Monday, December 23, 2013

DBZ: Battle of Z First Impressions!

I was actually crazy excited for this game ever since it was announced earlier this year. Watched a ton of video on it, read all the updates I could find, and downloaded the demo as soon as I had heard it was available. Unfortunately I'm not nearly as excited for its release now, and I am actually quite disappointed in what parts of the game I've tried thus far.

Anyone remember Dragon Ball Z Sagas? Yeah, its like on that level of bad. Its seems like another game that has a really cool idea, but is just being executed poorly. The idea of the game is pretty simple. DBZ characters and fighting, but with a battle royal style. Good. That actually seems pretty cool. Unfortunately, it seems like the developers have forgotten the past 15 years of making DBZ games, because the fighting is terrible. Again, this is only a demo I'm playing, but can the finished product really be that much improved? I mean they'd have to completely throw out the way you fight, and implement a new control scheme in the next 3 weeks. The targeting system is goofy and there is an extreme lack of diversity in the combo system. I played through four stages using the same move over and over.

I usually don't complain about character AI( mainly because its almost always bad), but holy shit.....It was almost like my partner was allergic to the enemy, and fighting, and anything else useful. This is definitely going to be a game you want to play with other people, and maybe I should give it another go with some buddies next time.

Pros:

  1.  Its DBZ
  2. Wide open areas to fight
  3. ...............
Cons:

  1.  Overuse of Saibamen
  2. Boring combat
  3. Super dumb AI


That is it so far, I'm going to back and try iy again in a bit, and play with some buddies this time to see if that helps this game any. I'm hoping it does, Id hate for this game to be the Dragon Ball Z Sagas of 2014. The game ships on January 29th of next year.

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

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