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 A fun simple fighting game November 21, 2004
Ironman (Carmel, IN USA)
37 out of 40 found this review helpful
Of all the Dragon Ball Z fighting games the Budokai series has always been easily the best. With simple responsive controls and fast paced action, and of course the crazy energy attacks, this stands above the first two as the best of the lot.
The story mode is vastly improved over last years title in that it not only follows the story, but allows you to develop your character (limited to the main Z hero's not villians or hidden) and unlock all sorts of hidden goodies as well as the natural progression of attacks and skills. The difficulty in story mode of course fluctuates and some times forces you to take time to strengthen your character (at randomly placed Battle Zones which range from Saibamen to Meta Cooler). Also at certain points in story mode (usually the second + time through with a certain character) you can sometimes branch away from the saga and do a movie battle of sorts (after you beat Frieza the first time but before Goku goes Super Sayin you can face off against Cooler instead). However this leads to complaint #1. During the key story moments instead of a cool cutscene we get this almost story book form instead that is really uncool.
The controls are identical with a few new improvements. The first is in order to make the action faster you can teleport behind your foe and hit but only if he attacks you first (a counter basically) as well go into hyper mode (all energy at once) which then allows you to unleash your most devastating attacks, which leads me to complaint #2. When doing the ultimate attacks it's either fastly speeding bar which is fairly inaccurate when you click to max it out or a 3 stage attack which increases the odds of you foe succeeding using the X O /\ or []. Most of the time despite being cool and powerful it's more of a pain to unleash than it should be.
Graphically it looks like last years model so if you liked the cell shading great if not tough.
The Voiceovers are great as expected, I found no problems with any of the voices while playing. However the Music is complaint #3. The music is Atari custome midi with little (and I mean very little) to none of the great american tracks that most fans who watch the series state side (not the imported Japanese) get to listen too. So at moments like when Goku first goes Super Sayin 3 it would be great to hear that track from that moment in the series playing. Or any big Vegeta fight have his theme going on.
Despite some of the shortcomings this is truely is a great game worth playing. It easlily destroys the past games and overall is worth picking up. I still say that this is what a 3D streetfighter should be like (or maybe more like the Recent Mortal Kombats it's hard to say).
This game is going to be great July 13, 2004
GEORGE (New York, USA)
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
To start with, the graphics of the game will remain cel-shaded as in budokai2. This game will contain more than 40 playable characters including all the characters in budokai 1+2 plus Broly(normal form,ss1,Ultra ss), Baby, Cooler(and Meta-Cooler), all the three forms of cell and Frieza and Buu, also Gogeta (ss1,2,4), Vegeta(ss1,2,4), Gogu(ss1,2,3,4) and many others.
Also, there will be a mode called Dragon road in which you can customise your character`s attack, defence and other...
The story mode will be available.
Also, the aura of the characters has dramatically improved and the characters can use teleportation. That is, characters can be teleported behind their enemy avoiding his attack. The teleportation can also be used in the world tournament to avoid getting out of the arena.
I am not sure that freeflight would be available.
This game is going to be great and i would buy it as soon as it comes out!!!!
Great News for Budokai 3 July 12, 2004
Tman (United States)
29 out of 33 found this review helpful
Three's the charm in this case. I haven't yet played this game, but I have learned that they brought back story mode, however I have no idea what sagas it covers. I think Dragon World is still there but it is no longer a main mode. Of course there still is duel mode which features improved new attacks, much better aura,improved gameplay, and more characters than ever. Such as: Goku,Kid Gohan, Teen Gohan,Adult Gohan,Great Saiyaman,Goten,Teen Goten,Vegeta,Young Trunks,Teen Trunks,Tein,Yamcha,Chosue,Piccolo,Krillian,Raditz,Nappa,Dodoria,Zarbon, Guldo,Recoome,Burter,Jeice,Captain Ginyu,Freeza,King Cold,Dr.Gero,Andriod 16,17,18,19,Cell Jr.s,Cell,Saibamen,Pikkon,Videl,Hercule,Dabura,Majin Buu,Evil Buu,Super Buu,Kid Buu,Broly,Cooler,Bardock,King Vegeta,Garlic Jr.,all the Spice Boys,and some GT characters.
