Not quite their... but far beyond.
It is probably the fighting game with the most motion freedom in its gameplay. During the gameplay you can move over large are of motion... dive, fly, dash, etc. The game should be able to make the characters run but I don´t know how that would work. But in esence you can move just pretty much like the fighting characters in the anime. The gameplay is onlock, no problem with that. Although the controls can take a time to get used to cause they get more technical this time around in comparison of the other Budokai game... so the learning curve is a bit steap and you´ll probably won´t use all the controls and other will be used instinctively (guard, dodge, ultra speed dodge, etc).
What make in my opinion the best feature in this game (which should be a returning one in any future DBZ game) is the option to change the games audio to Japanese and retain the text in what ever default language you choose. That feature is a great acomplishment because the english voice acting sucks... big time.
On the oher part, graphics and gameplay are great... the character selction is well done and have included more characters from the movies and the series. The bad thing is that they are tryingout the choosing each characters upgrade, transformation and/or diferent body on its own... which is something nice but they took out the ingame transformation feature from the previous games... that is lacking in this game... maybe they are savingit for later.
Also, their is a new Potara earing/item fusion feature which will allow the player to (in a creative way) form new items, upgrades and other surprises. These Items of course are won playing through the story mode of the game which this time around include story arcs that were known by fans of the series and were lacking in previous games... (movies, in between arc sceanes, etc) Oneof my mayor complaintsis that although they have included two or more new stages in the game... they have still not been able to include the Janeba dimension stage in which we see Goku, Vegeta, Gogeta and Janeba fight (the one that was all like yellow colored filled like with huge and smaller colored like balls... kind oflike gumballs everywhere and you could only move around flying and the only ground was standing on one of those floating balls). Hope they included soon or some time in the future. Last the new camera tracking system can be a pain to get used to in CQC (close quater combat) but is very useful when you get away very far from your opponent and you need you long range attacks (ki blasts, ki balls and signature attacks) to go and hit what you want. Altough, playing a VS. with a friend besides you... could be tedious becuase the screen splits in half and that doesn´t allow you to see the whole stage you fighting in and that is very helpful when you need to retreat or attack from a distance... kind of blows cause the without that extra manuvering tha fight gets kind of 2D and closed quarter when in this game or more precisely the single player portion of the game and/or the anime... the fun fact of the fighting is that the player should be able to use the every part of the enviorement around them (the sky, the ground , using fast movements and attacking/defending from close and long range).
Overall this is a very good game that any fighting fan will look upon it with good eyes and fans of DBZ will love.