DOA3 Gamespot review: Because I\'m posting this, you know it\'s bad! :D

mmh.. I know that when I got my PS2 at launch along with TTT and a few other games, I was very happy. Being more of a DoA player in those days (I hated Tekken 3 since it was so slow compared to DoA - might have been a sloppy PAL conversion though), I was quite suprised with TTT. After a few weeks, DoA2 arrived and of course I got the game the first day it came out. Back then, I would have said DoA2 is better than Tekken hands down, but as the time passed by I lost more and more interest in DoA2. The gameplay no where matches a Tekken in the long run... the stuff that I really started to hate about DoA2 was its short matches and some other issues (overpowered characters etc). I think most people enjoy DoA2 more since its a easier game, especially to buttonmash. Tekken can be pretty fustrating for a newbie if played against an experienced player. It probably all comes down to personal preference, but I think in the long run Tekken is better in all aspects.

IronFist, great info.  I can\'t wait for PS2 Tekken 4 comes out!  

The best fighting games IMO in my game library are Teken Tag Tournament(never had Tekken3) and Soul Calibur for Dreamcast.  I liked DOA2(Dreamcast) and was thinking about getting PS2\'s Hardcore but there\'s not to much difference between the two is there?

The DOA games are sadly heading the way that the Mortal Kombat games progressed.  I loved the first and second, but then they got bad.  I bought Mortal Kombat 4 for Dreamcast, and boy what a piece of ****!  I hope DOA4 has fresh gameplay and not just preety graphics.

Originally posted by until_O
I always hear people on the internet says Doa2 sucks so I decided to rent it 3 weeks ago (the same week that I got GTA3) to see what it\'s like and to my surprise, I ended up playing 47 hours in one week (I had loads of time after I finished my exam).
The only place that I see people hating this game is the Internet. An friend of mine who was a huge Tekken fan (he always come to my house to play TTT) came over to play DOA2 for the first time last weekend and he thinks it was a very good game, if not better than TTT.
Yesterday I had 4 friends (two PC fanboy, one who only plays CS and the other one who spends 4 hours studying everyday) came to my house and had 4 hours of gaming on my PS2. We spent 5 minutes on TTT, 30 minutes on GT3, 30 minutes on Time Crisis 2 and the rest of the time on Doa2. They all think that Doa2 is a really good game. So really, the only place that I hear people say Doa2 sucks in the internet.

At first I wasn\'t too happy to hear Doa3 is XBox exclusive but now I don\'t really care seeing that the gameplay hasn\'t been changed much from Doa2.

well the reason you see people on the net saying it sucks is because most people on the net are more or less a lot more into gaming - hence the reason they visit forums based on it

i myself loved playing DOA2 - but it is a very shallow fighter none the less - its fun yes - especially for a person new to gaming who can buy the game and jump right into it and be good - i mean i practiced that game and yet the matches were always close with my friends

but really its a good game for what you make of it - but when it comes down to it - the game has no depth beyond interactive backgrounds - its just a button smashing goodtime in my opinion

Originally posted by fastson
Docwiz: In a non related question..... Do you work for Microsoft?

lol

Well then you either have friends who can play a mean game of pick up or you are not very good.  I soundly beat my friends, nearly every time (once in a while after a long night they will eventually win one).

DOA3 is fun, but it is not as shallow as many of the people here would like to believe.  The interactive backgrounds that you so easily dismiss dramatically change the way good players approach the fight.  I\'m not saying it\'s as deep as VF, but beyond that it stands in at a very solid second.