Dead Or Alive 6 improves on the franchise's core fighting system while retaining its tight action-packed gameplay. Although it could definitely use more content, what's here makes for a more than promising start.

As ever, Dead or Alive 6 is a polished 3D fighter that will likely still struggle for acceptance on the ‘serious' fighting circuit thanks to the excesses of its characters' costumes.

I really want to like this game more. NiCO's a fun new character to add to the mix, and the DOA Quest mode is a lot of fun. But the middling story, and ridiculous costume grind kind of shows how little new content there is to this game. Maybe down the line it'll be a fully fleshed out experience, but at least it's off to a better start than Street Fighter 5.

It could use a little more graphical polish and its netcode needs to be better, but it's a pretty good fighter all around.

One of the more visually appealing fighting games out there.