"She Kicks High"

User Rating: 10 | Dead or Alive 3 (Classics) XBOX
I must say, this game is the real reason why I bought an Xbox when it came out holiday season 2001. I saw the preview for this game and my mouth dropped. This game flat out is the most visual stunning, best looking, best performing fighting game to date when it came out and still is to this day.

The detail of the players, the environments, buildings, everything in the game. Quickness of the players reaction to your commands. As you play, each player has a few dozen or so moves that are unique to them. With story mode, you reveal each players history a little. Also able to lock (with patience) new costumes for the characters. With 16 characters, you will be playing a while to master them all.

Game comes in all the classic fighter categories: Story, Time Attack, Survival, Tag Battle, VS, and Sparring.

Only negatives for this game I have are:
1) Camera angles when you switch players during tag battle modes can be a little off at times.
2) When you put game on very hard, during ex. tag battle, though beatable, is ridicules in their combos (the com.).

Overall this is the best fighter to date w/ the exception of the other DOA fighting game on Xbox: Dead or Alive Ultimate. But that is for another review. This is one fighting franchise that I can't see going anywhere but up, up, up!!! With a soundtrack from Aerosmith. I just love this series. Remember... SHE KICKS HIGH!!!