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One of the worst offerings on the 360.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As ashamed as I am to say, I played DOA X Volleyball on the original Xbox. And in a strange way, it was fulfilling, for about 5 hours. DOA X2 gets old after 5 minutes.

DOA X2 feels like a direct port of the older game. Everything being exactly the same, no real new additions and no extractions.

To simply summarize shortly, this game is barebones with cheap T&A, and really no redeeming value at all.

But there IS good news. If you somehow enjoy collecting swimsuits while playing awkward volleyball, this could be the game for you. If you're sane, it is not.

Well, it is pretty.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 31 / 37
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Disappointed.

That pretty much sums up my feelings about this game.

I don't usually write reviews, but I felt I had to say my bit on this title.

It is a very pretty game.
I'll give it that, but little else.

DOAX2 = DOAX1 + better graphics + novelty features - in person multiplayer - some reason to play the game

Let's see... we have the new eye candy mini games.
Neato if you love button mashing madness.

We have the new Jet Ski race.
Big yay there.
It's an entertaining diversion, but nothing overly special.
Got old for me quick.

The new casino games are ok.
I spent more time playing in the casino than anything else.

We have ONLINE multiplayer now!
Woo Hoo!
Now you don't have to worry about making real friends and inviting them over!
You can just play with whatever random person is out there on the net.

We have online multiplayer at the expense of the offline two player game.

That pretty much kills the game for me.

One of the biggest components of this game and the previous title is going about gathering all of the bathing suits and other goodies for the various characters in the game.

With the old game, whenever a friend came over to play a two player volley ball match, you could show off the various outfits you had acquired, make inappropriate comments about the ladies, whine about losing because of the control scheme, and enjoy your company in general.

With the DOAX2, there is no offline multiplayer game. No local two player mode. I guess the people who made this game figured that the players who would play it didn't get out enough to know any people in person, and those they did know they only talked to over a crackling headset.

Well, that wasn't the case with me and my friends.
Between rounds of Halo and Soul Calibur we'd pop in DOAX1 for a change of pace and everyone liked it.

That was the part of the game I really liked:
The social aspect.

That made me want to collect all the different outfits and items so I could show them off, and hear my buds comment on them. It gave me a reason keep playing the single player mode (which in no way had an elaborate storyline). And I enjoyed it. I really did.

DOAX1 was a gem.

And while DOAX2 has a pretty face, there is nothing shining behind the eyes.

All in all, even with the online bit, you are still alone, just playing with yourself.

"Loooving you is easy 'cause you're beautiful..."

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 16
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So, you've seen the ridiculous trailer for this game, heard the hype, and read the unkind, mocking reviews and wonder whether you should give this game a shot. Well, that all depends. I'm a huge fanboy of the fighting games which get a bad rap by folks who haven't bothered to learn how to play them properly, so I'm a bit biased by the fact that I really enjoy these characters and the ways their personalities and relationships with one another carry over from game-to-game in the series. That said, this game certainly does live up to it's affectionate nickname, "Boobs: The Game"; but there is more than a little bit of fun to be had on Zack's tropical island. The original DOAX was a novelty game at best that offered nice visuals, a minor diversionary volleyball game, a boring casino, and a busted social sim. This time around, we get REALLY nice visuals, a slightly improved volleyball game, several extra annoying mini-games, a much-improved casino, and a pretty killer jet-skiing game on top of the still-busted social sim. You'll spend most of your days earning money playing the two good games, v-ball and jet-skiing, so that you can attempt to buy thoughtful gifts for girls you'd like to be your friends. The problem is that the girls will usually return your gifts for no real reason, making your precious time and money a complete waste. While it is quite fun to see the girls who do accept your generous gifts wearing them around, there are very few items you can give them repeatedly and the overall item list is quite a bit shorter than I expected. The incentive to woo these girls is nil, unless you love a headache-inducing challenge or are without a volleyball partner. I was really hoping for a major upgrade/overhaul to this pointless social sim, but chalk that up as another disappointment. The much-vaunted swimsuits are mostly nothing special and they are impossibly expensive, though they do leave tanlines when you change to another which is a very nice touch. The casino now has a much better variety of games that you can play head-to-head with the other girls (the poker is quite fun) which is probably the biggest improvement to an existing aspect of this series. The waterslide, butt-battle, tug-of-war, and flag racing mini-games are all over in a flash, not very profitable, exceedingly difficult, and take up a massive portion of your day, making the lot of 'em damn near worthless. The jetskiing and volleyball are really the game's biggest saving graces and are pretty damn fun once you get the hang of it. I got frustrated a the v-ball at first and cursed my partner's terrible AI that spiked at inapproriate times and often watched an opposing spike or serve go by as she looked at the ground. Then I remembered that Kasumi and Ayane (my DOA girl of choice) do not get along, though I had tried to smooth things over between them, I could practically sense Kasumi's indifference to the outcome of our matches. So I kicked Kasumi-chan to the curb, grabbed a new partner, and promptly began crushing the competition. Team Ninja loves this kind of thing; adding hidden depth to a game that appears to the inexperienced eye to be simple and impossibly difficult. Treat your partner right and you'll work together nicely, lose games and skimp on the gifts, and you're game will suffer as a result. Another nice touch. All-in-all, this one is barely an improvement over the first installment and, therefore, still a renter. The game is fun for quite a while but watching the same canned animations -bouncy breast physics or no-, and hearing the same phrases over and over gets old quick so the graphics and DOA characters are no reason to buy this game. Added social interactions would have done wonders here, but alas, gift-giving is the only non-competitional contact you'll have with your friends unless you count the time-wasting "be friendly" activity, where you watch you and your partner stroll down the beach or do other boring things while you snap pictures. The new mini-games are all lame and since the social aspect is still difficult and unrewarding I'd really only recommend this one to: a) fans of the original's volleyball game who don't mind the redundancy b) boys who will not know the touch of a woman any time soon and don't have access to porn c) anyone who actually gets excited at the prospect of a virtual jet-ski race or poker game, and d) DOA completists who absolutely MUST collect every single item in every single game that Team Ninja puts out or just can't get enough of those delightful DOA girls. Everyone else should give this one a rental, then go dust off your copy of "Dead or Alive 4" (a man's game) and kick some real virtual booty. Let's just hope that "DOA: Code Cronus" doesn't let us down.

