Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z Screens Ki Blast in From Japan Expo

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Richard Walker

Scheduled to launch in the west later this year, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z has been given a new selection of screenshots fresh from the Japan Expo.

The game features massive co-op battles for up to 4-players to band together in teams in huge 8-player battle royales between their favourite Dragon Ball Z characters, like Goku, Gohan, Frieza, Krillin et al. Special Force and Super Saiyan GOD will also appear in the game.

Promising four different battle types, the usual pyrotechnics-laden anime visuals, and a fully-featured solo play mode, Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z is "coming soon" to PS3 and PS Vita. Check out the trailer and some of the new screens below. You can look at all the new images in the gallery.






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  • RELEASE DATE?! i must have release date!! dbz for life!
  • this totally reminds me of dbz legends one of the best games that were ever released, i so cant wait for this.. pity its not coming for the PS4 :( sorry for double post btw.
  • Looks epic, hopefully it doesnt disapoint as im starting the series and would like a good game eventually. The graphics looks sick as well :)
  • wich series are included ? i hope th game start from the begin in the tournament vs Piccolo,ande then against Radish,Nappa,Vegeta....after on Namecc vs Gynyu team and Freeza,Zarbon,Dodoria...included Cell saga and Majin buu saga....
  • honestly they need to make a budokai tenkaichi 2 style game, that had the best story with an insanely in depth progression system....nothing more satysfying having a level 125 SS3 goku defeat a level 400 buu, there was that sense of being up against it and the story was actually very long and fulfilling......that was a ps2 game, no excuses for failing ever since
  • The "Super Saiyan God" eh? So does this mean we'll be getting a copy of the DBZ special that released a few months back? Goku fights the god of destruction! It was pretty epic and the animation was top notch!
  • I hope GT is in it, I know it was probably the weakest of the three, but there were some pretty cool powerful characters in it.
  • i am so buying this day 1, it looks sick
  • Fair warning ladies and gents. I recently went to Japan and was able to play the actual arcade cabinet version of this game. I love DBZ, all things DBZ and was so excited I found a Club Sega that had a whole floor dedicated to this new game I have never heard of. This is going to be a disappointment for DBZ fans. This game looks great, sounds great and plays horribly. First off there is no customization. You get one special attack per character and that is it. You pretty much fly around a small 3D battlefield, lock on to an opponent and mash the melee button. The other buttons are Ki Blast, Dodge, Guard and Lock On and Run/Rush. You can battle like 8 people at once online. (Got to love how in Japan every fighting game is hooked up online so you don't have to wait for local players to join in) But what could have been a really sweet online brawler turns into a melee mashing lock on fest. It gets really boring very fast. I pumped maybe 700 Yen into it and beat one of the story mode chapters and played a few rounds online. It was just the same thing over and over. You can literally beat the story mode by mashing melee. I was talking to people and not even looking at the screen and had a character locked on and kept hitting melee attack and won. I was playing as Krillin too so add that insult to injury... I just hope this is like a PSN title and not $60. The only thing you can change for each character is one item slot which holds a senzu bean, a power increase item or defense increase item. Specials and Transformations are done by pressing a couple buttons at once. Gone are the build up of combo P,P,P,P+K to do a special, here they are the insta-specials. But to counter that they are very easy to dodge, block and even counter with your own special.
  • Btw, this was released to coincide with the new movie where Goku battles a God. It has a ton of characters, including 2 new ones from the movie. Hercule, Krillin, Yamcha, they are all here. They are all the same (no power or level differences) besides their one special, but at least they have a big roster. A game where Goku is as weak/strong as Krillin. Let that sink in.
  • @1 Relax lol Dragon Ball Z Battle of Z PS3 and xbox 360 will release on March 31st 2014.
  • @11 that long? :( hw do you know this mr phillips? :p
  • @1 Because Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z will take some time this year to make a amazing game, and next year too, I went on amazon and pre order it, and it shows the release date for Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z March 31st 2014.
  • Not sure if I really like the idea of 8 player multiplayer. Seems like things could get very messy. I think I'll wait for reviews before I get into this one.
  • @9 You're talking about Zenkai Battle Royale, and yes they do have some similarities, like the 4 Vs 4 battles, but they're not the same game. So let them finish the game before you bring it down ok?
  • Hope it comes with an English sub of the new movie, like Raging Blast two did.
  • looks like fun!
  • AHHHHHHHH OMG YAY AHHHHHHHHHHH GIVE ME IT NOW
  • Wow those screens look really nice! I havent played any of the newer DBZ games, only the HD collection. Hopefully it's good :)
  • I just want a new budokai, this games are good but. budokai for ever, my hd collection is screaming "please donĀ“t play me any more!!!!" lol
  • They are still milking this franchise? I do not exactly hate the series, but I have not played a good DBZ game since the Budokai's and Budokai Tenkaichi 2. Everything DBZ seems to suck hard ever since.
  • At this point with DBZ I want a DBZ mmo. I want to make my own saiyan and earn ss1, 2, 3, 4 fusion and so forth....If not a mmo but maybe a RPG. I don't know if anyone ever played DBZ on warcraft 3 but that crap was fun as hell. I don't see why DBZ needs to always be a straight fighter game.
  • @22 Try Dragon Ball Online.
  • i love dbz but the games are getting to repetitive they just update graphics but restart the story from the sayian saga clear to the buu saga than a few years later the same with a new movie added to it. but glad to hear the dbz name lives on.
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