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If your wondering why
I'm doing arcade reviews, its mainly
because there are a lot of good arcade
games out there that probably won't come
out for the Dreamcast. I'll only be
covering games made by Sega, games
running on a Sega machine, or a game that
will maybe come out for a Sega system.
But its a different story for this game,
its mainly because Blockbuster doesn't
have the game yet, so I thought I just go
out and review the arcade version. This
game is Dead or Alive 2, the sequel to
the hit arcade/Saturn game Dead or Alive.
The DC version was released a few days
ago, and most major sites were able to
get their hands on this game to give it a
review. I thought its better if I keep up
with them.
Dead or Alive 2 is
probably the best fighting game that's
going to come out this year. Personaly I
think its much much better then Tekken
Tag Tournament (based on the arcade
version). I'm not sure what board the
game is running on, but I know that the
board is made by Capcom. The graphics on
this game can easily rival Soul Calibur,
and in some places its much better than
Soul Calibur. One place where Soul
Calibur didn't do very well was the
background graphics on the stages. It was
a bit blury, but DOA 2 has amazingly
detailed stages. But still, Virtua
Fighter 3TB has the best looking stages.
The layout of the
buttons is very simple, and easy to use.
Each player has the basic analog pad, and
three buttons, "kick",
"punch", and "free".
I have no idea what "free" was,
but I kept pressing it. It seemed to be
working, I almost beat all the characters
in the game until I met Hulk Hogan
look-a-like Bass.
There are three modes
on the arcade version, Single, Versus,
and Tag-Team. Single is playing by
yourself, trying to beat all the
fighters. Versus is when your playing
with a 2nd player, whoever wins will
continue to play fighting against other
fighters. Tag-Team allows each player to
pick two fighters, and after one fighter
dies, the other fighter comes in.
Tag-Team is my favourite, because
sometimes both fighters can team up
against one of your oppenants.
Dead or Alive 2 is a
very good fighting game for the arcades,
personally my second favourite arcade
fighter. I still think Marvel vs. Capcom
is a very good arcade fighter. Check your
local arcade center to see if they have
Dead or Alive 2, if they do, you have to
play it. Most arcade fighters usually
have the high punch, kick, low punch,
kick, and all these other buttons. But
Dead or Alive 2 has 3 basic buttons which
are very responsive. If they don't well
then try to rent Dead or Alive 2, or even
buy the game. Its a very good game to
have, I'm pretty sure guys will like this
game.
Graphics: 9
Control: 10
Gameplay: 8
Overall: 27/ 30 |
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Dead
or Alive 2
Publisher:
Tecmo
Developer:
Tecmo
# of players: 2
Board: unknown
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