Tournament mode has been tweaked, and other modes have been added.Babidi's Spaceship has been eliminated.In one of the new modes you can customise your characters energy,stregth,speed,and so on. So far Budokai 3 looks to be 5 times more complete than the first two combined. I will write a new preview when I find more significant information.
most of the charecters(probaly all) November 16, 2004
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
Here's a list of most of the charecters in the game(probaly all)
You'll probably start off with Goku,Kid Gohan,Goten,
Kid Trunks,Piccolo,Krillen,Yamcha,and Tien.In the dragonballz mode you'll obtain: RADITZ,SAIBAMAN,NAPPA,VEGETA,DODORIA,ZARBON,
GULDO,RECOOME,BURTER,JEICE,CAPTAIN GINYU,FRIEZA,KING COLD,FUTURE TRUNKS,GARLIC JR.,SPICE,SALT,VINEGAR,MUSTARD(???????),ANDROID 16,ANDROID 17,ANDROID 18,ANDROID 19,DR. GERO,CELL,CELL JR.,TEEN GOHAN,PIKKON
YOUNG ADULT GOHAN,VIDEL,HERCULE,SUPREME KIA,KABITO,YAMU,SPOPOVICH(i have no idea why they're adding those two)
PUIPUI,YAKON(same with these),DABURA,FAT BUU,EVIL BUU,SUPER BUU,KID BUU,AND ALSO
CHARACTERS FROM DBZ MOVIES LIKE TURLES,COOLER,META COOLER,ANDROID
13,ANDROID 14,ANDROID 15,BARDOCK,KING VEGETA,BROLY,BOJACK.ALSO
THERE ARE CHARACTERS FROM DBGT LIKE: KID GOKU,ADULT VEGETA,ADULT
GOHAN,TEEN GOTEN,TEEN TRUNKS,UUB,PAN,SIGMA FORCE,GENERAL RILDO,
DR. MYUU,BABY,SYN,HAZE,EIS,NOVA,RAGE,OCEANUS,NATURON,AND OMEGA
SHENRONS.THERE IS ALSO FUSION CHARACTERS LIKE GOGETA,VEGETO,
GOTENKS,TEEN GOTENKS,GOCULE,MAJUUB,KABITO KIA,TIENCHA,SUPER 17.
Yup, those are all the charecters I know are going to be in the game.The first thing im gonna do when i get this is that im gonna look for CHEATS for it.(...) Then after i do that i might use them to get all the charecters and all skills including breakthrough. For those that don't know what breakthrough is, you're telling me that you've never looked for dragonballs in budokai 1 & 2. Just in case, breakthrough allows you to use all the charecters attacks, it also tells you which charecter to use it for.Thats right you can only use it for the selected charecter.Well,its 8:42 and i've been writing this for half an hour. Im getting bored. (...)
CONFIRMED CHARACTERS October 17, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
BUDOKAI 3 CHARACTER LIST
Character:
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OMEGA SHENRON
BARDOCK
GOKU (SS1,SS2,SS3,SS4)
KID GOHAN
TEEN GOHAN (SS1,SS2)
ADULT GOHAN (SS1,SS2)
GREAT SAIYAMAN
GOTEN (SS1)
TEEN GOTEN (SS1)
KID TRUNKS (SS1)
TEEN TRUNKS (SS1)
FUTURE TRUNKS (SS1,SS2)
VEGETA (SS1,SS2,SS4)
CELL (ALL FORMS)
FRIEZA (FORMS 1,2,3,4,AND CYBORG)
COOLER (FORMS 1,4,AND METAL)
HERCULE
VIDEL
TIEN
YAMCHA
KRILLEN
PICCOLO
BROLLY (SS1,LEGENDARY SAIYAN)
KID BUU
FAT BUU
SUPER BUU
UUB
DABURA
SUPREME KAI
RECCOOME
GINYU
RADITZ
NAPPA
#16
#17
#18
#19
DR GERO
DODORIA
ZARBON
CELL JUNIOR
SAIBAMAN
*NOTE ALL CHARACTERS AND FUSIONS ON THE LIST ARE CONFIRMED*
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FUSION:
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GOGETA = (GOKU & VEGETA)
GOTENKS = (GOTEN & TRUNKS)
VEGITO = (GOKU & VEGETA)
TIENCHA = (TIEN & YAMCHA)
KABITO KAI = (SUPREME KAI & KABITO)
GOKULE = (GOKU & HERCULE)
SUPER UBB = (FAT BUU & UBB)
SUPER 17 = (#17 & #17)
*NOTE FUSIONS ARE ACTIVATED BY CAPSULES AND ARE NOT SEPERATE CHARACTERS*
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