Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2

THE GOOD:
*Had a wide variety of characters
*A decent story mode, get to fly around the map
*Had some good graphics and of course, the free open fields of Tenkaichi games.
*Had some unique attacks for few people
*In Game transformations are back
*Less generic attacks compared to T1 but still have some generic attacks in there

THE BAD:
*Too many generic attacks
*Not enough variety of combos
*Not enough facial expression
*The game goes right down hill after you finish story mode (it gets boring)
*No DB Storyline!!!!!
*The game can get repetitive
*The A.I. sucks in this game but A.I.s also get annoying when it comes to spamming rushes

SUMMARY:
Ok i will start with the Pros. This game has a wide variety of characters ranging from DB to GT. You can choose from 129 characters!!!!!(135 PAL version). This game also has a pretty good story mode as well. You get to fly around and visit cites as...

THE GOOD:
The use of about 125 characters (including character transformations) make this a very fun and repayable game over and over.

Unlike Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi which was the first of this series this one allows you to transform during gameplay making it more realistic to the anime.

Tag Team Battles are one of the best thing about this game. They allows for various tag teams and make for some long battle.

THE BAD:
Tag Team battle don't allow you to use any "double team" attacks which would allow you to combine to character's attacks at once.

As usual the AI/COM isn't challenging even on the hardest mode. Something should really be done about that.

SUMMARY:
The plot is pretty much the same as other Dragon Ball Z games so if you've played those you should pretty much know the whole...

THE GOOD:
-Very easy to learn
-The graphics are perfect for a DBZ game
-The largest character roster ever seen in a fighting game
-Great combat system

THE BAD:
-Very easy to learn
-Quirky level system

SUMMARY:
Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and it's predecessor have an original approach at fighting games, and this is the large, open enviroments and third person camera. This opens up an entirely new way of playing the game.

The combat system is nearly perfect, being maybe too easy to learn, yet very hard to master. The sheer amount of moves and combos easily rivals or surpasses any fighting game, and it includes some moves not even shown in the game's command list. One flaw with this however, is the fact that all the combos are essentially the same with each character, which can be kind of repetive, and also what makes the combat very easy to learn, and even play at an expert level shortly into the game.

The...

THE GOOD:
+ Semi-decent combat system
+ Easy to pick up
+ Vast Character Roster
+ Chargeable moves
+ New Arenas

THE BAD:
- Vast Character Roster
- Too easy to pick up
- Lack of Arena detail
- AI lacking in the..AI department
- Bland Super Moves
- Story mode that is way too long

SUMMARY:
The Budokai series itself started off with Dimps who developed Budokai, Budokai 2, and Budokai 3. A year later, Spike comes along and brings us Budokai Tenkaichi which was decent at best. One more year later, and they bring us Budokai Tenkaichi 2, and not enough is changed. Square is Punch, Triangle is Energy, Circle is Ki Blast, and X is dash/special. Nothing changed there, or with the other buttons.

The combat system itself was improved, adding in teleportation and being able to dodge to the side and change direction during rushes. The ability to transform was added along with different costumes for ever...

THE GOOD:
Good: Unique fighting system that's easy to pick up, tons of characters, presentation captures feel of show

THE BAD:
Bad: Not the most technical fighting system, not a lot of variation between characters, occasionally big difficulty leaps, cheesy story

SUMMARY:
Another year, another Dragon Ball Z game. Ever since the original Budokai came out in 2002, Atari has followed it up with annual installments that continually improve on this oft-overlooked fighting series. The latest, Budokai Tenkaichi 2, is easily the biggest and best so far, with the widest selection of characters and biggest assortment of game modes yet.

The story takes place over the entire Dragon Ball timeline, including the original Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT. Likewise, the character roster draws from major and minor characters from all of these, resulting in over 120 different playable characters. While this is great in terms of...