Dragon Ball: Xenoverse

 PlayStation 4
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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 692 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 466 out of 692
  2. Mixed: 128 out of 692
  3. Negative: 98 out of 692
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  1. nicolasnova
    Mar 7, 2015
    4
    Nothing new, you can play the same in a ps3. The game was a lost of time and money. When I play something like Dragon ball, I think, well, will be like Naruto o better, because is dragon ball, but we can see, the same **** of ps3 and ps2.
  2. mschri
    Jul 21, 2016
    4
    This game has some many issue for a fighting game. *CONS 1) Lock onto an enemy is is extremely difficult when fight multiple enemies. 2) When completing a quest and the conditions to win awards, many times the game fails to award you what you should have earned. 3) The AI for your companions are almost useless for the fact they just float in the sky or stand on the ground when the fight isThis game has some many issue for a fighting game. *CONS 1) Lock onto an enemy is is extremely difficult when fight multiple enemies. 2) When completing a quest and the conditions to win awards, many times the game fails to award you what you should have earned. 3) The AI for your companions are almost useless for the fact they just float in the sky or stand on the ground when the fight is happening. 4) extremely repetitive gameplay and objectives… Expand
  3. Ur1FOKN1DEAD
    Jun 9, 2015
    3
    hi here to make a complaint Now my thing is I'm not asking for much or for anyone to care I just want to be heard so that this is realized because the situation is we melee fighters of this game now have no defense against the KI BLASTERS of this game espiecally when the spam the wave over and over again and when we melee fighters who are hybrid fighters are unable to contend back when wehi here to make a complaint Now my thing is I'm not asking for much or for anyone to care I just want to be heard so that this is realized because the situation is we melee fighters of this game now have no defense against the KI BLASTERS of this game espiecally when the spam the wave over and over again and when we melee fighters who are hybrid fighters are unable to contend back when we are the last fighter alive in a online 3 on 3 battle.. THE ZSOULS that made matches like that possibel were MIGHT AS WELL.. and YOU WILL NEVER BEAT AN ANDROID. It is a debauchery to believe that this patch affected those zsouls because the original afffect was suffice and the best way to counter against every player that just sits there and spammmm WAVES over and over again... that makes this game cheap. I don't recall an epsiode of a show were the protagonist sat back and just fired waves to beat the antagonist the whole time of the fight. Because now that that zsoul has been affected. Every rank match and tournament match will be KI BLAST battles. Fighting in one match will just end in 30-50 seconds forcing players to use regen just to stay alive, because the point of their time in battle is to learn how to fight in battle but now that they can no longer stay alive along enough in battle based on stanima it will out weigh and devalue the value of this game.. How this game has been devalued because what made this game playable was the chance to over come those ki blast spammers who are abusing the challenge of how great this game had become.. I had no other complaint to the changes made to anything else I was fine... but seeing as how these two ZSOULS Might as well and YOU will never beat an Android have become worthless this game is no longer as valued as before. of course I will play but not the level I had acquired with interest. It would be wondeful if the createors and software programs would go back and reverse the effects that had constructed on those two zsouls THE ZSOULS that made matches possibel MIGHT AS WELL.. and YOU WILL NEVER BEAT AN ANDROIDto the way they had worked., BECAUSE those zsouls were a safe guard to those who