Dragon ball Z: Budokai is a cool fighting game with a great fighting system.
This game has some excellent graphics. The characters look superb; the stages don’t look bad either.
The story mode is quite good but a bit confusing. The story mode is basically a series of fights followed by some cool looking cut scenes. The bad thing is that in the cut scenes there are some facts that are badly interpreted that only a real DBZ fan could notice. The story of this game is the same as the Dragon Ball Z TV show’s story from the Saiyan Saga to the Android Saga.
This game features 2 more game modes: the tournament and Hercule’s mode. The tournament is a series of matches in the DBZ tournament. In which if you win you can get some cash. There are 3 types of difficulty: Novice—Adept—Advanced. Each one is harder and and gives ore cash than the previous.
Finally Hercule’s mode is a survival that tells the “real story about how cell was defeated” in which you must use the weakest character in the DBZ universe (Although in this game his is quite powerful if properly customized. There is no reward for beating this mode in all difficulties (Novice—Adept—Advanced) so it is a loss of time, but you can use to practice if you lo to use this character.
I think that Dragon Ball Z: Budokai it is a great choice for DBZ fans and fighting game lovers.