
Also keep in mind that the character will always yell at each-other in Japanese, despite that their story states them as American or British etc. The character stories are completely absurd and downright silly. It might have added to the fun if they included some variation. I think they have 2 lines which they toggle about. I noticed some bugs in the program with graphics being out of place or characters losing mobility due to objects.Įdit: After playing this for about a month now: I find it tremendously annoying that the characters repeatedly say the same things over and over again at the beginning of a fight and at a victory. Overall: disappointing to play by yourself, but fun with a friend. This really detracts from what could be a very fun fighter. DOA 4 lacks an easy mode where you can have fun mastering the combinations. I agree with the most of the other reviewers here. Otherwise, it's worth a rent but don't waste sleep over it. 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. Not to mention her attacks are almost ALL unblockable.Īll in all if you're a hardcore DOA fan this is an awesome game. She'll teleport just out of your reach and hit you or teleport behind you and attack then. If that wasn't annoying her teleporting around makes her dang near impossible. She has killed me (on more than one occasion) in two to three hits. If that doesn't kill you then it's a miracle. She teleports JUST out of your reach, then combos you eight to twelve times, and slams you onto the ground which explosively shocks you. This Super-Kasumi Clone hit's like a truck and is fast like a freak. DOA3, Omega (Genra) fight was a disaster to mankind. DOA2, Tengu can combo you and hits like a truck, as well as he has ranged attacks. Now DOA's boss battles are kind of a tradeoff. Now here's the kicker.the end-all-be-all of why I did't rate this game higher. So it becomes very tedious when you can't get even a single hit in. 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. However it's not so much that they get harder as it is they combo you endlessly until you are dead. What's annoying, each opponent you face in Story Mode get's progressively harder, as it should. Others I just wanted to shoot my XBox, or at the very least Team Ninja. The end cut-scenes in Story Mode were.okay. 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 encounters with other characters in Story Mode, which were kinda hokey to begin with, are extremely silly. The Story Mode is as convoluted and vague as ever. 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. With unlockables galore it is quite fun to see some of the cool stuff Team Ninja packed into this game. All in all the game engine seemes quite refined from previous DOA installments making the moves slicker and faster than ever. The new and improved HD graphics are nice and shiny as they should be. Anyway, DOA4 is a nice addition to the DOA franchise. Now I've never "really" been a big fighting games guy aside from the DOA games and Soul Calibur.
