The first DOA for the XBox 360.

User Rating: 8.9 | Dead or Alive 4 (Platinum Hits) X360
By TAMKFan | Review Date:
DOA4 has had mixed results. It seems like another one of those games that you would either love or hate with no inbetween. The main reason is probably because of the hard and sometime cheap AI. It is hard (And Alpha, the final boss for most characters is especially hard), but not enough for me to dislike the game. But if it wasn't for the kind of annoying difficulty, I would probably rate this game higher. I mean no Easy mode? I'm serious, all you get is Normal, Hard and Very Hard. Back to Alpha, sometimes she'll teleport like crazy and her moves deal a lot of damage.

But ignoring those flaws, this game (of course) shares the decent fighting engine from the previous DOA games with some improvments, move tweaks and completely new moves for characters. It's all good.

The graphics in this game are truly awesome and revolutionary, especially in the cutscenes! Anyone who says otherwise probably doesn't know what great graphics are. People might say they aren't that much better than DOA3's graphics, but they are probably only judging from the screenshots since the graphics don't look as good in them.

The voices and everything are great. This stuff actually makes the game funner to play. I can't get the "Get ready, fight!" voice out of my head! Also, I love the Japanese voices!

This game will also having you coming back for more with all the unlockables and online play! (Sadly, I can't play online since I don't have XBox Live, though) In the previous DOA games, their was only 1 or 2 characters to unlock. In this one, however their's 6 characters to unlock. Despite the AI flaws, this is still the best DOA yet.

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