DOA's bouncing breasts to test "sex sells" cliche

by James Ransom-Wiley { Oct 23rd 2006 at 6:55PM }

Team Ninja's latest Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 trailer (available on Xbox Live Marketplace) has been called "too bouncy." Indeed, if you care to watch, you'll be transported to a fantasy island where unreal beauties frolic and dance, wrestle and massage, read and relax -- and bounce.

Big boobs and bikinis are enlisted to sell all kinds of products, from magazines to music to beer. But can they sell games? Should we consider DOAX2's gross exaggeration of the adage "sex sells" to be pioneering?

Tags: Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, DeadOrAliveXtreme2, DOAX2, download, Marketplace, Team Ninja, TeamNinja, Tecmo, trailer, Xbox Live, XboxLive

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Optimus Prime @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:02PM

The sooner this stupid game comes out the sooner Itakgi (sp?) can start work on Ninja Gaiden 360.

Iced_Eagle @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:03PM

Erm, sorry I forgot to read your post but focused purely on the boobie picture on the screen. :P

WebPimp @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:04PM

'pioneering'? No.

Knowing that most of the individuals that would play a game like this don't mind seeing some exageration in their games, especially at beer infused parties, will buy it? Yes.

Kefka @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:07PM

God seriously Optimus Prime, You took the words right out of my mouth. Those breasts seem to have gravity equal to the moon landing. That just looks....off.

Izuna Drop @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:08PM

NGB is my favorite game of all time. Itagake can make whatever games he pleases as long as he works on a new NG game. Seriously... whatever he wants.

Kyle Mistry @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:21PM

People still play DOA?

Huzzah!! @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:19PM

THEY DON'T BOUNCE INDIVIDUALLY LIKE THAT!!

And the hair goes inside of their bodies. Seems like they took so much time to make unrealistic you-know-whats that they forgot to program in more than N64 quality hair.

Richard @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:10PM

Yeah they just went completely ape-shit with the tits this year.

They no longer look realistic.. :P

Rabish12 @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:13PM

You think that's bad, you should see the bounce they had in the original Dead or Alive. I still wonder to this day at the fact that those ladies could fight while they had their breasts slapping them in the face like that...

Thryon @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:14PM

I did get a good chuckle when I showed this at an Xbox 360 party to a bunch of guys. The reaction was "I gotta have this game", this even thou the video did not show any actual gameplay. But who am I to argue.....I already pre-ordered my copy.

Skip @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:14PM

I would have loved to be there for the MoCapping of that. :drool:

Judd @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:22PM

Not to come off like a perv, but games should be more sexual. There's plenty of games that have killing, but any time there's any sex people scream "Hot Coffee." Any game that stands up to the ESRB I can appreciate. And btw this game has plenty of reserves, so to answer the first question "yes."

Seifer @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:34PM

.....wow.

Nmaster @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:43PM

Ehhh, your gonna have to do something better than just fan service to get me interested. Maybe something with a Wiimote...

Mastakazam @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:42PM

Yeah, I wish they'd made the whole body real, rather than giggly-fun to look at the bounciness... if they move the way that picture looks, then they're being made too-squishy and too-bouncy, and thus unreal.. and the hair, bleh, maybe if they made the hair as smooth as the breasts appear to be, then I wouldn't be annoyed by the picture... but from the sounds of it, it'll just be silly. Thumbs down.

Aex @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:47PM

Man, those boobs bounce sooo wierd... Makes it freaky. On a funny note, My gf (non-gamer) and her sister, enjoyed DOA Volleyball more than anyone else I know. Surprisingly, she isnt the only girl I know that loves the DOA volleyball game. It is very popular amoungst the ladies... I think its cause of the swimsuits and accessorising. Sure its bouncing boobs but when you get into the actual game play its like playing with a barbie doll. Not to mention, I could watch my gf play DOAX ALL DAY LONG.

murc @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:50PM

I just watched the new Hi-Res trailer....and the freakin hair bugs the crap out of me...If they wern't going to put in some serious time on making the hair...not so...clumpy, then why not at least make more fo the girls have shorter hair???

