New DOAX2 details

By Tom Bramwell Published 4 October, 2006

Hotels, bikini updates, more.

There's so much pre-rendered content in Dead Or Alive X2 that it's filled up an entire DVD, according to Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki.

Speaking in Famitsu Xbox 360, in an article partially translated by IGN, Itagaki also said that the game was now 80 percent complete, with start and end sequences finalised.

The preview also revealed for the first time that the game will feature multiple hotels, with your choice of character sending you to a particular location based on their personality. Elena, for example, prefers the five-star Gemstone Suite, but there's also the Seabreeze Cottage hotel near the beach and Moonlight Reef, which appeared in Kasumi's Dead Or Alive 4 end sequence.

DOAX2, which features jet-ski sections as well as volleyball and a host of mini-games, is very much about the characters and their interaction with you and one another, and Itagaki revealed that if they really get to like you, they may even get changed into new bikinis in front of you. Calm down though, because you're unlikely to see anything.

With the game nearing completion, ahead of its US and Japanese launch dates of 15th and 22nd November respectively, Itagaki confirms that they're down to bug-testing, with approximately half the work done there, along with translation of the huge volumes of text that make up item descriptions, which need to be rewritten in nine languages.

Expect more on the game around the time of its US launch.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (32) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Huxley #1 5 years ago

    This thread is useless without pictures.

    /coat

  • Les #2 5 years ago

    That people are genuinely interested in these kind of games somehow makes me sad...

  • ram #3 5 years ago

    Les that's because you are a superior human. well done.

  • asphaltcowboy #4 5 years ago

    ...yeah, sad for NOT liking them! ;)

  • oerhoert #5 5 years ago

    Since the first game was so utter, utter shit, I don't know why they're even making a new one.

  • MrAtheist #6 5 years ago

    That people are genuinely interested in these kind of games somehow makes me sad

    Ogling naked women is a $60bn a year industry.
    Edited by 1 at 04/10/06 @ 09:56

  • Stickman #7 5 years ago

    For God's sake, just make it soft anime porn and have done with it! That's all it gets bought for anyway.

  • sickpuppysoftware #8 5 years ago

    There's so much pre-rendered content in Dead Or Alive X2 that it's filled up an entire DVD, according to Team Ninja's Tomonobu Itagaki.

    If ony there was a larger format disk available

  • UncleLou #9 5 years ago

    For God's sake, just make it soft anime porn and have done with it! That's all it gets bought for anyway.

    +1

    The hypocritical beating about the bush is annoying.

  • Les #10 5 years ago

    "Les, with a name like yours, one would think surely YOU'd be interested in those scantily clad ladies!"

    LOL. I've got no problem with scantily clad ladies, as long as they're not digital... ;)

  • Salubrious_K #11 5 years ago

    DOAX2? That's far too lame for my testosterone fueled adoslescent self!

    I'm going to hold out for a port of Sexual Battle Raper II:
    [link url=http://www.illusi on.jp/preview/br2/
    ]http://www.illusi on.jp/preview/br2/
    [/link]

    PS Check out the trailer here, it's ridiculously funny, and definitely not work safe:
    [link url=http://w ww.illusion.jp/download/br2_psp.html
    ]http://ww w.illusion.jp/download/br2_psp....[/link]
    (it's a self-extracting zip)

  • mkreku #12 5 years ago

    Gee, the DVD9 is already full, even for a crappy game like DOAX2? Guess XNA, high-compression and procedural synthesizing can't save them all.

  • Mr_Whacker #13 5 years ago

    Same old tripe about it being sad. If I posted on a FIFA thread about how football games are sad because you could go to the park and actually play a real game I'd rightly get told off for flaming.

    @wired_protocol - you've got a point there. There should be a Men of DOA edition.

    What I'm saying is that
    a) We all like different stuff. None of it is sad.
    b) Maturity in games isn't about whether or not people make niche games with scantily clad women. Its whether EVERYBODY can find something to entertain them in games. Does anyone really think that a macho lone gunman with rippling muscles is less sad or more mature?

  • absolutezero #14 5 years ago

    <a href="http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7TiVCdMFg
    ">http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7TiVCdMFg
    </a>
    [link url=http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=4jbCq7Th57M
    ]http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=4jbCq7Th57M
    [/link]

    Sexy Beach 3 just came out. Its pretty much a DOA porn game. Also from Illusion which has already been linked too in this thread.
    Edited by 1 at 04/10/06 @ 10:56

  • Spiral #15 5 years ago

    Gee, the DVD9 is already full, even for a crappy game like DOAX2? Guess XNA, high-compression and procedural synthesizing can't save them all.

