Someone casually browsing the 3DS selection of their local GameStop might think nothing of the title “Dead or Alive: Dimensions” — no different from, say, “Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions” for the same platform — but anyone who knows anything about the “Dead or Alive” series knows it’s the perfect name. A game that’s a boob joke finally has a title that’s a boob joke.
“Dead or Alive” was conceived in 1996 as a excuse to use new technology to render the female body in three dimensions. Though the girls in the original game looked little better than animated mannequins, they had something mannequins didn’t — breasts composed of an unholy concoction of Slinky and Flubber, which would undulate every which way and continue to bounce long after all other motion had ceased.
