Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 is a video game that's based off of the Dragon Ball Z anime. I was never really a huge fan of the series. When I was a kid (around age 9,10, or 11), I used to watch the anime on WB17. In 2013, I played and bought a Dragon Ball video game for the first time. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 is fun to play with friends locally and online, but the frustrating single player mode was too difficult for me to unlock all of the characters.
Presentation - Raging Blast 2 has its fair share of modes to play. There is a single play, battle, online battle, world tournament, ultimate customization, museum, and options. The single play is a Galaxy Mode where you fight against the
CPU. You have to successfully defeat them in order to advance and fight against more difficult CPU. The problem with the Galaxy Mode is that the CPU opponent plays way too aggressively to even let you attack him/her sometimes and can cause you to lose the same match over and over again. You might even have to have a friend beat the Galaxy Mode for you in he/she is experienced enough with Raging Blast 2. Unfortunately, the only way to unlock all of the hidden characters is to beat the Galaxy Mode.
Battle Mode is where you can play locally against a friend or a CPU opponent. This mode is a lot more fun to play, but some of the controls aren't accurate enough. For example, sometimes after I charge up my special move (flames coming out from my character), the button on the right analog stick sometimes doesn't let me release it. Therefore, my opponent can still attack me when I fail to release my special move on time. Other than the control issues with utilizing special moves, the regular fighting controls work well. The actual game play is pretty fast like in Super Smash Bros. Melee and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Online Battle is where you can fight against friends and strangers online across the world. World Tournament is where you can fight up to 16 people (friends and/or strangers, CPU). The Ultimate Customize is where you can customize a character's special (super) attack and items to equip. The Museum is for viewing the character encyclopedia, unlocked BGM, pictures, replay data and movies. The options is for adjusting the screen, sound, and controller configurations.
Graphics - The visuals aren't as detailed as there are in the Super Smash Bros. series and PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, but they look decent enough for a video game that's based on a cartoon.
Sound - The music is actually pretty decent even though it doesn't sound like a typical fighting video game music. The voice narration is funny, but strange especially someone commenting on spiritual concentration.
Game play - Like I said earlier, the regular fighting controls work fine, but the right analog stick doesn't always release the special moves on time.
Lasting appeal - The local and online multi-player modes are decent for fighting against your friends. However, the frustrating single player mode is very difficult to unlock everything and the controls don't always work the way that they should.
The Good - has local and online play, tournament mode is fun to compete against friends and strangers
The Bad - frustrating Galaxy Mode (single player) makes it difficult to unlock all characters, the right analog stick doesn't always respond to special moves
Presentation - 6
Graphics - 8
Sound - 8
Game play - 5
Lasting appeal - 5
Overall 6.4 out of 10 GameSpot score 6 out of 10