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Good-Graphical upgrade/stages/nice CG movies/Online mode/thats about it
Bad-Not enough extra content/unlockable costumes are mostly just color variated/Online Mode frequently lags/Cheap AI starting at stage 1/NO easy mode/game gets boring after awhile
This was the only fighting game for the 360 when I bought it and to this day I still regret buying this. The AI will counter everything and juggle you for days, at STAGE 1!...when you stack up all the negatives along with the AI this game isnt very fun. After I unlocked everything I bought Virtua fighter 5 and this became obsolete.
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This is the worst fighting game I have ever played.
The graphics are nice, the controls are simple. The frustration level is through the roof. At many points you may as well set the controller on the floor as you get locked into seeming endless combos by your opponents, unable to do anything. They will constantly grab you, constantly counter you, and there's not a thing you can do to stop it. If you are not a vetran of the pervious titles, do not attempt to play this game as there is no learning curve.
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Now I've never "really" been a big fighting games guy aside from the DOA games and Soul Calibur. Anyway, DOA4 is a nice addition to the DOA franchise. The new and improved HD graphics are nice and shiny as they should be. All in all the game engine seemes quite refined from previous DOA installments making the moves slicker and faster than ever. With unlockables galore it is quite fun to see some of the cool stuff Team Ninja packed into this game. (I.E. Halo Spartan-458 unlockable character)
Only things I can say that make this game a 3 Star rating for fun and a 4 Star rating for overall playability is in the game's execution. The Story Mode is as convoluted and vague as ever. The encounters with other characters in Story Mode, which were kinda hokey to begin with, are extremely silly. (I.E. Li-Fang and Hitomi get into a fight over a head of lettuce.) More than one occassion the encounter cut-scene rolled and by the end of it I was slack-jawed with a "you-can't-be-serious" expression on my face. The end cut-scenes in Story Mode were...okay. Some were downright cool. Others I just wanted to shoot my XBox, or at the very least Team Ninja.
What's annoying, each opponent you face in Story Mode get's progressively harder, as it should. However it's not so much that they get harder as it is they combo you endlessly until you are dead. There were fights that started, my opponent gets in the first hit (and I'm pretty quick on the controls), then they keep hitting...and hitting...and hitting... So it becomes very tedious when you can't get even a single hit in.
Now here's the kicker...the end-all-be-all of why I did't rate this game higher. The end boss is TOO hard. Now DOA's boss battles are kind of a tradeoff. DOA2, Tengu can combo you and hits like a truck, as well as he has ranged attacks. DOA3, Omega (Genra) fight was a disaster to mankind. Now we get the Alpha-152 fight in DOA4. This Super-Kasumi Clone hit's like a truck and is fast like a freak. She teleports JUST out of your reach, then combos you eight to twelve times, and slams you onto the ground which explosively shocks you. If that doesn't kill you then it's a miracle. She has killed me (on more than one occasion) in two to three hits. If that wasn't annoying her teleporting around makes her dang near impossible. She'll teleport just out of your reach and hit you or teleport behind you and attack then. Not to mention her attacks are almost ALL unblockable.
All in all if you're a hardcore DOA fan this is an awesome game. If you're a fan of fighting games this one is fun to play but only if you're going to do survival, multiplayer, or the like. Otherwise, it's worth a rent but don't waste sleep over it.
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I liked this game at first but it gotten boaring, its to easy to short and the same as the other dead or alive games. The graphics is good but the rest is the same like the other DOA games, only two new characters in this game but thats it. The combos are good but it lowers the opponiets bar to quick cause the attacks is to powerful, like virtua fighter, tekken, street fighter, and this one. This game gets real boaring after awhile so this is an okay game.
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Great fun game to play, good online interface, great stages, awesome players, pretty much a great game.
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