Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Reviewed by Jason Venter (January 24, 2003)

If you lose your team partner, it's a major loss. You then have to work your tail off to get another team member so you can go back to playing volleyball. This is done through what serves as the other majority of the game, the gift exchanging. See, each girl has likes and dislikes, besides the whole winning and losing thing.

Reviewed by Sho (February 03, 2008)

I’m actually referring to the fact that Tom had the cajones to think up, develop, and then seriously release a game that consists of little more than breasty beach bunnies who hop up and down in skimpy swimwear – and people bought it in droves. Of course just because I admire and slightly fear the man for doing it doesn’t mean I think his game is any good. The visuals are typically gorgeous, but when it comes to Xtreme Beach Volleyball the only parts that aren’t underdeveloped are the girls’.

Reviewed by Zigfried (October 14, 2005)

The volleyball action itself can be pretty intense. Your opponents behave differently depending on their confidence level — "unwilling" foes are like those girls in Phys Ed class who always let the volleyball fall at their feet because they think hitting it might fracture their forearm. "Confident" opponents are like the Volleyball team captains — hyperkinetic, long-legged beauties who block even the jocks' spikes with ease. The nice bit is, you can actually predict the oppositions' attitude before a match based on their character portraits!

Reviewed by deedob (January 24, 2003)

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Perhaps THE most hyped-up game in 2002. Does the game render the hype justice? My answer is: maybe...

Reviewed by dogma (January 18, 2004)

Make no mistake: this is not a traditional experience. There is no alien race to shoot down in your airship before they invade the earth and exterminate humanity. There is no noble hero, taking up a sword to battle through an evil empire in hopes of rescuing a damsel in distress. In fact, there are ONLY damsels, and none of these beauties are in any kind of distress. The only grief these dolls may have had was finding out they’ve been invited to Zack Island, where they were expecting to find ano...