Dragon Ball FighterZ

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7.4

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  1. Kira6667
    Jan 26, 2018
    10
    The DBZ game that I always wanted.

    It is a proper 3v3 2d fighting game that takes inspiration from the Guilty Gear series as well as Marvel vs Capcom series when that series was great. The fights are fast-paced and the game is a visual spectacle to behold. The game also has a wonderful soundtrack. The base game roster covers all of the main players from Dragon Ball Z and Dragon    The DBZ game that I always wanted.

    It is a proper 3v3 2d fighting game that takes inspiration from the Guilty Gear series as well as Marvel vs Capcom series when that series was great.

    The fights are fast-paced and the game is a visual spectacle to behold. The game also has a wonderful soundtrack.

    The base game roster covers all of the main players from Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Super.

    This is definitely the best Dragonball Z game I played in a while and it may quite possibly be the best Dragonball Z game of all time, even usurping Budokai 3 and Budokai Tenkaichi 3 finally!

    If you are a fan of Dragonball Z at all, this is a must buy!    … Expand
  2. vgmkyle
    Jan 26, 2018
    10
    Quite possibly the best 2D fighter ever made. This is why we play games in the first place. There have been decent DB games before this, but nothing close to FighterZ. The animation, combined with artistic graphics really set it apart from other games and it also beautifully complements the gameplay. It's so brisk, and is one of the greatest technical achievements in the genre and can't be avoided
  3. ZXeron
    May 19, 2018
    10
    Tenia altas espectativas para este videojuego y sin duda las cumple.
    Me gustaría destacar sus combates fluidos y dinámicos, y ni hablar de que estas poseen un ritmo de batalla frenético. Sin duda en lo jugable y lo estético es el mejor juego de Dragon Ball. Gráficamente este juego es una joyita, pulida hasta el mas minimo detalle.
    Muchas lo criticarán negativamente por su falta de    Tenia altas espectativas para este videojuego y sin duda las cumple.
    Me gustaría destacar sus combates fluidos y dinámicos, y ni hablar de que estas poseen un ritmo de batalla frenético. Sin duda en lo jugable y lo estético es el mejor juego de Dragon Ball. Gráficamente este juego es una joyita, pulida hasta el mas minimo detalle.
    Muchas lo criticarán negativamente por su falta de personajes, pero en mi opinion los que ya vienen en el juego Base son perfectos, cada unos es una nueva "aventura", probé la mitad de los personajes, me faltan otros, pero hasta ahora los que usé son una verdadera joyita.
    El Modo Historia es bastante innovador ya que tiene una narrativa única y muchas escenas, (cabe aclarar que no la he terminado) aunque a veces la noto floja y muy extendida, mucho no me molesta pero lo que si lo hace es el que sea muy sencilla, tendría que haver una seleccion de dificultad. xd
    Como juego de lucha es de lo mejor que he visto ya no sólo porque sea Dragon Ball sino por su jugabilidad, al terminar un combate te dan muchas ganas de empezar otro y otro. Muy Recomendable.
    Al Fin un Dragon Ball a la altura
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    Algo que no me gusto para nada es el precio del Season Pass, aca en ARS sale $50 menos que el juego, ¿en serio? Si sabía que iba a salir eso mejor me compraba la FighterZ Edition que por lo menos me ahorraba $200. Tremenda cagada. Espero que por lo menos algun día baje de precio o tenga un gran descuento. xd    … Expand
  4. DragonH
    Jan 28, 2018
    10
    Gorgeous!
    As a DBO fan and Fighting game fan this game is absolutly beautifull!
    Also my low end laptop can even run it! Very good optimization!
  5. Guero02
    Feb 2, 2018
    10
    O jogo é super gráfico e ação sentimento muito maravilhoso. Mas creio que sim, em breve será mais novos personagens, exemplo Gogeta, Vegetto, Instinto Superior, Jiren, Kale, mais outros... E também lugar novo Torneio do Poder e mais outros... Espero que sim. Dragon Ball FighterZ é TOP!
  6. TonySlows
    Jul 20, 2020
    10
    as a fan of dragon ball
    10 score certainly isn't partial :D
    great graphics , good gameplay , the story is simple to understand... yeah, well.
  7. VikiSetyah
    Aug 25, 2021
    10
    The best 2d fighting game. Story original, a little repetitive But after a few breaks, I must immediately started playing again. Fast-paced,immersive sell shading, and optimized game
  8. TreasureOrTrash
    Sep 8, 2023
    10
    Treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. Continual
    Jan 27, 2018
    9
    The core mechanics of the game are pretty great. The only downside is some of the actual interface seems a little weird. Its more a culture thing. What appeals to the East doesn't appeal to the West the same like the Emote/Message System.
  10. Reinhart
    Feb 19, 2018
    9
    For me is on of the best Dragon Ball games out there, and with mods in Pc, and the ability to change the tracks to the original ost it makes it perfect.

