Dead or Alive 2

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Dead or Alive 2
System(s): Sega NAOMI, Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Tecmo, Acclaim Entertainment(EU)
Developer: Team Ninja
Peripherals supported: Dreamcast VGA Box, Dreamcast Jump Pack, Dreamcast Arcade Stick
Genre: Fighting
Number of players: 1-4
Release Date RRP Code
ESRB Sega ELSPA USK Tectoy

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Dead or Alive 2 (デッド オア アライブ2) is the sequel to Dead or Alive. It was released for Sega NAOMI arcade hardware in 1999 before being ported to the Sega Dreamcast in 2000.

Production Credits

Dreamcast Version

Producer & Director: Tomonobu Itagaki
Planner: Hiroaki Matsui
Lead programmer: Takeshi Kawaguchi
Game system designer: Katsunori Ehara
Motion managers: Noriaki Kazama, Chitose Sasaki
Motion design director: Masaki Koshikawa
Assistant CG manager: Hideyuki Kato
Character modeling: Yasushi Nakakura
Character texture: Muneaki Kubota
Stage design director: Hideyuki Takita
Sound composers: Makoto Hosoi, Shigekiyo Okuda
CG effect designer: Yasuo Egawa
Programmers: Yasushi Maeda, Hiroaki Ozawa, Takeshi Sawatari, Junichi Araki, Shigeaki Ota, Mitsuo Osada, Kazuhiro Kosuge, Tetsuya Imamura, Takashi Watanabe, Taiyo Aramaki, Naoyuki Ohashi, Junichi Ueno, Tomonobu Kinugasa, Takuro Sasaki
Planners: Masanori Sato, Yukiyoshi Amano, Motohiro Shiga, Hiroyasu Itakura
Motion designers: Jitsuo Kondo, Hideki Saito, Yuki Naruse, Tomoo Hiraoka, Shigefumi Ishizuka, Ryuji Ikeda, Taro Matsushita, Takuji Otsuka, Koji Motoume
Motion script: Sousuke Sameshima
Character modeling: Yoshiki Horiuchi, Haruhiko Shikata
Character texture: Hideaki Takahashi
Stage designers: Hideki Niimi, Akira Izumi, Takaaki Ebata, Kenichiro Nakajo, Katsuhiro Mukasa
Realtime movie script: Yukihiro Fujita
Voice actors:

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• Kasumi: Sakura Tange
• Gen Fu: Takeshi Aono
• Tina: Yuko Nagashima
• Zack: Bin Shimada
• Jann Lee: Toshio Furukawa
• Ayane: Wakana Yamazaki
• Hayabusa: Hideyuki Hori
• Helena: Yuka Koyama
• Bass: Daisuke Gouri
• Leon: Koji Totani
• Lei Fang: Yumi Touma
• Ein: Hikaru Midorikawa
• Tengu: Osamu Saka
• Roland: Yuka Koyama
• System Voice: Miyako Endo

Motion actors: Miho Iijima, Mako Kogiso, Japan Action Club (Tsutomu Kitagawa, Yoichi Nishimura, Jiro Okamoto)
Translator: Hsiang-Lan Lee
Publicity: Mitsuru Tsutsumi, Koji Harao, Simon Smith Wright (Acclaim), Steve Cross (Acclaim), Damien Ieah (Acclaim)
Marketing executives: Isamu Fukada, Kazumi Fujita, Satoshi Kanematsu, Clyde Dickson (Acclaim), Ned Browning (Acclaim), Mary Bond (Acclaim)
Executive producer: Max Naka
Presented by: Tecmo, Ltd. Team Ninja 2000

Promotional Material

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  Dreamcast Magazine (JP) Print advertisement

Physical Scans

Dreamcast Version

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source Arcade (UK) 100 №22, p62/63/64 Edge (UK) 80 №84, p80/81 Dreamcast Magazine (JP) 93 №2000-31, p23 Famitsu (JP) 80 №616, p36 Dreamcast Magazine (readers) (JP) 90