Not what we expected.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 19
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game today with my husband. The hype around it was amazing! We were so excited, because neither of us had played a game with beach volleyball or anything like that.

The music? Horrible. It's such a "chick" game, it's ridiculous. You don't get to play volleyball with any of the other girls unless you buy gifts for them first. The voices are really annoying, and it was just an incredibly stupid premise.

The only semi-entertaining parts were the jet-skiing and the pool hopping. They involved no skill at all, though. The volleyball (when I finally got to play) was fun, but my partner dumped me after we lost the first game. I didn't even get to practice!

Overall, it was stupid and a huge waste of time and money. Thank god that EB games is allowing us to get all of our $60 back! He just left to go return it and get something that will actually entertain us.

The graphics are really good, and I love DOA in general, but I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. Actually, my husband would be embarrassed to have friends over and play this. He compared it to something like "Barbie's beach house." Totally, 100% not worth it.

Great graphics, but way boring..

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: May 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'm a girl, I enjoyed the first game even though it's suppose to be all eye-candy. I thought Volleyball was good and collecting the cute (and some quite ugly) swimsuits for the girls made it slightly like a dress-up game, which is something I've always liked.

At first sight, I thought with all the bonus minigames, how could the second game ever be boring?

I have a lot of problems with this game...

1: The swimsuits are awful. There were about 20 I would actually concider buying and giving a girl. A lot of swimsuits had awful, disgusting colors, way too bright or way too dark and like... yellowgreenish dark. Yuck!
Some swimsuits are just some jewelry covering the private parts, those "swimsuits" is something I would never buy.
So buying and gifting was not appealing at all to me.

2: The items are EXPENSIVE. The cheapest stuff close to 1000-3000, the most expensive like 6 million dollars (!!!!!).
Not only is it annoying to try see how many zeros there are, but you have to be the best in every single minigame to even get close to get enough money to buy things. In the first game, I gave the girls nailpolish, flowers, hats, some quite swimsuits, but in this game I can rarely afford anything. It's like you're struggling forever and you still can't afford the things you like.

3: In the first game, the other girls started out weak and became stronger the more you played them. They do not in this game, you get professional players every single game. So the second is that you are not allowed to train on any of the minigames as long as you want, you can only play a minigame 3 times a day, then you are forced to go to bed and start over the next day. In butt-battle I sometimes get knocked down within 2 seconds, how am I suppose to learn how to get the other girl in the water if I can't train as long as I like?
The same goes for Volleyball, if you loose to much your partner leaves you, and when you don't have cash, you can't give her a gift so she'll stay, and then you can't play volleyball AT ALL. Only if you end your vacation and start over again. But that's not very fun.

4: The minigames are not very rewarding, if you become the winner you get 30.000. That's cheap concidering how hard the NPC's are. And you won't get cash very quickly if you loose a lot like me.
Jet Ski is the easiest game to get cash, only annoyance is that I've had other girls push my girl out of the course and get disqualified. And what does my girl say when I bump into them? "Sorry".
I'm not sorry, I want to push them away, but if you bump into them, they push you. HARD. You have to be careful not to even touch them, or else it's very easy being knocked into a cliff and not get out.

I play this game 10 minutes a time at the most, I can't say anything about LIVE because I don't have the availability to play it. The game becomes tedious and boring, because there's no reward in the game, you just struggle and struggle and don't get anything back.