    Ok, it may have some issues, but god, its so epic
  11. Vanburman
    Feb 17, 2018
    9
    A wonderfully crafted game, does the series justice. Would have liked a bigger roster, as there are some notable exclusions. It feels very fresh and earns the right to be recognised as a bonafide fighter.
  12. Diegochocho
    Jul 5, 2018
    9
    Hermoso juego de peleas, una maravilla la jugabilidad, los gráficos y los escenarios, la y única queja es que el modo historia se hace pesada, pero se nota el gran esfuerzo por traer este juego.
  13. Sabotower
    Mar 12, 2018
    9
    Although it has a heavy reliance on the anime, that in no way deters the awesome action and thrills that playing as these characters gives. The voice acting is as perfect as usual, the action is fast-paced and makes you feel like you are these characters. Extremely enjoyable.
  14. Genek13
    Nov 15, 2019
    9
    One of the best fighting game I ever played.
    For me as a Dragon Ball fan I waited so much time to play game like this (3D fighting games like Xenoverse is a abomination). Mechanics and graphics are a masterpiece, story a little forgettable but ok.
  15. LuanV
    Jul 24, 2021
    9
    Eu, fã de Dragon Ball, em pleno 2021, com o season pass 3 sido lançado completo, afirmo que Dragon Ball Fighterz é o melhor jogo baseado em anime de todos os tempos e o melhor de jogo de luta da geração.

    A obra, com gráficos excepcionalmente idênticos (e até melhores) ao desenho japonês, capta totalmente a essência do anime e seus personagens, adaptando cada um deles de uma forma que ao    Eu, fã de Dragon Ball, em pleno 2021, com o season pass 3 sido lançado completo, afirmo que Dragon Ball Fighterz é o melhor jogo baseado em anime de todos os tempos e o melhor de jogo de luta da geração.

    A obra, com gráficos excepcionalmente idênticos (e até melhores) ao desenho japonês, capta totalmente a essência do anime e seus personagens, adaptando cada um deles de uma forma que ao mesmo tempo lembra e respeita muito o original, mas que também cria uma identidade única nas batalhas.

    Extremamente divertido, complexo e lindo. O único ponto que me faz a não dar nota dez ao jogo, são as práticas abusivas que a empresa faz em cima dele, no qual vejo a maioria dos jogos de luta nos dias de hoje também fazendo isso. Mais da metade dos personagens você precisa gastar dinheiro para poder jogar. Até as músicas de fundo são compráveis. É lamentável comprar o jogo sabendo que você vai comprar uma versão incompleta.    … Expand
  16. Haliax87
    Jan 14, 2021
    9
    Arc System Works made this game with a lot of love, even though their known for making the guilty gear series they branch out and make games in the genre with love and respect outside of their own IP. Watching the influx of fighting game players after the popularity of the Dragon Ball series getting a modern fighting game has been a breath of fresh air in the genre.

    It is fair to point    Arc System Works made this game with a lot of love, even though their known for making the guilty gear series they branch out and make games in the genre with love and respect outside of their own IP. Watching the influx of fighting game players after the popularity of the Dragon Ball series getting a modern fighting game has been a breath of fresh air in the genre.

    It is fair to point out the major failing of the game is the netcode. They use delay based netcode and that is a common failing in many major fighting games. Recent competitors like Mortal Combat have much better online play for this reason. There is an option in the game to set your delay that can greatly improve your experience and makes playing with others who do the same much better.