	89
Based on 5 reviews

Sega Retro Average

Publication Version Score Ação Games (BR) 95 Arcade (UK) PAL 100 Click! (PL) 60 Consoles + (FR) PAL 92 Consoles + (FR) PAL 93 Computer & Video Games (UK) 100 Dreamcast Monthly (UK) NTSC-U 80 Dreamcast Monthly (UK) PAL 80 DC-UK (UK) PAL 90 Digitiser (UK) 80 Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR) PAL 90 Dreamcast: Das Offizielle Magazin (DE) PAL 90 Dreamcast Magazine (JP) NTSC-J 93 Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 91 Dorimaga (JP) NTSC-J 90 Dreamzone (FR) NTSC-U 93 Edge (UK) NTSC 80 Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 88 Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU) 83 Famitsu (JP) NTSC-J 80 Fun Generation (DE) PAL 90 GameFan (US) NTSC-U 92 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 90 GamesMaster (UK) PAL 84 Game Informer (US) NTSC-U 89 GameWEEK (US) NTSC-U 83 Incite Video Gaming (US) NTSC-U 100 Joypad (FR) PAL 80 MAN!AC (DE) NTSC-U 90 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 90 MAN!AC (DE) PAL 90 Man!ak (PL) 90 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 92 Mega Fun (DE) PAL 92 Mr. Dreamcast (UK) PAL 93 Neo Plus (PL) 80 Next Generation (US) NTSC-U 100 Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) PAL 80 Official Dreamcast Magazine (US) NTSC-U 100 Playmag (FR) PAL 85 Play (PL) 91 Play (PL) 90 PSX Extreme (PL) 83 Power Unlimited (NL) 96 Sega Magazin (DE) NTSC-U 91 Sega Magazin (DE) PAL 91 Strana Igr (RU) 80 Strana Igr (RU) 83 Video Games (DE) PAL 89 Video Games (DE) PAL 89

	88
Based on 50 reviews

Dead or Alive 2

Dreamcast, US
Cover
Disc Manual Inlay

Dreamcast, JP
Cover

Dreamcast, JP (Limited Edition)
Cover

Dreamcast, UK
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, FR/NL
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, DE
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, ES
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, BR
Cover

External Links

• Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

File:DCM_JP_20001006_2000-31.pdf, page 23

File:Dorimaga_20021011_JP.pdf, page 33

Ação Games, "Maio 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 38

Arcade, "August 2000" (UK; 2000-07-17), page 62

Click!, "25-26/2000" (PL; 2000-12-07), page 14

Consoles +, "Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 82

Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 82

Computer & Video Games, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-17), page 83

Dreamcast Monthly, "May 2000" (UK; 2000-04-13), page 82

Dreamcast Monthly, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-08-31), page 74

DC-UK, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-02), page 60

Digitiser (UK) (2000-08-01)

Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Mai/Juin 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 62

Dreamcast: Das Offizielle Magazin, "Mai 2000" (DE; 2000-04-13), page 82

Dreamcast Magazine, "2000-31 (2000-10-06)" (JP; 2000-09-22), page 23

Dreamcast Magazine, "No. 8" (UK; 2000-04-20), page 52

Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33

Dreamzone, "mi Avril-mi Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-04-14), page 61

Edge, "May 2000" (UK; 2000-04-24), page 80

Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 146

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast, "Izdaniye chetvertoye, dopolnennoye" (RU; 2002-xx-xx), page 40

Famitsu, "2000-10-06" (JP; 2000-09-22), page 36

Fun Generation, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-19), page 62

GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 4: April 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 15

GamePro, "May 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 106

GamesMaster, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-05-18), page 80

Game Informer, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 54

GameWEEK, "February 21, 2000" (US; 2000-02-21), page 16

Incite Video Gaming, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 45

Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 132

MAN!AC, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 34

MAN!AC, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-03), page 56

MAN!AC, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 81

Man!ak, "Grudzień 1999" (PL; 1999-xx-xx), page 38

Mega Fun, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 46

Mega Fun, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 57

Mr. Dreamcast, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-04-27), page 72

Neo Plus, "Wrzesień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 39

Next Generation, "April 2000" (US; 2000-03-21), page 82

Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 62

Official Dreamcast Magazine, "May/June 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 82

Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 134

Play, "Grudzień 2000" (PL; 2000-xx-xx), page 32

Play, "Lipiec 2001" (PL; 2001-xx-xx), page 19

PSX Extreme, "03/2001" (PL; 2001-0x-xx), page 39

Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 8, Nr. 8, Augustus 2000" (NL; 2000-0x-xx), page 30

Sega Magazin, "Mai 2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 20

Sega Magazin, "October 2000" (DE; 2000-09-04), page 21

Strana Igr, "Aprel 2000 2/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 59

Strana Igr, "Sentyabr 2000 2/2" (RU; 2000-xx-xx), page 19

Video Games, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-04), page 72

Video Games, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 116