Super Dragon Ball Z (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Super Dragon Ball Z

Based on the arcade game, this is a fighting game in the Dragon Ball Z universe, developed by Craft and Master (whose team members include former Street Fighter producer Noritaka Funamizu. Super DBZ is a…

55 22 December 2005

What Super Dragon Ball Z is

Super Dragon Ball Z is a fighting game developed by Crafts & Meister and released in 2005. It was published by Banpresto. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Based on the arcade game, this is a fighting game in the Dragon Ball Z universe, developed by Craft and Master (whose team members include former Street Fighter producer Noritaka Funamizu. Super DBZ is a cell-shaded fighter featuring your favorite Dragon Ball characters. Each character has his own special abilities, with Frieza making use of warps and Trunks using swords for up-close attacks. The game uses a four button setup. Two buttons are reserved for strong and weak attacks. One button is used for guarding with another used for making your character jump. The guard and jump button can be pressed together to execute a dash move. Super DBZ features both ground-based and air-based…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Dragon Ball series

Super Dragon Ball Z is the 59th of 179 entries we hold in the Dragon Ball series. The next entry was Data Carddass Dragon Ball Z in 2005. Its critic score of 55 is 12 points below the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 at 88.

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How it was received

Super Dragon Ball Z holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 12 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 10 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Super Dragon Ball Z launched on 22 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection.

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