Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot

 Xbox One
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 135 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 105 out of 135
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 135
  3. Negative: 17 out of 135
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  1. DoctorZack
    Jan 18, 2020
    6
    How this game works:
    Fly around and collect power-up balls.
    Engage in a battle. All battles are virtually 90% dodging the enemy attacks. This sound effect becomes extremely grating after the two hours or so of fighting. Even the fishing mechanic is half-assed. This game took everything dynamic and well developed within Xenoverses and scrapped it to make a lengthy nostalgia-bait game.    How this game works:
    Fly around and collect power-up balls.
    Engage in a battle. All battles are virtually 90% dodging the enemy attacks. This sound effect becomes extremely grating after the two hours or so of fighting.
    Even the fishing mechanic is half-assed.

    This game took everything dynamic and well developed within Xenoverses and scrapped it to make a lengthy nostalgia-bait game.

    It's not a *bad* game. It's just a game that exists to be a cash grab.    … Expand
  2. Edgard86
    Feb 4, 2020
    7
    Jogo bom, porém tem alguns defeitos.
    Prós: Completamente fiel ao anime, trilha sonora igual e gráfico bonito..
    Defeitos: Elementos RPG inúteis, vc pode zerar o game facilmente sem usa-lõs.. Repetitivo em alguns momentos, o game poderia resumir mais algumas partes, como nos Adroids e Boo... Lutas 6 vezes contra o kid boo é desnecerrario e chato... Recomendo o game somente para fãs do    Jogo bom, porém tem alguns defeitos.
    Prós: Completamente fiel ao anime, trilha sonora igual e gráfico bonito..

    Defeitos: Elementos RPG inúteis, vc pode zerar o game facilmente sem usa-lõs.. Repetitivo em alguns momentos, o game poderia resumir mais algumas partes, como nos Adroids e Boo... Lutas 6 vezes contra o kid boo é desnecerrario e chato...
    Recomendo o game somente para fãs do anime... Gamer tag: Edgard 86    … Expand
  3. NOTORIOUSN8
    Feb 16, 2020
    6
    PROS:
    The story mode is great and there’s a lot of fun stuff revolving around that. So if it was just about playing through the story I’d give it a 9. CONS:
    This is an open world RPG and it drops the ball really hard on that aspect. Although the maps are great, after you’ve seen them all it gets very boring. It’s the same repetitive quests over and over again where you have to go pick up a    PROS:
    The story mode is great and there’s a lot of fun stuff revolving around that. So if it was just about playing through the story I’d give it a 9. CONS:
    This is an open world RPG and it drops the ball really hard on that aspect. Although the maps are great, after you’ve seen them all it gets very boring. It’s the same repetitive quests over and over again where you have to go pick up a purple orb and bring it back. Or fight the same generic robots for someone. Gathering the Dragonballs is nothing but waiting on an area to load, pick up the ball, repeat. The worst thing about the game though is the absolutely horrible fighting mechanics. There’s no skill to them at all. Which for this kind of game would be perfectly ok, but they try to make it so that there’s skill to it. Problem is you only get a few kinds of attacks and dodges. But you can’t always do them because the terrible camera angles in a fight as well as the over blown animations for the bigger attacks in the late game that completely kills the frame rates and sometimes crashes the game. Makes it pretty hard to do anything when you can barely see your character.

    They also did a terrible job with the AI for harder bosses in the end game/training. The way the decided to “increase the difficulty” was to ignore all the basic mechanics of the game and make them overwhelm you to the point where you can move because their animations are killing the frame rate so you can’t see. Most annoying thing is how when it’s actually working smoothly for a minute, the AI can ignore the fact you’re hitting them with your strongest attack and just fire off their own stopping yours. Or when you try to do an attack and one of the 3 AI rushes and just hits you one time to cancel your attack so you can’t do anything.

