Dead or Alive 6

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User Score
8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 600 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 504 out of 600
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 600
  3. Negative: 68 out of 600

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  1. John718
    Mar 1, 2019
    5
    DoA 6 in a nutshell:

    While it retains its user friendly gameplay, the continuation of its nonsensical story and the characters' plastic looking faces with excessive sweat and lip gloss are not giving it any favors.

    And while you may say "people don't play fighting games cuz of their story" Netherealm Studios might want to tell you something about that statement.
  2. BishoujoEdward
    Mar 17, 2019
    5
    Review as of Version 1.02

    Short: A featureless, premature release. I will not go into all the software bugs I encountered, but there are currently issues when using an AMD set up. My NVIDIA set up had less problems, and could run the game with little to no tweaking from me. The AMD set up encountered crashes when triggering certain bugs on stages. No ultra wide support. No full    Review as of Version 1.02

    Short: A featureless, premature release.

    I will not go into all the software bugs I encountered, but there are currently issues when using an AMD set up. My NVIDIA set up had less problems, and could run the game with little to no tweaking from me. The AMD set up encountered crashes when triggering certain bugs on stages.

    No ultra wide support.

    No full screen support, there is a setting but the software isn't exactly full screen and will not take performance advantages of full screen.

    The game was rushed out for eSporting, which explains why the stages feel less like a DOA game, and everyone just thought I was playing Tekken. There was one stage "Forbidden Fortune" that felt the incredibly solid as a DOA stage, but the others felt lacking. Gone was the RPS system from the previous game. I loved that integration with stages, so I am sad to see it go.

    There is a story mode...skip.

    There is a "quest" mode, which is just do three chores in a fight or series of fights. Boring.

    The unlocking system... You have to play to earn points to unlock a costume, then earn in game currency to unlock the unlocked costume. Once you purchased the unlocked costume, that you finally unlocked; you may now use it... It seems like they either forgot to add a real money transaction, or deleted it from the game and left the atrociously convoluted and bloated system in place.

    Tag matches are gone, I will admit it was my favorite feature so there is so much salt for me to give. Normally, I play DOA local with groups, so having tag matches along with singles gave hours of entertainment. That said with Tag gone, there is even less reasons for me to stay with 6.

    I am not a fan of the new 'break' system. I feel that the repeated combo and the break counter are unnecessary. Instead of building on the 5th game break system they derailed it

    I won't even get into the balancing. DOA was never a "balanced" fighter, and when playing it with groups we all enjoyed it for the fun that it was.

    *I do not play fighting games online, I stay local, so I will not cover this.

    It seems like Team Ninja really wants this game to be excepted and a competitive experience, but I just want DOA. I will revisit the game if they add more destructive and exciting stages, and a tag mode. Forty hours is enough for me.    … Expand
  3. dryerlaw
    May 18, 2019
    5
    Bought it for sexualized characters of course, but the underage female characters are just super cringeworthy it should be removed! But other than that the action is smooth & sublime; even more so than Tekken 7.
  4. Steyraus
    Jan 21, 2021
    5
    It was bad enough but the makers of DOA self censor themselves for the sake of outrage culture. But the egregious microtransactions and ridiculous grind in this game make this again I could not recommend to anyone. This is a gotcha game through and through. Gameplay is fun and fast pace but everything's around in the game play is Insidious and greedy.
  5. Shimmeywill
    Apr 27, 2020
    6
    Pretty visuals and combat is solid. Otherwise, not particularly interesting fighting game.
  6. Bioreactor1987
    Oct 19, 2021
    7
    В прошлые части не играл, но это мой самый любимый файтинг. Боевка зашла мне гораздо больше чем в других файтингах, отличный графен, кайфовые девочки-ниндзя. *__*
  7. ibblue07
    Jul 27, 2021
    5
    Dead or Alive 6 is an extremely underwhelming game, especially when compared to other fighting games that have been released on PC. Had the developers taken better care of this game would the series have any chance of redemption.
  8. hoviadko123
    Sep 10, 2022
    7
    Better graphics than previous DOA5LR I played but less outfits and also this game is lacking team fight mode, which I loved in DOA5LR. I don't care about story seriously.

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Metascore
73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Riot Pixels
    Apr 20, 2019
    70
    An easy to pick up fighting game whose creators know exactly what their audience wants. At the same time, it will hardly surprise long-time fans.
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  2. The Overpowered Noobs
    Mar 14, 2019
    50
    It looks better than its predecessor, but content-wise its rather stingy and the story needs work, dampening excitement for this title.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Mar 3, 2019
    82
    Dead or Alive 6 is a decent fighting game. Although the DLC pricing model is annoyingly expensive, the existing content is enough to make you ignore it and devote yourself to its high-quality gameplay. As soon as lobbies are added, it would be a very good thing for all the fighters out there.
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