    Other than that one major failing, the blending of 2d and 3d pioneered in this title has brought back the anime inspired look of fighting games that I personally really enjoy. As a player who has never liked 3d fighting game from an aesthetic or technical perspective (3d models have open and closed stances that are not symmetrical and may give benefits to being player 1 or player 2) I really enjoyed this art style. There were easier and less expensive ways to make this game. (Im looking at you Jump Force).

    Mechanically the game is solid and has depth. I know this from playing this and dozens of other fighting games. There are reviews on Metacritic that claim some characters feel the same and this is mostly because there are dynamic combo paths and you can feel those similarities strongly until you really get into the depth of what each characters paths lead to. I would say the base mechanics for Saiyan's and very similar to a large tree but they do branch out gradually. Other characters and races just plain start out very different. Its an interesting approach to making characters and one that allows players to swap between the most popular main characters with less difficulty.

    In fact much of this game seems to be designed with the intention of being easy to learn. The auto combo system will allow new players to focus on the rock paper scissors aspects (attack, grab, block) that make fighting games what they are without having to put in dozens of hours learning the muscle memory of the combos up front. But there is a deeply rewarding combo system that allows you to control important factors like ending a combo in a corner for a mix up, or instead getting more hits in to build meter, or focusing on ending with a special move that swaps in a character and lets you recover health.

    The continued addition of new content behind a paywall is normally not something I like to see. But considering how heavily discounted you can find this game for (today its up to 85% off) and that this developer puts love into every character released and mostly done a fantastic job balancing and responding to community feedback, I am willing to consider this an exception to the rule.

    I am also willing to admit my score might be affected by not overly caring about the story mode. I played it when the game first came out. I imagine any new players might be disappointed that only the core... 13 or so characters are playable in the story arc. Story modes have never been the primary draw in my opinion and this one is probably only just decent. The real fun for me is surprisingly in the many other game modes and even largely in the training mode. (its an excellent training mode as well)

    To wrap things up, I honestly believe that the Metacritic score is not very honest. Im tempted to give the game a 10/10 to balance out the people who got stuffed online and instantly gave this game a 0 and pretended that this was a bad game and that's why they lost. If you don't understand that superdashing is asking to get stuffed by 2H that's probably how you would feel. But the only Honest criticism is that the online netcode should never have been delay based, and there is a very good alternative in rollback netcode. I am not sure why ASW ignored their community in that regard, and maybe there was good reason, but it is what it is.    … Expand
  17. Zantsama
    Apr 23, 2021
    9
    Great fighting game, one of the best in competitive mode. Great roster for DB fans and well balanced fighterz. You can beat Jiren with Yamcha
  18. randomguy0920
    Jul 2, 2023
    9
    Best game that has been made out of the DB saga (maybe Tenkaichi 3 is a little better). The DLCs are a little annoying but the game itself is fun.
  19. p1menta
    May 3, 2019
    8
    the story mode is actually a test of patience. it's terrible, there are like 30 playable characters here, but in story mode you're doomed to play as 13 of them, against 3000 clones of the same 13 you are playing. FOR THREE """DIFFERENT""" ARCS. the last arc is the lazyest thing i've ever saw in a video game. just plain aweful.
    but the battles are **** amazing. best ever.
    i just get kinda    the story mode is actually a test of patience. it's terrible, there are like 30 playable characters here, but in story mode you're doomed to play as 13 of them, against 3000 clones of the same 13 you are playing. FOR THREE """DIFFERENT""" ARCS. the last arc is the lazyest thing i've ever saw in a video game. just plain aweful.
    but the battles are **** amazing. best ever.
    i just get kinda sad with what games are becoming. especially fighting games.
    back on budokai tenkaichi 2 on PS2 we had 73 characters SEVENTY THREE. and the number IS NOT INCLUDING all the transformations, different nivels of power or the freaking fusions and absorptions. and you could **** do all that IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT.
    damn, that was so cool. starting of as frieza 1st form against goku, and go through all frieza's forms till you get to the full power, and goku going to kaioken, SS1, 2, 3, 4.
    man, good times...

    well, it may seem that i'm just trashing on this game here, but i actually enjoyed very much (not the story mode even tho android 21 is 'f'ing bad ass af) just got a little frustrated and nostalgic thinking about that game...    … Expand
  20. Tomle1202
    Sep 11, 2018
    8
    Dragon Ball FighterZ's story mode and hub world do not even make sense, but its strong core gameplay and faithfulness to the source-material ultimately save the day.
  21. Kittybooze
    Dec 29, 2018
    8
    SO many game modes to choose from, and an awesome roster of characters. If the online didn't error so much and the combo strings were a tad shorter than 3/4's of your health, then it'd be a 10/10.
  22. Kosama
    May 19, 2018
    8
    Gráficos 11 y casi que en eso se basa, modo historia de lo peor que hay en los juegos de DBZ, no mal sistema de combo pero un poco machaca botones
  23. OverkillXLR
    Mar 16, 2018
    8
    DBFZ is hands down the best DBZ game made to date.

