Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 User Reviews (PS2)

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GallantmonX's Review
Jun 12, 2005

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8.6 / 10
“Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2”

Written by GallantmonX

THE GOOD:
- Fun DBZ Game
- Fusion is enabled
- Cel Shaded graphics work well with it
- Better Characters

THE BAD:
- Story really sucked
- Some parts were too easy
- Should have been longer

SUMMARY:
The second game in the legendary Dragonball Z saga, DBZ Budokai 2, isn't really all it hypes up to be. After being released a good while ago, it recieved a lot of hype just because it was yet another Dragonball Z game, but it isn't really that good to begin with.

First of all, lets start with the good things. The graphics, because it was cel-shaded, was an excellent plus when playing it. I think it fitted the game perfectly because it just overall looked better, seeing as how DBZ is a cartoon-ish game in the first place. other than that, the fighting was pretty solid. Like the first Budokai game, it featured the regular combo system where you would hit a few punch buttons and then hit the energy...

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Djrocks' Review
Dec 28, 2004

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10 / 10
“Nice......”

Written by Djrocks

THE GOOD:
-The charaters
-Fusion!!!
-Super buu abosbing
-the costome
-The ternoment is way easyer

THE BAD:
-Needs more levels
-the story thing makes no sense

SUMMARY:
This game has about everything a hard core dbz fan needs it's worth the monkey [it will be better if it was maybe 3 dollors off?]The game really has what you need attacks and i love the super spirt bomb thing,and what makes the game really really kool is that there is fusion!!! and it has mad(alot)Charaters!!!!! the attacks rock and you get all lots of costumes to pick out of [some have 3 mostly 2]this game is great for any dbz fan/fighting,and people out there that are lazy just like me they are cheats for this game it may take a while but it is worth it.This game really needs more levels in the duel like 13 not 7 or 8 and for majin buu fan's there's like 3 majin buu's fat,super,kid buu so...

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Super Vegeta's Review
Dec 20, 2004

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9.0 / 10
“Dragonball Z Budokai 2”

Written by Super Vegeta

THE GOOD:
The graphics have improved alot being cel-shaded.

THE BAD:
Once again the Breakthroughs are way to hard/boring to do.

SUMMARY:
It's definitly an improvement to the first Budokai especialy graphics wise, I think the cel-shaded is way to cool. Also this game features fusions and super saiyan 3 Gotenks and Goku. There are way more levels and capsules to choose from too. The storyline is fun the first two or three times through but then after that it gets too repetetive and boring so getting the breakthroughs, Bulmas costumes and secret fusions are a nightmare, the storyline is basicly just a big board game too. Once again the music is ok but not brilliant. The storyline is mostly the same too but gone off course in some places. Overall i'd give this game about 90% as it is alot of fun and multi-player will keep you going for ages.

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capsule corporation's Review
Dec 16, 2004

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8.0 / 10
“dragonball z budokai 2”

Written by capsule corporation

THE GOOD:
great cel shading thought it was the actual cartoon plenty of characters and moves. a great fighting experiance

THE BAD:
not many stages and the story mode was a flop

SUMMARY:
took me a while to complete lasted well into july 2004
recomended on the platinum style and great value for the money but would buy budokai 3 instead anyday. great cel shading thought it was the actual cartoon plenty of characters and moves. a great fighting experiance.not many stages and the story mode was a flop.

its great the fact it is the official funimation voices instead of the japenese version

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9/10

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Statiix's Review
Sep 25, 2004

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10 / 10
“Sweet!”

Written by Statiix

THE GOOD:

Graphics are a little better than normal

Fusions

New amazing powers like ""Absorb"

Super Saiyan 3

Special effect looks very nice and cool

Very 'Custumisable' *Speeling*

THE BAD:

No SSJ4 or those GT characters

No "Create A Character" Mode - Though you can custimize a current characters powers and strength.

SUMMARY:
Budokai 1 = 2/5
Budokai 2 = 4/5
Budokai 3 = 4.94

=P

This is very worth buying and the price has whent down.I recommend this game

Edit Review - Some new DBZ Games have came.

Sagas - 1/5
Sparking - *Coming Soon But Currently 5/5*

I currently reocommend you first get Sparking when it comes out then Budokai 3.No reason to get Budokai 2 if you already got 3

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yO mUMA's Review
Aug 11, 2004

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9.8 / 10
“Dragonball”

Written by yO mUMA

THE GOOD:
One of many of the good things about the second game is that the stupid cutscenes have been removed, they were all in Japanese anyway, and there are more characters like Goten, Kid Trunks and Videl. And the graphics are better than the first time around because they look more like the show and last time they looked to real to be from the show.

