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New system wonder | | Sentinel from Tasmania, Australia says (5/Oct/2002): | DOA3 is a remarkable game. The music is great for a fighter and the graphics are smooth. I would easily have given this game 10/10 except that Temco have given the characters too many combos. This allows for easy button mashing and not much practice. DOA3 also suffers from a lack of story line, a common thing among all fighting games.
| -=Dead or Alive 3 Review=- | | Susanne from Sydney says (23/Aug/2002): | Dead or Alive 3 is the only one of the series I've played before, so I dont know if things have really changed from the last 2 games. What I do know, the the graphics are heaps good, and so is the way they move. Everything seems so smooth on this game. The music isn't that good though, and it does get annoying. I think what would make it far better is at the end of each battle, the winning person or persons say something in a caption. It would be much better if they actually said it, and had the captions along with it. I would not recommend buying this game - once again, it is one of those games that get really boring after a while, so therefore, it gets spider-webs all over it on the shelf!!! Renting is a great idea, and I think it is really interesting once you play it. After you achieve what you want to achieve in this game, you dont want to play it anymore - well, thats what I feel. If you are playing against a real person, you sit on the edge of your seat, or lean closely against the TV screen whilst you are playing! Your hands start to sweat and when you lose, you oftern say something like, "You were just lucky" or, "I let you win..." etc.
It is so gripping that nearly everyone I know does that! The pictures are quite realistic, but when the players fall down to the ground, it doesnt look that real.
***A helpful hint for most players of Dead or Alive 3 -- When you select your players for Tag Battle Mode, you are more likely to succeed if you pick the people directly opposite eachother. For example, if you pick Bass in Tag Battle Mode, you are more likely to see the team work together if you pick Tina, the girl opposite Bass.*** So, to summerise this all up, I think Dead or Alive 3 is nearly as good as it gets!
| As real as it gets | | A gamer from Pompano, FL USA says (22/Jun/2002): | DOA 3 is a definite awe-inspirer from the second you fire up your xbox, the infatuation fades after a few hours, but still a remarkable game. The single most noticeable drawback to the title is the lack of worthwhile, have you coming back, modes. The story mode is short and pointless, its only saving charachteristic is the two shorts movies per fighter that you cannot see elsewhere in the game (the manifestation of Hayabusa in the Forest is amazing no matter how many times you watch it). There are not many secrets to unlock, one new fighter (Ein) and some new outfits, but that fact I do not mind so much because there is already 16 solid charachters to fight with from the beginning. The gameplay itself though is, in my humble opinion, unrivaled in the market. The realism of the moves is what sets this game apart from other titles such as tekken. You may be able to steal a couple hits while your opponent is off the ground, but you cannot pumple him with annoying jabs and extra 5 hit combos (if you have ever tried punching someone as they are flying through the air, it is rather difficult). Each fighter has a barrage of attacks and combos, and the throws and counters are as equally entertaining to watch as they are effective. The multi-level stages allow for more expansive battles, but the exploding areans can become tiresome, especially if you are the one being repeatedly bashed against them. My biggest complaint though is the perspective view during the last battle with Genra. I know they were trying to be creative, but it just does not work, it completely erases any technique from the bout, your only option is to revert to simple punk/kick combos because, quite frankly, you cannot see well enough to try anything else. That is another downfall of the story mode, but the end movies you unlock afterwards are more than worth the 30 seconds you spend button mashing to defeat Genra (which is the final villian why again? I must have missed that in the storyline). But after the movies, if you are anything like me you will spend most your time either in time attack or survival mode honing in on your skills so you can thrash your friends latter on in versus mode. In my humble opinion, DOA 3 is the best in ring realistic combat to date, it is a little shallow in substance, so I only rate it 9 out of 10. It is better than tekken, it is better than virtual fighter... its only competition is Soul Calibur, which many believe to be the best ever 3D fighting game. Here is where personal preference comes into play: Soul Calibur is an absolute landmark in storyline and differing, enthralling gameplay modes... but it is spearheaded by weapons; DOA 3 on the other hand is routed in the mastery or hand to hand combat, an art to watch, but lacks the depth of Soul Calibur, but does surpass Calibur in graphics (as well as any other game out there for any system). DOA 3 as a game in general is not perfect, but once you are in the ring, its simply divine.
| Dead or Alive 3 is good for now.... | | Tommy Cheese from Sixty Five USA,Cheese Road says (3/Jan/2002): | Dead or Alive was always a series of great fighting games at first only. They all get boring after an hour because of the repeative combos and the lack of game modes. I am proud to say that this game isnt bad but it is the same thing as Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore. The only difference is that there are new endings, a few new charecters, new outfits and new areans. It has pretty cool combos but it dissapointed me to see that alot of them didnt change from the other Dead or Alive games. It has really great graphics though. The modes in this game are: c.j gallery ,tag mode and story mode (the stories really suck though and the music in this game is bad). This is more like a rental.
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