Dead or Alive 6 Last Round Review (2026)
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round has finally arrived, but does it live up to fans' expectations? In this video, we take a detailed look at everything the new version offers, including its missing features, character roster, costumes, gameplay improvements, online experience, and the lack of rollback netcode.
Many longtime Dead or Alive fans were hoping Last Round would be the definitive edition of DOA6. Instead, players are facing familiar content, missing fan-favorite features from previous games, and the need to repurchase characters they already owned.
Watch this review to find out:
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round gameplay
What's new in the 2026 release
Missing features compared to older DOA games
Character roster and DLC discussion
No rollback netcode explained
Is Dead or Alive 6 Last Round worth buying?
Final verdict for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam players
If you're a fan of fighting games like Tekken, Street Fighter, or Mortal Kombat, this review will help you decide whether Dead or Alive 6 Last Round is worth your time in 2026.
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Dead or Alive 6 Last Round has finally arrived, but does it live up to fans' expectations? In this video, we take a detailed look at everything the new version offers, including its missing features, character roster, costumes, gameplay improvements, online experience, and the lack of rollback netcode.
Many longtime Dead or Alive fans were hoping Last Round would be the definitive edition of DOA6. Instead, players are facing familiar content, missing fan-favorite features from previous games, and the need to repurchase characters they already owned.
Watch this review to find out:
Dead or Alive 6 Last Round gameplay
What's new in the 2026 release
Missing features compared to older DOA games
Character roster and DLC discussion
No rollback netcode explained
Is Dead or Alive 6 Last Round worth buying?
Final verdict for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam players
If you're a fan of fighting games like Tekken, Street Fighter, or Mortal Kombat, this review will help you decide whether Dead or Alive 6 Last Round is worth your time in 2026.
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00:00Dead or Alive 6 last round is here.
00:02It is a definitive like version of Dead or Alive 6,
00:06a now seven year old game.
00:08Ben, you've been playing it.
00:11What's the deal with this thing?
00:12I have.
00:13I'm a big Dead or Alive fan,
00:14so I was very excited for the chance for 6 to kind of come back
00:17and maybe end some of the stuff that was missing from it before.
00:20A lot of people are hoping for like rollback netcode
00:23or the tag mode to come back, which is kind of an odd omission
00:27and all through all of the like marketing and lead up for this
00:30has kind of been like, we got like stage lighting
00:33and we've got outfits and stuff,
00:35but kind of not a lot of the stuff that we would have hoped.
00:39It was kind of announced like earlier this year
00:40and it's not been too long,
00:42but I think people are just really excited
00:44for a Dead or Alive thing to be happening.
00:46We're getting the new game too,
00:48but this should be a thing that would hold us over.
00:50But I feel like, I don't know if it's worth it.
00:54So if you already own Dead or Alive 6,
00:57is there value in spending $40
01:00on this new version?
01:02I in its current state, no, I don't think so.
01:06Okay.
01:07And it hurts to say that because I want this to do.
01:09I want DOA to do well, but it's very much
01:12just the original game with, I think, like slightly better,
01:16like graphics maybe.
01:19But the big thing they're kind of putting out
01:21is they've got this Oboro mode for stages.
01:23That's just redone lighting,
01:25but it's only on one stage currently.
01:29And that feels kind of odd.
01:31It also, it doesn't specify what this is,
01:35but it says that it will automatically be turned off online
01:38if specifications are not met.
01:41So you could be playing with your friends
01:42and you don't even get to enjoy this other lighting,
01:45depending on what that is.
01:46But that's, that's what, there's no new stages.
01:49Uh, there's, there's no, nothing else going on.
01:53And I, I can't even tell the difference.
01:55I reinstalled the original game
01:57because it had been so long since I played
01:58to like check it out.
02:00And they look almost similar to me,
02:03like maybe a little bit nicer,
02:04like reflections in the water or whatever.
02:06But, uh, it seems like a weird choice
02:08to also do it on this stage.
