Dragon Ball Xenoverse Review | Hardcore Gamer

"After Battle of Z, Dragon Ball Xenoverse had no right to be worth your time, and it certainly has no right to be as enjoyable as it is."

[WizzroSupreme]

Looks like just what I'd expect from a Dragonball game, it looks like.

[joel_c17]

Killer sentence there champ. On topic I have heard that it's the best DB game in a long time.

[LAWSON72]

That really is not that impressive though. IMO this game far exceeded expectations but still is far from great. There are good times to be had and the attempt has some potential and with a higher budget it could have very well been amazing. The game seems successful so hopefully a sequel happens.

[CorndogBurglar]

In my opinion, its the best DBZ game to come out since Tenkaichi 3.

Tenkaichi 2 and 3 just really felt like you were playing an episode of DBZ. The fight system was perfect. Every character had all their transformations. It had every single character you could have ever wanted to be.

Those games just knew DBZ.

Xenoverse, while still being the best thing to come out since Tenkaichi 3, is still not even close to being as good as Tenkaichi. Its just missing so much. A lot of characters are missing. A lot of different transformations are missing. They basically dumbed down the transformations and just made everyone have either Super Saiyan, or Kaiyoken transformations in matches, and even then they are just limited time ability boosts.

Not being able to start a match as Frieza's first form and transforming through all of his different forms in a single match is saddening. Especially considering there are a LOT of characters with multiple transformations in DBZ. No Ki Clashes, or fight clashes.

Just so many missed opportunities.

This one just feels much more like a button mash fest than anything else, and thats not a good thing.

If they would mix this game's story and Create a Character tool with Tenkaichi's size and fight system, they would have the absolute perfect DBZ game.

[DivineHand125]

I would have given it a 3/5 for the following problems.

The game does not come with a training mode which makes players who are not familiar with the tenkaichi battle system like myself have a hard time adapting and because of this I had a very hard time passing the powered up saibamen in the early part of the game. Like the tenkaichi series, it does not have a good tutorial like Budokai 3 and expects you to remember the entire move set at once then throws you into a battle to fend for yourself.
Other things that got in the way of my enjoyment are the terrible AI partners that rarely lifts a finger to help you when you need a hand.
Also enemies sometimes do not play by the same rules as you and you notice this when you have to fight enemies with some incredibly high super armor with the worst offenders being the Gods.
It doesn't help that you are not able to see your opponent's Ki and stamina gauge which sometimes leads me to believe that maybe its unlimited(this becomes obvious when they can transform and maintain that form for the duration of the fight without fatigue).
The scouter mechanic was really good except for the fact that you cannot see the actual power levels of your opponent and allies which takes me out of it sometimes but it does do a good job of locating hidden items and gateways.
I Also hate the fact that the game does a poor job of explaining what each status attribute does and how they affect your character which could cause you to mess up your build during your first play through and the only way to remedy this is by deleting your character, beating the game and starting a new one or summoning the dragon.

Even though the game is great as it is right now with me planing on playing for only 30 mins but after I check the time, I quickly realized that 2-3 hours has already gone by when it just felt like I was playing for 15 mins. If those issues weren't present the game would have been near perfect and would have been the best DBZ game ever made.