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The Dead or Alive series focuses on fast-paced gameplay in a three-dimensional playing field. In comparison to other fighters in its genre, such as Virtua Fighter, the series places emphasis on striking characters quickly and efficiently. Air juggling is a factor in the series, but is easier to execute and more favorable due to the countering system and characters' recovery times, which disallows slow, technical sets of moves in most instances.

Like Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII consists of three main modes of play: the world map, the field map, and the battle screen. The world map is a 3D display in which the player may navigate freely across a small-scale rendering of the game world. Characters travel across the world map in a variety of ways, including by foot, car, Chocobo, train, and airship.

Like Spider-Man 3 the movie, the game has received "mixed or average" reviews according to Metacritic where it has a 67 average score. However, Game Rankings shows that the game has a 72% average score with over 38% of reviews giving the game a score of 80% or higher [2]. The reviews have largely criticized the similarities between Spider-Man 3 and its predecessor as well as the length of the game, in which the story lasts only 3-5 hours. The Wii/PS2 version has suffered major critisism, mainly due to it's major graphics issues, even to it's predecessors on the Gamecube and PS2.