But other then that compaint...it looks good.
After all....Its not very often that a video game trailer gets you a hard on.

VerdigriS @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:48PM

@7- Rabish12

I was gonna say the same thing. When the age was set to 99 i swear they would touch the ground when you jumped...

DiedFamous @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:53PM

The girls look terrible, it looks like there's twice as many polygons in the breasts than there are in the whole rest of the model, and the physics that effect them are insane, its like theres an anti-gravity feild located right on their chests and nowhere else. And the hair does look terrible, I couldn't belive how badly it clips right through the models, it throws any scrap of realism that they might have had completely out the window. Hair in Soul Calibur II and III from LAST generation's consoles looked better than this crap.

Jeff @ Oct 23rd 2006 7:58PM

Hilarious! The only word that comes to mind when I see this is "floppity".

I see Team Ninja has gone back to the physics engine that made DOA1 on the Sega Saturn famous.

Seriously, though, this looks REALLY bad. I actually admit to owning DOAXBV, and while the gameplay was not all that much fun, the physics were at least somewhat believable. But the hair really does kill this new video; it is *much* worse than the first game, or any other DOA title. I've never seen these character models with hair that goes *through* their bodies, and not just from certain angles, but all over the place. There are some serious clipping issues going on here.

I have no idea who's going to buy this game. If you get a hard-on from this, do you also get a hard-on throwing a beach ball around? Because it's pretty much the same thing. It'd be one thing if the bounce here was at least somewhat realistic - I'm not saying virtual characters can never be sexy. But this is spectacularly ludicrous.

There's supposedly no real gameplay to this game either, even quoting Itagaki. He says in EGM that it's basically about jetskiing, but that there's no reward for winning a race and no penalty for losing. So he says you're free to just drive around the water. Great. You'd think with all that time he's freed up not having to worry about actual gameplay that he'd be able to spend a little effort cleaning up the physics and character models, but apparently no dice.

Blackfish 95 @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:04PM

Seriously, the physics is just wrong...its not exaggerated, just plain wrong.
I'm a big fan of all the DOA games, I have them all. I may not buy this one unless I read that the bounce can be controlled, or is otherwised fixed.

It's just plain stupid looking.

Seer S @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:06PM

They need to increase the value for gravity....They appear to bounce enough, just not quickly enough...

Cloaker @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:10PM

These breasts look like they're moving underwater. One at a time. Creepy and not sexy at all.

Obnoxiously and horribly designed. If I saw a chick's breasts move like that I would run, quickly.

SyphonBlue @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:11PM

Honestly, I noticed the hair more than the breasts. It doesn't even hesitate to go right through their bodies. Terrible.

ThreeSixWii @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:17PM

Video games are unrealistic.
They take gamers into a fantasy world to escape the mundane real world for a while.
So this particular game has unrealistic boobies...
BIG
DEAL

Don't like it....don't buy it.
I may rent it if the gameplay is half decent, just for a laugh. I wont buy it.

Ignatius @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:24PM

Why don't they just do what gamers want and remove the clothes, sell it as an Adults Only title and then just stop trying to make it as suggestive as possible? Not that I even was able to watch half of it, it was boring as hell. I think I watched a minute before I just rolled my eyes.

Limey @ Oct 24th 2006 7:28AM

I read the comments before watching the video, and I thought you guys were exagurating when you talked about the shitty hair and the riddiculous boob physics. But no, you were right, it is shitty hair and riddiculous boob physics.

Crazylink @ Oct 23rd 2006 8:29PM

I didn't think it was possible to be too bouncy. I was wrong.

Pulse @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:15PM

Its actually quite sad how people perv over virtual girls, it really is, lol

Get GFs people, GFs I say! No eh em while sitting playing this game, thats just sad, if you wanted pr0n, there are real girls on the internet, we don't need playboy games as well, lol especially not virtual playboy :P

I think Team Ninja try to hard to make thier girls stunning, its almost hilarious the way they try to make the girls go in slow motion as they shake their hair, you sit like this -_-"

I know deep down Team Ninja want to just get rid of the guys in DOA as its plainly obvious, they don't spend even near enough time working on the male characters and a decent storyline that actually makes sense as they do the girls, the only reason they didn't make the girls naked is because they'd get in trouble, but they tried to see how close to naked they could get.

