Dead or Alive 4 looks amazing...but plays like a bad nightmare.
User Rating: 4.9 | Dead or Alive 4 (Platinum Hits) X360
Button mashers WELCOME. Everyone else need not apply!!! Everything that separated this game from other fighters like Tekken is gone. I was pretty good at DOA3 but this game tweaks everything that had to do with a smooth fighting experience. If you specialized in reversals and counter-attacks in DOA3 than GOOD LUCK in DOA4!!! There is the same "X" button block-counters, but good luck using it against this insanely hard A.I. The difficulty of this game is Ten-Fold what it was in 3. The difficulty settings are: Normal, Hard, and Very Hard. The funny thing is, I think Very Hard is easier than Normal!!! When playing the story mode expect to play each of the first 7 opponents 3-7 times, EVERY TIME! And usually the last opponent (Alpha) a good 12-14 times. I usually have to resort to button mashing to finally beat her(and I HATE BUTTON MASHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I have beaten her more effectively by staring at the floor while button mashing, which says to me just how far a truly awesome fighting game can fall !!!! But it does look beautiful. So in the end if all you want is eye-candy, or are one of the truly best players out there than get this game, but if you where just good or even Pretty-Darn-Good, than RENT IT FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
