[PS2] Dragon Ball Z Sparking !!

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If you had to guess, how many Dragon Ball games do you think there are? Six? 10? 15? 20?!? You're not even close. Try 30+ games spanning the course of eighteen years and fourteen different consoles. Given that, you would generally think the franchise should have died by now, wouldn't you? And yet, it's still around and going strong. Atari's recent successes in the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series have sold over eight million copies worldwide, paving the way for their newest installment: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi.

As much as Atari's most recent Dragon Ball Z game ("Dragon Ball Z: Sagas") was a departure from the traditional fighting-action game into the RPG genre, Tenkaichi looks to be the series' triumphant return. Apart from new name (Tenkaichi means "World's Best" in English), the game offers a variety of new features to toy with, while still dishing out plenty of the old. Yes, you can still wreak havoc upon the battle environments, turning a town into a desert with a massive lens flare. This time, however, you get to chose who you want to eviscerate from all of creation with from a list of over 60 different characters (a fairly large increase from Budokai III's 38 characters). Characters from both the Dragon Ball GT series, as well as from the 13 Dragon Ball Z movies (only 10 of which have only been released in the US), are finally being welcomed into the center ring. Maybe some new non-anime characters, ie the Gokule and Tiencha fusions from Budokai II, may make their appearances here as well. (Hell, who wouldn't be glad to spend the 50 dollars to see a Super Saiyan 3 Raditz take on an adult Super Saiyan version of Gotenks).

The single-player Dragon, two-player Versus, and World Martial Arts Tournament modes are back, in addition to three all-new modes: Ultimate Battle, Dragon Capsule, and Evolution Z. The character attribute system, first implemented in Budokai III, has been revitalized, this time with ten stats to modify instead of seven. The game also comes with unlockable video footage from the anime series. This is an improvement on the unlockable "audio clips" from Budokai III, which provided the average Dragon Ball Z fan with a few seconds of mild entertainment followed by a feeling of "was that really necessary?"

The most noticeable feature so far, however, is the artistic quality of game. Ever since Budokai II's experiment with cel-shading, the characters have begun to look more like their anime counterparts, giving the player an almost overwhelming sense of control -- that one is actually directing the very characters from the show, and not just videogame sprites. Atari has finally got the glowing hair down to an art, as well as the control aspect of the energy attacks. The environments too have changed, allowing for players to fight in three regions now: on air, on ground, and in water. Water combat, though rarely seen in the anime, should be fascinating to toy with (hoping that they manage to get the underwater energy blasts right). On the topic of attacks, two new attack styles called Rush and Smash Attack are to be implemented, similar to that of the "Dragonrush" feature a la Budokai III. These will hopefully add to the energized frenzy of it all.

All things considered, this promises to be the most electric Dragon Ball Z game yet, a promise heard time and time again throughout the Budokai series, and a promise Atari consistently manages to deliver.

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This time, however, you get to chose who you want to eviscerate from all of creation with from a list of over 60 different characters (a fairly large increase from Budokai III's 38 characters). Characters from both the Dragon Ball GT series, as well as from the 13 Dragon Ball Z movies (only 10 of which have only been released in the US), are finally being welcomed into the center ring. Maybe some new non-anime characters, ie the Gokule and Tiencha fusions from Budokai II, may make their appearances here as well. (Hell, who wouldn't be glad to spend the 50 dollars to see a Super Saiyan 3 Raditz take on an adult Super Saiyan version of Gotenks).

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