Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Playing Cards Review

Minimal vesture, minimal try

Boobies. Tits. Knockers. Funbags. Dirty pillows. Cans. Jugs. Bewbz. Tatas. The Olsen Twins. Chi-chis. Chesticles. Jubblies. Honkers. Tittays. Puppies. Melons. Captain and Tennille. Twin Peaks. Mosquito bites. Shoulder boulders. I mean that is what you're here for, right?

Somehow Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune manages to take even less gameplay than previous titles, and even more focus on sexualization — 1 cast member that doesn't look quite legal — but maybe you're into that? Hope you're also into grinding put in place to tempt you to purchase microtransactions because that is a hot new feature y'all can only find in this Asia sectional title.

Dead or Alive Xtreme three: Fortune (PlayStation 4 [reviewed])
Developer: Squad Ninja
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
MSRP: $59.99
Released: March 24, 2016

I've played most every game in the Dead or Live series including both Xtreme Embankment Volleyball and Xtreme 2.Xtreme three easily has the to the lowest degree content of any entry in the series.Xtreme two was missing content from the original game, and Xtreme 3 continues that trend.

Multiplayer? Gone. Jetskis? Missing. Slot machines? Nope. Licensed music? None hither. CG cutscenes? Every bit if. Multi-cultural characters? MIA.

That isn't to say that there aren't new features on offer such equally swimsuit malfunctions, pregnant sometimes a bikini strap will fall causing a girl to have to agree onto her top. You'd think this would cease upwardly making the game more revealing, but you'd be incorrect. Instead bathing suit tops cling to girls even when their hands move away, somehow defying gravity. Oh, that's right, nothing in this game is realistic.

A majority of your time in Xtreme 3 is spent split between 3 different activities: mini-games, gambling, and creeping on girls.

With half dozen mini-games on offer yous'd think at least i of them would be entertaining, but that isn't the case. Butt battles, where girls thrust their asses towards each other in hopes of knocking the other into the puddle in what feels like a fucked-upward version of American Gladiators, requires well-nigh no thought. I was able to shut my eyes and merely mash the O button over and over and pull off a win, even when playing confronting harder opponents. The same tin be said for tug-of-war, that can exist won by simply mashing the stick in either direction. Flag races play similar the 100-meter dash in Track & Field: Mash X when the game says get and you win.

The pool hopping mini-game is back and essentially unchanged. Yous'll be mindlessly pressing buttons as displayed on top of ugly floating platforms that wait lower-resolution than anything else on screen at the time. The push presses are merely every bit sensitive as earlier, significant you lot'll cease up in the puddle more often than not. Even afterward nine hours with the game, I found myself ending up in the pool occasionally no matter how conscientious I was.

Another new addition is the stone climbing mini-game, which boils down to a glorified quick time event where you quickly mash buttons to force your chosen object to scale an ugly brown texture. One time your object reaches the top, you'll be treated to a clip of their unrealistically perfect tits clipping through the rocks as they struggle to pull themselves up. I don't know about all of you, just I'thou certainly non turned on past danger or clipping graphics.

Volleyball, the mainstay of the series, is the same equally information technology has e'er been, that is to say, information technology's very bones. While information technology is the nearly engaging gameplay in the game, information technology isn't much more than avant-garde than volleyball games from the NES era. It seems like the motion animations from Xtreme ii are reused here, as the girls stiffly run effectually with their artillery held at 90-degree angles.

The reuse of assets from Xteme 2 seems to be a common occurrence, as the backgrounds in the casino are essentially identical. The poker table'southward text is low resolution with visible jaggies; the same can be said for the background. I'm not sure if I'one thousand imagining things, but Poker didn't seem all that random, as I was able to commencement predicting the cards I'd go pairs of by the time I finished playing. Blackjack is withal the easiest way to earn money quickly, and roulette is notwithstanding a chore, taking far too long per turn. What'due south worse is that at times there are missions given to players to play 10 rounds of roulette, which I can simply assume is near equally bad as waterboarding, or at the very least watching paint dry.

