Customer Reviews

Dead or Alive 4 (Prima Official Game Guide)

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I disregarded the previous review by LB on January 25th and i sorely regret it. This game guide does not tell you how to counter properly, guard breaks, and character strategies. On the back cover it says it shows you the best/worst match-ups but its nowhere to be found. Doesnt give you any tag combos at all, or online play instructions.

PS For goodness sake, learn to play a character other than Ryu Hayabusa, Jan Lee or Brad Wong. Everyone plays these characters online.

The back cover of the guide promisses "expert lessons". Where? It's just more general suggestions. I already know I need to learn the counter system to be effective at this game. The booklet with the game tells me that. HOW PRIMA? HOW DO I DO IT? There's no lesson. There's no how to. I'm still looking for the promised "gaurd breaks" list in the "character strategies" section. Sounds like it's something I'd really like to try. This guide makes it seem like an effective tool. Too bad that other then a general description of what a guard break will do for me, there's no actual instruction on the technique.

Great I know all the character moves that you can't possibly hope to accomplish while the computer has you in a 99999 punch juggle. I can get that info for free on gamefaq.com. I was actually better as a button masher at this game than I am armed with this worthless guide.

i have all the doa games so when i got part 4 i ran into all of good fighters online this guide let me sharpen my skills so i can give those challangers online a run for their money and thanks to this guide i learn to master more characters.

As the previous reviewers have stated, this guide excludes many of the things that it promises, such as Vs matchups and Tag combos. It doesn't (and just might not be able to) teach you how to counter properly.

As bad as this is already, it is actually outdated. Most of the techniques given have been modified by the 4.1 patch. So specific strategies no longer work. And certain 'key moves' are no longer as great as they were. Guard breaks and crushes are no longer guaranteed and that also screws with the advise in this guide.

Well, you might pick it up for the printed Movelists, right? That is another weakpoint. FREE movelists and frame data are available on the main site and are easily printable.

So it seems that the only viable reason to buy this is for the art, and some Movelists that could very well be obtained for free via the web. [However, I like the art, so I gave it two stars. Because, face it, the only reason people buy the Prima Guides in preference to web guides is the art.]