The Tutorial is a mode designed to teach you key moves and strategies and can teach you fighter specific strategies to improve your overall techniques.

DOA5U: Core Fighters can compete against players with the retail version in all of the different game modes so there isn’t any real restrictions, other than limited fighters, when deciding which version fits your needs or budget.īesides fixing known bugs, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate adds new training modes that were added to the PS Vita version Dead or Alive 5 Plus. I’m not sure if purchasing costumes will unlock the trophies but I will edit this review if/when I get an answer back from the publisher. If you know you’ll only want to use a few of the fighters you could download the core version for free that includes Kasumi, Ayane, Ryu and Hayate and then purchase new characters which, in turn, will also unlock the trophies. You can buy the full game digitally for $39.99 USD and that will unlock the trophies for you but so will buying the story mode. Unlocked titles, costumes, and story mode progress is carried over from Dead or Alive 5 on the PS3 though, so that’s a definite plus. If you have played either version of Dead or Alive 5 before, the story is the same, convoluted and confusing mess that both Daniel Bischoff and myself covered in our previous DOA5 reviews. You’ll get access to all of the different modes of the game, with the exception of story mode which runs you another $14.99 USD. Now along comes Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate which attempts to take the best of both worlds and release it in a couple of different entry formats.ĭead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters is a free-to-play core game with only a handful of fighters and no trophy support but you have the ability to purchase add-on fighters at four bucks a pop. While consoles got the first one with a straight up Dead or Alive 5 release, the PS Vita was given a rehashed version with new modes, a shared trophy list with the PS3, some minor fixes, and cross platform play in Dead or Alive 5 Plus. Publisher Tecmo Koei and developer Team Ninja have already released two versions of Dead or Alive 5.

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