Dragonball Z: Burst Limit

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Yes, the game is fun. Yes, it looks very pretty. But unfortunately, the game is way too short, only covering up to the Cell Saga, and then it doesn't even cover all the events taking place up to that. I think only the Saiyan Saga is fully covered, but the rest are not. You don't fight Dodoria or Zarbon, and only two members of the Ginyu appear; only androids #16, 17, and 18 show up; no Cell Jr... I think you get the point. I am fine with actually having less playable characters, but not at the expense of playing through all battles in the series.

As far as gameplay goes, i like the controls. I actually use the analog stick to move the characters. Takes a little getting used to the fact that you can't charge up your Ki, game does it for you. Drama Pieces was a nice little touch, but they should give you the option of turning them off on story mode, cause they don't really add anything spectacular, and many times it throws off your whole momentum when the fight stops to show you a little 5 second scene.

Overall, its worth a rental, not a full price purchase.

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What did they do to my precious DBZ fighting game series?

Okay, it looks beautiful. I will admit that. I've heard people say "It's so nice looking that it looks like your are controlling the Anime itself". Well, the graphics actually blow the decade old animation out of the water. It would be nice to see the series re-done using this level of animation.

And the positive reviews stop here. I'm an avid fan of the DBZ series. Esepcially so when it comes to the Budakai Tenkaichi series. I own 1, 2 and 3. Burst Limit is to the DBZ fighting series or games as a one legged grey hound is to dog racing.

I am not sure if they dumbed it down for younger kids, if they just wanted to try something new, or just were too worried about the "pretty face" of the game.

The DBZ: BT series is known for being high-speed, fast-paced, all over the screen action. Burst Limit just shoved 6 metric tons of lead down everyones undergaments. I am used to "rushing" and "dragon homing". Now I get Goku floating across the screen at speeds that would have him paced by balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The controls have definitely been dumbed down. It's really just a matter of "wait till my Ulimate Attack powers up....and fire" system. There's crap for variety.

At most, I would reccomend this game as a rental. I'll be selling mine very shortly.

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its not bad i got it for a friend her really likes it , its namco bandai after all they know what theyre doing

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Its ok.Was expecting a better game but recieved a crappy DBZ ripoff.The Story mode sucked and the characthers are crap.I sold this game to a pawn shop because it was horrible.even the graphics blow

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Coming from the budokai series, I was more hoping for that feel. The combos and tactics and even more strategy are a nice touch to the budokai series, that I feel that burst limit lacks. When going against computer enemies, they will block most of the time, making combos incredibly hard to master because the amount of practice you acquire from fighting them is minimal. I would compare this more to a tenkaichi series game. One button to push and maybe add some direction on the joystick to change it up a little. The lack of variety (something that I believe the tenkaichi series did) leaves the replayability of this game to be more poor than the older DBZ games.

When going against other human opponents, well you have to find one first. Not very many people still play this game online so you are better off playing with friends or going against computers (but as was said in the previous paragraph, can get boring). When you do find an online match, it becomes a button mashing experience, barely any guarding. You are left with pressing buttons faster than your opponent and if you do an ultimate attack or a special, pray that they finally do not guard or teleport behind you.

Now that I have gotten the few bad things out of the way, I will discuss why this game earned 4 stars:

Part of it may be that there have not been great DBZ games for this generation of consoles whether it be from button mashers, to luck of the draw, to just plain cut scenes every five seconds. The graphics of this game are fantastic, I thoroughly enjoyed the direction that the graphics decided to take. The transformations are great and the action (when you get lucky) makes you feel as if though you indeed are taking part in a world ending clash. The combat, although limiting, is still very fun to get used to and the story line is lengthy and increases in challenge as you go. The battles get HARD, but that just gives the more accomplished feeling once you finally shut Broly up once and for all.

I cannot compare this game to many other DBZ games except the budokai series, ultimate tenkaichi and budokai tenkaichi 3, and I would say it has the punching and kicking mechanics of the tenkaichi series, with a budokai graphical setting. If you are looking for a current gen title, then this game should be considered. The lack of characters may be a draw back, but each character has great animations (if you ignore the occasional missed mouth to audio lag) and good energy blasts. Happy Gaming!