Ranking January & February 2015’s Video Games From Worst To Best

9. Dead Or Alive 5: Last Round

Words you're going to be seeing a hell of a lot of this year are 'micro-transactions', and it doesn't help their general perception as something spawned from the shaft of Satan himself when you've got triple-A studios like Team Ninja releasing a version of their game that's £92.99, not to mention parsing off all the individual fighters for £4 each if you've bought the initial version only to fill the roster out later. The flip-side to the Last Round coin is you can essentially play this newest version for the price of one fighter as the base game is free, to which if you know you're only going to play as someone like Hayabusa, Kasumi, Tina etc. it'll save you plenty cash in the long run. Plenty more people will be thoroughly disgusted by the very idea of a game that should arrive feature-complete being split across so many revenue streams, but the brass tacks of the matter is at its heart DOA is still just as fun as it's always been, complete with a stupidly OTT campaign and plenty of brutal arena-specific finishers to boot.
 
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WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.