I did like that you aren't forced to listen to Lisa's tutorial just because you want a partner, instead random girls offer to take you around the island. Also the "go back to the hotel" automatically chooses the hotel you are staying at, I didn't understand why you were forced to press in the first game when the only thing you could do was pressing the button.
But the game just dosen't offer enough to be fun.

Alittle of the same game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

DoaX2 was just like Doax except somewhat harder. You competitors are harder, the suits are more expensive and the graphics are better. It's basically the same game, with more mini games included, that's all.

DOA - Junk

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I picked this game up because the first one was so much fun and the graphics were awesome. This one however was a let down. They changed the game play of the volleyball so much that I don't enjoy playing that part of the game. They did however add jet skies and that takes up all my time on this game. They tried to do too much and changed what wasn't broken. Overall it's a let down.

Just a little upgrade from the first

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is the same like the first one for xbox. The only new thing is just jet raceing the rest are the same, they could had done more then just put partial nudity cause this game got boaring quick. When i first heard this game was comeing out i thought their was going to be more fun and exitment but when i played it i thought i was playing the first cause their was nothing really different exept jet raceing and some new music witch i did'nt really care for. The jet raceing was a little fun it was'nt that great but the rest was just the same. The same stuff include vollyball, pool hopskotch, relaxing near the water, buying new clothe's and figer and nail polish, and that's it they just added jet raceing. So this game was no good they should had done more in this game.

Beachgoers beware...This one's a bit different

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: November 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Being a long-time fan of the sport of volleyball, as well as the DOA franchise, I didn't even hesitate to buy this game - even after I had read some mediocre/disappointing-reviews on gaming websites such as IGN. Although being a bit biased, I believe I'm giving this game as fair a shot as I can.

First off, welcome back to the wonderful world of DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball! With Zach's discovery of the Ancient Treasures of the Egyptian Pharoahs in the previous installment (DOA4), he's become a billionaire once again - and is determined to raise Zach Island from the depths of the ocean - with some extra-terrestrial assistance, of course. All your favorite DOA Girls are back, with the addition of new-comer Kokoro, the adorable Geisha-in-training from DOA4. Also included are new features to keep you busy for your 14-day vacation in the tropics, such as the World's Biggest Water Slide, the Poolside Tug-of-War, and of course, the "Butt Battle" (yes, it's exactly how it sounds).

But of course, just as the first installment was, this game is FAR from perfect. Graphics are superb, but apparently, it was either more jiggle-action or better game-play - the producers didn't go with the latter.

The Beach Volleyball system has been altered significantly. Although more realistic, a round of volleyball is now extremely frustrating as your CPU opponents often put more effort into the game than you and/or your CPU partner. Response time is much slower, and achieving a shutout-victory and its hefty reward is almost impossible, as either your opponents will always get a perfect spike in (including hitting STRAIGHT down, which is something even professionals have trouble with), or your character will just quit on a ball that drops right in front of her. This new system is made even more difficult by the return of the "back-corner" camera-angle, which makes it impossible to tell where you or your opponent is aiming her spike.

While this game still has its pluses (afterall, there really is no other game like it), it's a significant step down from the last DOA Xtreme in terms of everything other than graphics (and hey, that is all some people care about - look at the PS3). Fans of the franchise will most likely enjoy this game enough to not regret the $55-$60 pricetag, but others will most likely have a bit more trouble doing that. All and all, one thing is for certain - DOA Xtreme 2 is not exactly your ordinary trip to the beach.

A bit much...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played both this game and the previous Volleyball title and I have to say that this one is better, at least from a one player point of view. Not having an exhibition mode that two people can play is a downer and subtracts from the overall rating.

The good news is that are quite a bit of additional stuff to do besides play volleyball (which is why the word 'volleyball' never shows up in the title.) There are a variety of mini games. Such as tug of war and the infamous 'butt battle' neither of which I am any good at. The volleyball play is pretty hard. Sometimes you can lose two or three games in a row right from the get go and your partner will dump you. That's a bummer.

Recruiting new lady friends is hard because most of the girls are picky about what gifts they will accept. (On a side note this game is like a really bad relationship game. Give your girl flowers so she'll go out with you...I mean play volleyball with you. What do you want Christie? What do you want?!) Well, anyway. The graphics are nice of course if a bit much at times. Whoever designed the physics of the girls really leaned on the whammy bar when making the breasts bounce. I mean, it looks a little silly at times. The slightest move sends the things zigging and zagging, sometimes in opposite directions like a pair of water balloons. Gravity defying cleavage aside the game looks very realistic.

If you can tolerate getting dumped by girls and then not being able to woo any new ones then you can still have a decent time, unless you suck at riding in a jet ski and bumping other girls with your butt. That makes this a pretty good game. But I might rent it first and see how much you like it.

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