    That being said the game does have some minor problems: Audio issues cause random cracks of sound. The lip syncing for English is bad. I've had the game crash once so far. So nothing to major, but should be pointed out. As for the story, I'll give the game credit for trying something new and not just re-telling the same story    DBFZ is hands down the best DBZ game made to date.

    That being said the game does have some minor problems:
    Audio issues cause random cracks of sound.
    The lip syncing for English is bad.
    I've had the game crash once so far.
    So nothing to major, but should be pointed out.

    As for the story, I'll give the game credit for trying something new and not just re-telling the same story from the anime we've seen in dozens of games by now. However, it does drag on to the point were you just want to rush to the end to get the unlockable character. So points for originality, but lost them for being boring.

    Just a good fighting game overall and a good buy for any DBZ fan.    … Expand
  24. Camer6
    Dec 13, 2018
    8
    En cuanto a jugabilidad no le encuentro ningún fallo, pero en cuanto a modos de juego se queda corto.
  25. ChesterField
    May 6, 2020
    8
    Very nice fighting dragon ball game. I still prefer the budokai saga back in the days.
  26. Topoide
    Jun 14, 2022
    8
    Un juego de lucha muy bueno haciendo un gran homenaje a la saga de Dragon Ball
  27. M_MIXER
    Sep 29, 2022
    8
    VERY GOOD《8/10》⭐⭐️⭐️

    《STORY》
  28. Kohut
    May 7, 2023
    8
    Amazing visuals, big roster, insane learning curve. This game deserves more players. You should buy this game just for how amazing everything is, but we wary: this game is from a few years ago and most players are veterans so the on line experience can be really hard, but don't be discouraged. Still waiting for the rollback
  29. Cakiws
    Apr 30, 2023
    8
    The game is good, but unfortunately have some limitations with the controllers, the graphics looks very cool, the gameplay feels easy and tough at the same time, the music is top tier, in overall is a pretty cool game.
  30. Jason2k20
    Jan 27, 2018
    7
    The same guys that brought you Extreme Butoden bring you this solid fighter. By no means is this game perfect it needs work.

    First thing that set me off the loading times are horrible, 35- 45 seconds to load each match that lasts about one minute is beyond me. These load times should be half that. Too much damn time watching loading . 2) Story is boring a fuk! Worst is the story    The same guys that brought you Extreme Butoden bring you this solid fighter. By no means is this game perfect it needs work.

    First thing that set me off the loading times are horrible, 35- 45 seconds to load each match that lasts about one minute is beyond me. These load times should be half that. Too much damn time watching loading .

    2) Story is boring a fuk! Worst is the story cut-scenes lag and are not smooth. Very choppy cut-scenes take you out of watching the anime experience.

    The fighting is solid and on point . Fast, frantic, fun but the longevity is something to take into question as most fighting games loose attention after a few months.

    Soild game but not Great. 7/10    … Expand
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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Apr 5, 2018
    80
    An excellent fighting game, even if you're not a fan of Dragon Ball. [Issue#270, p.54]
  2. AusGamers
    Feb 27, 2018
    89
    Polished, fast, over-the-top and most of all fun, Dragon Ball FighterZ is a fighting game worth more than just a passing glance. Its lengthy campaign alone will keep you glued to the action for a while, but its other gameplay options and Dragon Ball universe depth make it something of a must own -- whether your DBZ fan alumni, or fighting game guru. One of the year’s excellent fighting game releases.
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  3. The Overpowered Noobs
    Feb 20, 2018
    80
    This fighter looks great, sounds better, having enough depth and complexity to warrant its asking price. Every detail is tended to, which makes fun, challenging gameplay that is easy to learn but hard to master.
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