are able to bypass this issue, Dead or Alive‘s franchise is consistently making headlines for the characters’ revealing outfits, most notably their bathing suits.
That being said, SoulCalibur as well as its peers in the fighting genre have a notorious history with their extremely well endowed female characters. When a game relies very heavily on the visual appeal to sell their content – especially one in the fighting genre, where eyes are focused on the characters at all times – it’s critical for those modelling the characters and the artists who are designing them to be able to know the exact physiological anatomy of each and every character. The alternative is to have every single character have the exact same 3D model in the same sense as a Call of Duty or Battlefield game. While it may seem silly, the task of 3D modeling a wide variety of characters is no easy task, especially those who are as diverse and detailed as those that appear throughout the Soulcalibur franchise.
While it may be easy for some to start hollering about representation of women, it should be noted that for artists and creative teams, a document like this one uncovered from the SoulCalibur devs is incredibly valuable.