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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox
- ELSPA Minimum Age: 15
- Media: Video Game
Product Features
- Sequel to Dead or Alive fighting series
- Play as old favourites or all-new characters
- 13 fighting styles, ranging from Karate to Zui Ba Xian Quan (8 spirits drunken fist)
- Hyper-realistic graphics render 16 stunning fighting environments
- For 1 to 4 players
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Though Dead or Alive 3 doesn't revolutionise the fighting genre, it does offer a great gaming experience and its graphics easily surpass every other fighting game on the market--on any system.
There are eight modes of play in DOA3, including Story mode, Team Battle, Tag Battle and Sparring mode. The latter mode is customisable and is a nice way for new players to learn how to play the game, while Story mode lets you take one of the 16 available characters through a series of matches, culminating in a fight against the über -powerful Omega. Once you defeat Omega, a short movie specific to your charaue is laughable) but the end-movies are pretty cool and it's fun playing through the game as each of the characters.
The real meat of the game, though, is its combat, and DOA3 delivers in spades. Each character has specific attacks--such as Zack's Devil Elbow or Bass Armstrong's Stun Gun Chop--and once you get the moves down, the entire affair can unfold like a carefully choreographed ballet with combatants blocking blows, counter attacking and landing devastating punch-and-kick combos. Adding to the game's appeal are the massive and detailed multi-level arenas (which were introduced in DOA2), where a precise kick or punch can send a combatant plummeting through the air down to the arena's next level.
It's obvious that DOA3 was designed to be a showcase for the Xbox's graphical prowess and it shows--the game's graphics are awesome. The character models look amazing and feature highly detailed clothing and accessories, and the animations are extremely smooth. The environments are also outstanding, and feature lots of little touches such as fluttering leaves, snow-covered ground that can be torn up during the course of a fight, great-looking water and superb background structures. So while DOA3 doesn't rewrite the rules of the fighting genre, its great graphics and intense fighting--especially in multiplayer--make for an enjoyable gaming experience. --William Harms
Product Description
Dead or Alive 3, the latest installment in the popular fighting series from Tecmo, is only available for Xbox.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
This game is graphically unbelievable, and the sound is amazing too. The locations are massive, perfectly realised, and the characters look brilliant. However there are a couple of flaws that bring the game down a little.
The fighting mechanics are interesting. I was expecting a button-basher, but it is really quite complex if you look beneath the surface. Besides the usual variation of kicks, punches and blocks, you can deflect, throw and counter. Most moves have a counter-move, and you can sometimes find your attacks being deflected quite regularly if you are playing against a savvy opponent. Tactics become more of an issue than in a game like Soul Calibur. DoA3 is what you make it. If you want a pick-up-and-play fighter, then it will do the job. If you want a deeper game that you learn over time, then I suppose it could satisfy you too.
The one player mode is fairly limited. The main one player section is the 'story mode', where your character of choice embarks on their (frankly bizarre) personal scenario. You fight around six matches before getting to the end boss. There are also tag-matches, a survival mode, training and team battles. I have found it to be very easy on the normal difficulty level, and impossibly hard on higher difficulty levels. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground in that respect...
The game really comes into its own with two-players. You can fight co-operative tag-matches, or obviously against each other, and it is incredibly fun.
If you regularly play games with other people, then DoA3 is pretty essential. If you are mainly a solo player you might find that, aside from mastering new moves, you can discover everything this game has to offer in a fairly short space of time. Having said that, I think DoA3 is the pick of the Xbox Classics range, and the new price shouldn't suggest any lack of quality.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
Excellent game. Great graphics, great control over yours characters. The only downside is the computer AI is too easy. Myself and my brother beat the game within an hour in very hard mode, we not just beat them once, but many times... To fully enjoy the game, tell your mates to come down and whoop his butt with this game, its very fun... Highly recommended to anyone.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
With the latest state of the art graphics, and simple to pick up and play interface Dead or Alive three really sets the pace for later titles to follow. The ability of the Xbox are really shown-off in the 4 player tag battles, with reallistic character animations and interactive scenery, kicking butt has never been quite so fun. Blasting the opposition into an icicle or chucking them off the roof of a house seems to make the original fighting games look like a complete and utter waste of time.With all the different characters this game really is "a minute to learn a life time to master" game.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great graphics. Poor gameplay
After wanting this game for ages I finally bought it and I thought it was great. After a while I found myself getting bored. Read more
Published on 21 Feb 2006 by chaos_preacher
Best multiplayer game available
People calling this game shallow, flashy, or "a game for quick cheap thrills" are wrong. I apologise for my bluntness, but it is obvious to me that they have not put in the time... Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2005 by "aloverock"
Big and flashy! Like Jackie Stallone...
The best fighting game available. Am I mad? No, but let me tell you why. For many a year Tekken was the game of choice. Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2005 by Simon J. Whight
Dead or alive 3..good game? don't think so!
had this game for about a week now..and i have to say that it's not impressing me. From the people who brought ninja gaiden i expected more. Read more
Published on 26 Jan 2005 by "gideonstott"
No real interest
I think the game, for what it is, is very good. I used to be into all of these type of games (street fighter, tekken etc), but now they seem really boring. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2004
Fantastic
I used to think fighting games were brilliant, e.g. Tekken and then I met Dead Or Alive 3. Dead or Alive 3 is far one of the top five best games on any console. Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2004
the most addictive beat-em-up ever!
I am usually bored with beat-em-ups in a few days but this one has got me totally hooked. The locations are fantastic and interactive, giving you the opportunity to chuck your... Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2003
Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!
I used to hav a PS2 and I bought DOA2. That was it. Tekken no longer had meaning, all those long stringing combos that for some reason would always fail somewhere were gone... Read more
Published on 27 May 2003 by AJ Knox
one of the better fighters with the best graphics
this is the same as the normal version but now on the classics label its only £15 instead of £35.......best fighter on xbox until soul calibur 2 comes out.
Published on 30 Mar 2003
Great looking, but........
Dead or Alive 3 is perhaps the best fighting game out on the X-Box, but to be honest I found it a little on the average side as a game in general. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2003 by M. Paddon
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