Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3

by Atari

Product Features

• Flex and blast through incredible game world made from gorgeous cel-shaded graphics
• Customize your characters and unlock features from previous Budokai games
• The most lethal villains of DBZ are waiting to challenge you -- from Cell and Freza, to Buu in three forms
• Even more explosive Ki energy attacks to devastate your opponents
• Challenge your friends in brutal Multiplayer and VS. Tournament Modes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00026RFI2
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches ; 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (157 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,054 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #2 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Action > Fighting
  • #34 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > All Games

Product Description

Edition: Standard

Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 takes you beyond the earlier Dragon Ball Z sagas. Experience the full force of the most powerful fighters in the universe, in a challenge like no other. Discover a new "Dragon World", wilder match-ups and amazing new missions -- and see if your martial skills will prevail against deadly new villains!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DBZ Budokai 3, July 9, 2004

By 

Ryan - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (Video Game)

I am in the army in Japan right now and I have played DBZ Budokai 3 and let me tell you, it's awsome. It hasa similar story mode to the Budokai 1 and the same graphics as Budokai 2 and it also has some extra modes that i have no idea what they are because the're in Japanese but they are prety cool and there is one mode where you can make your own melee or ki attack in which you can choose the color of the beam which character knows it how strong it is and all sorts of stuff and the characters include Goku,Vegeta,Kid Gohan,Teen Gohan,Adult Gohan,Kid trunks,Teen Trunks,Adult Trunks,Kid Goten,Teen Goten,Vegeto,Gogeta,Gotenks,Picollo,Krillin,Tien,Yamcha,Videl,Hurcule,Great Saiyaman,Supreme Kai,Raditz,Nappa,everyone in the ginyu force,all forms of frieza,DR, Gero, Android 16,17,18,19, al forms of cell,cell junior,Garlic junior, salt,pepper,mustard,ketchup,all forms of buu,baby,and more that i forgot their names. But overall this game is the best DBZ game to ever come out so far so get this game!

41 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun simple fighting game, November 20, 2004

By 

Shaun O'Donnell "Shaun O'Donnell" (Fort Worth, TX USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (Video Game)

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).

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hiram Lamar Lockhart, November 6, 2004

A Kid's Review

= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (Video Game)

This game is awwwesome in it you can fly anywhere you can warp behind people to, and there are plenty of characters like:
1.Goku
2.Vegeta
3.Goten
4.Trunks
5.kid trunks
6.Cooler
7.Broly
8.Piccolo
9.Tien
10.Captain Ginyu
11.Reccome
12.supreme kai
13.Majin Buu
14.Super Buu
15.Hercule
16.Android 16
17.android 17
18.Android 18
19.Krillin
20.Frieza
21.Dabura
22.Teen Gohan
23.Adult gohan
24.Cell
25.Bardock(Goku's father)
26.Gotenks
27.Teen Gotenks
28.Gogeta
29.SSJ4Goku
30.SSJ4Vegeta
31.1 Shadow Dragon
32.2 Shadow Dragon
33.3 Shadow Dragon
34.4 Shadow Dragon
35.5 Shadow Dragon
36.6 Shadow Dragon
37.7 Shadow Dragon
38.Bebi
39.Uub
40.Syn Shenron
41.Great Saiyaman
42.Kid Buu
43.SSJ4Gogeta
44.Dr.gero
45.Android 19
There is more characters than that but in this game you can even fire triple shot's it even has a Saiyan Overdrive System and when you go on story mode and you beat an opponent you get a level up it is in Walmart,Target,Gamestop,ebgames,toyr'us and Gamespot (...)

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