Each character has their own fighting skills. I feel that some characters are better than others, and quite often the better characters have bouncier chests. Yes, the boobs are back in Dead Or Alive 4. They literally defy physics. All chests aside though, by using the character you’ve chosen with the environment you are in you can really do some serious damage. The ladies tend to have these amazing spin kicks and some arenas have electrified walls or multi-levels that your opponent can fall through when using these kicks. Going back to Vegas, you also have to watch out for traffic when fighting in the street. It’s not hard to avoid but it’s a nice little extra challenge.

This is the second DoA game that’s online and the first for the 360 (of course). In the online game, you can purchase an avatar and dress him/her/it up as you see fit. I chose and alligator just to be different. While you’re in the lobby, you can physically see your opponent’s avatars and you can watch the current fight on the in-lobby monitor. It’s a neat idea, but really doesn’t do much for me.

There are a variety of online modes such as tournament, team battle and survival. They are all a lot of fun. In an online game such as this you need to be able to time your moves appropriately and you are only as good as your opponent’s bandwidth. Most of my games were pretty good but lag did show up here and there. After every fight you are given a rating which also doubles as your skill level.

Also online, Zack’s shop is back and has just as many weird things as he did in DoA Volleyball. The one neat thing is that you can ‘buy’ your way out of every item and background rather than unlocking it in every mode – if you have the money to do so.

The achievements for this game run the gamut and allow you to get some points but challenge you to unlock many events. You do get achievements by finishing story mode or beating a survival time or –get this – losing to someone online 5 consecutive times. Guess which one I won first. That one doesn’t get you any gamerpoints however.

If you’re a fan of the genre or just looking for something to really show off your Xbox 360 console, Dead Or Alive 4 is a must have game. There’s nothing incredibly new or earth shattering here, but you can absolutely enjoy it for the fighting game that it is.