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The BIGGEST disappointment of the year

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: December 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I heard that the Dragonball Z game had been pushed up to the first week of December, I went nuts! I am a HUGE Dragonball fan (embarassingly so as a 28-year-old father), so I immediately plunked down my fifty bucks to pledge my allegiance to Goku and company. Upon picking up the game (and strategy guide) I immediately felt some reprehension: if the game is being released early, isn't it prone to some poor gameplay issues due to lack of testing? Is Infogrames being another typical "get the dollars-screw the game" comapny? Am I due to be ROYALLY ...?

YES!

First, I'd like to state that this is a great example why America needs to be applauded for inventing the receipt. This game is a steaming pile of Japanese dung. It has the most laughable control set-up for a fighter I have ever had the displeasure of playing. The controls are designed to be combo-happy, but you can rarely pull off any creative combos beside the special move combos preset in the game. The game plays like the lead programmer indulged in drugs, played Tekken, Tobal No. 1, and Shaq-Fu, and then yelled "THAT'S IT!" How come the fighters pause sometimes in between punches and kicks? WHY in the HELL do I have to do a combo to launch Goku's Kamehameha Wave? Ins't THAT supposed to be something you have as a finisher? Why is it a cheap combo endpoint? Sure, there are 23 characters to choose from, but the signature moves are reduced to cheap afterthoughts in the abysmal combo sytem. The fights have generally NO strategy: simply play defense until a boring string of punches/kicks stops and then counterattack. The regular ranged attacks have no real stopping power - a REAL kick in the rear seeing as though the DBZ universe practically revolves around projectiles flying towards opponents. The attacks are mostly short ranged, so you have the feeling that the backgrounds could have consisted of phone booths and crowded buses. Playing against the computer is a lesson in frustration; the computer rarely lets your fighter get far away, so you wind up balling up in the fetal position blocking until you see daylight to throw a counter attack. None of the moves fans enjoy (i.e. the Gallick Gun, the Special Beam Cannon) pack enough wallop as the generic moves found throughout most of the fighters repertoire.

The graphics aren't too shabby, though. The game remarkably captures the cartoony look, but the appearnace of some characters have way too much of a polygonal appearance - which leaves you to think what the game would have looked like if Infogrime had WAITED to put this out. The versus mode suffers due to the aforementioned lousy fighting engine, and the story mode is standard fare to any fan of the DBZ series. If you've watched the cartoons, you know the storylines. The game has a skill shop, in which players can customize the fighters' movesets to a degree - but the game ... so bad who cares?
The music stinks, too.

The bottom line: avoid this garbage and 10 people who like this B.S. This isn't even a good recommendation for kids because the moves are insanely hard to pull off with any frequency. Buy this only for mortal enemies, and a certain 10-year old gamer you know who thinks every game is cool !) lol!

Brain Washing Dragon Ball Z Budokai

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am an 11 year old big sister of the owner of a Bragon Ball Z Budokai game. It is brain washing anyone who sees it! My cousin dosen't want to play anything but the game and he always plays with me. My cousin who is a girl and hates Dragon Ball Z wants to play it. My other bigger cousin thinks it's babyish stuff. But yet it brain washes him to want to play it. The point I am trying to say is, TAKE THE GAME OFF OF THE MARKET!!!!!!!!

I hate Dragonball Z

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: December 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have never played this game, and will never play this game. Dragonball Z is a horrible waste of precious programming time on Cartoon Network that could be better used to replay old episodes of Tom and Jerry OR Tom and Jerry Kids. Why should I subject myself to horrible animation where, if I were epileptic, my head would explode in a horrible fiery way so as I would NEVER be able to watch T.V. again. And THAT my friends would be a TERRIBLE tragedy!!! NOT being able to watch T.V.? ARGH!!!

Anyways, back to the [show]...known as Dragonball Z...why is it that I get called "immature" because I watch South Park, when my friend who is the same age as me is apparently "master super-saiyeneroydflkhdgoie" or whatever you Dragonball Z people are because HE watches the stupid show and I don't? All the show is is one half-hour of some guy with a ball of goo coming from his hands with flashy lights flashing in some sort of epiletic paradise behind him. What's the fun in flashy flashness? I say nay to anyone who likes this game, OR this T.V. show...unless you're under the age of 10, and then it's ok to like it. But NOT if you think that whatever the chicks name on the show is should get naked and have many frollicking adventures with a naked Goku or Gohan or Vegetta...or all three at the same time!