02:10Cause six has one of the coolest stages
02:12in the like series in the, uh,
02:15it's called unforgettable,
02:16but it's like a museum with a whole bunch
02:18of different levels from the older games
02:19and they really like it.
02:20But I just want to shout that out.
02:21And what's curious why I didn't go with that one,
02:23but yeah, uh, almost nothing going on with that at all.
02:29Um, and maybe it's a bit brighter, but yeah,
02:33but it's, it's unfortunate.
02:36Uh, they said they're going to be adding them later on,
02:38like doing more stages.
02:40So I guess we'll wait to see how that works out.
02:42Interesting.
02:43So they, they're promising updates in the future,
02:46but at release, it's pretty minimal is what you're saying.
02:51It's just the one stage.
02:53Is, is that kind of the same with like,
02:56are there new characters?
02:57Are there new, like, what else is,
02:58is there for returning players?
03:00So if you are a person who is playing Dead or Alive 6
03:03and had gotten at least all of the character DLCs,
03:06you're actually going to be playing with less characters.
03:08Maya and Kula are both being taken out of the game
03:12and you have to rebuy them.
03:14And the new version, even if you had them before,
03:17along with all of their costumes, I'm assuming.
03:21Why? Why are they doing that?
03:22The only thing I can think of is maybe like a licensing thing,
03:25but it's a very weird, like, they actually detailed,
03:28I think earlier today, like, what exactly all transfers over.
03:32And they specifically have to make notes for saying that
03:34both Maya and Kula and, and all of that stuff don't move over.
03:38Um, and they announced as like a, like,
03:41they thought this would be a, like an interesting thing to do
03:44to put out the same trailer they did seven years ago
03:46when they announced the two characters, uh, earlier this year
03:50to be like, oh, guess what?
03:51You get to buy them again.
03:52Get it.
03:53Please get excited for buying these characters again.
03:55You've already got it.
03:56That's crazy.
03:57Uh, but that brings up an interesting point, which was, uh,
04:01Dead or Alive 6 is pretty notorious for like the amount of DLC it had, right?
04:06You could spend a lot of money.
04:08I, as a consumer, I would assume if I'm buying some sort of thing
04:13called like that, like a, a new version with like a nice fancy title
04:17that it is some sort of, it would, it would offer like a complete package.
04:21Does this include a good amount of that DLC or like,
04:25kind of like, what are you expecting to get there?
04:27They make specific notes about how your previous DLC costumes
04:31will transfer over, which makes me think that you might have to buy them again.
04:36The store isn't live for last round currently.
04:39So I couldn't look at like even how much Meyer Kula
04:42or any of the other stuff might be up would cost, uh, or if it's there.
04:47But I, I'm guessing that it doesn't even include all of those by default,
04:51which seems like an odd thing to just be like, cool, ultimate catch up version of the game.
04:56We're redoing.
04:57Here's all the current characters.
04:59Here's all the current costumes.
05:00Here's all this stuff here.
05:02Go for it.
05:04But they just don't, I think.
05:07But yeah, uh, it's, it's very odd.
05:10I'm, I'm thinking about, I think Street Fighter V when it did its, uh,
05:13big championship edition actually made a big point to be like,
05:16here's all the costumes before, uh, included inside of this new version of the game.
05:22And going forward, you'd get whatever's new, but yeah.
05:25Yeah.
05:25It's, it seems like an odd choice.
05:27I think the fact that there is just like confusion around what you're even getting
05:30is in itself, like a problem like that.
05:33It should be this like very crystal clear thing.
05:35Uh, to, to that point, uh, we were talking earlier about like,
05:40they're promising net, uh, rollback net code for this game.
05:43They specifically were, we're trying like not to say anything about it.
05:47So it's been a big question leading up to this and.
05:51Okay.
05:52So there's been a big question about if rollback net code is in this game.
05:57They have been cagey.
05:58They've been unclear about it.
06:00To your understanding from what you've checked out,
06:04it doesn't seem like it's in there or you can't tell.
