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General: Tecmo's second installment to their fighting series brought a very innovative step in 3D fighting games... "Multi-tiered" fighting. Characters are able to knock each other off of a high area / platform, or through a guard rail, and continue fighting a lower level. It's about time right? Although completely unrealistic to get knocked off a building and keep fighting, multi-tiered stages offered some flashy gameplay, and along with the games sharp graphics, DOA2 offered some nice eye-candy, and yes the bouncy boobs are nice too.
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Tecmo somewhat "fleshed out" the character designs by adding in a story mode, but characters just don't seem to have as vivid of personalities as some of our classic fighting game favorites... Especially the females. The girls of DOA just seem to want to show off their boobies and don't have much of a purpose for fighting at all. All the guys have pretty cool fighting styles, but their overall designs just pale in comparison to Tekken Tag's characters, for example.
In DOA2 for the Dreamcast, you can fight 1 on 1 playing the story mode, Tag Battle Mode which allows for 2 vs 2 tag team fighting, and also an addicting Survival mode. The gameplay in general is solid, but counters are overly easy to perform. Basically, there's a high counter and a low counter, and 9 times out of 10 that you try a counter, you'll probably succeed if you have any sort of timing. Counters sure do look pretty however, especially since each character has his/her own unique throws, but as for the gameplay; it's way to "newb proof." There are some cool combo possibilities in DOA2, but when counters can be used at any time and so frequently, the gameplay becomes a bit repetitive overall.
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The high points in this game would once again be the graphics, and the very large and details... boobies..... I meant "stages." Yes, the backgrounds of DOA2 look really cool, and sometimes are just fun to explore and find somewhere new to knock your opponent. The animation is also top notch, especially hit effects, giving DOA2 a very impressive "ouch factor." The tag team special throws are also quite satisfying and just make you cringe.
Manufacturer: Tecmo
Platforms: Arcade,
Dreamcast
Release: 2000
Characters:
Ein,
Leon,
Lei
Fang, Tina,
Bass,
Kasumi,
Zack,
Ayane,
Hayabusa,
Helena,
Gen
Fu, Jann Lee,
Tengu
Related Games:
Dead
or Alive, Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore, Dead
or Alive 3, Dead or Alive 4
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Closing Comment: One thing that the Dead or Alive series has nailed down is the "boob bounce" ... If only the counter system was as detailed as Kasumi's boobies... Overall, a fun 3D fighter that no one should miss. ~F.Yagami, Webmaster of TFG