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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
  Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (known as Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! NEO in Japan) is a fighting game released on the PlayStation 2 and on the Wii. It is the sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi.

There are 129 playable characters in the game. All characters featured in the previous game are available to play as. Battles can now involve up to ten characters fighting one at a time on the battle field, with one teammate coming in after the other has been knocked out or when the player wishes to switch to another fighter. This is referring to Free Battle options.

The game has 16 large arenas (11 of which are taken from the previous Budokai Tenkaichi game) and 9 game modes. The game also features in game transformations, in addition to being able to choose to play in a transformed state from the start. In order to transform, you must press R3 and Left/Up/Right to select the form you want. One may also press Down + R3 to revert back to their original state (Only transformations that have shown that they can be undone in the anime can do this). Fusions can be performed in-battle as well, and it is performed the same way as transformations except that you have to press L2. Fusion can only be done in Tag battles and Free battles, and the player must have the suitable character as a Tag partner. For example, Base Goku and Vegeta (second form) to form Vegetto. If that fused character has a second or third form, you can press R3 + L2 + Up or Right to transform into that different form. A customizer has been made to change the characters (See Data Center). The Dueling Mode features a 'Battle Settings' option, where you can adjust the dueling time, COM difficulty level, and set the In-Game Transformations on or off during gameplay (See Dueling)
The Wii version of the game features a unique control scheme using the system's remote controller. Using the motion sensing controller, players are able to control their fighters by carrying a remote/nunchuck combo and mimicking moves from the series. Players are able to choose whether they wish to use the Wii Remote, the Wii Classic Controller or a GameCube controller.
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Publisher: Atari
Developer: Atari
Genre: Fighting
Release: North America 2006-11-19
Asia 2007-01-31
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Gameplay: 9/10Very good, quite an improvement from the last. There are actual button combinations now (As in [] [] [] [] /\ and such). More objects to destroy (>:D) which is a plus.

During a fight, there are MANY things you can do, such as teleport behind your opponent and SMASH them, slam opponents away, charge your attacks (Awesome), and many more. Once you get to the yellow bars you even start to get tired (Which hasn't changed from the last, but it's neat.).

And they even have IN GAME TRANSFORMATIONS! Yes, that's right. But for those who don't like IGT's, you can turn them off. A very customizable game, if I do say so myself.

Graphics: 10/10The graphics are amazing! There is so much detail on objects, that it makes you wonder if your still playing it on a PS2! lol! During battle, if you look at the water, you can see it shimmer and shine a bit every now and again. Very impressive.

Story Line: 7/10Same ol', same ol'. You go through each of the sagas and beat the same enemies. Woop. The only change is that they added more movies to it, but they were a bit boring. Although the what-if's are pretty interesting.

Music: 8/10Yay for getting rid of recycled music! They actually have new songs! Some are quite good, and others...well...they don't fit the "DBZ experience" very well, in my opinion. A lot of people say they should add in music from the show, but I, personally, don't care that much. It'd be neat if they did though. Meh.

Controls: 7/10The reason I rate it at 7 is because you'd better hope to God that you know the basic controls from the last. For new gamers, you'd better look at the two-hour long tutorial. Good luck. @__@

But for those who do know the basic controls, there still, is a lot more to learn. So it's best if everyone went through the tutorial first. The controls do grow on you though. Soon...

Replay Value: 7/10Well...as most fighting games go...after you've unlocked everything, you're pretty much done and you have nothing to do. But, you can always have exciting 5 vs 5 battles with the new tag team system. Those are pretty fun for a while.

What I like to do, if I don't have any friends to invite over at the time, is go into practice mode and have endless battles with the computer. It's actually quite entertaining. >_>

Overall

Very good game! For DBZ fans and non-DBZ fans alike! Any fighting game fan would most likely like this.

Have fun!

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