Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Recommended.
Genre: Sport?
Developer: Temco.
Release Date: Available Now.

Ok, so I’ve played one of the Dead or Alive fighting games, and I’ve seen the movie (on a recommendation of a girl friend!?), but this was my first experience of Dead or Alive Xtreme.

It seems that the game follows the same scantily clad girls from the fighting game and movie, though now they’re on holiday.

And what do scantily clad girls with abnormally large breasts do on holiday? Well they race Jet Skis, play Volleyball, sunbath, play pool games, running games, basically anything to show how well animated their independently - and slightly disturbing - bouncing breasts are.

Not only do you get to see these bouncing oddities in game play, but you’re also treated to re-plays in lovely hi-def video.

WOW. This is any 13 year old boys dream game.

Except that the game play isn’t all that. The Jet Ski racing is the most fun, and I must say, Team Ninja have done a great job of modelling the water, but it’s too easy to win.


The Volley Ball could have been another interesting segment, but the controls and camera problems make it more frustrating than fun.

Visually the game is a treat, though it’s easy to see that way too much time went into modelling and animating the breasts, as there are some enormously funny glitches in some of the animated scenes.

There is a sim-like element of game play whereby you have to try and be friends, and stay friends with the other girls on the island, and this involves spending time with them and buying them appropriate gifts, but I’m not sure wether this improves or distracts from the overall game play.

Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 – Fun for a while, but the joy quickly fades.

Rent or Buy?
Rent. It has some fun value, and shows off the graphical grunt of your 360, but you may end up being embarrassed if someone finds it as a permanent part of your game collection.