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Dragon Ball: Raging Blast

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Game Info

Publisher: Namco Bandai Games

Developer: Spike

Genre(s): Fighting

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 10, 2009

Summary

Interactive and destructible environments bring a new layer of intensity to the battle stages featured in Dragon Ball: Raging Blast. Smash opponents into rocks to increase their damage count and gain the upper hand in battles. Featuring the series’ trademark combat style, the game hosts a variety of the most popular characters taken from the series, all of which have enhanced features such as facial expressions for a deeper level of immersion into the Dragon Ball universe. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast boasts superior graphics that enhance the sense of the characters’ speed and power. In addition to classic signature moves, characters also benefit from a new "Super Rising" move which allows more variety in the battle stages and lets players explore new areas of the Dragon Ball universe. [Namco Bandai Games]

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What The Critics Said

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MondoXbox

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast manages to recreate with great fidelity Dragon Ball's anime series. The great richness of characters, modes and other contents makes it the best game in the series, absolutely suggested to all Toriyama fans, but not only: it's a good fighting game suited also for every lover of this genre.

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Multiplayer.it

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is the best game in the saga available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Spectacular combats and the excellent graphics make up for a less than acceptable camera. If you are a fan, you'll love it.

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TeamXbox

While the game’s got plenty of flaws that will bruise the experience for the average gamer, fans will likely look past the technical issues and enjoy reliving the series again…at least long enough for the next inevitable Dragon Ball game to come along.

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ZTGameDomain

Simply put Dragon Ball Raging Blast is a game for fans of the long running anime series. Its does its job not perfectly, but well. The game does make you feel like super saiyan at times, and then turns around and makes you feel like a green blooded Namek instead.

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Digital Chumps

Raging Blast has a lot going for it with 70 playable characters, lots of modes, online play, and a nice presentation. The camera and controls remain the most concerning part of the package, but for any average Dragon Ball or avid fighting fan, it's well worth a look.

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XGN

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is a good fighting game. You will probably enjoy this game if you're a fan of the franchise. But otherwise, there are a lot of better fighting games available.

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InsideGamer.nl

Everyone with a soft spot for Dragon Ball Z will embrace the video game. It's not the most complete Dragon Ball game ever, but it does feature all the big characters and storylines you'll remember of the Z universe. The camera is very sloppy and will cause quite a bit of frustration, the music is pretty annoying and last but not least: the game hardly does anything new (again!). Although Dragon Ball: Raging Blast isn't great, it still is entertaining enough to ensure many hours of fun.

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Worth Playing

At the end of the day, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast just isn't that good of a game. Despite the rich amount of content present, it doesn't seem to have the amount of polish and playability as Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit — or even some of the earlier entries.

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Vandal Online

A predictable but satisfying game, but it doesn't bring anything new. It is not a vain attempt because it won't disappoint those looking for a high definition Budokai Tenkaichi, but it's a lost opportunity to evolve the formula making the most of this generation power.

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GameTrailers

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast certainly feels and plays differently than your typical brawler, which is a good thing, but the dizzying camera limits its appeal to hardcore enthusiasts of the anime series instead of the general public.

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Meristation

Goku is back, but he's not as powerful as in previous entries. More characters and a new bunch of game modes, but its gameplay doesn't offer any new features. It's not a bad game, but it's neither what we all expected it to be.

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IGN

Sure, there's lots of content, but the stories are poorly told (which alienates people who don't already know them) and the gameplay mechanics have numerous, numerous problems.

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Extreme Gamer

Besides having a somewhat basic fighting mechanic, Raging Blast real culprit is a bad camera, and it is something that can not be overlooked. Despite this issue, I would still recommend Raging Blast to fans, and if you are curious to find out what Dragon Ball is all about, this would be a good place to start, just don’t expect miracles.

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GameZone

Sure, all the great characters are present and there are enough extras to keep fans wanting to jump into a tournament but the gameplay just falls flat to make the battles too awkward. There have been great Dragon Ball games before but, sadly, this one does not qualify.

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3DJuegos

There is nothing particularly hateful or lovable about Raging Blast, and that is its main problem. The new Dragon Ball is clearly made for fans, but it doesn’t work as a deep and engaging fighting game.

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GameSpot

The huge assortment of characters, stories, costumes, and other aspects of Dragon Ball lore cannot hide how shallow and uninspired the fighting mechanics are.

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

Perfect for quick blasts of fun. [Jan 2010, p.112]

Thunderbolt

Dragon Ball Raging Blast is best when viewed as a nostalgia piece. The sheer amount of Dragon Ball related material in the game is staggering, and for fans, presents a wonderful value. For the uninitiated though, the package isn’t quite as rounded.

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Cheat Code Central

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast has a lot of things going for it including an interesting story mode, great graphics, and a huge character roster. However, the foundation of the game - the battle system - isn't very fun, and that sinks the whole experience.

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GameDaily

While Raging Blast has a likable presentation and lots of options, the stale fighting and infuriating camera are hard to ignore.

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AceGamez

It’s a sluggish, unintuitive, stumbling mess of a fighter, with only a handful of redeeming features, none of which raise it much further from the gutter of ineptitude it resides in.

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GameFocus

Those willing to experiment and take notes will still be rewarded with powerful techniques, but outsiders will not see a reason to join in. If they’re unfamiliar with Dragon Ball, the complicated controls will only serve to validate their decision to stay away from this game. For that reason, this game is for die hard Dragon Ball fans only. And maybe not even them.

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Kombo

There isn't anything truly innovative brought to the table and the gameplay suffers from poor design.

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Xbox World 360 Magazine UK

Alienates gamers to appease the fans and ends up impressing neither party. [Jan 2010, p.75]

X360 Magazine UK

When the camera decides to point at nothing its problems are inexcusable. [Issue#53, p.94]

Official Xbox Magazine

Do yourself a favor and stick to Street Fighter IV. [Jan 2010, p.75]

Gaming Age

Still, even with the excessive fan service employed here, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast is a far cry from a good game, or even a good Dragon Ball related game.

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Game Revolution

The online mode is there as it is with nearly every fighting game to come out in the last five years and it serves its purpose just dandy. Unfortunately, the broken gameplay immediately removes any gold starz DBZ would have eared for online functionality.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

pier para gave it an8:
Seriously this game is not the best ever but giving it a 57 is totally stupid... Of course the camera is a little bit hard at beginning but with time you know how it works... But there's a lot of characters, customisation, story. Seriously A good game which is a good 8

JEZ Nah gave it an8:
This game has some things that are nice some are not. First, good things: story mode pretty nice, graphics excellent, battle is pretty challenging and sooo hard to beat up (nice) ; Bad things: Can´t unlock camera (its always pointing to the enemy, hate that), when you lose a battle and battle is over sometimes if the character is charging you still have to wait until he finishes and then is game over, can´t put on a started game restart level or fight, it takes to long to transfome and to change character. I think thats all.

McGill L gave it a9:
This game was just plain fun, and I have owned Street Fighter 4, Teken 6, and Soul Caliber 4. It really feels like the show, with lots of replayibility and more characters than the average fighting game. The online is lag free, the story mode is long (But doesn't tell the story well), and you can pick it up and play it, while leaving lots of room for improvment. This game is a lot better than Burst Limit, and I enjoy playing this with my friends more than Street Fighter 4. Why? Because the World Tournament mode is awsome, the 3-D arenas with destrtibale objects is awesome, and this game is awesome! Gameplay: 9 / 10 Music : 10 / 10 (I didn't expect this much guitar) Multiplayer: 9/10 Replayability: 8.5/10 Fun : 9 / 10

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