    OVERALL:
    The way the did the story was good, but the gameplay doesn’t feel polished or thought through. I know a lot of people are giving this a good score just because they love Dragonball, but the devs really need to spend some time on this before they drop the DLC to make it work better. The massive drops in frame rate on console and repetitive tasks are so bad it’s not even fun to play after you beat the game.    … Expand
  4. Hozuki
    Sep 2, 2020
    6
    Um jogo que perde um potencial enorme com tão pouco.
    O jogo em seus trailers, passa que o jogo é uma adaptação incrível e moderna do clássico anime, mas peca terrivelmente em seu conteúdo.
    começando pelas cenas pré-renderizadas, o jogo não consegue entregar algo da própria engine, apesar dos gráficos serem lindissimos e detalhados, o jogo peca ao não confiar em seu motor gráfico, O    Um jogo que perde um potencial enorme com tão pouco.
    O jogo em seus trailers, passa que o jogo é uma adaptação incrível e moderna do clássico anime, mas peca terrivelmente em seu conteúdo.
    começando pelas cenas pré-renderizadas, o jogo não consegue entregar algo da própria engine, apesar dos gráficos serem lindissimos e detalhados, o jogo peca ao não confiar em seu motor gráfico,
    O mundo aberto apesar de parecer recheado de novidades para explorar, não passa de algo vago com varios inimigos que te atacam a cada 1km que você passa, iniciando uma luta automaticamente e só te permitindo sair dela derrotando os mesmos, tornando o jogo cansativo, massante e até mesmo frustrante, algo completamente desnecessário.
    Fora também os órbes que ficam pelos céus, comprometendo o horizonte e seu cenário deslumbrante, voar e pegar esses órbes torna o jogo não muito superior que o Superman 64...

    Amo a Cyberconnect2 e seus jogos, tanto a franquia Storm quanto Asura's Wrath, e todos eles conseguem ser mais solidos e interessantes no final do que o jogo mais importante que a desenvolvedora teve em mãos, pois estamos falando das maiores obras do mundo pop, Dragon Ball Z..    … Expand
  5. NoSe001
    Sep 17, 2022
    7
    The olny thing that is good in this game is the history, the open world is trash
  6. AtemArchangel
    Dec 22, 2020
    7
    It's a Dragon Ball Z game...you know what you're getting the second you see the title. It's another retelling of the same story that has been retold multiple times. I don't say that in some massive negative way, but a realistic way of how the game should be viewed.

    It does what it's suppose too, it tells the story of Dragon Ball Z from the Saiyan battle onward. It's open world    It's a Dragon Ball Z game...you know what you're getting the second you see the title. It's another retelling of the same story that has been retold multiple times. I don't say that in some massive negative way, but a realistic way of how the game should be viewed.

    It does what it's suppose too, it tells the story of Dragon Ball Z from the Saiyan battle onward.
    It's open world exploration reminds me of Boudikai 3, which in my opinion is still the best Dragon Ball game ever made.
    The game is fun for the most part, but if you've been playing DBZ games as long as I have, it can get boring very fast.    … Expand
  7. AccurateRatings
    Mar 6, 2023
    7
    Fun game. Enemies get very monotonous. Story is very close to the show. Flying around is fun, but you’re limited to smaller boxes so it doesn’t feel open world.

    This game was fun for a lower budget game.

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73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Gamers' Temple
    Dec 18, 2020
    80
    This game feels just like you’re playing through the anime series at a more rapid pace. Besides Dragonball Fighter Z, it’s the first game I’ve seen to capture the feel of the series so very well and with a good bit of quality. Dragonball Z: Kakarot is a great companion piece to the old DBZ series. Whether you’re new to the series, are watching it right now or have seen it back in the past (like me) then there is something here to enjoy for you. Fans will get the most of the game, but newcomers will get introduced to the series rather well.
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  2. Player 2
    Mar 2, 2020
    50
    While DBZ:K is a great way to relive the original series with enjoyable combat and dead-on aesthetics, it’s saddled with an open world two generations behind that detracts from the promise it shows.
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  3. ZTGD
    Feb 21, 2020
    70
    My only gripe is that for how much this game wants to be seen like an RPG it never really does anything of interest with it. If the world is going to be big, fill it with quests. Fill it with more side activities. Even if the main focus is combat, give me a reason to explore the world more than just Dragon Ball flashbacks and collectibles I am required to have to upgrade skills. I think the Yakuza games and more importantly the Fist of the North Star game from the Yakuza team shows that the game can still have heavy emphasis on combat and still be a role playing game. Kakarot unfortunately just doesn’t hit that mark.
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