You'll see characters with their hands through each other's chest like a bloodless re-enactment of that scene from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Blood. Further to that, the moment you slow the game down to take screenshots and the like you will see the extreme clipping issues with regards to both costumes and fighters. After all, human bodies that look like wet towels being wrong to dry is not sexy. This is now even more pronounced because the character models are clearer and better defined, and these contortions compromise the sexiness that the developer is aiming. Because this is a fighting game with some spectacular feats of martial prowess on display, the characters distort when doing complex and nimble movements into positions that make horror films look painless. I say almost because the engine still can't quite keep up with the ambition. It's almost - almost - the realisation of everything this game aspired to be in its first, now relatively ugly and limited, release. It's now even possible to choose what underwear is being taken into battle, along with changing hairstyles and giving the character glasses for additional variety. Underwear actually creases and folds depending on the movement of the body. Shirts become see-through as they get wet, offering a tantalising look at a bra underneath. As with the previous releases, sweat rolls down the body as the fight wears on, but these trickles of water are more pronounced and clear than ever.
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Character models are smoother and better animated than previous editions of the game, and the details on their bodies are more pronounced. In this context the extra power of the PlayStation 4 has been put to good use. Whether you are offended by it or not (and we'll get to that discussion in a moment), Dead or Alive 5: Last Round does not hide that it wants to be a sexy game, both in terms of the gorgeous, well-endowed women and the ripped men.
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Not only is it a complete package, in that it comes with all the characters that were once acquired as DLC (and adds a couple more new ones for even more variety) but for a "HD remaster" on new generation consoles, there has been an impressive amount of subtle work done to make the now-creaky engine as visually impressive as possible.īecause let's face it, the hyper-sexualisation of Dead or Alive is a key selling point for this game, and therefore, the quality of the visuals - and specifically the characters - are important. Furthermore, fans would not have continued to support the game if they were not connected to it the point that they develop favourite characters enough so that they want to play doll dress-up with them.Īnd Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is easily the best release in addressing everything people found appealing about the base game. All of this would not happen if Koei Tecmo had not produced a game that is fundamentally good enough that people play it enough to get their money's worth across multiple releases of the same game. In between those releases Koei Tecmo has produced a mind-boggling amount of DLC, both in terms of additional playable characters, and an obscene number of costumes that, were you to purchase it all, would run a tab into the hundreds of dollars.
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There have been three full retail releases of the game - Dead or Alive 5, Dead or Alive 5 Plus on the PlayStation Vita, Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate - and now comes a next-generation re-release of the game in Dead or Alive 5: Last Round. Such has been the success of the game that Koei Tecmo has been able to continue generating revenue from it, years after it was originally released in 2012. In this it sits in a small group of fighting games (that include, ironically, the very family-friendly Smash Bros.) as a fighting game that literally anyone can have fun with (again, in this case assuming the hyper-sexualisation doesn't offend them in some way). Where Dead or Alive 5 succeeded was it was immediately entertaining and very playable, but a definite learning curve rewarded players for jumping online and honing their skills. Conversely too many fighting games are so abstract and obtuse that players need to be experts in the genre before they even think of giving it a go. That can't have been an easy balancing act too often we see fighting games that aim for accessibility struggle once the player obtains a level of skill that there ceases to be any challenge left in playing it (or, worse, the skilled players discover characters that, with mastery, are impossible to beat).
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And, among those critics that can look past its hyper-sexualisation, it has also been regarded well as the edition in the series that took the franchise and injected it with enough depth that it works both as an accessible introduction to 3D fighting games, and as a game that serious fighting game fans can sink their teeth into. Dead or Alive 5 has been a complete commercial success for Koei Tecmo.