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Dead or Alive 4 (Xbox 360) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £24.99
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 2487
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: fighting-action-games
Media: Video Game
Number Of Items: 1
Age: 16 - 18 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: C8K-00006
UPC: 882224079860
EAN: 0882224079860
ASIN: B000B5O7Q2
Release Date: January 27, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Unopened and Factory Sealed Genuine UK Original Release not Classics. All orders received by 10.00pm are posted First Class the next posting day.
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The girls from Dead or Alive are back in the Xbox 360’s first ever beat a em-up. The usual mix of stunning graphics, accessible gameplay and bouncing chests combine with an all new online mode for one of the most feature packed fighters ever. The lowdown:
In hardcore beat a em-up circles Dead or Alive is often sneered at for being too shallow, but although it may not have the depth of some of its rivals this is the perfect game for first time fighters. The combat has been tightened up since the first game, so that it’s much harder to perform counters and there are less overly powerful super moves. One thing that hasn’t changed is the amazing graphics, particularly the various backdrops with a fight in a market where every apple on every stall can be sent flying. The game is still relentlessly sexist in its portrayal of women but treat it as Carry On Virtua Fighter and you won’t be disappointed. Most exciting moment:
Countering everything your opponent can throw at you and then knocking them all the way down the stairs of the Temple on the Mountain stage. Since you ask:
One of the best unlockable secrets in the game is the chance to play as Spartan-458 – a female version of Master Chief from Halo. She even gets her own level based on Nassau Station. The bottom line:
A showcase for the power of the Xbox 360 and a fun, accessible beat a em-up to boot.
HARRISON DENT
Product Description
The girls from Dead or Alive are back! The usual mix of stunning graphics, accessible gameplay and bouncing chests combine with an all new online mode for one of the most feature packed fighters ever.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
Great beat 'em up with most some of the most gorgeous girls on Xbox 360 August 17, 2007
D. Climo
I have to say that I am quite a fan of the Dead Or Alive franchise and have many of their games ranging from the first to DOA Xtreme 2. I recently purchased this little gem for my trusty steed and havn't been able to put the controller down! So far I have spent 95% gaming time doing story mode repeatedly with various characters to unlock their costumes and the fights start off fairly easy but soon get hard. An example is when you get to fight Kasumi's evil clone you'll find you'll have you're hands tied probably as she is incredibly fast and surpirisingly strong for a small lass when it comes to her attacks. I mean I even found her difficult when fighting her as Ayane, one of the best fighters in the series! Zack is greatly improved upon as are some others.
A good game.
 Dead... or Alive? April 15, 2007
Mr. A. L. Cooper (England)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Well it's certainly not dead, not at all. This was my first experience of a dead or alive game, largely because I fancied a new 360 game and one that was different to my others (first person shooters, racing...).
This is one of the only games of its type for the new console generation, so naturally you'd expect to find flaws of some sort. Not only this, but this game was released near the 360's launch, meaning the chances of the game using the full power of the console are abysmal. But it must use some grunt, it has to be said. Silky smooth motion combined with sharp, high definition visuals and the physics engine which has to be admired ;). Not only does this game have eye candy in plentiful supply, but the loading times, I must say, are quite nippy. It takes very little time to get into a match from putting the disc in the drive.
But of course, you'll probably know all this. Either that or you don't really care about something as critical as the loading times. You're probably concerned about all the low-star reviews that claim Dead Or Alive 4 to be a mockery of a fighting game, tempting you in with its shiny graphics (or the semi-naked ladies, you decide...) and then crashing your hopes by beating you in the ring time after time. I'd like to put it straight: they may beat you time after time, but this is a game that needs a fair amount of attention and perseverance. Without one or the other, you probably won't get far at all. As I've said already, this is my first DOA game and the only other beat-em-up game I have is Soul Caliber 2 (which incidentally I received in a bundle deal along with my PS2 and I don't really play it at all). Yet despite this, I've managed to finish Dead Or Alive 4 story mode about 6 or 7 times.
So it's able to be completed by someone who rarely plays these sorts of games, what's the secret? Nope; there's none. But the Sparring Mode is very useful and a brilliant asset to the game. After choosing a character to train with, Sparring Mode puts you in a ring with an AI character of your choice. The AI will simply stand there and take whatever punches or kicks you throw at him/her, giving you a chance to practice those crucial combos. "So what"- I hear you say, well this isn't all because within the sparring mode there is an extremely useful Exercise setting which goes through all of your chosen character's moves, showing an on-screen display of what buttons to press. Simple, yet pure genius if you ask me. This mode allows you to train up your skills in the ring to put to beating story mode. And that's one of the things I love about this game: you have to option to just simply get into a match from the main menu nice and quick, or you can spend some time learning the game's workings and achieve well in story mode.