    Filled with pre-rendered content. DVD's not supposed to be a HD movie format.

  • Darren #16 5 years ago

    Odd that it only seems to be Japanese developers complaining about the lack of storage space on DVDs for pretty but pretty useless pre-rendered movies... first Tecmo moaned about it then FromSoftware (developers of Enchanted Arms). I understand that the Japanese public adore pre-rendered FMV hence the need to include it in Japanese developed games but really it's pretty pointless for DOA Xtreme 2 when you have a gorgeous engine that is easily capable of rendering them in real-time allowing for a consistent look visually.

    How are they going to get round the fact that your character is wearing a $500,000 diamond studded bikini that you worked hard to buy ingame and is wearing a totally different one in the cut-scenes?

    Pre-rendered FMV might look lush but any developer can include it in a game with no real effort (they just outsource it) but it takes a really skilled developer to create awesome ingame cinematics, like those of the Metal Gear Solid games for example, which are at least interactive.

  • aldo_14 #17 5 years ago

    Whoo! It's like porn, but without the attraction of nudity or real women!

  • Zuiyo #18 5 years ago

    Why all the hypocrisy?

    The eroticism in DOA is no different (in a category level) from any other artistic depiction of women. Goya, anyone?

  • kangarootoo #19 5 years ago

    @oerhört

    I have to disagree. It wasn't really my cup of tea but I thought it was a very well turned out game. One of my housemates is a girl and she LOVED it, which is an exception to what I would assume many believe the target audience to be.

    She had no interest in watching animated women dance about in their pants (I should mention that she had no real objection either), but the whole present buying and friendship winning aspects were totally her thing. As were the various mini games like the pool float balancing thing.

    So all I am saying is that DOAXBV (or whatever it is called) shouldn't be dismissed as just some computer softcore title. Titillation is part of its sales pitch, no doubt. But that doesn't mean the game mechanics aren't well implemented also.

  • Shyvah #20 5 years ago

    @kangarootoo

    I totally agree. My missus loved the game.

  • Les #21 5 years ago

    "Same old tripe about it being sad. If I posted on a FIFA thread about how football games are sad because you could go to the park and actually play a real game I'd rightly get told off for flaming."

    Playing computer games in general is sad, but a game that's about looking at scantily clad digital women... Don't know, just feels more sad than playing PES or FIFA. Wouldn't happily admit playing thisto a co-worker in any case. But I'm probably just weird.

  • EnDream #22 5 years ago

    My wife is looking forward to this game. She liked the first DOAX, and she wants this one. I believe thats where these games are aimed.

  • jlaakso #23 5 years ago

    kangarootoo: You're not alone with your "chicks dig DOAX" experience. The three gaming women I know all liked the first game. If the relationship stuff had been any deeper, my wife probably would've insisted on buying the game. As it is, she played it for a week.

    The prospect of a "vacation game" really isn't overused yet. Sometimes you just want to relax. It was impossible to get mad at the game.

  • Mr_Whacker #24 5 years ago

    "Playing computer games in general is sad"

    Why?

  • asphaltcowboy #25 5 years ago

    Because all the cool people said so ;)

  • lambtron #26 5 years ago

    Well they're tards.

  • Drakron #27 5 years ago

    I think many would suprised at how many women play(ed) the first one.

    Anyway it seems they are expanding from the original one instead of "more of the same", I wonder if they also use SB3 tan system ... but I doubt it.

  • asphaltcowboy #28 5 years ago

    I like the fact that they're expanding it to more game. If the volleyball and jetskiing is solid, the scantily clad girls with big breasts are just a bonus!

  • Nillsens #29 5 years ago

    FAP FAP!

    Not buying it though.

  • Lex_Luthor #30 5 years ago

    I'll buy it when it's cheap(Shouldn't take long for this one I think :)).

    Enjoyed the original more than I should, though the way parts of it worked left a lot to be desired. Whichever way you slice it though, those of us buying this game are probably sad bastards :(

  • Nillsens #31 5 years ago

    Puh, if the definition of sad encompasses being aroused by a virtual portrayal of woman... I can think of things that should be considered sad far sooner than that. I'd have to say that looking at polygazongas is rather innocent really.

  • kangarootoo #32 5 years ago

    @AdamofEternia

    "kanga for once I actually think you're about spot on"

    I'll take that as a compliment :)


    @Les

    Methinks the gentleman doth protest too much ;) Give it a try, you don't have to tell anyone if you like it :)