Dead or Alive 3 |
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Now on its forth console, this version in the DOA series is sure to please all who try it out! Dead or Alive 3 was first shown at TGS 2001 to a suprised crowd. Tecmo had a killer lengthy video of this puppy looping and it was said to all be in real time motion. In certain parts of the video, the quality of the visuals was so impressive particular sequences could easily be mistaken for pre-rendered CG scenes. The demo starts with a panoramic shot of a waterfall, followed by a picture of a rotating clock that moves closer to the camera and shatters upon impact. Then the video spans to a wicked cool fight between Hayabusa and the Hulk Hogan wannabe, Bass. Then the video moved through different scenes showing off lots of environments, and character profiles of each fighter. In one cool scene, we see Ayane in a lush, green field with birds flying overhead and flowers protruding through the thick grass. Then the camera spans to Hayabusa performing kata on a city street surrounded by large buildings and assorted Japanese signs and drawings. Once that was over, the camera moves to a different scene showing a couple of characters new to the series. The first character shown is a young fighter wearing bright orange and yellow clothing. He is shown carrying a crimson gourd and using the drunken-boxing style alot similar to Virtua Fighter's very own Shun-Di. The fighter walks out onto a new level based inside an icy cave. While he walks over some icy patches, his reflection is shown and is distorted into nice shadow effect that looked amasing. The next new fighter iwhich is shown in the pictures to the right, is a silver haired female wearing a silver spandex jumpsuit. She is shown performing kata in a black and white marble courtyard under the full moon. There was a misterious character that is never shown in action, but two brief appearances in the clip is interspersed in between the action sequences for the other characters. His outfit is engulfed in flames and he is wearing a samurai mask and armor made of highly reflective steel or metal. I have full reason to beleve this may be the new boss character. One thing that really hit me was the fact that everything on each stage was set in full real-time nature. All the items were highly detailed and could be useable dudring a battle. Even simple things such as seagulls flying over head or small back ground things like rock formation look amasing. It was easy to tell that Team Ninja was given a whole lot more to work with since moving to the X-Box for production of the series. Dead or Alive 3 is exclusive to the Xbox for an unspecified period following its release and is currently planned for release at launch.I'll be the first to say that this game will be in my X-Box come launch day! April 16, 2001 |
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The Last one is my fav..
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