Dead Or Alive 4

I wandered into my local Gamestation today and whilst perusing the cool Nintendo keyrings, sweatbands and pencil cases, I was watching a hidden PS3 run through a demo of Virtua Fighter 5.

It did look pretty impressive and smooth, but I am sure that the Xbox360 would have looked equally impressive up on the massive Sony Bravia TV. The Virtua Fighter series has not yet been released on Xbox360 so I will have to wait until summer to see how it compares to the PS3 verison.

I have not got a fighting game for my 360 yet so I hunted down a £22 second hand version of Dead Or Alive 4 which was one of the original launch titles for the console. I was never that impressed with it until I saw the demo running in HiDef on my LCD TV.

Since seeing Tekken running on a Playstation 1 in the window of a store in Portsmouth many years ago whilst on a weekend pissup, I have been enamoured with fighting games. Virtua Fighter 4 on the PS2 was my favorite as was Soul Calibur on the Xbox. I have a passion for games I can pick up and play for 30 minutes without getting too engrossed and fighting games are perfect for this.

We just need a good 3d fighting game for the Nintendo DS and I will be sorted. Tekken DS? Where are you!