Beat 'em ups

[Zirax]

Just wondering if there is any good beat 'em ups that anyone would recommend for the 360? I am getting street fighter 4, but are there any others to look out for?

[Matblack]

I like the Soul Caliber series :)

MB

[Jingo]

I'm also a soul calibre fan but was disappointed with #4 for the xbox - it just wasn't as addictive nor satisfying as Soul Calibre 2 on the Gamecube; although it did come with a specialist Yoda character :D

[NokkonWud]

Dead or Alive 4 is fantastic, but it really isn't easy, if you have time to learn it then there isn't anything that's much better in that style or beat-em up bar perhaps Virtua Fighter 5 which is, in my opinion, a masterpiece. Those are both your more standard 3D beat-em ups, the kind you'd find in arcades etc...

If you want to stretch your horizons outside of the standard beat-em up idiom then, for me, there is no better fighting game than UFC Undisputed 2009, it's got a fantastic stand up game, fantastic grappling game and its online system is, well... fantastic.

[Zirax]

Well I have a bid in on SC2 for a couple of quid :) I'll have a hunt for #4, just scouring ebay for an auction that finishes at say 7am on a Monday morning (like one of my current ones) :D

edit:- Didn't DOA4 come to the PC? I seem to remember that it did but remember thinking at the time it was best on consoles.

[NokkonWud]

I wouldn't know, I really don't follow a beat-em ups on PC's, they just are never the same, it's one genre that hasn't really crossed the gap successfully, though SFIV seems to have come closest.

It is a good game, perhaps it's aged a little now, but it's still a great technical fighter. You should be able to get both DOA4 and VF5 cheap (and both are worth it) and UFC Undisputed is in the Classics range now, so that's definitely less than £20 new.

[Zirax]

Ta I'll definitely keep an eye out for them, I tend to get them off ebay for between £5-10.

[NokkonWud]

Virtua Fighter 5 - £8.95 at Zavvi (http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/xbox-360/virtua-fighter-5/9941977.html)
Dead or Alive 4 - £5.95 at Zavvi (http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/xbox-360/dead-or-alive-4-classics/8604402.html)
UFC Undisputed 2009 - £15.95 at Zavvi (http://www.zavvi.com/games/platforms/xbox-360/dead-or-alive-4-classics/8604402.html)

All are free delivery, all cheapest at Zavvi (bar UFC which is 30p cheaper or so at The HUT) and they are very good.

[Zirax]

Just had a blast on SF4, I can now understand what the hype was about around this. Nice quick, slick moves and looks fantastic on the projector. Only problem is learning all the combo's again and then opening a whole can of whoop ass :D Presently I suck..... but I'll kick your ass on Mortal Kombat on the Megadrive ;D

You do need the arcade stick or a gamepad for SF4 though. I can see that you could survive without but the xbox pad isn't really setup right (for me anyway).

I am keeping an eye out for Soul Calibur on the cheap as well as VF.

[Zirax]

Gotta say I am really enjoying dead or alive 4. You get the chance to have a go before mega baddies come in and I was getting upto 7-8 combo hits and I've only just started. The characters have soo many moves it'll take time to work it all out. I actually managed to get past 6-7 guys/girls before having my ass handed to me. It was a green woman that could morph about and was a pain in the ass, with my limited knowledge of moves I was stumped.

Dead or alive is an old game though, I'm surprised there isn't another sequel. Managed to get SC4 cheap as well so I have loads of them sitting about now :D

Good suggestions everyone.

[Garp]

Just had a blast on SF4, I can now understand what the hype was about around this. Nice quick, slick moves and looks fantastic on the projector. Only problem is learning all the combo's again and then opening a whole can of whoop ass :D Presently I suck..... but I'll kick your ass on Mortal Kombat on the Megadrive ;D

You do need the arcade stick or a gamepad for SF4 though. I can see that you could survive without but the xbox pad isn't really setup right (for me anyway).

I am keeping an eye out for Soul Calibur on the cheap as well as VF.

I've been having fun with SF4 on the PC. Great to see such a solid game getting a nice polishing and modernising. All my old tactics seem to fail, I'm actually rocking Zangiev for once and I used to hate him (was always way better at Chun Li and Ken than him)

Do need to buy a gamepad though, doing it on the keyboard just isn't the same.

[Psymonkee]

Gotta say I am really enjoying dead or alive 4. You get the chance to have a go before mega baddies come in and I was getting upto 7-8 combo hits and I've only just started. The characters have soo many moves it'll take time to work it all out. I actually managed to get past 6-7 guys/girls before having my ass handed to me. It was a green woman that could morph about and was a pain in the ass, with my limited knowledge of moves I was stumped.

Dead or alive is an old game though, I'm surprised there isn't another sequel. Managed to get SC4 cheap as well so I have loads of them sitting about now :D

Good suggestions everyone.

Ahhh Alpha 152 - what a bitch :(

[NokkonWud]

Gotta say I am really enjoying dead or alive 4. You get the chance to have a go before mega baddies come in and I was getting upto 7-8 combo hits and I've only just started. The characters have soo many moves it'll take time to work it all out. I actually managed to get past 6-7 guys/girls before having my ass handed to me. It was a green woman that could morph about and was a pain in the ass, with my limited knowledge of moves I was stumped.

Dead or alive is an old game though, I'm surprised there isn't another sequel. Managed to get SC4 cheap as well so I have loads of them sitting about now :D

Good suggestions everyone.

Dead or Alive is a series which gets overlooked for not being serious enough and being all about the boobs, but it's actually a very solid fighting game based around counters. And, as you say, there is a lot of moves to each fighter.