Dead or Alive 5

[Flabio]

He was sued for it, but he won the case. But as is often the case, once you're accused of it people never look at you the same again even if it is proven to be completely baseless.

[dataDave]

Regardless, he still comes across as a twat and his games are massively sub-standard.

[tokyochojin]

More bikini costumes and I might be more interested.

[Team Andromeda]

Regardless, he still comes across as a twat and his games are massively sub-standard.

Sorry I don't agree with that... X-Box Ninja Gaiden is one of the best games ever made on any system in any generation I thought DOA to be a brilliant fighter and Ninja Gaiden II to be miles better than DMC IV or Bayonetta.

[Neon Ignition]

Without spurring a debate on it, I've found the DOA series to be quite solid despite not being as high tier as VF. I don't think it's had a stumbling point like most of the other series have so I'm not worried about DOA5, Dimensions was post firing too and was quite good. NG wise I'm unsure if they'll pull it off as much. Always felt NG was well done but overrated a bit, NG2 was decent but not as good. I'd say it's better than DMC4 though (not Bayonetta)

[dataDave]

Sorry I don't agree with that... X-Box Ninja Gaiden is one of the best games ever made on any system in any generation I thought DOA to be a brilliant fighter and Ninja Gaiden II to be miles better than DMC IV or Bayonetta.

DMC IV maybe, that was bolloxus, but Bayonetta? What are you injecting?

Infact, DMC IV and Bayonetta even in the same sentence? Please.

[Flabio]

DOA: D on the 3DS is a really solid game, much better than DOA4 was. Cautiously optimistic about this one.

[Team Andromeda]

DMC IV maybe, that was bolloxus, but Bayonetta? What are you injecting?

Infact, DMC IV and Bayonetta even in the same sentence? Please.

What's a matter Dave ? Ninja Gaiden too hardcore for you ? :P . When it comes to the combat systems nothing touches Ninja Gaiden II , never mind the utter gaming perfection that is Ninja Gaiden

[monel]

I liked the Ninja Gaiden games (admittedly they're too hard for me these days), they were very good games but after playing Bayonetta way after them I thought Bayonetta was better. Personal preferences and all that.

[dataDave]

It was very hard, which is what I like... Although imo it wasn't very justified, and lacked any kind of reward. I'd have lapped it up maybe if I was a kid again and it was the only game I had for a while, much like the NES version. It's by far the best of a bad bunch.

[saturn-gamer]

Itagaki is actually unmissable for Team Ninja. I thought NG2 was overrated at first, but after playing Sigma 2 its apparent that NG needs Itagaki. Hayashi's Team Ninja had NG2 on Xbox for reference, and (as I suspected right away and Itagaki later confirmed) NG2 was unfinished and rushed out due to internal problems. Yet Hayashi still messed up with Sigma 2, its much worse than vanilla NG2.

One could also argue that Sigma 1 was worse than NGB, which I think is the case. If Hayashi can't even beat an existing unfinished product, let alone what he will do with NG3. And so far, NG3 looks like generic ****. Thats why i'm cautious with DoA 5. I think that as far as DoA goes, part 4 was really well done.

Itagaki had its **** game (DoAX2), but his NGB, NG2 are MUCH better than the Sigmas.

[Silanda]

The character design already does seem a little reined in...

http://t.co/VZqVQdMr

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Oh Tecmo, what have you done to their faces? It looks like "cute" has been exchanged for generic "sexy". I do not approve.

[EvilBoris]

They look the same to me, except with a little more skin texture as opposed to the old plastic figurine look they used to have

[monel]

It was very hard, which is what I like... Although imo it wasn't very justified, and lacked any kind of reward. I'd have lapped it up maybe if I was a kid again and it was the only game I had for a while, much like the NES version. It's by far the best of a bad bunch.

Yep, as a kid I would have sunk time into the game to get better at it but nowadays the difficulty just puts me off. I liked extremely difficult games at one point but not any more.

[Judge]

Oh Tecmo, what have you done to their faces?

I'm in two minds here. As you say, the faces seem odd in the couple of character portraits; Hitomi's not too bad, but Ayane looks distinctly weird. Despite that, the faces work a heck of a lot better in the screen shots of the game in action.

The entire DOA cast (male as well as female) could really have done with a redesign for the fourth game, as the anime-influenced style that served so well on the Dreamcast didn't really let Team Ninja fully take advantage of the current crop of consoles. Are there any close-ups of the male fighters out there? That'll be the acid test for how the new approach works, really.