As a man this swimsuit costumes are obviously a great purchase for me >_>

@JeanLuc said:

As a man this swimsuit costumes are obviously a great purchase for me >_>

Yeah?

I'll pass. I'm not even sure if I'm interested in this game anyway.

@BaneFireLord said:

If I want to look at hot girls in bikinis, I only need to Ctrl-T over to Google Images, turn off SafeSearch and type in "hot girls in bikinis." It's free, and there are literally millions of such pictures. If I want videos with similar content, I can perform an identical YouTube search. Why on earth someone would pay a $20 premium to see a bunch of virtual women, firmly stuck in the uncanny valley and probably aliased all to hell, fighting each other in swimsuits is utterly beyond me.

Why is safe search a requirement for this?

What will you do with out digital boobs?!? THE HORROR

I like how with Tekken Tag Tournament 2 you get swimsuits for ALL characters regardless of gender or species and they're a free pre-order bonus, but with Dead or Alive 5 you have to pay an extra $20 for them and they're only for the female characters.

@Taku128 said:

I like how with Tekken Tag Tournament 2 you get swimsuits for ALL characters regardless of gender or species and they're a free pre-order bonus, but with Dead or Alive 5 you have to pay an extra $20 for them and they're only for the female characters.

They know their audience.

@BaneFireLord said:

If I want to look at hot girls in bikinis, I only need to Ctrl-T over to Google Images, turn off SafeSearch and type in "hot girls in bikinis." It's free, and there are literally millions of such pictures. If I want videos with similar content, I can perform an identical YouTube search. Why on earth someone would pay a $20 premium to see a bunch of virtual women, firmly stuck in the uncanny valley and probably aliased all to hell, fighting each other in swimsuits is utterly beyond me.

Why is safe search a requirement for this?

Remember when we got swimsuit costumes for free?

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I don't know what people thought this game wouldn't be exploitative towards women, I mean come on.

Because the devs said it wouldnt be a few months ago

Its so weird that this is an established thing with precedent in DoA. So weird.

They should just make DoA Xtreme 3.

It isn't like this series has had bikini costumes already in the previous games before.

Loved DOA4. Man, I hope this game is good because I want some more boob jiggling, attack countering action!

@Demoskinos

I thought you meant it came with a real DoA swimsuit costume. Ooops!

@dagas: I would be down with that....

Only if it comes with bikini-style Bass

Gallery

So Here are some of the costumes in question. Funnily enough Tina actually looks more covered up in her bikini. Also, nice touch on Christie making it a "snake-skin" bikini. Also, its probally sad but I totally recognize the T-shirt Kokoro is wearing because its from DOAX2. Actually come to think of it... I think that christie swimsuit is too. This is obviously only for the "announced" female chracters. Helena and Lisa are still "to be officially announced" but they are pretty much in. Also, odd that Sarah Bryant is announced but no Swimsuit for her? Bawwww.