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1.0 out of 5 stars
A total waste of money, October 27, 2005
This review is from: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
This isn't so much of a game guide as it is a character list, and even that is incomplete (missing a character). The information in this section is copied directly from the character illustration section of the game, and contains nothing that would be helpful in game.
There is no information about the default statistics for any of the characters (health, ki, attack, defense, etc.), only a list of their 5 special moves, and that information is available in game as well.
There is no information on the advantages, disadvantages, or unique abilities of any of the characters, many of which you would never be aware of unless you discover them by trial and error, accident, or through other sources of info on the game. Some characters, for example, have the ability to absorb health or ki from opponents or absorb the energy from opponents ki attacks, or to regenerate lost health. This obviously useful information is not even hinted at in this guide.
The guide contains no information on the Z-evolution character customization feature, such as the specific effects of increasing various character attributes or of special items.
Although the guide contains a list of fusions for unlocking many of the characters, it contains absolutely no information about those characters which can only be unlocked by collecting the dragonballs (Roshi, Kid Goku, Tao Pai Pai, Great Ape, and Vegeta Great Ape), or even how the dragonballs are found in the game. This is a serious oversight.
An even more serious oversight is an error in the basic controls. The actions for the R1 and R2 buttons and for the L1 and L2 buttons are listed incorrectly. This is unforgivable in a game guide. How can they not get the basic controls right? All of the information on the basic controls is covered in greater detail in the manual that comes with the game and in in-game tutorials.
The walk-throughs for each of the fights in the story mode only state the obvious, and were not at all helpful.
This game guide offers almost no value whatsoever, and I consider it a total waste of money. Unfortunately, this seems to be par for the course for Prima. Other Prima game guides I have purchased have been similarly lacking.
Perhaps Brady Games will develop the strategy guide for the next Dragonball Z game and we'll actually get a guide worth buying.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
plan on buying it, November 3, 2005
A Kid's Review
This review is from: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
i have the game,i got most of the characters and all tranaformation for a characters the game says it has 57 characters,i got 54 i think,but tons of transformations,dis thing will be useful
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Footman's DBZ Boudokai Tenkaichi Review, March 13, 2006
This review is from: Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi (Prima Official Game Guide) (Paperback)
The book arrived in mint condition with no pages missing. Future business with Amazon.com is definitely possible.
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