More of a test of patience than an enjoyable game- but has a few moments.
+ Well designed maps
+ Good enviroments to fight in
Negatives
- Very limited choice of characters
- To hard at times
- Very fustrating
- Not very rewarding
Welcome to my review for dead or alive 4 (doa4) on the xbox 360, as I'd never played dead or alive before I expected it to be a good fighter.
I was annoyed when I got it as I found battles hard- well the first few battles of story mode would be fine.. but then I'd get stuck on one particular enemy- get really angry and give up.
I didn't know it was just me as a really bad fighter or if the difficulty was way to hard- I then logged onto gamespot and saw everyone elses moans about the difficulty and decided it wasn't me after all.
The game offers several modes including survival mode, story mode and a few more.
Story mode involves playing as one character fighting around eight battles- you often find yourself getting stuck just fighting one character and giving up, I got really fustrated trying to earn any achievments at all.
Survival is probably my faviroute mode- your put in a ring and you fight opponent after opponent trying to survive for as long as possible- you can also do this in tag team with 2 characters- and even better you can have a freind and do tag team like that.
Over all the game dosen't lack variety in game modes giving it a solid amount of replayeble value.
Achievments are limited- I hardly earnt any whilst playing the game, most of them seem almost impossible or only attainable through boring methods- for example, completed every characters story mode, I got bored after doing story mode more than a few times, there are at least 10 characters stories to complete and the achievments only worth 10G- rubbish!
The lack of rewards makes the game dull and it makes you feel 'why am I even doing this?'
As I mentioned above- enviroments and maps are pretty good- they're colourful and on the whole well designed.
I especially liked the way that you could push your opponent down a flight of stairs or smash them through a window- as seen in the Mortal Kombat series.
Enviroments ranged from city streets and jurrassic forests to ancient temples and mansions.
I only reccomend the game to people who have a lot of patience and consider themselves veterans at fighting games, I hope this review has helped, thanks for reading!