Rumour: Dead Or Alive 5 Heading To PS3

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Article written by nofi in PS3 Rumours, Xbox 360 Rumours, on Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7:00.

Apparently, according to some this morning, with one of the Xbox 360’s biggest backers out of the way (bless you, Itagaki) Team Ninja appear to be more free to open up their horizons and rumours are surfacing that Dead Or Alive 5 will be heading to the PlayStation 3 as a multiformat title. As their work on Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma showed the guys have a firm grasp on the PS3 hardware and I’ve always liked the Dead or Alive series for reasons other than you might expect. Sure, the Dreamcast version was utterly amazing but the later titles were pretty good too and DoA 4, along with the Xtreme Volleyball games, was a mainstay during the early years of the new Xbox.

Still, the rumours don’t appear to have any grounding, and I get the sneaky suspicion GoFanboy have their wires crossed about something, but hey, I’ll just be here padding out TSA until the real fun starts.

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micromagic | 06/11/2009 08:12
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Can see this being true, no reason for it to be a 360 exclusive anymore. Used to love Dead or Alive 2 on the PS2, haven’t played the series since.
hazelam | 06/11/2009 08:41
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i played doa 4, the core gameplay was good but the ai totally frakkin cheated, and that end boss, total frakkin bitch.
in fact all the doa bosses have used cheap tricks, either a useless camera angle, distorting the screen so you can’t tell what’s going on or just letting the boss teleport away from your attacks at will.
and the online was totally awful, well it was ok when it was working well, but when it got laggy it turned into a slideshow.
maybe without itagaki they can have fair ai and non cheap bosses, and get a decent online mode working.
the best doa is doa 2 from the doa ultimate pack for the original xbox.
took me ages but i unlocked everything on that game.
AcidCrashX | 06/11/2009 08:46
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I love me some DOA..hope this turns out to be true.
mayflame | 06/11/2009 09:08
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I thought DOA4 was the last game in the series after Itagaki left. Didn’t he say he would sue Tecmo and Team Ninja if they make another Ninja Gaiden od DOA sequel?
- mayflame | 06/11/2009 09:09
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  *or
BadBoyBoogie | 06/11/2009 09:17
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I used to love DOA2 on the PS2, so I hope this turns out to be true.

Just can’t get enough of those bouncing boobies!!!!
- BadBoyBoogie | 06/11/2009 09:19
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  Oops, did I really just type that out!!!
Bilbo_bobbins | 06/11/2009 09:42
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Rumours have no grounding, so really it’s not news? DOA I think is not really that good anyway, but each to their own.
- cc_star | 06/11/2009 09:46
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  Nah they’re rumours, hence the title and the categories this article is in.
  
  I’ve never played a Dead or Alive game but I have studied beach volleyball, and I think there is a gap in the market for the sport on the PS3. Make it so, Team Ninja.
  - Bilbo_bobbins | 06/11/2009 10:27
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    ha ha, spot on mate. Didn’t think of that…..Damn yeah please please please bring it to the PS3.
llizard | 06/11/2009 10:47
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Slow news day?
s0602277 | 06/11/2009 11:46
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Oooh rumours.
Reiterpallasch | 06/11/2009 13:40
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Hope this rumour turns out to be true. I’ve always liked the DoA series.
mamoulian | 10/11/2009 23:26
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yaaay loved DOA2 on the PS2, many many hours spent in tag matches!

Hope this is true!!

Rumour: Dead Or Alive 5 Heading To PS3

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