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  • Summary: Combining action, fighting and light role-playing game elements, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 sends players into a rich story mode that spans the entire Dragon Ball, DBZ, and Dragon Ball GT series. The game takes the acrobatic and intense 3D flying and fighting dynamic made popular inCombining action, fighting and light role-playing game elements, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 sends players into a rich story mode that spans the entire Dragon Ball, DBZ, and Dragon Ball GT series. The game takes the acrobatic and intense 3D flying and fighting dynamic made popular in the first game and takes it to a new level with over 100 playable characters, 15 vast and vibrant 3D destructible environments, and nine different game modes, including intense single and multiplayer battles. Team up with Z-Warriors to complete exciting missions, ripped right from the TV show (the player can play with two warriors while in battle, and can switch warriors during the battle). Over 100 DBZ warriors, including many that have never been seen in previous DBZ games. Improved camera system, explosive environmental damage, and in-game transformations. The complete DBZ mythology, from Dragon Ball To Dragon Ball GT. Post customizable character codes to the Internet. [Atari] Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Negative: 1 out of 31
  1. The best Dragon Ball Z game ever. It does almost everything right and is a nearly flawless culmination of everything that was great about every US Dragon Ball Z game since Final Bout, be it characters, gameplay or graphics.
  2. 83
    This one uses every button on the controller, a good deal of motion on the Wii version, and it moves at an insane speed. Still, for gamers that can get into it, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is one of the most entertaining and fierce anime fighters around. This is every DBZ fan’s wet dream.
  3. If you don't mind your fighting games on the simpler side you will find a lot to enjoy.
  4. The fighting engine is unconventional, but the difficulty is better balanced this time, and eases you in slower.
  5. Outside of some minor quibbles with the user interface and some obscenely difficult matches, the only real snag is the fact that everything's so heavily based in the Dragon Ball Z mythos, there isn't much here for the non-fan to enjoy.
  6. PSM Magazine
    70
    Love or hate Dragon Ball, the load times in Tenkaichi 2 will have you seeing red fast. [Holiday 2006, p.82]
  7. PSM3 Magazine UK
    49
    The problem is that it's just too easy. [Jan 2007, p.83]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Jun 23, 2015
    10
    My personal favourite dbz game. It has the best story mode. Many characters too choose from and awesome graphics and gameplay. It just feelsMy personal favourite dbz game. It has the best story mode. Many characters too choose from and awesome graphics and gameplay. It just feels so good when you punch an opponent right in the face. Only bad thing the music is horrible. Expand
  2. JohnnyM.
    Jun 30, 2007
    10
    This is the single greatest fighting game I have ever played ever. I found myself playing it for hours without end...its was just awesome.
  3. Apr 5, 2012
    9
    DBZ BT2 conducted in 2006 with a good story mode which follows almost cartoon fashion with several that are part of the game that makes fun ofDBZ BT2 conducted in 2006 with a good story mode which follows almost cartoon fashion with several that are part of the game that makes fun of the person who plays, Spike has not really his game Ratté Expand
  4. Apr 26, 2018
    8
    Sua narrativa e modo historia são bons, conta muitos detalhes da historia de dragon ball que por muitas vezes são esquecidas, o cuidado comSua narrativa e modo historia são bons, conta muitos detalhes da historia de dragon ball que por muitas vezes são esquecidas, o cuidado com isso é louvável, é um jogo onde podemos passar muito tempo jogando sem se cansar, talvez alguns níveis sejam um pouco desmedidos em dificuldade mas isso ao meu ver incrementa um pouco no desafio, onde hoje reclamamos muito de jogos fáceis demais, é um jogo que todo fã de dragon ball deve jogar e se ater aos detalhes da historia Expand
  5. Jun 9, 2023
    8
    GReat fighting game with an enormous roster of DBZ characters. In practice many play similarly, but they mostly have unique special moves andGReat fighting game with an enormous roster of DBZ characters. In practice many play similarly, but they mostly have unique special moves and the real seller is the extensive campaign taking you through every fight in DBZ and GT, and the quest to unlock every character Expand
  6. Apr 17, 2020
    8
    Awesome Dragon Ball game with many characters from the original, Z and GT. The perspective of the battles are really good.
  7. jamesJ
    Jun 2, 2009
    3
    Makes no effort in maturing the franchise. the game insists on giving every menu option a needless dragonball theme to it, and ends up Makes no effort in maturing the franchise. the game insists on giving every menu option a needless dragonball theme to it, and ends up explaining in detail every menu option through annoying unskippable voice overs. even when the name of the option is extremely self explanatory there's a voice over explaining exactly what "duel" means. the character select screen divides the numerous characters into different unspecified groups you have to cycle through, and some of the main character's transformed states end up being in an entirely different group and locked off from the original characters in game transformation ability. some of the character's alternate costumes are lacking in originality(compared to their default costume) and whats worse is that the game simply labels the different costumes by number requiring the player to guess, memorize, or look up online, if he wants to select a specific costume. the ability to "customize" characters rarely exceeds boosting individual attributes of the character, like speed or health. furthermore the large list of items used to modify these attributes offer no useful explanation as to what the attributes actually effect. The menu dosn't categorize the items sufficiently, leaving the player to scroll through endless lists searching for a specific item. AI is extremely bland and uncooperative to the fact that someone might want to have fun. An example of this is when you're hidden from view and the opponent is facing away from you it magically knows to teleport out of the way of an attack that's impossible to see coming. what's worse is even afterwords the opponent still sits there looking around like nothing just happened. the franchise famous "power struggles" are degraded into an overly simplistic minigame of who can move the analog sticks around faster, the highest difficulty will make it nearly impossible to attack an opponant head on due to the near certainty of the AI winning the power struggle. worst of all is the implementation of giant characters. special attacks can either be energy based(balls or beams of energy shot at the opponent) or rush based(the character collides with the opponent and hits them a few times). Giant characters are automatically immune to almost all rush attacks leaving some characters, which rely solely on rush attacks, seriously handicapped. this problem is made worse in that several characters can't make giants recoil with standard attacks and thus are completely open to being pounded on with little to no defense against it. Expand

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