Dead or Alive 5

Dead or Alive 5 (abbreviated to DOA5) is a 2012 fighting game played by Jovenshire and Lasercorn on Dope! or Nope.

Information
Dead or Alive 5 is a 2012 fighting game developed by Team Ninja in partnership with Sega AM2 and released by Koei Tecmo simultaneously for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the fifth main installment of the Dead or Alive franchise. Three expanded versions were later released: DOA5+, DOA5 Ultimate, and DOA5 Last Round. DOA5 features characters from Sega's Virtua Fighter and several new gameplay mechanics. Set two years after the events of DOA4, it tells the interrelating stories of various characters in connection to the new DOA tournament and the continuing hunt for Kasumi's evil clone. The game received generally favorable reviews.

Gameplay
The game has four main modes: Story, Fighting, Online, and Extras. Training Mode has more features than the previous DoA games, including AI difficulty adjustment. Online modes allow players to organize and host tournaments for up to 16 players. Spectator Mode enables users to chat with other players while watching fights. Online Dojo is a training mode. Extras include Spectator, where players can watch match replays or fights between two AI players and also take photographs from a position and angle of their choosing with a fully controllable camera.

The fighting gameplay is based on Dead or Alive 3 with several changes. Like in other DoA games, fights in Dead or Alive 5 are based on an interruption triangle system in which strikes beat throws, throws beat holds, and holds beat strikes, all of such counterattacks causing extra damage. Tag team battles from the previous games are retained. The fights take place in interactive and now more highly-destructive arenas. A new feature called Power Blow enables the players to knock the opponent character away in a selected direction. Characters can be thrown into Danger Zones or over a cliff in the multi-level stages; this initiates Cliffhanger. If a character can grab onto the stage at the last moment before falling into a lower level, an action sequence is activated where the opponent character can make an effort to inflict even more damage if the attack succeeds. The Critical System features Critical Stuns, Critical Combos, and Critical Bursts.

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 * Dead or Alive 5 First Impressions

Reception
Dead or Alive 5 received generally positive reception. Reviewers praised the graphics and animation, as well as the spectacularity of the fights and their deeper gameplay mechanics. However, several reviews criticized the story mode and aspects of its online features. Some also expressed disappointment with what they thought was Team Ninja's failure to innovate enough as compared to previous titles in the series and the other new games in the genre.