This could involve вЂњsurfingвЂќ your opponent down a long set of temple stairs or even bouncing them off a helicopter. Traditionally in DoA games, these would involve crazy and over the top transitions from one area of an arena to the next. In fact, spamming the Special Button moves over and over again can get you easily countered by opponents who know what theyвЂ™re doing.ДЄlso getting a new rework are the gameвЂ™s arenas. But just because thereвЂ™s now an option for beginner players doesnвЂ™t mean the old systems are gone.

If that sounds very simplistic itвЂ™s because it is, as Team Ninja are trying to make the traditionally complex game more accessible.

Both are performed by just pressing the Special Button and either backwards or forwards respectively. Break Gauge introduces a super meter for the first time in franchise history, and filling it up вЂ“ either through dishing out or taking damage вЂ“ allows players to вЂњperform either the Break Blow, which is a flashy and highly destructive special attack, or the Break Hold, a useful counter attack that deals low damage but works against high, low and mid attacksвЂќ. So how this works in practice is that by just hitting the Special Button,В which Shimbori calls the вЂњrescue button for beginnersвЂќ, players can perform up to a four-hit choreographed combo called a Fatal Rush. That made me want to create a fighting game playable with only one finger, and this idea became the foundation of the new Special button. Today, games developed for smartphone devices are often played with similar simplicity. In Japan, there is a game for kids where you make two sumo wrestlers out of folded paper or cardboard, place them on a platform, and two players tap the platform repeatedly with only one finger until one of the sumo figures collapses in defeat. Speaking of fighters, along with six new characters, Team Ninja is also introducing some brand new game mechanics in the form ofВ Fatal Rush and Break Gauge, powerful attacks that use very simple commands to execute.В Chatting to IGN during a hands-on gaming session,В producer/director Yohei Shimbori explained a bit how these new systems, which uses the new Special Button (R1 on PS4, RB on Xbox One) came to be. The female characters will also take damage, a first for Team Ninja who had intentionally avoided depicting physical injuries on their female roster, but now want to show that вЂњThe female characters are still attractive, as are the men, but first and foremost they are fightersвЂќ. Female characters likeВ Helena and Kasumi will also no longer be dressed in highly exposed slips of clothing, but actually wear practical costumes now. WhatвЂ™s more, DoA 6 is getting some neat changes in the form of player damage models вЂ“ characters will bleed and get bruised by action вЂ“ as well as having characters sweat and show exertion during a match.ДЄ pretty big deal though is that Team Ninja is trying to change the gameвЂ™s image back to a вЂњfierce fighting gameвЂќ and as such all the boob and butt jiggle physics have been toned down drastically. However, Dead or Alive is back, as revealed by IGN with a brand new trailer over the weekend at E3 featuring returning characters Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Hayate, Helena, Jann Lee and Zack. It was immature and drove away some players, myself included. A franchise that was unfortunately soured by developer Team NinjaвЂ™sВ pervy Xtreme Beach Volleyball spinoff games and use of the gameвЂ™s trademark вЂњsoft engineвЂќ which basically made the female charactersвЂ™ bits jiggle. It was my very first experience with online fighting games and I canвЂ™t recall exactly who won the match (IвЂ™m going to say it was me, based on the fact that Geoff is currently in Los Angeles and canвЂ™t defend himself) but I can tell you that it was the beginning of me sinking countless hours into the DOA franchise. Fun anecdote: Way before I ever became friends or even colleagues with Geoff, we met online randomly in a match of Dead or Alive 3.

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