14 DAY TRIAL // Dead or Alive 5 will revolutionize the fighting game genre, according to the boss at developer Team Ninja, because it will use all the available computing power of current generation home consoles.
Speaking to VG247, Yosuke Hayashi, who is the leader of development on Dead or Alive 5 at Team Ninja, has stated, “In the six years that have passed since Dead or Alive 4, we’ve thought a lot about what we can do with the games. You see a lot of fighting games come out now that are really easy to pick up and play – and play online as well. Really simplistic fighting games. You just get ready and go.”
He added, “For us though, we thought ‘that’s okay,’ but we really wanted to bring a new dimension to fighting games. We wanted to evolve, and create something that really uses the current generation systems’ full potential.”
The developers says that Dead or Alive 5 will use all the power that the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony have to offer and will therefore revolutionize the way the genre is seen.
Hayashi was not very specific on exactly how the new game will use all that power but he made it clear that it is something completely new that could not be achieved on a handheld or any other devices.
Dead or Alive 5 was announced at this year's Tokyo Game Show, in late September, but the developers have not said when the game might be released or whether they are also planning to develop a version of the game for the new Wii U home console from Nintendo.
The series is best known for the over sexual way it portrays female characters and their very developed “jiggle” physics, emphasized both in the game and in advertising material.