A well-crafted action experience, DRAGON BALL FighterZ is well worth your time.
89
Verdict
90%
Steam
87
IGDB
Verdict score based on confidence-adjusted Steam reviews?
Very Positive on Steam (90% positive from 75K reviews)
Engaging multiplayer/co-op experience
Outstanding soundtrack
No significant drawbacks reported
Dragon Ball FighterZ is born from what makes the Dragon Ball series so loved and famous: endless spectacular fights with its all-powerful fighters.
Runs well on modern hardware.
Last updated 11h ago
This game is just as cool as when it first released. The graphics are incredible. The character roster is not perfect, but it's more than passable. The system is easy to learn, and hard to master. Overall, good game. However, if you're buying it *for the first time*, I would just fully recommend against it. While the combat system has beginner-friendly bits and bobs attached, the majority of people who still play this game are people who've been playing it for hundreds, if not thousands of hours. This makes just about any online play discouraging and frustrating, especially if you're just starting out. Now, I know what you're thinking. "Just don't play online." But, the problem is that the online modes make up the vast majority of what there is to do. If you don't battle people online, you're either going to be practicing, mashing your way through arcade mode a few times, or playing the frankly horrendous story mode. Bottom line, if you want to invest e-sports levels of time into the game to get good, then go for it. If you can handle that, the game is incredible (aside from the borked story mode). But, if you're at all looking for a fun, casual time, or this would be your first fighting game experience, stay far away.
Absolute peak visual fan service paired with surprisingly deep, fast-paced tag fighting. Pulling off cinematic level 3 supers never gets old, and the mechanical skill ceiling is much higher than you'd expect from an anime fighter. The netcode used to hold it back, but if you love the series or classic 3v3 fighters, it’s an easy recommend.
Bar none, one of the best anime video game experiences ever created. It is so good and so respectful to the DRAGON BALL franchise, you would think Akira Toriyama possessed the team to create this fighting game. It is so energizing, that even when looking at perfect-looking cutscenes, you feel like teleported back to being a kid, watching this series for the first time. This was Arc System Works in their animalistic prime. Pure artistic, technical mastery and wizardry. Only thing more meaningful than to master this fighting game in your lifetime is to hit your head against a brick wall, it is that end result of perfection.
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