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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
JP	1999-10-16	¥?	?

JP	2000-09-28	¥6,8006,800	T-3602M
JP (Limited Edition)	2000-09-28	¥6,8006,800	T-3601M
US	2000-02-29	$44.9944.99^[1]	T-3601N
EU	2000-04-28^[2]		T-8116D-50
IT	2000		T-8116D-13
FR/NL	2000		T-8116D-59
BR	2000		197126

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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: Aoni Pro
- 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

Magazine articles

Main article: Dead or Alive 2/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Print advert in Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #127: "February 2000" (2000-01-11)
also published in:

GamePro (US) #139: "April 2000" (2000-0x-xx)^[3]

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-30ex: "2000-30 extra (2000-09-29ex)" (2000-09-15)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (JP) #2000-32: "2000-32 (2000-10-13)" (2000-09-29)

Print advert in Dreamcast Magazine (UK) #8: "No. 8" (2000-04-20)

Physical scans

NAOMI version

NAOMI,

Cart

Dreamcast version

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Ação Games (BR)

95

^[9]

Arcade (UK)

PAL

100

^[4]

Click! (PL)

60

^[10]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

92

^[11]

Consoles + (FR)

PAL

93

^[12]

Computer & Video Games (UK)

100

^[5]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

NTSC-U

80

^[13]

Dreamcast Monthly (UK)

PAL

80

^[14]

DC-UK (UK)

PAL

90

^[15]

Digitiser (UK)

80

^[16]

Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel (FR)

PAL

90

^[17]

Dreamcast: Das Offizielle Magazin (DE)

PAL

90

^[18]

Dreamcast Magazine (JP)

NTSC-J

93

^[6]

Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

91

^[2]

Dorimaga (JP)

NTSC-J

90

^[19]

Edge (UK)

NTSC

80

^[8]

Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

88

^[20]

Entsiklopediya igr dlya Dreamcast (RU)

83

^[21]

Famitsu (JP)

NTSC-J

80

^[22]

Fun Generation (DE)

PAL

90

^[23]

GameFan (US)

NTSC-U

92

^[24]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[1]

GameWEEK (US)

NTSC-U

83

^[25]

Incite Video Gaming (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[26]

Joypad (FR)

PAL

80

^[27]

MAN!AC (DE)

NTSC-U

90

^[28]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

90

^[29]

MAN!AC (DE)

PAL

90

^[30]

Man!ak (PL)

90

^[31]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

92

^[32]

Mega Fun (DE)

PAL

92

^[33]

Mr. Dreamcast (UK)

PAL

93

^[34]

Neo Plus (PL)

80

^[35]

Next Generation (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[36]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)

PAL

80

^[37]

Official Dreamcast Magazine (US)

NTSC-U

100

^[38]

Playmag (FR)

PAL

85

^[39]

Play (PL)

91

^[40]

Play (PL)

90

^[41]

PSX Extreme (PL)

83

^[42]

Power Unlimited (NL)

96

^[43]

Sega Magazin (DE)

NTSC-U

91

^[44]

Sega Magazin (DE)

PAL

91

^[45]

Strana Igr (RU)

80

^[46]

Strana Igr (RU)

83

^[47]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

89

^[48]

Video Games (DE)

PAL

89

^[49]

	88
Based on 47 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, IT
Cover
Disc

Dreamcast, BR
Cover

Technical information

In the Dreamcast version of Dead or Alive 2, the backgrounds display 30,000 to 52,000 polygons per scene, while the characters display 8000 to 9246 polygons per character. This was significantly higher than the polygon counts for non-Dreamcast console and PC games released in 1999. In comparison, the highest polygon counts of any PC games released in 1999 were 10,000 polygons per scene^[50] and 400 polygons per character.^[51]

External links

Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 File:GamePro US 140.pdf, page 106 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:GamePro US 140.pdf_p106" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 File:DreamcastMagazine UK 08.pdf, page 52 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:DreamcastMagazine UK 08.pdf_p52" defined multiple times with different content
↑ GamePro, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 158
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 File:Arcade UK 22.pdf, page 62 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Arcade UK 22.pdf_p62" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 File:CVG UK 223.pdf, page 83 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:CVG UK 223.pdf_p83" defined multiple times with different content
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 File:DCM JP 20001006 2000-31.pdf, page 23 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:DCM JP 20001006 2000-31.pdf_p23" defined multiple times with different content
↑ File:Dorimaga 20021011 JP.pdf, page 33
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 File:Edge UK 084.pdf, page 80 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Edge UK 084.pdf_p80" defined multiple times with different content
↑ Ação Games, "Maio 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 38
↑ 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
↑ 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
↑ Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33
↑ 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
↑ 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
↑ [PC Magazine, December 1999, page 203 PC Magazine, December 1999, page 203]
↑ Unreal Modeling Guide, Unreal Developer Network

Dead or Alive series of games
	Dead or Alive (1996) \| Dead or Alive 2 (1999) \| Dead or Alive 2 Millennium (2000) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive (1997)
	Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5+ & Dead or Alive 5 (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5+ (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5+ & Dead or Alive 5 (2013)
	Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
Sampler Discs
Dead or Alive 2 Taikenban (xxxx) \| Dead or Alive 2 Demo CD (xxxx) \| Dead or Alive 2 / Fur Fighters (xxxx)
Dead or Alive related media
	Dead or Alive Perfect Guide Book (1997) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: Dead or Alive 2 (2000) \| Dead or Alive 2 Perfect Guide Dreamcast Ban (2000)

