360 : Beat 'em ups

[Garp]

Originally Posted by 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 Presently I suck..... but I'll kick your ass on Mortal Kombat on the Megadrive

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]

Originally Posted by 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

Good suggestions everyone.

Ahhh Alpha 152 - what a bitch

[NokkonWud]

Originally Posted by 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

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.