Career ninja Ryu Hayabusa is going to have a busy year, now that Team Ninja has officially unveiled Dead or Alive 5 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the form of this “pre-alpha” gameplay trailer.
The star of Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden 3 is also prominently featured in our first look at Dead or Alive 5, which Tecmo Koei unveiled at this week’s Tokyo Game Show. Team Ninja describes the concept of DOA 5 as “fighting entertainment”.
The console fighting game is expected in 2012.
This is the fighting game series’ first entry on PlayStation console hardware since Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore, released on the PlayStation 2 in 2000.
Team Ninja also released a “key visual” for the game, which appears to feature either Hitomi or Kasumi, one of Dead or Alive‘s many female fighters.
Ruen
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 9:00 AMI wonder if DoA 5 will be obscenely hard like DoA 4 or Obscenely easy like DoA Dimensions?
THXultra
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 9:31 AMYeah, finally interactive arenas return – which surprised me that no other fighters adapted that into their games, like say it would be great in soul calibur to fight your way through a castle or something like that
Cannon
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 11:35 AMMan i have been waiting a while for this, always liked this francise in fighting games (and not for the obvious reasons :) )
Ruen
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM‘and not for the obvious reasons’ he lies.
Honestly though is it a crime for me to say I think DoA has one of the best fighting systems out of any fighting game I’ve played, (that being the rock-paper-scissors approach for Blocks-Throws-Attacks)
Dan
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 12:33 PMThis is unexpected, but good news.
Reign
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 1:39 PMDoA4 made me feel terrible at fighting games.
I am terrible at fighting games, but at least in MvC3 I can make some flashy moves happen.