Sometimes I wonder if the term “fan service” was created with the Dead or Alive series in mind. The latest game, a PSP game called Dead or Alive Paradise certainly goes above and beyond to deliver the kind of pandering some fans of the series expect to see. It’s a vacation simulation game, with volleyball, mini-games and the ability to make friends with the even more scantily clad than usual Dead or Alive women so you can pictures to oogle later. It’s due out in 2010, and was recently was rated by the ESRB, with some interesting results.

The ESRB description for Dead or Alive Paradise starts out fairly mundane. It announces that it is a PSP game that the ESRB decided to tag a Mature rating on because it has partial nudity, sexual themes and simulated gambling. Pretty typical, and nothing special. But then it moves on to the rating summary, which offers the best video game description I’ve seen in at least a month.

The ESRB summary goes a little something like this…

Tecmo will be redefining the word “handheld” with its latest announcement, Dead or Alive Paradise, which promises to bring everyone’s favorite batch of barely clothed busty babes to Sony PSP owners in Japan this coming Spring 2010.

Paradise is what you might call a stripped down (pun intended) version of the Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (DOAX) series. DOAX is a game that revolves around the lovely ladies of the DOA series prancing around in sometimes barely-existent bikinis on a beautiful private beach doing anything but fighting.