History VideoGame / DeadOrAlive5

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** ''[=DOA5=]'' challenges the hardcore among the hardcore players if they want to unlock 3 extremely skimpy swimsuits for Tina, Christie and Lisa; the game features a ''whopping total of 8 levels'' of difficulty: '''Rookie, Easy, Normal, Hard, Champ, True Fighter, Master and Legend''', with the last three being unlocked after the preceding difficulty is beaten; rest assured that your average player can't go through Hard without losing continues, if you want those Rare Swimsuits you must mow through Legend – 4 difficulties beyond Hard – ''without losing a single continue'' on Arcade for Tina's, Time Attack for Christie's and on Survival for Lisa's. Simply put it's a nightmare to get these pieces of clothing for the girls, the computer on Legend is on an whole new level of [[TheAllSeeingAI reading and countering]] any attack the player tries to connect, just beating this mode is a nerve-cracking task, but beating it without losing continues is absurd, and that's not enough, even though the task on Arcade and Time Attack is already beyond insane to complete, at the end of the day is just 8 Stages each, on Survival though, it's 100 Stages, ''a-freaking-hundred quasi-unbeatable opponents to defeat with one small recovering life bar'', so yeah, even some of the most hardcore players stop at Tina and Christie's swimsuits. Luckily it can be avoided - all you have to do is fight 200 online matches.

* FireMeansChaos: The "Scramble" stage starts atop a skyscraper currently under construction in the middle of Tokyo at night. After performing a Cliffhanger attack and with both fighters going to the ground, part of the structure falls over a tanker truck that explodes and then the stage goes all surrounded by flames and with Tokyo inhabitants disrray and with the traffic stopped (fighters can be thrown to some cars surrounding the scene that will explode by other structures to get more damage).
%%* FreeFloorFighting

%%* LargeHam: Bass and Zack.
* MeaningfulName: Victor Donovan's secret organization is named MIST. [[spoiler: Mist is also the english translation of Kasumi's name, hinting at the fact that they're still creating clones of her as human weapons]].

%%* OverlordJr: [[spoiler:Rig]]

Nearly all the fighters of the previous game (except Leon) were back, as well as two newcomers named [[IdentityAmnesia Rig]] and [[AscendedFangirl Mila]]. The game had a deep graphic upgrade from [=DOA4=] (not surprisingly, since it had been 7 years since then) and an aesthetic redesign that showed more realistic characters, with smaller and less anime-like eyes, the same to what was shown in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 3''. Special mention to the girls, who have more realistically proportionate bodies, although the JigglePhysics were still in full display. In collaboration with Creator/{{Sega}}, ''Dead or Alive 5'' also features {{Guest Fighter}}s from the ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' series. Akira Yuki, Sarah Bryant, and Pai Chan are the chosen ''Virtua Fighter'' representatives to ''Dead or Alive 5''. The games were released for Platform/PlayStation3 and Platform/{{Xbox 360}}, plus a port to the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita half a year later.

In August 2014, Team Ninja announced the game would be ported to UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}} and UsefulNotes/XboxOne as ''Dead or Alive 5: Last Round.'' ''Last Round'' would include the three new fighters introduced in the arcade port (which had been DownloadableContent in console versions of [=DOA5U=]), as well as two additional characters, two new stages, new costumes and customization options included in the package. ''Last Round'' will also get a release for 360 and [=PS3=] as a downloadable add-on for current ''Ultimate'' owners. A trailer released on December 4, 2014 also revealed ''Last Round'' would get a PC release via Platform/{{Steam}}. The console versions of ''Last Round'' released on February 17, 2015, with the PC version released on March 30.

[[caption-width-right:350:The cast of Dead or Alive 5--[[TheHero Kasumi]] in the center; counter-clockwise from the bottom right: [[CainAndAbel Ayane]], [[GorgeousGaijin Tina]], [[IdentityAmnesia Rig]], [[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Hayabusa]], [[CuteBruiser Hitomi]], [[GuestFighter Akira]], [[DarkActionGirl Christie.]]]]

Nearly all the fighters of the previous game (except Leon) were back, as well as two newcomers named [[IdentityAmnesia Rig]] and [[AscendedFangirl Mila]]. The game had a deep graphic upgrade from [=DOA4=] (not surprisingly, since it had been 7 years since then) and an aesthetic redesign that showed more realistic characters, with smaller and less anime-like eyes, the same to what was shown in ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden 3''. Special mention to the girls, who have more realistically proportionate bodies, although the JigglePhysics were still in full display. In collaboration with Creator/{{Sega}}, ''Dead or Alive 5'' also features {{Guest Fighter}}s from the ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' series. Akira Yuki, Sarah Bryant, and Pai Chan are the chosen ''Virtua Fighter'' representatives to ''Dead or Alive 5''. The games were released for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, plus a port to the UsefulNotes/PlayStationVita half a year later.