Dragon Ball Z Budokai is HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Dragon Ball Z Budokai is horrible. The graphics are ok, but the gameplay is slow. I'm not a big Dragon Ball Z fan, but I do like good fighting games and this is not one of them. I would not recommend buying this game, if you are DBZ fan then you might want to rent it.

The games below negative 900 (-900)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Alright i have to change it.
THIS GAME STILL [is bad]! Y you ask?
NOTHING NEW!! WHO THE HECK CARES ABOUT ALL NEW FEATURES?! I HATE DBZ/GT/REGULAR. If your a fan you might now be disapointed..BUT FOR A GUY WHOS JUST LOOKING FOR A FIGHTING GAME THEN CHECK THIS ONE OUT OF YOU MIND!!! I hear this "O dragonballz is so cool!" "O are you gonna buy Budokai?" "Hey i just got BUDOKAI" "This game is EXCELLENT!"
:/ I really hate games dat dont have a point of value but tekken or something. I dunno ur not my life.
Just dont get this game unless you want to know how stupid it is or Just another hyped dragonball fan.
Thou this is so far the best dragonball game.. Its still boring since the Dragonball series is just plain boring.
SSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THOSE ANGRY FANS MIGHT KNOW THAT UR READING THIS!!
Any1 who disagrees better play another fighting game or make their own cause this BUDOKAI IS JUST BORING.
Aight in short.
-If you like sleeping and snoring then this is YAWN ur game
-If you like being an idiotic fighting player this is ur game.
-If you like be become an stupid idiot then this is ur game (2 year guarentee)
-If you want have a life BUY SOMETHING ELES

Not worth it!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I expected more out of Dragon Ball Z overall the show is the best but when it came to the game they really dissapointed me. It is a waste of your time and money and there is nothing good at all about the game, from the characters through the story its all [...] Who would actually play this game. If you do play this game you are a loooser and have no taste in quality games. So do yourself a favor and stick to the show-saturday nights at 10-GT is the [...]

dont play this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i was really excited when i found out that a new dbz game was going to be released. but i was disappointed. this game doesnt even go all the way through the sagas.i was amazed by the graphics which were great. the levels also dont seem to be to fun either. sure you can blow someone through a cliff and interact with the environment in other ways but its not much different from other fighting games like this. also the game does not have very many different attacks. i love vegeta but i didnt use him much because he doesnt have even half of his attacks that he should have. a lot of attacks are very similar too. the game is also very shallow. you can beat the game in a very small amount of time. there are quite a few characters but the game leaves a lot of them out. but it has almost every main character. enough said, dont buy this game. you could rent it, but expect to return it early because you will get bored. the show still rocks, though.

A game to last

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 28
Date: December 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Finally a Dbz game that is here to stay! I here that you get to be 24 charecters witch should be good and one of those characters is raditz thats a big reason why i'm getting this game radditz is awesome well anyway what i find funny is that Hercule is in this game which tells me infograms has a sense of humor or there amazingly stupid i think hercule's a waist of space if you ask me i also know that you get to become SSJ in the middle of a match wich is very cool and you get to use beams and fly. this game is very much like a remade version of ultimate battle 22 and final bout wich i have played both and they both are very good games.The games one big tournament and you compete in it and you win money and you use that money to buy moves for your player than you keep doing so and make you player as good as he gets than you get another player and get him the best he can get. Im definently getting this game.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is quite possibly the worst fighting game I have ever played. Its a shame because I love the show. The battle system is just horrible. The game supposedly covers the series through the Cell Games, yet The Great Saiyaman is a character. Meanwhile, a host of other characters that should've been included were not. Just as the American version of the show has been changed into a kid's program, this game is also for children.

Was Expecting More

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

As a Dragon Ball Z fan I was expecting this to be one of the greatest fighters ever. Boy was I wrong. Although they do a good job of representing the show the game just falls flat. The graphics are bland and the enviorments are uninteresting. As for the gameplay it just can't compare to other fighters like the Tekken and Virtua Fighter series. You have a limited move set restricted to punches and kicks followed by a blast of energy. Because you can just fire off a ka me ha me ha at the end of a combo takes away the coolness of it all. Another problem is the ability to hit opponents while their down which is pretty cheap if you ask me. The game isn't all bad though. There are a host of unlockables all of which have to be bought from Mr. Popo. By the end of the game you'll hate Mr. Popo. The only reason this game will ever do well in sales is because DBZ has a large amount of over zealous fans.

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