06:07There's no like, like specific like notation or thing in the options or anything
06:11that like would lead me to believe it.
06:13I haven't been able to get like into a match because it's,
06:16it's pre-release and there are like six people on the leaderboards currently.
06:20Um, but there's also no cross play, which they have said,
06:25which I feel like if you're putting out any fighting game,
06:29like repackaged version or new fighting game or anything,
06:32if you don't have like rollback or,
06:34or cross play also is like maybe an optional thing.
06:36Maybe not, but like,
06:38it's a very good way to kind of shoot yourself in the foot.
06:40Um, yeah.
06:42Um, I know we are reaching out to the devs about if like a rollback is,
06:48is in the game.
06:48So if we get a response from them,
06:50we'll have the editor include it here.
06:52Um, but I agree with you.
06:54We're like in, in,
06:55if you're offering me a modern version of a game,
06:59like for, for $40,
07:03the least I could expect is that it will have these,
07:06these features that are kind of like pretty ubiquitous and standard for fighting games,
07:10especially if your goal,
07:12like I imagine the point of,
07:14of this release is to sort of like re drum up a community around dead or alive,
07:21uh,
07:22in anticipation for the new one that they're working on.
07:25Right.
07:25So it's like,
07:26okay,
07:26let's bring back six.
07:28Let's,
07:28let's start rebuilding that community around this game.
07:31Uh,
07:32so you want to make it as like accessible and easy to jump in as possible,
07:35which means it should have rollback.
07:38It should have a cross play.
07:41It should have all the stuff in it.
07:44It should like,
07:46you know,
07:47you want to make it,
07:48um,
07:48as enticing as possible.
07:50My question then is like,
07:52if you're someone who's never played dead or alive,
07:55is,
07:56is this still like appealing or is it still feel like a,
07:59Hey,
07:59maybe you should wait a little bit.
08:00I think in,
08:01in its current state,
08:02this,
08:03this version of six.
08:04And I,
08:04I know that it,
08:05the original one's been delisted already while we're,
08:07we've already done the video.
08:09Yeah.
08:10Just to take it away,
08:11at least on steam.
08:12I think it's still,
08:13I don't know about,
08:13about the,
08:14the other places,
08:15but they're,
08:15uh,
08:16they're promising like down the road,
08:18new characters and new costumes.
08:20So like,
08:21maybe it'll be like a better package down the road,
08:24but also like thinking about previous DLC stuff,
08:27like,
08:27are we going to be paying whatever amount for the extra characters?
08:30And are we going to have like the thousand dollar season pass costume catalogs again?
08:37Uh,
08:38how's that going to plan out?
08:40Because whatever this like $40 version is,
08:42even if it goes on sale,
08:43might end up being a much more expensive thing down the road.
08:45If you're like,
08:45I want to try out the new characters or I want to do all of that,
08:49but it's,
08:49uh,
08:50yeah,
08:51yeah,
08:52I,
08:52I think it might be,
08:53might be better to pick up later on,
08:55unless you're like diehard dead or alive.
08:57You want to play whatever the newest versions,
08:59I can't speak for like balance changes.
09:01So I don't know if there's any sort of like tournament side of this,
09:03where it's the most viable,
09:05or if people are even going to acknowledge it or anything like that.
09:07But,
09:08um,
09:09yeah,
09:10it's,
09:10it's,
09:10it's a very strange kind of thing.
09:13Uh,
09:14there are some kind of good things though.
09:15There's,
09:16there's one,
09:16one big change that they made to the game that might entice people,
09:20I guess.
09:21Uh,
09:21six especially was,
09:22uh,
09:23an interesting game in that the costume unlocks were like stupidly hard to actually do.
09:29She had to like get like random drops for blueprints for specific outfits that would randomly choose which one you
09:37were getting.
09:37And then once you got enough blueprints for them,
09:40you'd have to spend the Indian currency on them to actually unlock them.
09:43But now they're,
09:44they're changing the requirements that I have an example here.