played with a namekian and a freeza and a majin girl.. now that these zsouls are gone people are going to abuse the game by becoming ki blast fighters... and everyone who will learn how to play will choose human in pvp matches just to survive matches so the game now loses diversity and melee usagaes. Now I have pretty big idea why those two zsouls were afftected because you have players in japan complaining that they are ki blast fighters and all they want to do is blast at their oppoeonts over and over again. My resposne to that is not dragonball z.. I grew up watching it as they fight to the death... spamnmming waves over and over again is not dragonball z.. It angers and rages me that this patch affected the skill behind teaching players how to survive matches long enough to undertstand how to play. Real players do not abuse the use of phantom fist... It angers me that I too if i want to continug playing I will have to adapt to using phantom fist a weak skill just to surive those matches when you are the last man standing in these matches. honestly it took somone randomly showing the effort that they care enough to express their own opionion creditable or not just to explain the effects this game will undergo because of how these two zsouls were afffected GREATLY... who knows whether you care or not. At least you know somone took the effort to express what has happened to this game and now how devauled it has become to me.. because I peronally enjoyed the game to the point of wanting to buy a share and now I refuse.. because of how the creators have weakened it's stature. It no longer balanced and in time within 1 month you will greatly see a decrease of players no longer playing this game.. So i ask you if you do not want that to happen please at least reverse the effects of these two ZSOULS back to it orignal status MIGHT AS WELL.. and YOU WILL NEVER BEAT AN ANDROID.. Honestly there is a great amount of melee fighters who have learned to become hybrid fighters in this game and what made it possible was these two zsouls. now that they have been greatly affected a balance like that is no longer possible and it will greatly destroy the continuation of this game based on the creditablilty you have now givene to all spammers of this game. So please please i beg of you I made an account just to be heard tor few minutes in hope to believe that you would go and see just how the effects of htis game have altered now based on those two zsouls. It took 2 days back to back hour for me to have all my characters just to have those zsouls and im sure everyone who go those zsouls grimed really hard to get them. To now see them being used this way has weakened every playerd who is a hyrbid fighter and you have forced us to become weak and rely on phantom fist which will give ki blast fighters the au… Expand
  4. mikepango
    Feb 15, 2016
    4
    I Love DBZ and one day I hope we get a AAA quality game. But this is far from it. The look of the game is PS2 at best. I understand art style but this has nothing to do with what art style they picked it just looks bad. The hub world is just so bland with nothing to do. Its just a big empty space. The combat is okay but at time can be cheap. Story I didn't like is at all. Bearable but notI Love DBZ and one day I hope we get a AAA quality game. But this is far from it. The look of the game is PS2 at best. I understand art style but this has nothing to do with what art style they picked it just looks bad. The hub world is just so bland with nothing to do. Its just a big empty space. The combat is okay but at time can be cheap. Story I didn't like is at all. Bearable but not something i want to tell my brother or other DBZ fans about. If you really want to play this game please pay $30 or less pay any more and you'll make ME cry.… Expand
  5. pjlx911
    Mar 3, 2015
    3
    The designers must've been on something when they created this. This game had so much promise, but idiotic game-play mechanic choices and incredibly unfair design choices leave you wanting to Kamehameha the game itself!

