Dead Or Alive 6

Fight like an alley cat in the new entry into the far-from Dead series.

- Chris Burke

Dead Or Alive has grown up. Not only is the latest in the long-running fighting series – named 6, but actually, astonishingly, the 19th title in Tecmo’s franchise – the first on the Xbox One, it’s also attempting to position itself as a more serious fighter. That’s not an easy thing to do when most people’s associations with it might be that of pneumatic young ladies scrapping it out by the pool in the beach volleyball-meets-UFC stylings of Dead Or Alive 3 Extreme Volleyball back on the OG Xbox.

But with an insistence that there is a story here (dastardly plans of sinister corporations), and by putting equal emphasis on the fact that there are male fighters here, DOA 6 promises to be less about the t’n’a, and more about the ‘triangle’.