Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate: Core Fighters, a free-to-play version of the already announced DoA5U, has been officially announced and will be hitting PlayStation 3 (and potentially Xbox 360) day and date with the full retail release of the game. Currently slated for September 3rd, 2013 in North America and releasing the rest of that week in other territories, Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate is a updated version of the current release, Dead or Alive 5. Complete with new characters, stages, moves, animations, and system mechanics, this release will incorporate ideas and feedback from both Team NINJA itself as well as the fans. DoA5U: Core Fighters is yet another surprise from TN and it also represents something of an evolution on the basic concepts of a demo.
Core Fighters will include all online play modes, stages, and offline play modes, with the exception of the Story Mode. It will include Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate as playable characters out of the gate, with the option to add additional characters one at a time. The free version will also be fully compatible with the retail copy, meaning you can encourage your friends to download Core Fighters and then show them the ropes from your full copy with only the aforementioned restrictions on characters. The additional characters can then be purchased at $3.99 per character; there are no currently planned packs that include multiple characters. Story Mode is also an extra purchase for the Core Fighters package (currently projected to be $14.99).
An extra bit of news is that DoA5U: Core Fighters will read from save files for Dead or Alive 5. Titles, Story progress, and unlocked costumes (as well as purchased costumes) will transfer over and be made available in the new release. Presumably this functionality will also extend to the retail versions which should mean fighters on both PS3 and 360 can avoid running back through and unlocking that 3000 wins title again. Finally, there will be no ability to fight users on Dead or Alive 5 or Dead or Alive 5 Plus with any version of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate. This is due to system changes and new mechanics and is very unlikely to change with patches.
You can review all of this information over at the official site right here.
Check out the ongoing discussion on Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate by clicking here.
Core Fighters will include all online play modes, stages, and offline play modes, with the exception of the Story Mode. It will include Ryu Hayabusa, Kasumi, Ayane, and Hayate as playable characters out of the gate, with the option to add additional characters one at a time. The free version will also be fully compatible with the retail copy, meaning you can encourage your friends to download Core Fighters and then show them the ropes from your full copy with only the aforementioned restrictions on characters. The additional characters can then be purchased at $3.99 per character; there are no currently planned packs that include multiple characters. Story Mode is also an extra purchase for the Core Fighters package (currently projected to be $14.99).
An extra bit of news is that DoA5U: Core Fighters will read from save files for Dead or Alive 5. Titles, Story progress, and unlocked costumes (as well as purchased costumes) will transfer over and be made available in the new release. Presumably this functionality will also extend to the retail versions which should mean fighters on both PS3 and 360 can avoid running back through and unlocking that 3000 wins title again. Finally, there will be no ability to fight users on Dead or Alive 5 or Dead or Alive 5 Plus with any version of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate. This is due to system changes and new mechanics and is very unlikely to change with patches.
You can review all of this information over at the official site right here.
Check out the ongoing discussion on Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate by clicking here.