Dead or Alive 3

Amazon.com Review

Any new gaming console needs to offer a quality fighting game at launch, and for the Xbox that title is Tecmo’s Dead or Alive 3. Though DOA3 doesn’t revolutionize the fighting genre, it does offer a great gaming experience, and its graphics easily surpass every other fighting game on the market–on any system. DOA3 offers eight modes of play, including story, team battle, tag battle, and sparring. Sparring mode is customizable and is a nice way for new players to learn how to play the game, while story mode lets you take one of the 16 available characters through a series of matches culminating in a fight against the über-powerful Omega. Once you defeat Omega, a short movie specific to your character is unlocked. The story mode doesn’t make a lot of sense (and the dialogue is laughable) but the end movies are pretty cool, and it’s fun playing through the game as each of the characters. The real meat of the game, though, is its combat, a (more…)