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Developer(s) | Project Venus |
Publisher(s) | Tecmo Koei |
Director(s) | Yoshinori Ueda |
Artist(s) | Yasushi Nakanura |
Series | Dead or Alive |
Platform(s) | PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita |
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Genre(s) | Sports, casino |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Aggregator | Score |
Metacritic | 38/100 |
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Publication | Score |
Eurogamer | 3/10 |
Game Informer | 4/10 |
GamePro | 5/10 |
GamesRadar | 7/10 |
IGN | 5/10 |
Dead or Alive Paradise (Japanese: デッドオアアライブパラダイス Hepburn: Deddo oa araibu paradaisu?) is a 2010 video game developed by Project Venus and published by Tecmo Koei for the PlayStation Portable as part of the Dead or Alive series. Paradise is a port and a remake of 2006's Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 for the Xbox 360, expanding upon the activities available in the original which consisted of mainly beach-related minigames.
It was the first game in the series to be released for the portable game system, as well as the first release from the series since the departure of series' creator Tomonobu Itagaki. The game was met with mostly negative critical reception.
Players start the game at the getaway resort, New Zack Island, as part of a two-week vacation. The island is inhabited mostly by the swimsuit-clad girls from the Dead or Alive series. The game has several gameplay aspects, featured most prominently is the beach volleyball minigame similar to Dead or Alive Xtreme 2. The other minigames include pool games like swimming pool hopping and butt battles as well as casino games like poker, blackjack and slots. The second aspect of the game consists of interacting with the girls by mingling with them, giving them presents such as new swimwear. The third aspect is to purchase a camera from the Island Shop and take photographs of the girls which can then be assembled into an album. Once the relationship with the girls is on an intimate level, the girls would then present the player with "venus clips" which can be viewed and edited by the player. A code was also discovered in the game dubbed "Emperor's New Clothes", which allowed the player to have the girls nude, although certain inappropriate parts are not shown.