Zack (DOA2)

Zack is a kick-boxer whose strength and eccentricity are second to none. While most people think Zack is a punk, he is a world class fighter and self-taught master of the martial art know as Muay Thai. He re-entered the Dead or Alive World Combat Championship to feed his appetite for public attention (and to win the prize money.) Because of his blunt and funky personality, his popularity is growing.

There are four different ways to progressively unlock costumes in Dead or Alive 2: HARD･CORE. System 1 and System 2 unlocks are permanent across the game system, regardless of User Personal System (UPS) data. However, the UPS system is designed as a portable system to take your PlayStation 2 memory card to another player's or tournament system to keep track of user tracked data. As such, unlocking through the UPS system would provide your user data the unlocked costume regardless of the system's status for costume unlocks. So, for example, if the system only has up to C3 unlocked, and the UPS data has up to C4 unlocked, logging into the UPS data for the match will give the option to select the character's C4. However, if the system has C4 unlocked, and the UPS data has only C3 unlocked, then any player regardless of UPS can select the character's C4. It is because of this, that it is advised to unlock through either System method. System 1 and System 2 unlock criteria should be looked at as a Primary and Secondary criteria. The same is for whether the player is using a UPS memory card save or not. The player is able to unlock the costume once any of the criteria is first met. Lastly, the player cannot unlock a costume until the previous costume has been unlocked. So performing the System 1 unlock criteria for Ayane's C8 (Acquire her Legendary item in Survival mode) will not unlock her C8 unless her C7 has already been unlocked.


Beat Story mode on the required difficulty or harder. Alternatively, collecting all 66 items from Survival mode will unlock all characters' costumes.