Meh, game is rather briandead, and sad at that, only reason most people would even purchase this is for the girls. Kinda sexist if you ask me, is this really supposed to attract female gamers?

Chucky's Cat @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:03PM

The individual booby bounce made my eyes move like an iguanas eyes. I wonder if you could choose silicone or saline physics for the bounce? I guess the gameplay is secondary in this version ha ha

Mark @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:07PM

At least DOA4 had a SPARTAN II with absolutely no bounciness. I doubt she's in this game. Now I'll actually feel guilty while playing it. Wonderful.

FSK405K @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:09PM

This sounds so unrealistic....

I mean Asians with boobs? Come on, I'm not going to fall for that.

(puts up flame shield)

_habit_ @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:30PM

So... her right boob is lrager than her left in that picture... that's pretty messed up.

Wonder how cheap this game was to make...

_habit_ @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:36PM

If they wanted to attract female gamers they'd have naked men hitting around baseballs with their dicks.

What kind of a stupid question is that?!

Pulse @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:53PM

-_- Its a question thats not meant to be answered, duh..

Lol, you won't catch any guy making a game like that, so how is it fair to do that for women?

I don't even wanna know what the devs got up to while making that game :P

SuperHookie @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:44PM

boobs. love 'em.

Angelo @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:55PM

It might be a fun distraction. That said, I'm not paying $60 for this.

Totem Paul @ Oct 23rd 2006 9:59PM

I'm all for the bounce, but they definitely, definitely need to tone it down a lot.

Their writhing boobs act like they're alive and trying desperately to squirm off their chests.

FSK405K @ Oct 23rd 2006 10:10PM

Wow, great job with the hair, guys. We can see where your priorities were.

Rob @ Oct 23rd 2006 10:12PM

Yeah, BMX XXX sold so well

The ZeroCorpse @ Oct 23rd 2006 10:44PM

The breasts might be nice if these realistic models didn't have stupid anime faces. It's just alien and weird. They don't look like humans. They look like animated toys based on some extraterrestrial race with creepy faces.

This is what kills most of (among others) Team Ninja's, Square's, and Sony's stuff for me- Cool, realistic models with realistic bodies, and freaky anime faces and hair. I can't deal with playing "Devil May Cry" and seeing that stupid cartoon face on the realistic body.

Anime is the death of creativity in character design. It should be banished from gaming.

Jerry @ Oct 23rd 2006 11:23PM

I'm surprised there aren't many sex games for any of the consoles yet. There should be by now. Sex does sell well, and interactive sex games would do well, especially on the Nintendo Wii. You could use the Wiimote for all sorts of perverse things.

People seem too puritan about sex in games, and it's baffling. In many of the most popular games, you're allowed to kill innocent people, and you face little consequences in doing so. You're murdering people.

Meanwhile, sex is perfectly natural. Everyone does it. It's quite legal to do. And so long as it's depicted as two consensual adults having sex, I don't see why people are so freaked out about it.

Bottomline.. if you think that shooting women in the head in Godfather is "OK", while having virtual sex is "messed up", I think you need to do some serious thinking. Sex video games would be very big sellers, so I'm surprised no one's really doing it. Where's World of Sexcraft?

shase @ Oct 23rd 2006 11:41PM

i wonder if anyone buys the game for "gameplay"? There most be tons of nerds or perverts getting that game...

moo ikkai @ Oct 24th 2006 11:32AM

For the first five minutes or so, I couldn't divert my eyes from the screen, but suddenly I felt strangely relaxed and fulfilled but yet, at the same time, lost all my interest on the video. Good stuff nonetheless.

mocax @ Oct 23rd 2006 11:55PM

my manboobs bounce like those when I'm playing basketball.....

Boobs that don't bounce = implants! FAKE!

MadnessHero @ Oct 24th 2006 1:37AM

To Jerry on message #41:

Sex (for the most part) is legal in real life while killing isn't. While I have no problem with sex in video games, I believe violence in video games is ok as well. It is the only place we are allowed to kill in, and that is a good thing.