DRAGON BALL FighterZ

About the Game

The player chooses two fellow fighters and faces up to a team of three opposing rivals. The battle is won when all three opponents are defeated – or lost when your whole team goes down. You will only control one character at a time, but you can call upon your teammates to perform specialised combo moves and to work together when necessary.

Each character has moves that are unique to them while there are several moves that are universal – that is to say, all the fighters can perform them. Read more about these moves below. Once you have mastered the universal moves, make sure that you try out as many of the unique moves as possible: there are twenty-four characters to choose between so you will have a good choice of new skills that you like or are particularly good at.

Rendering SkillZ & Fighting Mojo

The game looks great and the play rate is smooth because each character is carefully modelled in 3D but textured to match the 2D manga cartoon style that looks hand-drawn while offering authentic and dynamic movement capability.

The fighting part is easily mastered after a little practice, being fairly intuitive and relatively simple. You can tailor your attacks from light to toy with your opponent or get them to move into a better position to unleash a combo-storm on them, to medium to show you’re not messing around, to full power to administer the coup de grace and dispatch them from the game altogether.

A Lot of Back Story

The video game series is rooted in the manga book series, as mentioned above, and this gives the writers a lot of fertile ground to work through. The book series has been running for well over thirty years, and features hundreds of characters and androids, along with many different storylines to play through.

The game developers have wisely kept things fairly simple, using only a few (twenty-four) of the hundreds of characters and keeping the storylines simple with enough challenging battles and enough believability to keep a player engaged from the first step until the last.

The characters’ stories all have linking shots that revel a little more about them, and offer tantalising teasers to their back stories – all of which can encourage newbies to the game and series to investigate a bit more, finding out the meaning of the hints and unravelling mysterious clues about their character.