The June 14 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump revealed that Dabura and the movie villains Turles and Janemba would be playable characters. On May 11, Namco Bandai America announced that Raging Blast 2 along with Tenkaichi Tag Team would be released throughout North America sometime in the fall. It was also revealed that the game would be released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles later that year. Images within the announcement featured several screenshots and production that featured polished character models of Goku, Vegeta, and Frieza fighting on Earth and Namek, respectively. The announcement revealed that the game would include up to 90 playable characters in total and improved visuals. The game was first announced in the May 3 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.
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Other modes of play are the Battle Zone, where player take on fighters from different zones, on and offline battle modes where players can take on friends or other random players from around the world, and the World Tournament, which players can take part in either Tenkaichi Budokai or Cell games-style fighting competition. Completing some of these missions will unlock powerups and or other mission paths. Each mission has various advantages or handicaps that will affect the overall fight. Within these planets are several mission paths. Here each character is represented by a planet in the game's galaxy. Replacing the standard story mode from previous Dragon Ball fighting games is the Galaxy Mode. The combat features a technique called Raging Soul, where players are restricted from ki attacks, but physical attacks become stronger. The player takes on the role of one of the available characters taking on another character from the franchise using various basic, melée, or signature ki fighting techniques. Like its predecessor, Raging Blast 2 uses 3-D gaming mechanics with the camera alternating from over the shoulder to overhead angles at various moments. The border around the each character's profile portrait are the health (green) and ki (yellow) meters. While becoming the second-best-selling game in Japan for November of its release year, the game would meet with criticism over its gameplay, controls, repetitive AI, and lack of proper story mode.Ī screenshot of the gameplay, showing a fight between Hatchiyack and Super Saiyan Goku on a deserted planet (with Frieza's spaceship visible in the background). The game comes with a new remake of the 1993 OVA Dragon Ball Z Side Story: Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans, now retitled Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans. The game is a 3-D fighter that allows players to play as characters within the Dragon Ball universe, either against the game's AI or another player in one of the various modes of play both on and offline. It was developed by Spike and published by Namco Bandai under the Bandai label for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles in the beginning of November 2010. They even got brilliant transformations for many of the characters and a shiny cutscene to display it through, making it super easy to see the nuanced charm of the original show.Single-player, local & online multiplayerĭragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 ( ドラゴンボール レイジングブラスト2, Doragon Bōru Reijingu Burasuto Tsū) is a video game based on the manga and anime franchise Dragon Ball and is a follow-up to the 2009 video game Dragon Ball: Raging Blast. If you are a fan of the games you will be pleasantly surprised to find that nearly everyone that you could hope to show up did from Broly and Cell to Frieza and Cooler. This game looks great, I loved seeing the 80+ characters be introduced in that glossy 3D animation style. Be warned, the camera changes orientation a lot and it can be confusing but heck, so is fighting a robot bug monster so here we are. This game can be compared to Dragon Ball Z: Budokai or perhaps Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.
It provides a tremendous amount of gameplay that kept me coming back. Then there’s my favorite mode which is World Tournament where you can throw down with any of the cast of characters in Cell games or Tenkaichi Budokai style competitions. Online and Offline quick battles with friends or strangers. Some of the most interesting game modes are: Battle Zone, where you take on opponents from different zones. The game consists nearly entirely of button bashing, combo learning and blasting you opponents with ki and various techniques.Īlongside Galaxy Mode, which I’ll talk about later, there are a good few game modes available for you to enjoy. It’s not perfect but I like the challenge. The controls to this one is pretty good, for its time its very responsive and pleasant to play.