find that nearly every girl in the game will or has the unlockable costume of wearing anything which will reveal cleavage. Some being worse than others. And gamespot said the online play was good? That's partly true, what's not mentioned is the incredible lag. I've been in matches with 3 people and have been on the lowest bar. On some occasions it happened in a match with just 2 other people and normally happens on a 1 Vs 1 match. Dead or alive 4 just feels as though it's looked at all the fighting games and copied them with an unoriginal story, characters and fighting moves. And whats ironic is the makers are responsible for the game dead or alive xtreme volleyball which has all the dead or alive girls in little bikini's playing volleyball. It makes me question if they really were that focused on the fighting, I can support this idea even more by complimenting the way the fighting is executed. The counter attack movements are the best I've seen in a fighting game and happen extreamly smoothly and I suppose atleast with dead or alive the xbox has a stepping stone to begin with on the fighting side of games so i advise it if you really like them that much.
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