This article is about the video game. For the Japanese film, see Dead or Alive 2: Birds.
1999 video game
Dead or Alive 2
North American Dreamcast cover art featuring Ein (center), Kasumi (left), and Tina (right)
Developer(s)
Team Ninja
Publisher(s)
Tecmo
EU: Acclaim Entertainment (DC)
EU: SCEE (PS2)
Director(s)
Tomonobu Itagaki
Producer(s)
Tomonobu Itagaki Yasushi Maeda
Designer(s)
Hiroaki Matsui Katsunori Ehara
Programmer(s)
Takeshi Kawaguchi Hiroaki Ozawa
Composer(s)
Makoto Hosoi
Series
Dead or Alive
Platform(s)
Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2
Release
Arcade
JP: October 16, 1999
JP: January 18, 2000
(Millennium)[1][2]
NA/EU: 2000
(Millennium) Dreamcast
NA: February 29, 2000[3]
EU: April 28, 2000
JP: September 28, 2000 (Limited Edition)[4]
PlayStation 2
JP: March 30, 2000
NA: October 25, 2000 (Hardcore)
JP: December 14, 2000 (Hard*Core)
EU: December 15, 2000 (Hardcore)
Genre(s)
Fighting
Mode(s)
Up to 2 players simultaneously (Arcade) Up to 4 players simultaneously (Dreamcast/PlayStation 2)
Arcade system
Sega NAOMI
Dead or Alive 2 (Japanese: デッドオアアライブ2, Hepburn: Deddo Oa Araibu To~ū, abbreviated as DOA2) is a fighting game developed by Team Ninja and published by Tecmo. It debuted in Arcades in 1999 and was later ported for the Dreamcast and the PlayStation 2 in 2000. It is the second main entry in the Dead or Alive fighting series. Several enhanced editions of the game were released, including the updates Dead or Alive 2 Millennium[1][5] and Dead or Alive 2 Hardcore.
The game's plot focuses on the evil tengu, Gohyakumine Bankotsubo, who escaped from the tengu world into the human world, and the Dead or Alive tournament's change in purpose and significance after the murder of DOATEC's founder and CEO, Fame Douglas.
Dead or Alive 2 improved upon the graphics engine of its predecessor by using the Sega NAOMI hardware and on the gameplay system by including many new features, leading to universal acclaim, strong sales, and considered as one of the greatest fighting games of all time. In 2004, DOA2 was remade for the Xbox as part of Dead or Alive Ultimate. On August 22, 2012, DOA2: Hard*Core was made available as a downloadable game on the Japanese PlayStation Network. The North American version was released on the US PlayStation Network on March 24, 2015. The game was followed by Dead or Alive 3 in 2001.
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