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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A few faults but otherwise a good addition to the DBZ lineup, October 25, 2005
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Let me tell you this straight: This is NOT a DBZ Budokai game. Yes, it has the Budokai name, but that's because it simply had the Budokai license slapped on it for its US release. Forget everything you knew about the Budokai series, because this game's entirely different... which may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Probably the best thing of this title is it features the Japanese voices for the game, so you get to pick whichever you prefer. Longtime fans will probably enjoy hearing many of the original voices, such as mainstay Masako Nozawa as lead hero Goku(and Gohan.. and Goten... and Bardock...), as well as regulars such as Inuyasha's Takeshi Kusao, One Piece's Mayumi Tanaka, Rurouni Kenshin's Hirotaka Suzoki, Cowboy Bebop's Norio Wakamoto, and Sailor Moon's Toru Furuya and Yuko Minaguchi. Not to mention many of the voices, including Daisuke Gori, Hikaru Midorikawa, Toshio Furukawa, and Bin Shimada have provided voices for some of todays top fighting franchises, such as Dead or Alive, Tekken, and Soul Calibur. It's one huge reunion. Characters also have different abilities. Goku, for example, can use Kaio Ken to power up or Solar Flare to blind an enemy so he can get a hit in(ironically though, Tien or even Krillin for that matter, DOESN'T have Solar Flare) In his SSJ mode, he could use Instantaneous Movement to teleport safely behind an enemy and avoid their attack, leaving them open to a crushing blow. Fighting is fast paced and occurs on land, in the air, or even underwater.(apparently everybody can hold their breaths really well). The main mode retells most of the stories, as well as a few movies and some of DB and DBGT. There's also some extra fighting modes, as well as an improved customization menu that even lets you help unlock more characters. There's also some pretty neat character pages for every person you've unlocked, which provides history and attack info and even lists who does who's voice for both the English and Japanese versions. In appearance it seems like the perfect DBZ game... all is not well, however, as there are also quite a few negatives.
First, the controls are very poor. Yes, you heard me. It doesn't matter whether you know what the buttons do or not. They are horribly jerky and unresponsive even after you finally understand how to perform each move. For an example, when I press left, my fighter should go left, NOT STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE ENEMY! The music is also annoying. It's the same stuff we've been hearing since Budokai 1 three years ago... shouldn't we at least get a few new tracks? Story mode's cutscenes are also pretty dull, they're similar to the ones in B1 where two characters would chat right before the battle... unlike B1 though, it doesn't have extra scenes that attempt to copy the anime series.
All in all, DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi is a very mixed bag. Some parts are great, but a few areas could be improved upon. I'd honestly suggest renting first in case you don't like it, because some may be disappointed, especially if they are expecting this to be "Budokai 4." Still, for me at least the positives outweigh the negatives. I'll be playing this for quite some timie, even with more big hits coming out soon.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
DragonBall Z Budokai: Tenkaichi, October 31, 2005
Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars
I personally have loved all the DragonBall Z Budokai games that have come out, with their action, destruction, and fun, but this game was not at all what I expected it to be.
One very annoying thing about this game is the fact that you don't get to transform while fighting a match. While in battle you can't turn your character into a Super Saiyan, or transform him. To play as a Super Saiyan or transformed character, you must choose them. This was something that extremely upset me, for all the DragonBall Z games alowed you to transform while in battle, but after a lot of effort, any true die-hard DragonBall Z fan can shake it off.
Another thing that minorly upset me about this game is that when performing a Finishing Move, it is not as detailed or as "cool" as it was in the previous game, DragonBall Z Budokai 3. This was not a very big problem, but it annoyed me to know that the previous game has something the new game doesen't.
Apart from that, another fault greatly upset me about this game is that they added unnecessary characters to the game that did not play a big role in the series, and took out extremely important characters. For example, they put in characters such as Evil Buu, Jeice, Saibamen, and Burter, characters with very small roles, and left out characters with huge and very important roles such as Omega Shenron, Uub, Pan, and the original Baby.
The game's controls! I have played every DBZ: Budokai game, and none of them had jerky controls like this one! I would press the button combination to teleport out of the way, but instead, my character would just stay there! This game is not the kind of game that you will win with some good old button-mashing, so you would need cooperative controls to win! To add to that, some characters are almost impossible to defeat, and with the control problem, it just adds to the difficulty! This was a major flaw in the game, and it greatly upset me.
The cutscenes! Before this game came out, I was hoping it was going to have some real cut-scenes from the series, but it has nothing of the sort! Instead, the two opponents just mock and taunt each other before the fight, and at the end of the fight, the winner just says some more celebrative taunts! Even the the first DBZ Budokai had this, and it also had some make-shift cut-scenes unlike this one. Hoepfully the next installment of the DragonBall Z Budokai series will have some "real" cutscenes for a change.
The last insult that I can throw at this game is that it was way to short for my liking. The game took me two days to beat, and I was hoping for at least a week of gameplay. If you are a die-hard fan of DragonBall Z, then you would probably not get bored of the game as fast as I did.
Now since I have completed insulting the game, I can move on to praising and acknowledging the good parts of the game.
One thing that I really liked about this game was the fact that you can destroy the environment around you, and that you have quite a lot of room to move around in it, unlike the previous games when you are limited to fighting in a tiny area. Also, in this game, you actually "face" your opponent. When fighting, you see the fight from behind your character like when you play an adventure game, unlike the previous DBZ games in which you watch the fight from the side.
Another good thing I can say about this game is that it has loads of characters, even if many of them are unnecessary. For example, the game finally put in Dodoria, and Zarbon. It threw in Janemba too, a character that shows up in DragonBall GT! This game provides you with about 60 characters, and 90 if you count all of the characters' forms and transformations. That adds some fun to the game having that many characters (although it annoys me that the game is missing some of the major characters)!
Lastly, if you are a true DBZ fan, and I mean a true, die-hard, and like 100% in love with DBZ, you might want to play the game with the characters talking in the original way; in Japanese. It's kind of interesting if you would want to check it out.
Now here is something about the game which will please some people because it would add a challenge to the game, but it might annoy people who want to get through unlocking the characters faster. Now in this game, unlike all the previous ones, you don't just beat the game to get all the characters. As you play, you will earn earrings which you can "fuse" together. Two earrings that can be successfully mixed will either make an item that you equip to your character, or it will make an actual character. There are about twenty characters in the game that need items to be fused to make, and they are mostly the strong and good characters. So try to find the earring combinations if you want to unlock all the characters!
That's all I have to say about the game, but this game was definetly not what I expected for the fourth installment of the DragonBall Z Budokai games, but it wasn't that bad either. All I can do now is twiddle my thumbs, cross my fingers, and hope for a good fifth installment of the DBZ Budokai games.
Rating? 3.8/5
Recommendation? I think that you should rent the game first before buying it, just in case you regret buying it like I did.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
this is an exellent game with some issues. RECOMMENDED if you are a dbz fan, November 22, 2005
A Kid's Review
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
ISSUES:
The soundtrack sucks, its the same as all the other budokais, they sould change it.
The computer always does the same moves and its annoying.
You can't transform during the battle, you have to choose your transformation wen you pick your character.
The cameras sometimes get on my nerves.
GOOD POINTS:
This game is very fun to play in its 3-d arena and with awesome graphics but like every other video games it isn't perfect.
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