Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (Xbox 360)

Good stuff! Love the game. Good selection of characters. Not much room for transfomations during main game play though and too bad no SSJ4 (Super Sayin Level 4) other than that its good!

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This is the best game that was made from all the dbz games it has Broly super saiyan 3 and more.It goes till the majin Buu Saga.The music in the game is okay burst limit had better. The graphics is incredible.If you a DBZ fan you must get this game.The gameplay is excelent.

The only thing is the scenes in this game they dont show the ending video of a saga just writing.

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I got this game a few weeks ago and it is spectacularly fun offline. There are a very large amount of game modes and enough characters to be able to entertain anyone for several weeks or more. If you try to unlock everything it takes a good amount of time, which is great because I personally think that games are becoming too short. It is quite challenging at first, even in the story. The initial fighting is easy to comprehend, but then it has some tricks that you have to have pretty accurate timing for and it might discourage some people because the computer (on higher difficulties) can choose to use these tools whenever they feel. I'm not saying it's terrible, it is the computer so I expect it to be good, but it can be frustrating when 75% of your attacks are being dodged. The story mode is neat because you fight in basically every battle that took place between the saiyan and buu sagas. You also have a couple fights as Bardock and you get to go into Broly's saga. They also have some What-If stories and these are pretty funny. If you want to unlock all the missions you have to go back through each battle at least one more time to get stars. The stars are used as currency to buy Costumes, Music, and more Missions in story mode. To get the stars you need to satisfy certain parameters during the fight.

The menu music isn't the most entertaining sound in the world, but the only time I heard it for extended periods was when I was customizing my character. They do have some spiffy musical scores in some of the fights though. Mostly I did not pay attention to the music while playing anyway. I was more focused on the fight.

Customization in this game is really great. It has tetris block style customization which I personally like better than the previous capsule thing in the games I played before. There are many different blocks that enhance attacks, defense, ki attacks, and other special things including a few graphical changes. The character customization and special attack selection are separate areas of customization so you do not take up space choosing special attacks.

I did not buy this game for the online play, which is good because I did not like it. I played 10 matches online all against different opponents of varying ranks (mostly lower) and lost all of them. I did not expect to win a large amount of them but I thought maybe one or two. The reason I did not like the online play was that everyone I played against (even the bottom ranked people) chose the very cheapest tactics to win. Mostly it consisted of a 4 hit combo then a sidestep into another 4 hit combo with some ki blasts thrown in to keep me off balance repeatedly. I got some hits in and got my opponent down a few bars some times but I would always fall prey to the same tactics. Had I more experience maybe I could have dealt with it a little bit, but honestly if that's all most of the fights are I don't want part in it anyway. I'm not saying they should stop and give me a chance, but a change of pace in a few fights would be nice. I can't imagine its entertaining too repeatedly hit X and double tap left or right hundreds of fights in a row. Some people may find juggling enemies in this way entertaining, and if that's fun for you then by all means go for it. I just wanted a bit more to my fights then that. There was really no energy beam usage or special skills except by a few people who knew they had me beat. I admit they are pretty easy to dodge at range but there are ways to almost guarantee a hit. I'm not blaming the game creators; it's just how people played to win. I did not like it so I will not play that part. Maybe I just got a bad set of matches, but it was annoying.

I only saw a 3 or 4 different characters being used as well (which were the real fast ones). Most of the fights I did also did not allow the use of the customized characters. I assume this is an option chosen by the lobby creator and it seemed like a waste to get rid of a large portion of the game. It would help to keep it more balanced, but it is still depressing. I did not have many lag problems. There were a couple fights where my character would not do anything for a second or two until after I hit the button, but I would most likely have lost those fights anyway. Even a little lag could affect the Vanish times to avoid something though and that would be cruddy if you were really into the online play.

I had one major thing that bothered me in matchmaking. I would search for a game, find a bunch of people, try to join one and fail to join it. Then I would look for another game (because it kicks you back to a menu when you fail to join one) and I would find only 1 or 2 lobbies. I don't know if this was a problem or suddenly everyone found a match but it kind of confused me. I also rarely ever found anyone that played just player matches. Most of the players were in the ranked matches

Overall the game and fighting was pretty great. I liked it more than the previous ones; it seemed a bit faster paced since you did not have to use a combo before a special move. There are tons of game modes and options to keep you busy and entertained for long periods of time and each one is pretty fun. I did not find one I absolutely hated. I would easily recommend getting this game. If you are like me then do not get it for online, but the offline is still incredibly fun. If you are not like me then get it for the online and the offline because you will probably like it.

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