Famitsu Xbox August, 2004
Yes, it's another magazine cover featuring a character from Tecmo's Dead or Alive series. This time it's Kasumi in her Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (DOAX) bikini costume in Dead or Alive Ultimate(DOAU). Confused? Dead or Alive Ultimate is basically an updated Dead or Alive 2 (DOA2) for the Xbox. Even though the events of DOA2 occured before the events of DOAX, Tecmo threw in some costumes from DOAX just for the fun of it. DOAU also includes an Xbox version of the Sega Saturn version of Dead or Alive 1, although I tend to forget that since I never play it. I've also wondered why they just didn't port the arcade version for the Xbox. Sure, Saturn conversion is great, but the arcade looks so much better. Perhaps they didn't want to have to recreate all the extra goodies that were present in the Saturn version for a new arcade port, and simply chose the easier path. I think I would have played it though, had they gone through all that trouble. Plus, I never saw the arcade version all too much, so it would have been nice to have a totally accurate home version of it.