The reason most people purchase this game, to creep on virtual girls, is chosen "Owner" mode. Zack, possessor of the island the girls are vacationing on, has gone off somewhere (read: Team Ninja couldn't exist bothered to create new assets to include him in the game) and you're tasked with being the owner of the island the game takes identify on. You can seamlessly swap between owner mode and daughter way in the location option bill of fare between activities. Owner style tasks players with taking photos of girls doing various activities while also trying to seduce them by ownership them gifts, making sure to utilise their favorite colored wrapping paper.

The owner'due south money and items are separate from the girls, and he can take chances at the casino also. In one case you've played at the casino plenty as the owner, you'll unlock tickets that grant y'all a strip tease from the girls, if yous've somehow forced them to take feelings for you by buying them things (what a terrible message to send to people). The strip teases are bad-mannered with stiff animations just like those establish in volleyball. Don't believe me? Then bank check out this not rubber for work video that includes Marie, the xviii-year-old-who-looks-fourteen-at-most, performing a strip tease.

Performing whatsoever task in the game will earn you lot Zack bucks that tin can be used to buy swimsuits, nutrient, gifts, volleyballs, new hairstyles, and can be used for gambling at the casino. Gifts can be sent to girls to make them favor the girl you've chosen to play as, eventually letting them partner up with you lot for volleyball if you'd like. In the one thousand scheme of things gifting feels like "Baby's Offset Dating Simulator" and isn't all that fun or important.

Y'all'll be given missions to complete a certain task a certain style or number of times, and upon doing so y'all'll earn bonus cash and experience points that count towards your owner rank. Increasing your rank unlocks the power to purchase more content in shops, but ranking upwardly is a existent grind. Some missions crave buying an item a daughter likes and gifting information technology to her every bit an owner, others have you playing or winning a minigame multiple times, or every bit mentioned, playing awful roulette ten times. Grinding in a game that merely has a demos worth of content is fucking stupid.

But the grinding doesn't terminate at ranks, every bit unlocking outfits for the girls means you'll be doing the same mini-games and gambling over and over. The corporeality of money you can have at any given time is capped at 1.v meg, preventing you from buying more a couple of swimsuits at a time. Why cap in game money, you may ask? Well to encourage you to purchase microtransactions of course! That's right; walls take been built in the hopes that y'all'll cavern in and pay a few extra bucks to Koei Tecmo to outfit your graphic symbol in barely in that location bikinis. Isn't capitalism bully?

Graphically there is much to be desired here, at least, when it comes to surround, as the girls look fantastic. Let's be honest, this is all that matters to about of you lot, and if that is the instance you'll exist pleased to know that tits and ass jiggle more than realistically than in previous titles. Outfits don't seem to be all that original or more revealing than in previous titles really, and y'all're non going to come across any nipples or holes aside from mouths. There are tons of swimsuits to purchase and unlock if you don't mind the mindlessly dull grind to get them.

I bought my re-create of the game straight from the Hong Kong PSN store, which includes the game entirely in English. The English language translation is the same you'd await if the game released here, with no noticeable grammar or spelling issues. All the voices are in Japanese, merely judging by past English voice acting that is a practiced thing. Honestly, I don't know why Koei Tecmo don't just release this version of the game on PSN for English-speaking countries, the people who volition exist offended by the game aren't going to buy information technology regardless, and it is like shooting fish in a barrel to deal with criticism when you can plug your ears with cash money. Surely they could, at the very least, make back the corporeality of coin required to release it digitally in other regions.

The whole package feels extremely light on content, and even a scrap rushed. With reused assets, features missing that were in previous titles, added microtransactions, a lack of characters, and lots of grinding, it is hard to recommend this to even the most titty-starved gamer. Yous'd be better served watching videos of the spicier scenes online or just going to whatever number of free porn sites, thus saving yourself the time, money, and brain cells that would otherwise be spent on this.

_{[This review is based on a retail build purchased by the reviewer. The term "person of colour" was erroneously used in the start typhoon of this review, and has since been inverse to denote the author's original intention.]}

[This review is based on a retail build purchased by the reviewer.]

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