What Happened to Boudokia! This New Game is Trash!
User Rating: 5.1 | Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi PS2
I can’t believe how awful this game is. On paper this would sound like the perfect DBZ, what with the free flying and such. But once you get into the game you realize it has none of the polish the previous boudokai games had. The first three games were by no means perfect, but the third game had finally captured the essence of the fights in the anime and at the same time had balanced, great gameplay regardless of whether you were a DBZ fan or not. This fourth iteration seems to have taken several steeps backwards, so far backwards it seems to emulate the awful DBZ fighting games from the Genesis and SNES days. Split screens for a fighting game is a big no no in my opinion. With the sloppy camera in the games it’s almost impossible to have fun in the game. I’ll say this the free roaming is fun, but I’ll sacrifice it for a better fighting engine (i.e. boudokai 3). Also the game gives you the illusion that you’re in real DBZ fights with its wide open areas, but then you realize you can’t transform during fights. Having fusion characters separate from their counterparts is great, but I don’t want to sacrifice going super sayian in the middle of a fight. I have been a DBZ fan (DBZ not that crap they call GT) for a long time, but I’m also a gamer. So just like sagas, I’m not going to give this game a high score just because it had DBZ on it. If we stop buying crap like DBZ Sagas and this new DBZ game, then they will be forced to make good games. Don’t buy this just because it’s a DBZ game people, if you do they will plan to keep putting out crappy games because they know fans will buy it. 