    Some missions are down-right impossible. If you think that you could play as any race and fair well, good luck. The way the game is designed, unless you're a Sayian (and    The designers must've been on something when they created this. This game had so much promise, but idiotic game-play mechanic choices and incredibly unfair design choices leave you wanting to Kamehameha the game itself!

    Some missions are down-right impossible. If you think that you could play as any race and fair well, good luck. The way the game is designed, unless you're a Sayian (and can Super Sayian spam Supers and Ultras), good luck. You will be hating the game.

    Some missions the designers in their infinite "wisdom" decided to pretty much take all control of possibly beating those missions out of the player's hands. Things like; RNG-based events that will unknowingly ratchet up the AI's strengths, making using attacks ineffective, not thinking through when you have to protect "X" character (by not automatically slotting the said character in your group...Thus, therefore stops you from using group heal/regen items on them), and putting you into a 2 on 1 against over-powered characters, or even making a boss so over-powered that you need to be level 80 to complete (when you just completed a story mission that was more along the lines of level 10).

    The controls are good, but the switching ability is clunky. Don't know how many times I got plastered by teamed up AI. One would think that by flicking the right thumb-stick would auto switch you to the nearest enemy, nope. Instead it switches you out to a character on the other side of the map!

    The base mechanics are good enough. Build up Ki by physical attacks, stun, and then blast them. While it might get a little repetitive, it is still fun to get a good shot on the enemy. The MMO-styled RPG is cool, but frustrating when you want to find a new master. Would be nicer if they just changed the placement of the master instead of here one second, gone the next. The story itself is okay. It's a little too cliche to me, but it works. Although I can't figure out how the rating system actually works. One minute you do everything under the sun and get a "Z" rating, the next, you do the same thing and get a "C" or a "B".

    I would've given this game a 7, or 8. But instead of making an enjoyable, yet challenging game, they proceeded to make decisions that make me hate the fact I purchased the game.    … Expand
  6. Ayreos
    Feb 28, 2015
    4
    Do you know the feeling of receiving a toy you wanted as a kid, only to find out it was a cheap replica? That feeling of both betrayal and disappointment? Xenoverse is that for me.

    Graphics: poor, even for cell shaded. There are fighting games which do the drawn style of 3D infinitely better. Plot: The great setup of "joining" the dragon ball plot as an external character is wasted.    Do you know the feeling of receiving a toy you wanted as a kid, only to find out it was a cheap replica? That feeling of both betrayal and disappointment? Xenoverse is that for me.

    Graphics: poor, even for cell shaded. There are fighting games which do the drawn style of 3D infinitely better.

    Plot: The great setup of "joining" the dragon ball plot as an external character is wasted. You continuously fight pointless quests and battles, with a pathetic scriptwriting and direction for the main story battles and events. How can you feel involved in a story when you constantly go off to fight quests for money, in which you join random DB characters (good and evil)?

    Gameplay: I find it better than the Budokai Tenkaichi games, but it oscillates between extremely easy and frustratingly hard for apparently no reason. Too much depends on camera controls, locking on and dodging finishers. I feel even the PS1 fighting games had better mechanics for that.

    Conclusion: Mediocre and unpolished. Clearly yet another cash grab on the backs of fans and nostalgia. Any of the old Budokai Tenkaichi games is worth your money more than this.    … Expand
  7. Shisimona
    Jun 25, 2015
    2
    First off, I have never played a games with so many flaws in it. First, I can be doing melee attacks and getting combo but then computer can start guarding, while you can't. Second, don't matter what Ki attack the computer they are doing, they never get interrupted but you do. A good attack is, Special Beam Cannon, specifically says can't be blocked, if it can't, then why I have I seenFirst off, I have never played a games with so many flaws in it. First, I can be doing melee attacks and getting combo but then computer can start guarding, while you can't. Second, don't matter what Ki attack the computer they are doing, they never get interrupted but you do. A good attack is, Special Beam Cannon, specifically says can't be blocked, if it can't, then why I have I seen computers block it numerous of times then. I borrowed this game from my brother as he is a massive gamer, and he put this game on the shelf because its that bad. I was gonna buy it for myself but after playing it, I think i'll be keeping my money. The only thing that would make me want to buy it, is for the character creation but it's not worth $70 for it.… Expand
  8. ANITEC20
    Feb 24, 2017
    0
    Pure garbage! This game has a mash button style that's a tedious system of fighting opponents. CPU is arrogant and stupid as always, matches are a pain to get though. I was disappointed with this game and will be the last DBZ game I'll ever play.
  9. joegernaut
    May 4, 2019
    1
    Way too much of the game is DLC ( Developer Locked Content ) then in the 2nd update they jump the difficulty up by at least 5 ! Now it's to hard for my kids even I can't play it and they have no difficulty setting to turn it down . Can't be-leave this ! What a waste of money !
  10. ElCaptain
    Jul 20, 2020
    3
    odd cell shading graphics and just very poor gameplay. very disappointing with this

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69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 31 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. Playstation Official Magazine Australia
    May 26, 2015
    65
    I'd say for “fans of the genre” but this game simply isn't good for anyone. [May 2015, p75]
  2. Thunderbolt
    May 26, 2015
    70
    While it’s not really much of a looker, and non-fans won’t find much here besides a series of fights, there’s a ton in here for fans of the series to dig into and enjoy.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 22, 2015
    50
    A lot of fussy distraction from the one-note combat. [Apr 2015, p.94]
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