"Roll on Tekken 7..."
Dead or Alive really is a triumph of feminism.
Where else can a cast of (mainly) women, kick seven bells out of a
muscular male martial artist? Emily Pankhurst would be proud. Were it
not for the Bikinis, perhaps…
Most right-minded people would probably feel a
little uneasy openly buying Last Round from their local game shop. Given
its soft-porn styling it should probably come in a plain paper bag. How
DOA’s ladies manage to keep on their swimwear in a fight is never really
explained.
Controls are inspired very much by Virtua Fighter:
one button blocks while the other two punch and kick. It works, but it
lacks the versatility of Tekken’s more natural four button control
scheme.
Also, Sega’s kind permission to actually use
several of their Virtua Fighter cast adds some desperately needed
credibility to Tecmo’s game.
At the end of the day DOA is a really hard game to
grade. It doesn’t do anything wrong, but neither does it do anything
fighting games haven’t done for the past 25 years. Roll on Tekken 7…
