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(More customer reviews)As a kid, I loved Dragon Ball Z. Everyday, the show would come on and the world would become unknown to me for the next thirty minutes. This went on for years even into GT. When I started getting into the video games, I bough Budokai, Tenkaichi, Burst Limit, but held off on the original Raging Blast after trying it out at a friend's house. After Raging Blast 2 was announced, I held off on my preorder because of how poorly I thought of the first one. I was right to hold off.
Once again, the same friend preordered it immidiately. Going into playing it, I was excited as the trailers looked amazing. The graphics were better, more characters were available to control, and there was a movie included on the disc (The Plan to Eradicate the Saiyans). After playing the game for a little while and watching the movie, I was impressed. However, after two hours I started to realize that essentially everyone is the same and there was no real storyline. All the characters may look different, have different costumes, and say the ocassional original tidbit, but the fighting style, attacks, and finishers are all the same. It gets very repetitive.
As far as the storyline, or lack there of, there is a new mode called Galaxy Mode. You fight somewhere between 5-12 battles as an individual character against either one other character or a group with different challenges, such as a time limit or no health. If you are lucky, the fights actually have something to do with the character's history and you may hear one or two sentences that the characters exchange hinting at their relationship. Galaxy Mode is not a story mode but is more of a battle mode.
This game was disappointment for me. The same 90+ characters using the same 5 attacks on the same 14 stages with less dialogue then before (and if anyone remebers the show, dialogue took up most of it)gets old. The interactions feel bland and at times I couldn't tell the difference between certain Super Saiyans. People who love anything that says Dragon Ball will buy this game, love it, and play it endlessly. I am just tired of them throwing the same stuff at us every year without even trying to be original anymore. Did certain aspects improve? Definitely. Are those aspects big enough for me to shell out $60 for this? Not even close. I guess the blind fan boy in me is dying.
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