Note about my Final Verdicts. They are not meant to be reviews on how you play the game and what its all about. My verdicts always assumes that you know what the game is all about. I always recommend reading GameSpots reviews before reading my own verdicts. Im not here to tell you how to play a game. Im just telling you whats good and whats bad about a game you already know. In this case you can find GameSpots review here
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+ The Dead or Alive girls look nothing short of amazing. They look amazing in their own DoA´ish doll-like way of course and thats whe way it should be. The amount of detail put into the girls bodies and their animations are jaw-dropping and must be seen to be believed.
+ The Breastphysics. Exteme some might say, but set the "age option" in Options 
to minimum and those extreme breastphysics will actually be toned down to somewhat realistic breastphysics (that is of course assuming that the girls have some plastic implants in their breasts). Anyway. High or Low settings, the bouncing in this game is indeed very pleasant to the eye and adds to the smooth animations for the girls. I think this is the first game I´ve played where each of the breasts are animated seperately wich is a huge step forward. I would have liked to see that they are pushed together when pressed against something like a tree or the beach instead of going straight through the object though..
+ The vacation feel of the game. The sun, the beach, the many many swimsuits, the half naked women, the Piña Coladas, the fruits, the summer-sports and the very inviting water. DoAx2 is a game that will warm up the room you are playing it in. The game look fantastic in the pure tropical holiday sense of the word. Its very relaxing to look at. Team Ninja has made a hands down incredible job in capturing this sweet feeling where all the stress in the world is just forgotten in a minute.
+ Again, the work put into the girls and how they are integrated into the minigames. The minigames are made so that you can study and drool over your fav. girls while you are playing it. The camera angles and the way their bodies will interact with the minigame. You dont have to be Japanese and into Hentai to enjoy it. People holding this AGAINST the game are just trying to be special. This part of the game are supposed to be enjoyed and even people saying they´re hating the game because the amount of skin shown are deep down enjoying looking at Kasumi running as fast as she can down the beach to grab a flag.
+ The game has a very "guilty-pleasure" feel to it. It is fun to buy sunglasses and hats and play dress-up with your girls.....hey, dont look at me like that !
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- The minigames are nothing more than games made to show off the girls. When it comes to the actual fun of playing the minigames only the wave race delivers. Every game except the wave race are over in 30 seconds or less and they are hard to both learn and master. Not because they are hard but because you are given no instructions how to play it good and the camera is as said before, set to watch the girls and not to give a good overview of the minigame. Beach Volley are next to impossible to play. Its all about luck and you have no idea whatsoever how to aim and control it. Tha AI is also a story of its own. Its really not YOU that decide whether you win or lose. Its the AI that decides if youre going to win. If you won the last flag sprint, the AI will be cranked up to impossible and win the next one. There is no way to actually get good at this game, just play it and let the AI decided your wins and losses.
- The wierd friend and partner-system. To play partnergames you have to have a partner and to keep your partner you have to buy her gifts that just takes money off your bathingsuit account. If you dont keep her happy with gifts and by winning she will leave you. A very frustrating and boring aspect of the game. The same goes for the friends system. You can, for no other reason than Achievement Points, get friends on the island. You have to send them gifts and bathing suits and HOPE that they accept them. Different girls like different things but there is no indicator as to what when you are playing. And even if you send them the right stuff there is a chance they will not accept it and hate you anyway. It all boils down to you not caring at all about either the partner or the friend system because why bother? It gives you nothing and it dosent contribute to the game expeience at all.
- The gameidea are not meant to hold for very long. There is no goal with the game. You cant really beat it. You complete your vacation in 14 days (a couple of hours). Then you have to go back over and over and over again with the same girl to get more money by playing the same boring minigames you´ve been playing for hours and hours already to get more swimsuits. The only actual GOAL of this game is to get more swimsuits and it is only fun for so long.... Everything else just feels like meaningless layers put onto this that you never care about. Its a relaxing vacationgame..sure, but still, it gets repetative and boring relatively quick.
- The 360 Achievements. OK, so you do need a motivator to keep playing this game but sadly the achievements are not that motivator. One single achievement in this game can take around 20 hours to get..and there are 46 achievements in total... Its all direcly tied to buying swimsuits. You have to buy every single suit with every single girl and then send every single suit to all of the other girls so that they can all have each others collections. Its a process that could surely take THOUSANDS of gamehours in this game. If you´re REALLY into this game you might finish off 2 or 3 out of 46 achievements. You have to buy suits for millions of Zack-dollars for one single DoA girl. To get that money you have to play wave race over and over and over and over again since that is the only minigame that really gives any money. Sure, the others give you money to but not nearly as much. Suffice to say, the achievements try to lenghten the game to insane lenghts.. Pointmaniacs beware. Stay faaaaaar away from this game. Not even Rumble Roses XX were this bad.
- No Single-console multiplayer. A thing that could have lenghtened a game like this alot would have been Mario Party style hot-seat multiplayer. Playing Butt-battle with a friend could have been really fun.
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Final Score: 6.8
This game is amazing to look at and there is so much love put into the girls, their animations and their bodies that you can feel it spreading the love throughout the room. But when it comes to actually deliviring a fun game, it falls a bit short after the initial vacationfeel has worn off after about 10 hours tops. The game makes the best screensaver ever tho. Something you want to leave on just to make your TV happy !