Dead or Alive 3 Still Holds Up Today

Everyone out here stanning the female characters while Iam here proud as a girl maining Ryu haha

Itagaki pushed the developments for this game so hard cuz he knew it was gonna be on the Xbox!🤣🤣 Dude was smitten with the Xbox on the first day

I was looking through my large Xbox digital collection and came across this and I thought: “Oh yeah I got this for free through Games with Gold years ago!” 😅

Gotta respect someone who appreciates the gilded goddess that is Helena, the only french person that matters.
Also iirc there is a story from the "trust me bro" source, that Itagaki also went to MS to give the exclusivity to his new games, because someone at Sony yoinked an early version of DOA 2 Hardcore and that is the reason why the game can look somewhat unpolished because Sony didn't let it stay in the oven a little longer and Itagaki felt they compromised his artistic vision or something, so he went to the Americans to spite Sony, and some of those Bills from Gates must have come in handy during development.

This was the biggest jump in graphics that I noticed since I started gaming on the 2600. I was a huge fan of DOA2 but I didn't yet have an Xbox. Then I saw DOA3 playing in a Walmart and it was so good looking that I decided right there to buy the console. I believe the graphical upgrade to the backgrounds was just as important as the characters. Team Ninja was an absolute force back then.

I remember the video long ago you did a great job❤

DOA3 may be complatable with modern day gaming systems but it isn't compatible with modern day gaming journalists.

DOA has the best throws and counters in fighting games, fast, type of a mind game, the impacts feel awesome, the story is great and the characters look amazing, I do not know why people have to apologize for the game having sex appeal, they look great, are beautiful and allow them to have Venus and other products that sell, there is no need to separate game and looks, that's part of the game, and the completion of Ayane's story is amazing redeemed and taken as the main character.

THANK YOU, i grew up with this game and im still wishing for a rerelease for Playstation, i love the other games but 3 is my personal favorite

panzer dragoon is something everyone thinks of as a sega saturn/dreamcast exclusive in my mind, same with jsr

Great video

If only this game were available on Playstation 5 as a download, I'd certainly be willing enough to try it out. The combat actually looks super fun and honestly I'm just a big fighting game fan to begin with so hearing about a good fighting game immediately makes me want to check it out regardless.

I agree this game looks amazing and even better on series x, i actually have well over 800 games and get overwhelmed at what to play so i came up with an idea, i wrote down all my original xbox games and googled there release dates and wrote in order of release, once i do them all in order i will do the same with my 360 library followed by xbox one then xbox enhanced games. I started it this weekend with my first 3 games that all released the same day november 11 2001, the 3 games are ea sports nbalive 2002 which i admit many glitches and not very pretty on the eyes, the other was this dead or alive 3 which i unlocked all ending movies in just under 2 hours and finally oddworld munch's oddysee. Once all are done i will be onto Max Payne. Just wanted to try some nostalgia so as i get more in my list i can appreciate the better graphics as i go along.

Damn making me sad when you mentioned it was 21 years ago... I remember loving DOA3 when it released and the DOA Ultimate collection for the Xbox. Spent countless hours grinding to unlock costumes and everything.

As a baby 🚬 🐐 theses series had me v confused especially the iconic extreme beach volleyball

