""In a short interview conducted by Japanese game news site Dengeki Online, Tecmo producer Tomonobu Itagaki revealed that their upcoming sports game "Dead Or Alive Extreme Volleyball" was originally planned to be developed with the title "DOA Digital Venus 2002" as a program that would allow fans to simply "move around the attractive CG characters in real time".
Itsagaki quotes, "But, just being able to move them around would be no fun, so we added a feature of Volley Ball. [We were] also thinking of making it into a swimming game, but it was turned down.[The Volleyball] was given the green light since we had confidence that it would be full of exhilaration."
