- Sequel to Dead or Alive fighting series.
- Play as old favourites or all-new characters.
- 13 fighting styles, ranging from Karate to Zui Ba Xian Quan (8 spirits drunken fist).
- Hyper-realistic graphics render 16 stunning fighting environments.
- For 1 to 4 players.
Product Description
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Developed for the Xbox, Dead or Alive 3 boasts a host of new
characters, lighting effects, interactive environments, muscle
and clothing movement, and more. Choose from a line-up of new and
returning characters and engage in frenzied fighting. Enhanced
movie sequences deliver John-Woo-style slow-motion effects.
Multi-tiered settings also let you explore multiple areas within
a level. Up to four players can battle it out, while the single
player mode offers a variety of challenging levels.
Returning favourites include Kasumi and Lei-Fang or play as
newcomers Hitomi, Christie, and Brad, as you test your skills in
16 unique fighting environments. Choose from more than 13
different fighting styles, including Karate and Zui Ba Xian Quan
(Eight Spirits Drunken Fist). Environments feature destructible
scenery and varied terrains, such as ains and sand. Its
redesigned costume system, updated reversals, and
all-new air-throws take this title's fighting engine to the next
level. Dead or Alive 3 also takes full advantage of the powerful
Xbox platform to offer character models and a physics engine that
delivers a stunning degree of realism. Dramatic lighting,
shadows, and reflections heighten the realism, while subtle water
effects animate puddles, ponds, and oceans with incredible
detail.
.co.uk Review
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Though Dead or Alive 3 doesn't revolutionise 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.
There are eight modes of play in DOA3, including Story mode,
Team Battle, Tag Battle and Sparring mode. The latter mode is
customisable 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 charaue 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, and DOA3
delivers in spades. Each character has specific attacks--such as
Zack's Devil Elbow or Bass Armstrong's Stun Chop--and once
you get the moves down, the entire affair can unfold like a
carefully choreographed ballet with combatants blocking blows,
counter attacking and landing devastating punch-and-kick combos.
Adding to the game's appeal are the massive and detailed
multi-level arenas (which were introduced in DOA2), where a
precise kick or punch can send a combatant plummeting through the
air down to the arena's next level.
It's obvious that DOA3 was designed to be a showcase for the
Xbox's graphical prowess and it shows--the game's graphics are
awesome. The character models look amazing and feature highly
detailed clothing and accessories, and the animations are
extremely smooth. The environments are also outstanding, and
feature lots of little touches such as fluttering leaves,
snow-covered ground that can be torn up during the course of a
fight, great-looking water and superb background structures. So
while DOA3 doesn't rewrite the rules of the fighting genre, its
great graphics and intense fighting--especially in
multiplayer--make for an enjoyable gaming experience. --William
Harms