Yeah, it's a shame DOA gets a bad wrap due to the spin-offs. I actually like most of the main installments, and not for the bewbs, but because I think they're fun games.
DOA3 was my gateway into the series, and it immediately became one of my top fighter franchises. I've always hated the complex inputs and special-spamming of other fighting games, like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Like, why bother punching and kicking when you can hurl fireballs across the screen all day? DOA sets a very high bar in accessibility with its minimalist inputs, partially shared move-sets across all characters, and zero ranged specials to abuse. It's very easy to learn, and is made even easier with the intuitive tutorial mode. Good game design invites new players, not gate-keeps with a hard learning curve.
I also never liked Tekken or Virtua Fighter because of how incredibly slow they are. Dead or Alive is FAST, and you can sometimes get up in your opponent's face and go to town on combos, when other fighting games forcefully push your opponent's back, making it difficult to actually keep your momentum going. But you still gotta be careful because of the rock-paper-scissors mechanics between strikes, reversals, and grapples. If you punch or kick all the time, your opponent is going to punish you with reversals. That is depth in a fighting game, and makes DOA more than just a simple button-masher.
All that said, I'm still a dude and I'm not ashamed to admit I like tits and ass. The sex appeal is a nice bonus, but I've never paid extra for it, and never will (looking at you DOA5). My point is, games don't have to be edge-lords to be good. But also look at Taki from Soulcalibur, Cammy from SF, and Kitana from MK and try to tell me those games haven't dipped their hand into sex appeal. It's a double standard.

Hitomi was great in DOA 3, 4 and Hardcore.. but they really made her look awful in 5. 6 was bad on her too.

If only volleyball was backwards compatible 💀

2/ 2U and 3 are my favourites! You have no idea how much I was playing the game series back and forth when back in 2015, literally costed my grades to go down lol! Missed them days

>Tina main

Man of culture.

I remember having this game a long time ago when I had a Xbox and not really knowing what to do but mash and have fun as a kid. It was great and it was technically my very first fighting game that I played. Now that I am older aka 19 and have played fighting games for quite some time now, I believe it is time for me to revisit a game of my childhood! Great review btw.

I agree with you about Helena 😌 that earned a subscriber

This series sparks joy, and deserves justice, booba fighter 4 ever

DOA3 definitely stood the test of time.

DOA 3 was my least favorite of the series. I just never liked it. I thought it was cheaper than the others and it just doesn’t have the charisma of 2 or 4. Just my opinion.

Dead or alive 2 and DOA dimensions just makes so much sense to me and feels fast and fluent DOA3 feels slow and I don't really get the attack system
not sure about the other DOA games haven't played DOA4 since I was like 7 1/2

Kasumi top tier Helena no sorry mate

One of the best fighting games I’ve ever played even to this day. Nothing else comes close.

Love this game

The artstyle definitelly helped this game age well, the stages look even more impressive than the ones DOA5/6.

Specially that one stage with dynamic snow or the one with the reflective floor.

I also like how the XBOX got version of DOA2 with the engine of the third game. It is so different from the Dreamcast and PS2 ports. Shame that a part of the soundtrack was removed. So all those kickass rock songs like the opening theme and the gallery theme are no longer there.

I'm a casual gamer in general getting good at games is stupid rather get good/practice literally anything else

I want doa3 pc version so badly

I'm still in awe that graphics this good were possible in 2001.

I just ordered Dead or alive 3

The series could be considered Xbox exclusive until DOA4, since the Microsoft console got the definitive version of DOA1 and DOA2 with the Ultimate Releases, plus it also got 2 DOAX titles, then Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 used to be exclusive, man I miss those days were exclusives were great on Xbox, btw my favorite character is Helena...

Halo, Jet set radio future and DOA3 was my favourite games in this era!

Hey Tina is your favorite character too? That's nice

This is actually my first DOA game and then Paradise is my ahem cultured DOA game.

There is something odd about the Xbox One/Series X version of the game. If you install the PAL version you get almost all of the costumes right off the bat, even though in that version you need to unlock them all, and not just install the Booster Disk. However you can unlock them normally, so you may end up with duplicate costumes. Kasumi has 7 costumes, because I normally unlocked the 2 extra ones, but upon start up you already have them. It’s just sort of weird, but that is how it works. If your playing the Japanese or PAL version and you get duplicates it’s because you managed to unlock them normally, even though the game starts you with them already unlocked.

I’ve always wished this series get more respect. Yeah it’s cheesecake but it’s not pretentious. It tries to be fun first and foremost and I’ve always loved the flow of this series. It goes back and forth in an instant like a real fight.