Dead or Alive 5
| Dead or Alive 5 | |
|---|---|
European cover art featuring (from top left) Hitomi, Ryu Hayabusa, Rig, Akira Yuki, Christie, Kasumi, Ayane and Tina Armstrong | |
| Developer | Team Ninja |
| Publisher | Tecmo Koei |
| Directors | Yohei Shimbori Yutaka Saito Ryuzi Kitaura |
| Producer | Yosuke Hayashi |
| Designers | Takeshi Omori Takayuki Saga Manabu Nagasaki |
| Programmers | Yuki Satake Takeshi Kawaguchi Yoshinobu Suzuki |
| Artists | Hirohisa Kaneko Haruhiko Shikata Yoshiteru Tomita |
| Composers | Yojiro Yoshimatsu Ayako Toyuda Masako Otsuka |
| Series | Dead or Alive |
| Platforms | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita |
| Release | PlayStation Vita |
| Genre | Fighting |
| Modes | Single-player, multiplayer |
Dead or Alive 5 is a 2012 fighting game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo Koei for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the fifth main entry in the Dead or Alive fighting series following Dead or Alive 4 (2005) and the first to have a multi-platform release since Dead or Alive 2 (1999), as well as the series' first installment that was released for the PlayStation 3.
Dead or Alive 5 features guest characters from Sega's Virtua Fighter fighting game series (from which the series took inspiration) and several new gameplay mechanics, as well as improved graphics and a more realistic visual style than its predecessors. Its plot is set two years after the events of Dead or Alive 4, telling the interrelating stories of various characters in connection to the new DOA tournament and the continuing hunt for Kasumi's evil clone.
A portable and expanded version for PlayStation Vita named Dead or Alive 5+, was released in 2013, and that same year came Ultimate for home consoles followed by arcades. A final iteration subtitled Last Round was released in 2015 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as well as for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Windows. Dead or Alive 5 received generally favorable reviews. By mid-2015, all versions of the game combined have sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide, in addition to over 12 million downloads of the free-to-play versions as of 2019. The game was followed by Dead or Alive 6 in 2019.