Finally, the 7th and last version of Dead or Alive, or is it?

Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate is a remake in the style of Dead or Alive 3 for the Xbox, and it's pretty much what you'd expect it to be, it's Dead or Alive 3 but with the Dead or Alive 2 cast + Hitomi because why not.
On paper this remake sounds kinda pointless, doesn't it? I mean the UI, Combat, and characters are pretty much the same as 3 and I guess the main difference would be in the Stages since they don't feel like Dead or Alive 2 anymore and that's a good thing, they work more like Dead or Alive 3's stages which is just a straight upgrade, but other than that and a ton of costume to unlock there isn't much to say about this title. It's just more Dead or Alive 2, if anything it's Dead or Alive 2.5 and obviously, it doesn't erase the previous releases, Dead or Alive 2 Limited Edition and Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore are still more than valid ways to play the game, this game's existence is a nice little quirk and who would say no to more Dead or Alive.

I guess what I'm mostly angry about is Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate just being the shit Sega Saturn version, why can't we get a remake like 2? All you had to do was put the 8 characters that already exist in Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate/3 and just make a modern version of Raidou, that's all there is to it but they just gave us an unpolished port, and not even Dead or Alive++.
But then again making Dead or Alive 1 Ultimate like Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate would be weird because then it would be like having 3 different versions of Dead or Alive 3... I'm thinking too hard about this.

So yeah this game is good, it's just Dead or Alive 3 part 2.