09:47One of Kasumi's costumes,
09:48uh,
09:49used to be a thousand blueprint pieces and it's been bumped down to a hundred.
09:54Uh,
09:55and then there's another costume she had where in the original version,
09:59it costed 20,000 currency and now it only costs 1,000.
10:03So like,
10:04it's all much more attainable.
10:06And just in the time that it's been playing,
10:07it seems like that stuff flows in a lot more regularly and easily too.
10:12So maybe they're like trying to let you unlock things more,
10:15but it's,
10:17it's kind of the only really big difference I've,
10:20I've noticed in terms of just the game and the content.
10:23And,
10:23uh,
10:24also other than that,
10:26the,
10:26the like saving it,
10:28it transfers all your save data over and it causes some weird stuff with
10:31achievements where like,
10:34uh,
10:34I had like all the combo stuff done for a certain character.
10:37I just had to do one of them to unlock the achievement for doing all of them.
10:40Uh,
10:41that wasn't too bad.
10:42The only weird one really,
10:43I think is for quest mode.
10:45You have to like,
10:47it says I finished all of them,
10:49but I don't think I have any of the rewards for it because they're already checked off.
10:55Oh,
10:55but maybe because of the unlocking system being much more forgiving,
10:59maybe it's not that much of a problem.
11:00Cause the big thing,
11:01at least I think used to be that you get more costume parts from doing those.
11:04And that's kind of what drove me to do them before.
11:06But,
11:07uh,
11:08I think those are kind of the only good.
11:11I,
11:11it added a photo mode.
11:14That's take pictures of your favorite characters doing their,
11:17your favorite moves on them.
11:18It's sometimes they work.
11:20Sometimes they don't,
11:21uh,
11:21which is the fun part.
11:23Um,
11:24yeah.
11:25Oh,
11:25okay.
11:26Well,
11:26I'm going to be honest.
11:27It's kind of a bummer.
11:29Uh,
11:29I liked that or alive.
11:30Uh,
11:31I think that or alive is cool and,
11:33and interesting and,
11:34and like is should be,
11:37um,
11:39should be up there with other fighting games in terms of like,
11:42you know,
11:42uh,
11:42it's,
11:43it's releases and the way it's,
11:44it,
11:44it deserves better.
11:46I think that or alive does deserve better as a fighting game,
11:48but,
11:49um,
11:51man,
11:51the way they have treated six over the years has been rough.
11:56And I was kind of hoping that this would be like a fresh start for six.
12:00Uh,
12:01so to hear that it's kind of started on this really rocky footing is.
12:05Yeah.
12:05And I mean,
12:06there's always hope for maybe updates down the road to fix stuff.
12:09Like I said,
12:09we got maybe new characters and stuff,
12:11but like,
12:11yeah,
12:11it's,
12:12it's not something I would recommend to people right now,
12:15unless they really,
12:15really wanted to like get into it.
12:17And they were like,
12:18I want to play six.
12:19Uh,
12:19there is like a free to play,
12:21version of it.
12:22So I think they still have the core fighters thing,
12:24but you only get access to like four or five characters.
12:27But,
12:27um,
12:27and I think they're also still doing,
12:28right.
12:28You can buy like individual ones.
12:30So if you just want to buy your main,
12:31you can do that,
12:31but who wants to play a fighting game and not have all the characters again,
12:36check it out later,
12:37maybe.
12:37But yeah,
12:38I,
12:38I feel like it's,
12:40it's not,
12:40not the best way to bring this out is that they could have done.
12:44And yeah,
12:47I'm excited for what they're doing with the new one,
12:49I guess.
12:49And maybe we'll hear more about that.
12:51Uh,
12:51cause Evo's this weekend and they have a special showcase thing for it,
12:54but bring,
12:57bring DOA back and make it,
12:58make it a little bit better than this.
13:04I can agree with that.
13:06No,
13:06thank you.
13:07Thanks for joining me.
13:08Uh,
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