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Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai
Developer(s)Dimps
Publisher(s)
Designer(s)Ryo Mito (Producer)
SeriesDragon Ball
Budokai
EngineModified Budokai 3 engine
Platform(s)PlayStation Portable
Release
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai, released as Dragon Ball Z: True Tournament (ドラゴンボールZ 真武道会, Doragon Bōru Zetto Shin Budôkai) in Japan, is a fighting video game part of the Dragon Ball Z franchise, and was released on March 7, 2006. It was developed by Dimps. Scenario story mode is based on the events of the Dragon Ball Z movie Fusion Reborn. The players follow the events of the story in which you choose Goku and friends, including enemy characters, along the way. The choices that you make determine how the story evolves.

Another mode is the Arcade mode, a single-player mode that lets you brawl against the CPU to fight and gain the Dragon Balls. Next is the Z Trial mode, which consists of two different types of play: survival, where you fight against CPU-controlled opponents for as long as you can, and time attack, where you see how fast you can make it through a predetermined set of opponents.

Finally, there’s the Profile Card mode in which the players will have their in-game character profile cards that lists their name and power level. The player can design their own card and customize them with the items from the game's item store.

Versus mode

The game was developed by Dimps, the producer of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi. The game contains a mixture of elements from the Budokai series, as well as the Sparkling/Tenkaichi series. In addition to the previous game, Shin Budokai includes a new technique known as an "Aura Burst". Despite the large amount of criticism post-release, most were happy with the Shin Budokai fighting system.

Dragon Road

Dragon Road is the title of the game's single-player campaign. The game takes inspiration from the plot of the Dragon Ball movie, entitled "Fusion Reborn". As the player progresses, they will find themselves participating in fights, either for friendly competition or against enemies. The campaign begins with a portal from hell, opening up on the earth, and the dead being resurrected. Goku and his allies must fight their way through, arenas such as the plains of earth, or the ruins of hell. The Dragon Road consists of 5 chapters.

Training Mode

The training mode allows the players to battle CPU (computer-controlled enemies) to hone their skills.

Several options are afforded to the player which they may tweak as they see fit, these include:

  • Health: The amount of health either player begins the fight with, there are 7 total bars of health for each competitor.
  • Starting Ki: How much energy the player wishes to begin the battle with. There are 7 bars of Ki for each competitor.
  • Check Energy: The amount of Ki needed to teleport behind an enemy to dodge their attack, the default consumption is 3/7 of the Ki bar.

Network Battle Mode

Network Battle Mode allows the player to have wireless battles with their friends. The player may also add friends to their profile card, which displays their victory ratio. Each battle won will raise the players' power level.

Arcade

The objective of the arcade mode is to collect all 7 dragon balls. The player is forced to fight 10 opponents in a row, in a ladder-like setting, such as the arcade mode present in Mortal Kombat. Occasionally, depending on the existing in-world relationships between each character, there may be short dialogue scenes.

Time Attack

In Time Attack, the player must fight 7 courses of enemies and defeat them as fast as possible.

Survival

Survival allows the player to fight nonstop hordes of enemies until they lose, after a certain number of wins, their health will stop regenerating all 7 bars.

Profile Card

Here, you can create a special ID card that is used during Network Battles. It records your data, battles won, battles lost, Survival Records, Time Attacks, Rankings in Dragon Road, Power Level, Friends, Money, and your Victory Ratio. You can also buy stamps from the shop to customize them to your liking.

Playable characters

Pick Reception

The game received generally good reviews, with most praising its graphics, especially for the handheld, but criticizing the lack of some game modes.

References

  1. ^ "Shin Budokai". Metacritic. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  2. ^ "Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai Review".
  3. ^ am, Chris RoperUpdated: 24 Nov 2018 6:43 pmPosted: 8 Mar 2006 2:30. "Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - IGN" – via www.ign.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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