* From ''Dead or Alive'': ''[[TheHero Kasumi]]'', ''[[LethalJokeCharacter Zack]]'', ''[[GorgeousGaijin Tina Armstrong]]'', ''[[AnimeChineseGirl Lei Fang]]'', ''[[BruceLeeClone Jann Lee]]'', ''[[OldMaster Gen Fu]]'', ''[[VideoGame/NinjaGaiden Ryu Hayabusa]]'', ''[[ContractOnTheHitman Bayman]]'', ''[[ProWrestlingIsReal Bass Armstrong]]'', ''[[CainAndAbel Ayane]]''

* From ''Dead or Alive 3'': ''[[CuteBruiser Hitomi]]'', ''[[DarkActionGirl Christie]]'', ''[[DrunkenMaster Brad Wong]]'', ''[[LightningBruiser Hayate]]''
* From ''Dead or Alive 4'': ''[[{{Geisha}} Kokoro]]'', ''[[TheApprentice Eliot]]'', ''Lisa Hamilton''/''[[MaskedLuchador La Mariposa]]'', ''[[EvilKnockoff Alpha-152]]'' [[note]]FinalBoss[[/note]]
* New characters in ''Dead or Alive 5'': ''[[IdentityAmnesia Rig]]'', ''[[AscendedFangirl Mila]]'', ''False Kasumi''[[note]]Story mode only[[/note]]
* Guest Characters: ''[[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Akira Yuki, Sarah Bryant, Pai Chan]]''

* From ''Dead or Alive 2'': ''Leon'', ''[[IdentityAmnesia Ein]]''[[note]]Hayate's amnesic persona that originally debuted in that game, separate character in ''[=DOA5=]: Ultimate''[[/note]]
* New characters in ''Dead or Alive 5: Ultimate'': ''[[CanonImmigrant Momiji]]''[[note]]Debuted in ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden}}: Dragon Sword''[[/note]], ''[[CanonImmigrant Rachel]]''[[note]]Debuted in ''VideoGame/{{Ninja Gaiden}} (Xbox)''[[/note]]
* New characters in ''Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Arcade'': ''[[PintSizedPowerhouse Marie Rose]]'', ''Phase-4'', ''[[DistaffCounterpart Nyotengu]]''
* Guest Characters: ''[[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Jacky Bryant]]''

In August 2014, Team Ninja announced the game would be ported to UsefulNotes/{{Playstation 4}} and UsefulNotes/XboxOne as ''Dead or Alive 5: Last Round.'' ''Last Round'' would include the three new fighters introduced in the arcade port (which had been DownloadableContent in console versions of [=DOA5U=]), as well as two additional characters, two new stages, new costumes and customization options included in the package. ''Last Round'' will also get a release for 360 and [=PS3=] as a downloadable add-on for current ''Ultimate'' owners. A trailer released on December 4, 2014 also revealed ''Last Round'' would get a PC release via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. The console versions of ''Last Round'' released on February 17, 2015, with the PC version released on March 30.

* From ''Dead or Alive'': ''[[EvilUncle Raidou]]''

* Guest Characters: ''[[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors Naotora Ii]]''[[note]]Only available in [=PS4=], Xbox One, PC, and Arcade versions.[[/note]], ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai]] [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Shiranui]]''

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* New characters in ''Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Arcade'': ''[[PintSizedPowerhouse Marie Rose]]'', ''[[CloningBlues Phase-4]]'', ''[[DistaffCounterpart Nyotengu]]''

* From ''Dead or Alive 2'': ''[[RatedMForManly Leon]]'', ''[[IdentityAmnesia Ein]]''[[note]]Hayate's amnesic persona that originally debuted in that game, separate character in ''[=DOA5=]: Ultimate''[[/note]]

* CameraScrew: If you use the "Action" camera mode and trigger a stage effect (like dislodging the raft on "Flow"), the camera will pull out from the fight and show more of what's happening in the background as the battle continues. For serious players this can be distracting so using the "Classic" camera option will keep the focus squarely on the fighters even if something is happening in the background.

* From ''Dead or Alive 4'': ''[[{{Geisha}} Kokoro]]'', ''[[TheApprentice Eliot]]'', ''[[HotScientist Lisa Hamilton]]''/''[[MaskedLuchador La Mariposa]]'', ''[[EvilKnockoff Alpha-152]]'' [[note]]FinalBoss[[/note]]

* BigBad: Victor Donovan, overlapping with TheGhost and GreaterScopeVillain. He's still TheMan behind the events, but it's still unseen.