Has the Dead or Alive series outgrown big boobs and bums? Developer Team Ninja thinks so.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the series up to now we focused on some kind of\u2026 Sports Illustrated [aesthetic]. Like a magazine for high school kids, with women portrayed in that sense,\u201d Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi told Gamasutra.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
But all of this is going to change, apparently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re 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\u2019s 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
It’s a pretty sudden and dramatic concept for the team, coming in only sixteen years after the first game came out.<\/p>\n
I wouldn’t hold out on Andrea Dworkin being a playable character just yet, though.<\/p>\n
Game’s out sometime this year.<\/p>\n
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