THE BAD:
Now the computer characers are stupider and easier to beat. I thought that Kid Buu would be a challenge but he was a simple victory, even on the hardest setting. But this is probobly because I play this game all the time so I can see how long it takes me to collect all the capsules, but to a less than average player, Kid Buu would be a challenge on a low skill level.

SUMMARY:
In conclusion, Dragonball Z Budokai 2 is much better than the first one, but the computer AI could use an upgrade, but overall, Dragonball Z Budokai 2 is still one of the best...

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whitewolf's Review
Jul 13, 2004

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9.0 / 10
“DBZ Budokai 2 Awesome”

Written by whitewolf

THE GOOD:
Beautiful graphics, Detailed attackes and transformations, Great Gameplay, Good selection of charecters, Beautiful variety of attacks and skills, Damn near perfection

THE BAD:
Dragonworld is a little lame, And the fighting is kinda unrealistic, when a person gets hit nothing physically happens, with attacks like Big Bang and Father-Son Kamehameha, clothes should be ripped up and charecters should be bleeding, the stuff that is not letting the game be perfect

SUMMARY:
All in all this games kicks some serious ass. Perfect for Dragonball Z lovers and Fighting game lovers alike.This games is WAY fun, can be played for hours on end, when i first got it i played non stop for like 4 days.There is also a little thing when fighting called a burst, when you get into a burst fight the background becomes all black and you and your opponent enter an all out brawl, burst's are what make a fight look awesome. All...

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Seon's Review
Jun 1, 2004

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7.0 / 10
“A New Age”

Written by Seon

THE GOOD:
-New characters from the Buu Saga
-New moves
-Ability to Fuse by Potara Earings or Dance, even Fake Fusions
-Cool Story Mode
-New Transformations
-Better Graffics
-New areas

THE BAD:
-Story Mode is beatable in less than 2 hours

SUMMARY:
This game is by far better than the first. It tops it with all kind of new things to do and new things to see.

There are all kinds of areas that have special things that trigger when a special thing happens. Also new characters are playable including Fat Buu, Kid Buu, Dabura, even the older ones like Frezia.

The new ability called Fusion is playable in this game. Both Fusion types which are the Potara Earings and the Fusion Dance are useable. All kinds of Fusions can be made, though most a Fake or either aren't in the series.

New options are ready to be used, like Babidi's Spaceship, which is a place to fight multiple tests. or the...

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Ultimate Gogeta's Review
Apr 22, 2004

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8.6 / 10
“Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2”

Written by Ultimate Gogeta

THE GOOD:

Great game for Dragon Ball Z fans.

Improved graphics.

Much better than its prequal.

Now English dubbed.

More characters to fight as.

Better music.

THE BAD:

Gets boring after a while.

Collecting capsules becomes a drag.

Ridiculous enemies that are a waste of time, and you don't get to play as them.

No unlockable "side quests" unlike in the first one.

SUMMARY:
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is probably the best Dragon Ball Z game so far. This game has terrific gameplay, and will definitely last long. There are now more characters to fight as/against and they're alot stronger than they were in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai.
The game now has the US voice cast dub the characters, so now you'll understand what the characters are saying, so you can say goodbye to subtitles.

The Skills Shop has improved, since now you'd know what capsules...

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Gogeta's Review
Apr 12, 2004

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6.4 / 10
“DBZ: Budokai 2”

Written by Gogeta

THE GOOD:
Graphics and new charecters

THE BAD:
same moves,stages,no story mode.

SUMMARY:
--When I first got this game I was so excited to play this,then when I was about to play i say how the graphics look & they were amazing,I had expected it to be lame because of the outlines like as if it had been drawn(cell-shaded).
--As I started unlocking the charecters I saw that they had some cool finishers,transformations, & energy blasts.& they added some real cool finishers, like the move Trunks uses to kill Frieza,& I also noticied they gave some finishers to charecters that they never had used in the show,but could of defintly of used it( Ex:Cell's Spirit Bomb)
--As I deeper into unlocking the moves & charecters I noticed that they took out some charecters (like kid Gohan)& even some of my favorite moves like the masenko.I also noticed that some of the stages you play at stinks,like they had only one type of...

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