Product Description:
Back-to-Back Budokai Brawl. Dragon Ball Z Budokai 1 and Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 make their triumphant debut on next-generation consoles in Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection. Remastered in high-definition with full trophy/achievement support, fans can relive these two great games or experience them for the first time in one special collection.
Product Details:
- Face off with up to 23 mighty DBZ warriors in Budokai 1 and over 40 characters from Dragon Ball, DBZ & Dragon Ball GT in Budokai 3.
- 60 moves per character including Kamehameha in Budokai 1 and customize your DBZ warrior & build the ultimate fighter in Budokai 3.
- Follow the DBZ animated series from Sayan Saga to Android Saga in Budokai 1.
- Saiyan Overdrive Fighting System brings the speed, cinematic attacks & combos, airborne acrobatics & intensity of the DBZ anime in Budokai 3.
- Includes the authentic English voiceover cast in Budokai 1 and the authentic English & Japanese voiceover cast in Budokai 3.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing Fighting Games and An Amazing Fan Service! By Jonathan
First, this review is coming from someone that did not play these games when they originally released. I have, however, played most of the Dragon Ball games released this generation. (except for Raging Blast 2) For those of you that don't know, the Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection is packed with Budokai 1 & 3, NOT the Tenkaichi installments. This HD collection is done well, and packs plenty of content for the price.
The game retells the events of the Dragon Ball Z series. Budokai follows a more traditional storytelling method (w/cutscenes), while Budokai 3 uses the Dragon Universe. Budokai 1 goes up to the final battle with Cell, while Budokai 3 tells the complete story. If you're familiar with the source material, manga or anime, you'll experience many of the memorable events. I should note: the cutscenes and menus are at a 4:3 ratio instead of 16:9 ratio.
The gameplay starts off a bit slow, but as you get a hang of the controls, you'll eventually feel the intensity the series is known for; nothing like lightning fast combos, with a kamehameha to finish! You learn new moves as you progress, and also have the ability to transform in mid-battle. Specifically, X is to punch, Y is to Kick, B is your Ki, and A is to guard. (a bit deeper as you learn, but I won't get too specific.) Both games play as traditional 3D fighters, like Burst Limit.
The graphics are as great as they possibly could be. Remember, these aren't supposed to be full HD remakes like the recent Halo: CE Anniversary. Budokai 1 looks a bit rough, but decent, nonetheless. On the other hand, Budokai 3 looks amazing; the graphics can compete with some of the recent installments in the series and a couple of games released this generation.
A couple of extra notes: neither of these games have online multiplayer, you can, however, play couch multiplayer at home in the versus modes; I purchased this game directly from amazon.com and, for whatever reason, the game came with two instruction manuals (one inside the case and one outside); and, the game has a reversible cover which looks a lot better in my opinion (the other box art is the Budokai 1 and 3 original cover art split in the middle).
If you've played these previously and want a reason to jump back in, then here's an amazing opportunity. If you're a fan of the recent installments of this fighting franchise or the source material, then this game is for you. But, if you're looking for a hardcore fighting game with a deep and complicated fighting system, then you may want to wait for a price drop to give this a try.
Update 11/12/12:
I've completed Budokai's story, including the What-If levels (which are very funny). I did not run into any game-breaking glitches or flaws. The World Tournament mode is a little difficult, but very fun, nonetheless. I've also progressed deeper into Budokai 3, and it doesn't seem like there are any significant glitches in this game, either. (in case you were worried about purchasing a sloppy port/transfer.)an honest review from a dragon ball z fan By James
i've been a fan for a long time, i had the first budokai back when it came out for the play station, i have played all budokai's, tenkaichi's, and even other ones like buu's fury, legacy of goku 1 and 2, and sagas, now time for the review
Dragon ball z budokai:
This games was pretty good, when i first got the game i thought it was awesome, but since i've played budokai 3 and raging blast and stuff it didn't bring back as much nostalgia as i was hoping. The graphics are ok, not too awful yet not too great but what more can you expect from a game that was made a long time ago, the story line is very short, it covers the saiyan (sp?) saga, the frieza saga and the android saga, the story line covers only the highlights, i beat the story line in about 2 hours, after the story line, you have to go back and look at the chapters since they add things from the enemy point of view, instead of looking from the traditional goku point of view against vegeta/frieza/cell, it will put you in the enemy perspective and you have to defeat goku, so if you got the hang of the game tack on another 30 minutes or so, after that, you have the world tournament, levels are novice (3 fights), Adept (4 fights)l and advanced (5 fights) win each to get achievements and prize money which you can use to buy items to customize your characters, **spoiler** i just used vegeta and kicked, when he kicks he sends the opponent flying so i just got them by the edge and kicked them out of bounds. now since it only reaches up to the android saga, there's no one from the buu saga besides great saiyaman, no buu, no goten, no trunks, not even adult gohan. there's no movie characters like janemba, cooler, bojack, or broly, so that pretty much sums up the game besides that you can get super sayian for the characters that can use it, but the only character that can go past that is teen gohan due to the cell fight he can go super sayian 2, goku's is kind of ridiculous because you have to go kaokin (sp?) x5 then x10 then x15 then x20 to turn super sayian.
Dragon ball z budokai 2:
THERE IS NO BUDOKAI 2 IN THIS GAME!!
Dragon Ball z Budokai 3:
ahhhhh now this game brought me back some fierce nostalgia, put plan and simple it was awesome, controls are so much easier than the first, (i least i thought so) and the graphics look amazing. Now it doesn't really have a set storyline, you can be goku and go through his major points like vegeta, frieza, cell, and buu, but then you have krillin which will go through vegeta and frieza, and other characters like vegeta, tien, yamcha, kid/teen/adult gohan and a couple others, you fly around a map and go to each destination and fight whoever you need to fight, you can also go looking for dragon balls and unlock new content on your second playthrough of a certain character, so say you're goku, you can go through the main story actually you have to the first time, the second time you can kind of go off track, like instead of fighting frieza you can fight cooler, instead of buu you can fight broly, but you have to explore the areas that aren't regular destinations. all while leveling up your character, there's health, attack, ki, defense, etc. that's how your characters get stronger. After you beat the story with all the characters (Uub and broly included) you can unlock all the characters and fight in the martial arts tournament once again, same levels and same amount of matches as the first budokai, only difference with this one is that they included the cell games as the tournament after the advanced, i personally like it better because there's no ring out, you need to get your opponents health to 0. They also have the red ribbon tower (forgot what it was officially called) where you can put you leveled character and just fight against opponents of multiple levels, you have to go here to unlock 3 main things: Cell games, saibamen, and cell jr, granted the characters aren't very good you still need them to unlock everyone to get an achievement. The part i absolutely love about this game is all the characters, now they don't have janemba or bojack or android 13, but they have all the main characters from each saga, including goku, vegeta, piccolo, gohan kid teen and adult, frieza, cooler, cell, androids 16-20, majin buu fat skinny and kid, broly, uub, trunks kid and future, supreme kai, omega shenron, and a couple more i didn't mention, you can get most of the transformations of each character, goku can go all the way to ss4 as can vegeta, all forms of cell and frieza and majin buu, and you even get fusion for gotenks, vegito, ss gogeta, and my favorite ss4 gogeta. Budokai 3 reminded me of how much i loved dragon ball z and i'm very happy i bought it.
There is no multiplayer for this game but i honestly don't think it needs it, call a friend over and play together, not everything relies on online multiplayer, if there was the achievements would be way harder to get.Son ordered By Karla Pomarico
My son wanted this game and ordered it. Price was good. He plays it all the time
it is one of his favorites.
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