REALTIME MOVIE ENGINE
Poly Count: 3,000,000pps
Frame Rate: 30/60fps
Lighting: 2 Infinite Lights, 2 Point Lights
Screen Effect: Motion Blur, Cross Dissolve
Voice: 22/44.1KHz APDCM
Seamless Loader/Player
GAME ENGINE
Realtime Inverse Kinematics Class
C2 Interpolation
Stage Undulation Secondary Motion: Multi Jointed Accessory, Meshed
Accessory
Morphings: Facial Animation, Hand Animation
ANY-way lets get a move on now.
1-PLAYER START-UP
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Once you go to the machine and pop in your money you just have to the
start button, which should be to the inside of the control setups. Once
you do you'll get a screen like this.
______________ ______________ ______________ ______________
| | | | | | | |
| Single | | Time Attack | | Survival | | Tag Battle |
|______________| |______________| |______________| |______________|
Well once you see that, you can just highlight the one you want to do
and start up. Of course some of this may not be here, I've heard that
the Tag mode must be activated and I'll try to get that info for all of
you with a new machine sitting in front of you.
Anyway here's a rundown of what you'll get depending on what you
choose.
Single:
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This is kind of different for a fighting game. It's of course a
good way to get people to play with all characters. Anyway this
is where you pick 1 character only and fight in an Arcade style.
1-on-1, one after another, while getting a story on the way up!
Time Attack:
===========
This is where you play up until you finish the game. You should
try to get the fastest time as possible. You should play the game
throughout the same order as the Single match only it's not a
story mode and just straight fighting until you get to the end.
Once you do finish the game you enter your name into the game
unless you don't get a good enough time.
Survival:
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This is pretty self-explanatory I would hope, right? Well this is
where you make your way through battle after battle fighting over
and over again. You only get one life bar but after you defeat
your enemy you can get some health items. I didn't get to far but
once you lose you put in your name and it goes into the scores.
Tag Battle:
==========
This where most of the fun fights happen in DoA 2. You pick two
characters for your team and you fight. There's no story or
anything but you and you tag partner battle it out, Marvel Vs.
Capcom and Tekken Tag style, this is Sweet!
2-PLAYER START-UP
=================
Some modes aren't for 2 player and depending on when the second player
starts different choices will be available. There are only 2 modes
though that are possible in a two-player match.
The two are just a single match out of three and the second being a tag
match which is only one round in the small stage. If both people put
their money in at the same time and hit start either of the two people
can choose the type of match it is.
If the second player puts his money in after a match has already
started the challenger gets a choice on THIER half of the screen
A new challenger has entered, choose a battle type
_______________ _______________
| | | |
| Single Battle | | Tag Battle |
|_______________| |_______________|
After the challenger chooses which one he/she would like the other
person gets a choice.
Do you accept the challengers choice?
After that you can either go with it or choose the other fighting type
instead. Once both players are ready you will go to the character
selection screen, with all 12 characters. You pick your character/s and
then you start out the match. Once it's over the person who lost
leaves, [or puts in more money] and the winner goes on.
Depending on if you're the challenger or not you can choose. If you
aren't the challenger you go back to the same spot in the same
selection as you were before you were challenged.
If you are the challenger you go to the start of the Tag, or Single
depending on what type of 2-player match was just chosen. If it was
single you do a single if it was a tag you do the tag. You don't get to
re-choose your characters either.
Here are the a rundown of the 2-player modes and there differences.
Single:
======
In a 2-player single match you get a first to three bout, ala
Virtua Fighter. Through the match you have up to 5 rounds.
Throughout each round you may knock your opponent [or be knocked]
to a new part of the stage. Once the round is over you will start
in the same spot and not go back to the start.
Tag Battle:
==========
In a tag battle match it plays out exactly like the single player
mode. Each person picks 2 characters and they fight in the
enclosed fighting arena. Once one person loses both characters
life bars his/her turns over and they have to put in more money.
That's the only play modes for 2-players, which are fine but the tag
battle is probably the more interesting out of the two IMO.
1-PLAYER TO 2-PLAYER – COMPARISON
=================================
Well those are all the modes in the game for the Arcade. Now I better
put in a quick chart to state the differences between them and then out
a more explanatory of each one underneath.
Item | Single | Time Attack | Survival | Tag Battle |
----------------------------------------------------------
Plots? | Yes | No | No | No
1 Player | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
2 Player | Yes | No | No | Yes
1 Fighter | Yes | Yes | Yes | No
2 Fighters | No | No | No | Yes
Ending | Yes | Yes | No | Yes
Name Entry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
----------------------------------------------------------
Well, I could put some more but I don't know any for now. If I get some
more I'll ad them later in another update. I don't think I need to say
anymore.
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III. CONTROLS
GAME CONTROLS
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The controls for DoA2 are simple at first glance but have a good set of
depth in them if you learn them through-and-through. Here is a quick
show of the setup of the arcade.
__
/ \ <-- Joystick
\__/ ___ ___ ___ ______
|| / \ / \ / \ |______| <-- Start Button
|| | | | | | |
|| \___/ \___/ \___/
| | |
Free -/ Punch \- Kick