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[:File:GamePro_US_139.pdf_p158-3] GamePro, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 158

[:File:Arcade_UK_22.pdf_p62-4] 4.0 ^4.1 File:Arcade UK 22.pdf, page 62 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":File:Arcade UK 22.pdf_p62" defined multiple times with different content

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[:File:Dorimaga_20021011_JP.pdf_p33-7] File:Dorimaga 20021011 JP.pdf, page 33

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[:File:AcaoGames_BR_151.pdf_p38-9] Ação Games, "Maio 2000" (BR; 2000-xx-xx), page 38

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

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_100.pdf_p82-11] Consoles +, "Mai 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 82

[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_104.pdf_p82-12] Consoles +, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 82

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_08.pdf_p82-13] Dreamcast Monthly, "May 2000" (UK; 2000-04-13), page 82

[:File:DreamcastMonthly_UK_13.pdf_p74-14] Dreamcast Monthly, "October 2000" (UK; 2000-08-31), page 74

[:File:DCUK_UK_13.pdf.E2.80.8E_p60-15] DC-UK, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-02), page 60

[digitiser2000-08-01-16] Digitiser (UK) (2000-08-01)

[:File:DLMO_FR_04.pdf_p62-17] Dreamcast: Le Magazine Officiel, "Mai/Juin 2000" (FR; 2000-0x-xx), page 62

[:File:DDOM_DE_07.pdf_p82-18] Dreamcast: Das Offizielle Magazin, "Mai 2000" (DE; 2000-04-13), page 82

[:File:Dorimaga_JP_20021011_2002-18.pdf_p33-19] Dorimaga, "2002-18 (2002-10-11)" (JP; 2002-09-27), page 33

[:File:EGM_US_130.pdf_p146-20] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "May 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 146

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

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

[:File:FunGeneration_DE_52.pdf_p62-23] Fun Generation, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-19), page 62

[:File:GameFan_US_0804.pdf_p15-24] GameFan, "Volume 8, Issue 4: April 2000" (US; 2000-xx-xx), page 15

[:File:GameWEEK_US_2000-02-21.pdf_p16-25] GameWEEK, "February 21, 2000" (US; 2000-02-21), page 16

[:File:InciteVideoGaming_US_5.pdf_p45-26] Incite Video Gaming, "April 2000" (US; 2000-0x-xx), page 45

[:File:Joypad_FR_100.pdf_p132-27] Joypad, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 132

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-05.pdf_p34-28] MAN!AC, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 34

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-06.pdf_p56-29] MAN!AC, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-03), page 56

[:File:MAN.21AC_DE_2000-10.pdf_p81-30] MAN!AC, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 81

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

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-05.pdf_p46-32] Mega Fun, "05/2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 46

[:File:MegaFun_DE_2000-10.pdf_p57-33] Mega Fun, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 57

[:File:MrDreamcast_UK_02.pdf_p72-34] Mr. Dreamcast, "June 2000" (UK; 2000-04-27), page 72

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

[:File:NextGeneration_US_64.pdf_p82-36] Next Generation, "April 2000" (US; 2000-03-21), page 82

[:File:ODM_UK_11.pdf_p62-37] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "September 2000" (UK; 2000-08-03), page 62

[:File:ODCM_US_05.pdf_p82-38] Official Dreamcast Magazine, "May/June 2000" (US; 2000-04-04), page 82

[:File:Playmag_FR_50.pdf_p134-39] Playmag, "Septembre 2000" (FR; 2000-xx-xx), page 134

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

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

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

[:File:PowerUnlimited_NL_080_200008.pdf_p30-43] Power Unlimited, "Jaargang 8, Nr. 8, Augustus 2000" (NL; 2000-0x-xx), page 30

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_78.pdf_p20-44] Sega Magazin, "Mai 2000" (DE; 2000-04-05), page 20

[:File:SegaMagazin_DE_83.pdf_p21-45] Sega Magazin, "October 2000" (DE; 2000-09-04), page 21

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

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

[:File:VideoGames_DE_2000-06.pdf_p72-48] Video Games, "06/2000" (DE; 2000-05-04), page 72

[:File:VideoGames_DE_2000-10.pdf_p116-49] Video Games, "10/2000" (DE; 2000-09-06), page 116

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Dead or Alive series of games
	Dead or Alive (1996) \| Dead or Alive 2 (1999) \| Dead or Alive 2 Millennium (2000) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive (1997)
	Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5+ & Dead or Alive 5 (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5 (2012) \| Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
	Dead or Alive 5+ (2013) \| Dead or Alive 5+ & Dead or Alive 5 (2013)
	Dead or Alive 5 Last Round (2015)
Sampler Discs
Dead or Alive 2 Taikenban (xxxx) \| Dead or Alive 2 Demo CD (xxxx) \| Dead or Alive 2 / Fur Fighters (xxxx)
Dead or Alive related media
	Dead or Alive Perfect Guide Book (1997) \| Prima's Official Strategy Guide: Dead or Alive 2 (2000) \| Dead or Alive 2 Perfect Guide Dreamcast Ban (2000)

Dead or Alive 2

From Sega Retro

Contents

Production credits

Dreamcast version

Magazine articles

Promotional material

Physical scans

NAOMI version

Dreamcast version

Technical information

External links

References