Bikini Karate Babes

Bikini Karate Babes is a digitized 2D fighting game developed by Creative Edge Studios. It features an all-female cast of 19 fighters, all clad in bikinis and played by real actresses.

Gameplay
The game plays similarly to other 2D versus fighting games. There are 8 regular characters to select from and 11 unlockables. Each character has a set of moves in addition to three basic attacks, Punch, Kick and Special. The Special button pressed without another combination produces a grab move which, unlike other fighting games, varies depending on the opponent. Each character has a long array of martial arts moves, a grab move and also has a mystical move, which varies from firing a projectile to teleportation.

Eventhough the fighters use actual martial arts moves, the game distinguishes itself in the use of funny/sexy moves that most characters have. An example of a funny move is Thalia's tickle grab (see side photo). For examples of sexy moves, Lucina's mystic move has her lowering her bikini top and shooting a laser beam from her breasts while Zaria's grab move has her turning her opponent around then pushing her backside away with her own. Several other moves has a fighter remove her bikini top/bottom but the bare parts are always covered (in Lucina's afforementioned move thanks to the flare of the laser), there is never actual nudity shown in the game.

Game Modes
Bikini Karate Babes features an array of 10 distinct game modes. Those are : Note : There is also the Sweet Stuff section where the player can view a collection of unlocked stuff like Endings, Pictures, Videos, and Interviews.
 * Arcade - 1-Player Story Mode.
 * Battle Babes - 2-player Mode.
 * Team Fight - Each player selects up to 8 characters. When one is defeated, the next takes her place.
 * Marathon - The player attempts to defeat as many opponents as possible.
 * Practice
 * Challenge - The player challenges a specific fighter to get access to her Sweet Stuff (see below).
 * Spectacle - Two CPU-controlled fighters of the player's choice fight amongst themselves.
 * Top Collector - The player plays as Venus against 5 specific fighters. You win if you remove their bikinis (using Venus' special throw) before they drain your energy.
 * Vegas - The player places bets as you watch the BKB fighters fight amongs themselves.
 * Invincible Mode - Same as Arcade Mode but the player's life does not run out.

Characters
All the characters' names are based on Goddesses of Mythology, and each character's traits corrsesponds to that fact.

Starting characters

 * Tien Wu
 * Voluptas
 * Zaria
 * Lucina
 * Athena
 * Thalia
 * Isis
 * Persephone

Unlockable characters

 * Nemesis
 * Sedna
 * Gemini
 * Kadi
 * Ayida
 * Kakia
 * Colleda
 * Pinga
 * Kupala
 * Venus (sub-boss)
 * Aphrodite (final boss)

Trivia

 * The game is no longer officially sold by the company to make way for its much more serious sequel, Warriors of Elysia.
 * Several 'Behind the Scenes' DVDs containing auditions, outtakes, rehersals etc were sold, but they too have now been discontinued.
 * The grabs sequences were recorded with both fighters together, so it was a different filming for each sets of fighters. Although this means that a fighter cannot perform a grab if playing against the same fighter, it also means that a total of 351 unique grabs sequences are available, possibly more than any other fighting game.

Cast

 * Kelli Church as Kadi
 * Miriam Finch as Persephone
 * Mary Libenson as Colleda
 * Laura Macginnis as Athena
 * Krystle Mobayeni as Ayida
 * Nora Morris as Pinga
 * Crystal Nelson as Isis
 * Erica Newport as Thalia
 * Cynthia Okula as Venus
 * Corinne Olson as Sedna
 * Mira Popova as Aphrodite
 * Tiffany Pruitt as Lucina
 * Samantha Redmond as Gemini
 * Olivia Sheldon as Nemesis
 * Allie Strickland as Kupala
 * Becky Tome as Zaria
 * Phuong Tran as TienWu
 * Olivia Vien as Kakia
 * Claudia Zaborsky as Voluptas