Dragon ball z

The second entry in the legendary ‘Budokai’ series of Dragon Ball Z games tries to be bigger, better, & more complex than its predecessor. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is a massive sầu game with lots of characters & moments from the anime, basically a love sầu letter for fans of Goku & his friends. But is that enough to lớn turn Budokai 2 into lớn a great fighting game?

Welcome khổng lồ Dragon World

Unlike the first game’s story mode, one of the most divisive sầu new inclusions of Budokai 2 is the Dragon World mode. While other fighting games are nội dung with merely adding an “Arcade” mode & calling it a day, Budokai 2 goes the extra mile with its story, adding a fully playable board game khổng lồ represent the anime’s plot.

If you’ve sầu ever played a Mario Party game before, then you know what happens when you’re stuông chồng looking at a virtual board for too long: eventually, it gets dreadfully boring. Luckily, the fights in Budokai 2 are as exciting and bombastic as the ones that fans of the anime are used to.

Punches & explosions galore

Fans will be pleased to lớn see that many of their favorite characters have sầu made it into lớn Budokai 2’s roster. The game features over 30 characters, each of them with additional costumes và variations. Each character has quality combat animations for their signature attacks, even though each character controls more or less the same in battle.

Visuals look amazing for its time, with the cel-shaded style making the characters look very similar lớn their anime counterparts. As for the fighting system, there’s still a lot of work to lớn be done for the game khổng lồ achieve its full potential.

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Characters feel too similar between each other, with some of them being pretty much reskins of other fighters. While the special attacks look fantastic, the rest of the fights feel uninspired by comparison. In a market where games like Tekken redefine how a fighting game should feel, it’s hard to lớn make excuses for Budokai 2’s unexciting combat, especially for non-fans of the series.

More than the sum of its parts

One new mechanic added lớn Budokai 2 is fusions. As the name implies, fusions merge two characters together into a third, more powerful khung. Learning how khổng lồ time your fusions could be the key to victory, as the fusions are fairly overpowered characters compared khổng lồ the rest of the roster.

Just like the fusions, every aspect in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 comes together into one, nicely presented package that will be the delight of fans, but might also leave curious onlookers scratching their heads. This is a game for fans of Dragon Ball Z, but not necessarily for fighting games fans.

In the context of the series, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is a marked improvement over its predecessor in most areas, but it lacks enough innovation lớn be considered a truly ‘superior’ game. For one, Dragon World is not as entertaining as the first game’s Story Mode, with the board game mechanics getting in the way of the infinitely more entertaining fights.

The gorgeous character models and lively animations give the game tons of undeniable charm. That said, this is a game that is definitely for those who enjoy Dragon Ball Z; if you’re considering Budokai 2 as a good alternative to lớn, say, Street Fighter, then you’d be better off looking elsewhere.

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