Which is why many fans made a huge mistake overlooking Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure, a Gameboy Advance beat-em-up game where you play from the start of the series to the final fight with King Piccolo.
Through a combination of platforming stages, flying stages, and fighting stages, the game boasts incredible variety even before considering you can play through the game using multiple characters. It's one of the best Dragon Ball handheld titles. Sadly, when the Budokai series came out, many had forgotten these old-school games in order to focus on the new 3D fighting game entries. It took all the great gameplay of the prior games -- western RPG gameplay, for example -- and made it even better.
Plus, it has digital renditions of Bruce Faulconer's Dragon Ball Z music, which, for many growing up with the series, is a huge dose of nostalgia. While that doesn't sound like a lot of content, it starts in the Dragon Ball era and adds a lot of content to pad things out.
However, what it offers is a complex, interesting JRPG gameplay system. For fans sick of DBZ fighters, this game is great. As the PlayStation 2 neared its demise in , one last Dragon Ball game was released to add to the already fantastic lineup the PS2 was known for. This game is essentially like a Budokai 4, taking most good elements from Budokai 3 and tweaking some major flaws.
The exclusion of the "Dragon Rush" feature from Budokai is entirely left out here, which is seen as a huge plus. While not nearly as popular as its predecessors, garnering quite a few low review scores from game critics, this game is loved by many fans and stands as one of the most underrated and underplayed games in the franchise. To many modern players, it may seem like borderline blasphemy to place some ancient, 2D fighting game above the like of Budokai Tenkaichi or Xenoverse.
Other people who might've been on the old school internet might recognize the sprites as being omnipresent on forum signatures since the early '00s. But few have actually played this incredible SNES fighting game. Among SNES fighters, this game was superb. It features stages so massive with so many different environments the game needed a split-screen. While it features far fewer characters than modern Dragon Ball Z games, none of them feel like model swaps.
It also features a unique story that leads to some strange plot threads involving Bojack. It attempts to do what has been done countless times, having the player punch and ki-blast their way through Dragon Ball's all too loveable story, but this time adding in some key RPG elements and polishing the 3D battle system. Kakarot is a fantastic single-player experience that really appeals to die-hard fans, and one of the only downsides is the lack of content for players who haven't grown up with this anime titan.
The RPG elements are fun and intuitive, but get extremely repetitive and stale pretty quickly. But, looking past the minor flaws, this is a must-play for any aspiring Saiyan warrior.
For a while, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 was the best fighting game in the series. It featured a terrific balance of characters, gameplay mechanics, fast-paced action, story mode, and just plain fun of any Dragon Ball Z game around. No other game has managed to integrate a rock-paper-scissors mechanic as well as Budokai 3. No other game save for the final one has featured a cast of well-balanced Dragon Ball Z fighters like Budokai 3 has.
Budokai 3 exists as a love letter to the whole franchise, featuring characters from the franchise's entire timeline. It offered fans a way to compete against one another in a sense in the pre-online heavy days of video games.
It made the less-appreciated Dragon Ball GT cool — arguably more so than anything has before or since. It made character transformations feel valuable. So how many Dragon Ball Z fighting games are played competitively? Yes, FighterZ has such a balanced, responsive, and technical fighting system that the game is used in Esports. Although it was the first DBZ title for the Xbox generation and received a ton of hype at the time, Burst Limit isn't looked back upon too fondly nowadays.
While there is a reason for that with its minuscule roster and the story mode ending on Cell , that doesn't mean Burst Limit is without merit. The game still looks beautiful, with its in-engine cutscenes being especially impressive for While the fighting is stripped down mechanically speaking from the Budokai series, it still plays well and is faster than its predecessors.
While the Raging Blast series always felt like lesser versions of the beloved Budokai Tenkaichi, this doesn't necessarily mean that they were bad games. In fact, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 is one of the more underrated fighters in the franchise.
It even plays like a much more simplified version of Budokai Tenkaichi 3 which for some is welcome as BT3 is quite complicated for newcomers. Unlike many fighters with massive rosters, this game actually introduces at least one unique technique per character which makes them stand out much more.
Instead of retelling the story of the anime, the game has "Galactic Missions" which are isolated fights that focus on a path for characters from Goku to Tarble. It may be a lesser version of later games on the list, but it's still a solid time. Most people assume that the Budokai line of Dragon Ball games ended with Budokai 3 , but that's not actually correct.
Despite being on the weaker PSP, the gameplay is perfectly comparable to the PS2 classic and even makes some improvements to the formula. The Dragon Rush system from Budokai 3 is removed and the Ultimates come out much fast so the fighting isn't hampered by the need to appear cinematic.
While the story isn't the best in a Dragon Ball game , Another Road gets credit for having different paths depending on if fights are won or lost and for having an original story of Future Trunks dealing with Majin Buu in his timeline. The concept of Fusion in Dragon Ball is extremely popular for something that was introduced in such a divisive saga as the Buu arc. But no other game focused on this idea more than the 3Ds game known simply as Dragon Ball Fusions. The premise of the game is so simple that it's astonishing that it wasn't done before; what if anybody could fuse with anyone else in the Dragon Ball world?
This game answers that question with amazing results as there is fan service in here from top to bottom. A huge open world to explore, satisfying RPG combat, and a bonkers story? You can want nothing else from a handheld DBZ game. Released in January , one would think that DBZ games have told the main story enough times at this point that players would be fed up about it.
But DBZ: Kakarot proves there is still juice left in the fruit. Kakarot is a single-player, story-driven RPG with combat similar to the Xenoverse series, albeit slightly simpler. The presentation is where Kakarot shines however as it's the best representation of the main DBZ story ever in a video game. The side quests also have clever easter eggs for hardcore fans. It's not without its faults, but Kakarot is a meaty game worth its weight for any fan of the franchise. In Japan, Dragon Ball Heroes is a hugely popular arcade trading game that debuted in Putting aside the occasional insane clip of a Super Saiyan 4 Gohan or Broly hitting YouTube, Western players had to wait until to get a proper taste of the spin-off series.
World Mission takes place in a universe where Dragon Ball exists as an anime that spawned a popular card game. Once the virtual and real worlds begin to collide, the protagonist must collect cards of their favorite Z-fighters to battle a wild plethora of villains. The story is cheesy, the turn-based gameplay has depth but is also incredibly repetitive, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of cards to collect. The last part earns World Mission a spot on this list.
This title arguably marked the first time that a DBZ felt authentic to the anime , at least in terms of presentation and action. Marking the last appearance of the Dragon Ball Z franchise on the PlayStation 2, Infinite World builds upon the formula used in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 by revamping the game engine, adding a new story mode, and updating the roster including more Dragon Ball GT characters.
A spiritual successor to the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series of fighting games, Burst Limit marks the first appearance of the Dragon Ball series on seventh-generation consoles.
It is based on Dragon Ball Z. The last game in the original "Budokai Tenkaichi" trilogy of fighting games based on the Dragon Ball manga and anime series, bringing the total character roster to over The third game in the Data Cardass fighting series, released for Japan Arcade's only. The second handheld spinoff of the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series, Another Road features a new original story involving the resurrection of Majin Buu in the "alternate" timeline. The second in the "Budokai Tenkaichi" trilogy of Dragon Ball fighting games, adding dozens of new characters and transformations for a total roster of Webfoot's final two DragonBall games collected on a single cartridge.
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