It’s where you’ll find the remake of the anime which is badly translated into English. The Museum is the last bit to talk about here. Friends Match pits you against only your friends, and your Battle Record lets you know how terrible a player you are.
World Tournament puts you in a Tournament against other players similar to the World Tournament in the offline mode. Freestyle is the same as standard but gives you the option of using your unlocked items and equips against another player. You’ve got Standard matched, putting you one-on-one against other players without any of your custom items and unlocks. Both the Cell Games and standard tournament play out pretty much the same way. It’s one match at a time however, so don’t go getting too excited. This can be done single player or with up to 16 participants. World Tournament lets you run a tournament in either the normal setting or the Cell Games. Each fight has a set of challenges to it, some of which are nearly impossible because of how the game responds, like having to take on a boss without getting hit at all because if you do you’re toast.īattle lets you play in a variety of modes, from a Single Battle between you and a friend or the CPU, to a Team Battle where you can choose up to five people per team to go through and fight a friend or the CPU, and finally Power Battle that sets the limit on your power level as you pick your team to battle it out with a friend or the CPU. If the grouping of people in Battle Zone seemed random, it’s worse in Galaxy Mode where you might end up fighting clones of yourself with no rhyme or reason to it. To unlock him you have to play with Gohan in Battle Zone and beat Vegeta or play Videl in Galaxy Mode and beat her boss which happens to be teen Gohan. For example you don’t have teen Gohan to start with and are stuck with kid Gohan if you want to play Gohan at all. Fighting in both Galaxy Mode and Battle Zone unlock characters, items and so on. You pick you character and have to fight your way through a small grid of battles to get to the boss fight for that character. Galaxy Mode plays like the leveling system from Final Fantasy XIII. Vegeta’s was the Saibamen (that one made sense), then Zarbon (less sense), then Dr.
Like Frieza’s chain starts with Krillin, then moves to Android 14, then Android 18, then Frieza. The groups of characters you move through can seem really weird. Battle Zone also lets you play your customized character as well which can be helpful as you unlock better items, or if you like a different set of skills better. If you’ve gone into Battle Zone with one character it is the exact same fights with any other character, only you don’t have to keep fighting through a zone once you’ve beaten the end boss in each. The fights get progressively harder as you go, and it’s very linear. Battle Zone lets you pick amongst the characters you’ve unlocked to put you in what seems like random battles against a chain of four opponents, culminating in a fight with the character the zone is named after, like Vegeta, Piccolo, and so on. If you’re looking for single player action you have Galaxy Mode and Battle Zone. So already I’m cringing looking at the menu when I turn the game on. The part of the game I loved from Raging Blast, the recreation of events in the actual shows and actual fights that went on there, is gone. This year, Namco Bandai have given us a sequel to Raging Blast that boasts 20 more characters from the shows and movies, online fighting, and a remake of the anime “Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans.” This did not inspire me with confidence as I was reading the back of the box.
While I did enjoy the game, I felt there was room for some improvement, and it was a decent overall fighting game on top of being a really good Dragon Ball game.
Last year gave us the first Dragon Ball Raging Blast, a game I had the opportunity to review.