Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 – The object of desire – Multiplayer.it

It’s no getting around it: despite being very popular with fans of fighting games for his undoubted quality, the saga of Dead or Alive has always bear the mark of its creator Tomonobu Itagaki, personality rather peculiar that projected in the products his morbid interest in the female form. In short, since the early episodes the attractiveness of fighters already represented a marketing tool, but c ‘is something more: apart from the typical Japanese culture, of which the series is clearly daughter, there is an obsession almost charming in wanting to represent girls of Team Ninja with a style deliberately abstract, that sacrifices in the name of realism an idealization sex. It is very interesting to note that this aspect will be able to give their best once solved the rock of technological limit to justify a style of comic. He was actually wanted. Women seem all dolls, and if that adds a grain fetishist more or less disturbing (at least for us), the ingenuity and visual perfection of the bodies reveals a universe so manic, but hardly offensive. Let us leave this issue for later, we will be back on.

Summer vacation 2003

Microsoft gave fertile ground for the morbidity of Itagaki, allowing him to create Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball for the first Xbox, born in 2003. It was an incredible experiment at the time, a spin-off series that He exploited its most trivial – at least for someone – to justify a completely stand-alone product. Just blows and kicks, girls third installment, released also on Xbox, is taking a well-deserved vacation on a tropical island idyllic managed Zack, only male figure and absolutely cosmetics economy of the game, but at least the protagonist of delirious introduction. Seasoned of hilarious sexual innuendo (but never vulgar), a soundtrack explosive and a look and feel amazing at the time, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball cast the player in the role of one of eight girls and a view of a harmless holiday . The game ended irrespective after two weeks, with the days divided into various phases of the day. If the morning and afternoon were spent soaking up the sun on the beach, devoting himself to the endless shopping and challenging each other in games of beach volleyball (after the title must have a sense), the evening was dedicated to gambling and an interesting interaction with darkened girls controlled by artificial intelligence, with which it was possible to exchange gifts with varying results. Obviously the highlight was the infamous cut scenes “gravure” entr’actes totally devoted to voyeurism wildest, where the stars showing their skills thanks to a set of virtually boundless swimwear. Basically the goal was just to earn enough money to win the bikini more expensive while still trying to get them to wear their companions, do not obvious, as each kept items in your inventory also in the next game. That’s it, there was no real purpose other than to have fun and see beautiful girls in costumes with manic interchangeability. Maybe there was something more embarrassing at the time, this bizarre simulation dolls for hormonal teenagers in full load, but the truth is that the game was fun and the parties that characterized him, although odd and loose, worked. Looking at it with a wider perspective, it was simply a collection of genres absolutely normal for the Japanese territory. The touch came with the ability to use a custom soundtrack, simply by registering their songs on the hard drive of the console.

Taste of the sea … 3 years later

Team Ninja went on the crime scene in 2006 with the official sequel, Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, which was released on the Xbox 360, not without difficulty. The production was troubled, and the results merged in some way in the final product. Beach volleyball was gone by the title, hinting that the focus would be larger, but the reasons to justify a sequel were frankly scarce departing. Anyway, the game was almost a remake which proposed a structure unchanged: two more weeks of play / stay on the island, but increased girls and mini games available. The beach volleyball at the end was in place, but is flanked other activities such as jet skis, the tug of war seek, tag and other games in the pool. Graphically show was still, thanks to the engine of Team Ninja, modified for Dead or Alive 4, and a physics system for independent breasts. Back obviously gambling, expanded with the introduction of slots. Of everything and more, but the fun latitava, new ideas were completely disappeared and he felt the lack of the spirit and a bit quirky ‘naive of the founder. remained unchanged desire to see beautiful bodies girls engaged in various situations, with Tina and Christie continues to lead the group of increased. But all this was not enough to curb criticism, very hard to judge the game (53 on Metacritic). Moreover, this time missing the mitigating effect of novelty, many accused of sexism developers. This mischievous spin-off seemed so arrived at sunset, but …

Groundhog three

Unexpectedly The series is instead to return to PlayStation and PlayStation 4 Life with the third episode, which will be released on Feb. 25, 2016 only in Japanese territory. Ten years after the second chapter uncertain, no one expected the revival dell’impudico spin-off, but at the same time is not surprising either that much, considering the close relationship with the saga of role. Each Xtreme has always supported the consideration brawler; probably the success of Dead or Alive 5, also repeated on current generation formats, provided sufficient reasons to Tecmo Koei to play again his card summer. But with some reservations. Many things have changed in the two decades, Itagaki left Tecmo to engage in new projects, thus depriving Team Ninja of his creative mind. But also affected platforms tell us something: this is the first time that the series comes out on PlayStation, certainly more popular at home and therefore an ideal base for a production with cost-profit ratio favorable. This, coupled with the fact of territorial, seems to indicate that ambitions are rather moderate and that the publisher did not intend to go to the expense required for a distribution in the West. In short, the conditions seem to indicate a product budget and is unconvincing the fuss generated around. For those who have not followed, Tecmo seemed to have changed his mind airing the possibility of a western release, and then retrace his steps, apparently troubled by the potential controversy over accusations of sexism, among other allegations from which the series has never saved. Later the house made it clear in a statement that there are no specific reasons for the decision, but this is not enough to dispel the suspicion that Tecmo are fully aware that the product has few opportunities outside home. There is no even a PC version, and for the first time explicitly suggested contacting the import market, with the Asian version equipped with an English localization. However, the structure of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 does not seem to differ from previous models: back nine girls from Dead or Alive 5, selected from a roster of fifteen, with new revenue represented by Honoka and Marie Rose, the most popular in Japan. The first in particular is an icon that marketing does not need scientific analysis, but it will elicit even old favorites like Kasumi, Ayane and Hitomi. The graphics engine is more sophisticated and allows, at least on the PlayStation 4, further effects as the tan on the bodies and the customs self-propelled. Returning the infamous 14 days, this time divided into four stages, and the usual mini-games, such as jumping in the pool, the clash (shots of buttocks) platforms and the tug of war. conspicuous from the start the number of bonuses, such as the costumes, with a basic model which already seems prepared to accept a number of DLC probably incalculable pay Abundant as expected prominences and alluring poses to ninety degrees, this is indeed the spirit and would be a crime to break the tradition.