Has the Dead or Alive series outgrown big boobs and bums? Developer Team Ninja thinks so.
“In the series up to now we focused on some kind of… Sports Illustrated [aesthetic]. Like a magazine for high school kids, with women portrayed in that sense,” Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi told Gamasutra.
“We’ve always had the sex factor in the game; in the past, the female characters had to have big breasts, they had to have scanty dress.”
But all of this is going to change, apparently.
“We’re trying to focus on the real women that surround us; the voice of a female, the mannerisms. We are being realistic about it. We want to show something that’s more high class, that adult males of our generation could look at a woman [character] and be impressed with her as a woman, not just as a pin-up,” he said.
It’s a pretty sudden and dramatic concept for the team, coming in only sixteen years after the first game came out.
I wouldn’t hold out on Andrea Dworkin being a playable character just yet, though.
Game’s out sometime this year.
Source: Gamasutra
Andrea Dworkin (famous feminist)
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