Achievements can be hard to come by unless you're prepared to really learn all the character's abilities and battle it out online. But I don't play for the achievements; I'm much more interested in unlocking new costumes for the characters. This is where the story mode comes in. For each character, a different story will unfold for them, occasionally coming into contact with another character's story, so you can play from different perspectives by choosing different characters. Each character has their own backgrounds and reasons for joining in with the Dead Or Alive tournament. The end-of-story cut scenes are a nice treat and are unique for each character- some quite tantalising :) When playing as the characters you will probably notice how active they are with their stance, in most games the characters will just follow a short loop of movements while in this game they're more advanced and add to the character's general feel.
There's one distinct flaw with this game though- one that everyone who's completed the game knows about: Alpha-152. I hate Alpha-152. I loathe her. You probably will too, once you've battled your way up to her. Allow me to explain: she's a boss character, one that doesn't crop up in all the character's stories but enough to make you pretty angry. She's a leviathan of complex, almost unpredictable moves and combos you'd expect to receive from a professional HUMAN player of the game. And this isn't on a bumped-up difficulty setting I'm talking about either. This is the easiest setting- Normal. She really will test you to your limit and you'll need a fair amount of skill and luck to beat her within the first few tries.
With the terrible boss character aside, I'll round up my review by saying this is a fantastic game that I'll enjoy for quite some time. If you're not convinced whether or not to get the game, try the free demo download on Xbox Live, although you'll be missing out on a lot of what the full game offers and it doesn't really give a full enough taste of the game. An all-round brilliant game that's offered me a lot of fun so far. Go buy it now!
Great beat-'em-up let down slightly by difficulty level February 14, 2007
Mr. A. T. Whitaker
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the most enduring beat-'em-ups gets its fourth incarnation making it onto the XBox 360, complete with super-slick combat moves (punches, kicks, blocks, counter-attacks, throws and other close-quarters techniques) and female characters with the famous bouncy breasts that have permeated the series right from the very first game. There are also some cool-looking male characters to control, too, with some hidden characters that you can unlock once you have completed the story mode with certain characters.
As well as the story mode, you can also do modes such as time-attack (complete the game in the fastest time you can), survival (try and survive fighting against each character one after the other). There are also some camera modes where you can set a fight between two computer-controlled characters of your choosing and take pictures of them. Possibly the best of the extras is the sparring mode, where you can practice with a controller, and one of the options in this allows you to practice that particular character's special moves as it shows you the controller actions and buttons required to pull off the moves and combinations.
One thing I like about the DOA controls is that there's one button for punches, one for kicks, one for throws and one for guarding, and the movements required to pull off certain special moves and combos actually make sense; it's not like you're just pressing a set series of buttons whose use makes zero sense, they tend to relate to what the character's doing. Some of the special moves require specific positions of either your opponent or parts of the scenery (e.g. there are special moves that happen when you are in a specific part of the scenery; I saw one character do one where he slid somebody down the stairs, while another ran up a wall and flipped off it and behind his opponent to hit him in the back or whatever). Also, the scenery can be broken apart by knocking your opponent into it, and you can knock them to lower parts of the scene. Big plus!
However, one thing that will undoubtedly annoy newcomers or those who have little patience is that you need to be good. You can't really get by by simply randomly pushing any old button or your opponent will hand you your butt, and at times, because they can seem to pull off complex moves at the drop of a hat and juggle you with an 8-hit combo or whatever with the greatest of ease (though thankfully not all the time), it can be enough to annoy those unprepared for it, and it looks kind of cheap. And why did some of the characters get a teleport ability? This is just frustrating.
But DEAD OR ALIVE 4 is still a cool entry in the beat-'em-up phenomenon, with some cool graphics and sound, some superb visual effects like blowing long hair or dresses (by the way, why would a woman go into battle wearing a long split dress and stiletto sandals? Surely that would be a hassle? Still, at least the costumes -- some of which can be unlocked if you complete the story mode with a particular character -- are usually easy on the eye, not some of the outlandish and impractical ones like you often get in games like TEKKEN).
This is one you might want to try before you buy, just in case its difficulty setting (there's no difficulty setting lower than NORMAL -- no easy mode here, sorry) is frustrating enough to make you tear out your hair.
GREAT! December 27, 2006
Toffe (UK)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is not for button mashers if your that type go to tekken. It is very hard but interesting at the same time the AI is intelligent and hard to defeat giving the game that extra "I HAVE TO WIN " feel. Multiplayer is great, remember dont cry if the AI is too intelligent for you
 Only for Hardcore gamers. December 6, 2006
Alistair Pyke (UK)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
I found 'Dead Or Alive 4' to be a very difficult game. The only fighting game I have ever enjoyed before was 'Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance' on the PS2 and that was mainly because it wasn't too hard for me.
In the right hands this is probably a great game, as other reviews have stated. The graphics are beautiful and the girls are as pneumatic as ever. The arenas are varied and most are on several different levels, some have obstacles of their own that can cause you damage e.g. cars.
Online play is there but I didn't experience it when I owned the game.
Sound is disappointing. Background music is bland and the voices are all in Japanese with subtitles. I know this adds to the authentic 'arcade' feel but I would have preferred it to have been translated into English.
Controls are easy enough to pick up, I just didn't like the difficulty level.
Only buy this game if you love beat 'em ups. I think games should be fun, not frustrating to the point where you want to destroy the controller.
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