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In the Dead or Alive games, there is one character that does Jeet Kune Do (I can't remember his name - its been a while since I played it). The JKD you see in that game is nothing like how a JKD student trains (for those that don't know, the JKD character in the game imitates a theatrical Bruce Lee)!! Real life grapplers/wrestlers don't pick people up and throw then 20 feet in the air!
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That would be Jann Lee- and yes, he's meant to be Tecmo's way of prodding fun at Bruce Lee!
(In a good-natured way, though!) And yep, I think you'll find that a lot of Japanese fighting games are pretty exaggerated! Still... Jann Lee's flashy moves really wanted me to take up JKD!
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This may sound like an obvious comment but what you see in a computer game (or TV/films for that matter) is not a accurate representation of what a martial art really looks like.
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Well, normally I'd agree with you! But once I played Hitomi (the female character who did Karate) on Dead or Alive 3, her stance (kami) was perfect! Just the way she remained in the right karate positions was spot on! So it made me get the impression that maybe the martial arts in DoA3 were totally accurate! Even the technique names in the game were spot on: "Mawishigeri Utofumi Geri" (I don't know if that's spelt right).
Still- how about Tai Chi Quan? Has that been terribly affected by the "new age" outlook on fighting?