Xbox 360 > Xbox 360 Beat 'em Up Games

Advantages: Great New Moves
Disadvantages: None

Virtual Fighter 5 Xbox 360 The Story The Fifth World Fighting Tournament has been announced and invitations sent to 17 of the best fighters in the world to come together to fight in the tournament. Little do the fighters know that the tournament's sponsor has evil, underlying motives for the contestants using them to create the perfect fighting machine to achieve world domination? Redesigned fighting locations take inspiration from places around ...
...different types of fighting arenas to keep gamers challenged and coming back for more. Favourite character return to fight in the tournament series, as well as two new fighters added to the game. The first is El Blaze, a Mexican wrestling champ who uses the Lucha Libre fighting style, and the second is Eileen, a champion fighter who uses "Kou-Ken", a Monkey Kung Fu style taught to her by her grandfather. If that's still not good enough, customise ... Read review

Advantages: Good graphics, great story mode
Disadvantages: Too easy

Smackdown vs Raw 2008 returns with its newest installment; including up to date 2008 rosters, updated rings, lots of unlockables and more. The new roster includes all ECW roster plus the much awaited return of high flyer Jeff Hardy. The game controls has yet again been enhanced abit which may be quite annoying for some players as yet again, they must get used to the newest controls. Some of the functions included is the new struggle system; personally ... Read review

Advantages: Great graphics, lots of characters/arenas/moves/costumes, massive game life
Disadvantages: can get very difficult

Dead or Alive 4 is a fighting/beat 'em up game which is similar to games such as 'Tekken' and 'Virtua Fighter'. The game is about a group of characters who compete in the DOA tournament to win a vast amount of money and essentially follow their dreams. Once again, 'Team Ninja', have used the same formula for the DOA game as DOA 4 features alot of the same game modes and styles as seen from its predecessors. DOA 4 has a much more advanced game engine ...
...more difficult than previous DOA games. The game has several game modes to keep you busy- Story Mode- here you chose your character from a list of 16 and compete in a string of 8 matches, gradually increasing in difficulty. Every so often, one will have a cutscene to briefly explain whats going on with you chosen character but they dont really help at all. The final person you fight varies depending on who youve chosen, generally it is Alpha 152 ... Read review

Advantages: Online and Create modes
Disadvantages: Repetitive carrer mode

...looks great, not only that you can create your own entrance clips for added effect. I would thouroghly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys watching wwe / wrestling, but if your new to the type of game / genre the game can seem repetative and slightly difficult in places. ... Read review

Advantages: Samurai, Blood lots of it, Great action sequences and moves.
Disadvantages: A.i design lackijng.

...the 4th from the genki Kengo series. The game is based upon the famous Japanese samurai through out iets history, from Miyamoto Musahshi, to Okita Souji. The game is not simple and cam be hard to complete. with the lack of save points. The game play is good and decent, controls aren't compicated though some moves for the characters can be hard to perform even though tis just button sequence, there are also the hard parts where you are required ...
...perfect timing. Character design in this game is very good, the quality is that worthy of a game for the Xbox 360.the sceneray in the game is beautiful, and shows a japanese feel to it with cherry blossoms snowing down when you walk past. The game comes with two language audios english and Japnese so you don't have to listen to crap american dub. also a number of european language options that change the text. there is a really beautiful intro ... Read review