This is such a great game...A masterpiece even.....
Start off with the first one. This game was alright, with 30 odd characters
and alright graphics, this game was very average. Number 2 had slight improvements in terms of most aspects. The graphics looked better but you could tell that they were pushing it to look more like the anime, which isn't nesicerally a bad thing. Also the story mode was dramatically
different than the previous game and, in my opinion, was not as fun and did not capture the
esscence of DragonBall Z. I've never had a chance to play Number 3 to it's full potential but from what
I have actually played it seems like a highly upgraded version of Number 2. It seems they just added more characters, moves, and the most different addition was the Dragon Universe mode in
which you fly around, land, fight....much like Tenkaichi 2 but we'll get to that later. Now we have
come to the first Tenkaichi...To tell you the truth I have never layed my hands on this game
but have heard it plays and looks a lot like Tenkaichi 2 which we will talk about right now.
Wait up, I forgot about Shin. Played this once, I did like it. The fighting appealed to me the most, it was
easy, but felt smooth to play unlike some of the crazy button combinations you have to do in the other renditions
of the series. Anyway, now we are onto the good stuff.....
Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (On the Wii....Just clarifying)
The graphics in this game are very, very awesome.
They capture all of what DBZ is about, looking almost identical to the Anime counterpart. All the characters look identical
to theirselves in the game and believe me there is plenty of them.
The backgrounds are very awesome, they are destructible to the MAX!!
There are many of them also, some that you have not seen before included
within the selection. I've always been a great fan of how the ki-blasts
look in the games and have thought that they have looked spectacular in
all previous games also. That pretty much wraps up the graphics for
"DBZBT2", in the end the game comes out looking spectacular in every way, Top Stuff!
The gameplay in this is great. The attacks on the Wii make you come back
for more and more. The melle attacks are done with the (A) button and the special Ki blasts are done by special movement, in which a lot have you pulling the Wiimote out and pushing it back in or Slashing it up and down lightning fast.
These moves capture what the Wii is all about and are spectacular to pull off everytime.
There are many games modes like the usual which consist of Versus, Practice, Tournament and "Story" which is actually very different in this game than the others.
The story mode is kinda at fist set out like the very first budokai in which you have
to pick a saga or a chapter and so on and so forth. Once you pick one you can fly around and stop at places marked with a yellow or red dot on the map. Much like the 3rd budokai I believe
but once you get into it there are options which can differ the kinda stuff you unlock and stuff like that.
There is also an Ultimate Battle Z mode much similar to the Mortal Kombat Fighting Towers
in which you have to fight opponent after opponent. This mode is great but after your done,
your DONE! There are only a set number of towers with set opponents to fight each time round
so it may get a bit repetitive. Another great feature is the Z-Item Custom Characters in which you can assign
certain skills to a custom version of the given character you choose which can either raise their fighting stats
and stuff like that. In this you can also fuse Z-items to make new ones, usually to unlock the immense amount of characters in the game. This game features 134 different character (Including seperate forms of given characters).
This amount can impress any gamer out there with ease. This game is a very complete, valuable, enjoyable package that all of you should consider picking up.
It featurres great fighting, a lot of choice and a whole heap of fun for everyone out there. AWSUM!