Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

"Trouble in paradise"

The first game mostly everyone let it sly. I mean it was something that everyone(guys in particular) wanted to always see. In the original dead or alive fighting game we all tried to look up their skirts and such, so they just made a game for our dirty fantasies. When I picked up this game I had extremely high hopes for it to be innovative, and making it ten times as better than the first. Of course it ended up dropping the ball.

Graphics- 8/10

To be honest im tired of the same old graphics already. Yea they are pretty, but to me they look just a little bit better than dead or alive 3 for the original Xbox. Everything from the characters to the environments are beautiful as you would come to expect, but I just need a much better improvement than the same old thing

Sound-6/10

I'm actually really surprised that this game was bad in the sound department. The music is basically the same exact tracks as last game with just an added five new tracks. It does save itself with the option like last game to listen to your own music burned to your Xbox 360. The worst of the sound department is the voice-acting. Each voice for each girl are just so bad it isn't even funny. You just think to yourself "She doesn't sound like that!". It is that bad.

Storyline-4/10

Look we all know there is no story, and even if there was you wouldn't care for it. This game has almost the same story-line as the first. In which all the girls end up falling for the same exact trick as last time. There are some what things like christie having some sort of secret mission, but trust me there is no story worth caring for in this game.

Game-play-6/10

The only thing that saves this game is the online and that there are more than three things to do in this game. The creator made it extremely difficult for us to zoom in and out on the girls. In this version you need a camera in order to focus on the girls. Of course the camera itself is hard to work. For some reason you have to set the focus a couple of times to get the right right view. Making it like the scene will be over by the time you get the right focus, it was probably done on purpose. The volleyball itself is actually worse than the first game. I don't know what it is, but the concept of feeling for the right spike is all taken away from this game. The other mini-games include Casino, Flag racing, butt battles, tug-o-war, water sliding, and racing. All of these mini-games are either too hard or too short, in which left me really frustrated. Lastly just like the other game it is extremely hard to give hitomi or any nice girl to get a very erotic suit.

The first game was a nice vacation. This one is like a vacation gone bad. I wanted so much improvement, but instead I got disappointment. The game is not bad, but it is just not worth sixty bucks.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 11/17/06