If you're a fan of Dragon Ball Z what's not to love? Ehh, quite a lot actually. The sprites are sluggish, the moves difficult to pull off, and it's hard, very hard. The later characters you face already have a big advantage over you given that their health bar is sometimes double the size of yours but when even blocking their frenzied attacks drains your energy to nothing you can't help feel like you're ice skating uphill. On the plus side they did a good job with the story, with a very good mix of characters.
Game Review - originally written by Spinner 8
The Dragon Ball Z fighting game that started it all, as they say. After this game, Bandai realized that fighting games are where it’s at, and that no one wants to play crappy card-based RPGs anymore. And I hear that the recent Budokai PS2 games are actually good, unlike this game.
The Dragon Ball Z fighting game that started it all, as they say. After this game, Bandai realized that fighting games are where it’s at, and that no one wants to play crappy card-based RPGs anymore. And I hear that the recent Budokai PS2 games are actually good, unlike this game.
It did make some noise at the time, because it was DBZ, because it was a DBZ fighting game which, believe it or not, was uncommon (most DB / DBZ games at the time were adventure / RPGs / visual novels) - it had original mechanics like flying / split screen, but at the end of the day, it was pretty dull and uninteresting past the DBZ license with poor gameplay and non fun fights. Street Fighter II Turbo came out at the same time and was a better game on all counts.