Get ready…to play all your favourite Dragon Ball Z battles again.Again.Again.Again.Again. But this time, with visuals that will go…even further…BEYOND!
With all the subtlety of launching a gigantic ball of weaponised energy at the planet and calling it the Big Bang Attack, Bandai Namco has revealed that a new Dragon Ball Z game is on the way for the PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Here’s the scanned image from the upcoming July issue of Shueisha’s V Jump magazine, if you happen to be able to read Japanese, which shows off the very first Dragon Ball game for new-gen consoles:
While this version will no doubt recycle the same storylines the same way that Cape Town recycles their refuse and reasons why die Kaap is better than Jozi, there will be a new city featured that has some role to play in the game. Maybe. Probably. I don’t read Japanese dammit.
While I’m keen for a new Dragon Ball Z game with spruced-up visuals, I’m just hoping that this year Bandai Namco decides to kill the currently convoluted control scheme the same way that the manga regularly kills off Krillin.
A layout and input scheme that utilised what Dragonball Z Budokai implemented ten years ago for example, combined with the outstanding visuals? That’d take the game away from HFIL (Home For Infinite Losers and not Hell you damn censors) and into heaven.
Fat chance that that will ever happen, but let a fan have hope dammit. Or a dragon that would grant my wishes.
Last Updated: May 19, 2014
Alien Emperor Trevor
May 19, 2014 at 14:34
I can’t keep up with all these Pokemons you crazy kids.
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:35
You know what I smaak….Legacy of Goku. Gimme a new one of those why don’t ya
The D
May 19, 2014 at 14:39
Now you’re talking my GBA language.
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:42
Man, GBA + Light attachment , used to jam Legacy of Goku and MM:Battle Network till the sun comes up!
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:45
Pokemon,Battle Network, Castlevania and Metroid stole months of my life, so worth it.
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:46
That was my life man!! GBA castlevanias were the shizz….Flip, Aria of Sorrow was my game! Totally worth it
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:40
Emulator goodness…… I mean handheld
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:44
Haha, I’m a huge handheld fan, being jamming since Gameboy. used to love those cheap Tetris ones too lol
VampyreSquirrel
May 19, 2014 at 14:36
Moar DBZ games? Really? Seriously? Last one I played was on the Wii and it made my arms tired.
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:37
You played Wii….and it made your arms….tired??……oh geez man this is a family friendly site
VampyreSquirrel
May 19, 2014 at 14:46
lol! You’re calling this family friendly after http://www.lazygamer.net/general-news/educational-masturbation-game-denied-apple-release/ ?
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:47
It was written in a family friendly way…Kind of…..even though there is mention of fapping
Kensei Seraph
May 19, 2014 at 14:50
There was even mention of schlicking… the horror.
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:42
Krillin probably feels like he’s in limbo, dying in the TV series wasn’t enough now he has to relive it in every video game.
Matthew Holliday
May 19, 2014 at 14:45
such lighting on SS goku
unknown character on the right hand side.
unknown capsule space ship.
unkown location bottom left.
much curious.
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:47
Maybe a new storyline? One can hope. Though I doubt the win will be anything but lots of shouting, transforming to SS level whatever and finishing it with a Kamehameha or Spirit Bomb
Matthew Holliday
May 19, 2014 at 15:11
probably something similar Ultimate Tenkaichi, where you made your own Saiyan and played through the story line with your custom Z fighter.
same story, different character.
I just hope its more Budokai and less ultimate tenkaichi/battle of z
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 15:38
Agreed
Kensei Seraph
May 19, 2014 at 14:46
I wonder what running this would do to your power consumption?
RinceofFuturePast
May 19, 2014 at 14:48
urgh. More of the same. Yippy.
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:51
Attack on Titan, now there’s a anime game I want. And not the crappy 3DS version
RinceofFuturePast
May 19, 2014 at 14:52
Yeah, that would kick ass! Way past caring for Dragon Bore.
Umar Returns
May 19, 2014 at 14:55
Missed opportunity, Dragon Bore Zzzzzzz
RinceofFuturePast
May 19, 2014 at 14:56
Dammit! Nice one 🙂
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:57
hahahaha
Kensei Seraph
May 19, 2014 at 14:58
You mean like this one?
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 15:09
The need to fund this with a kickstarter and make a proper one.
Hammersteyn
May 19, 2014 at 14:50
Love those censorships
Japan = Mr. Satan
US = Hercule
Matthew Holliday
May 19, 2014 at 15:13
AKA: Mr Torgue from borderlands 2
CAE9872
May 19, 2014 at 16:18
How many DB games and spinoffs have there been? I have never played one…for a change I don’t even own one!
Are they glorified beat em ups? RPG-lite?
The D
May 19, 2014 at 17:34
Way, way too many. You’ve got the Budokai games from the PS2 era, which peaked at number 3 and was recently re-released in HD on PS3 and Xbox 360.
You’ve got some great GBA games such as The Legacy of Goku 1 and 2 which are RPGs similar to the legend of Zelda and a great handheld brawler such as DBZ: Supersonic Warriors.
Fast forward to the Xbox 360 and PS3 era, and the current crop of DBZ games have been great lookers, but plagued with boring ideas, combat and control schemes which are ridciulously complex.
Sovereign
May 20, 2014 at 05:31
I want them to take a couple years and make one that raises the bar. Ultimate Tenkaichi was headed in the right direction, but the fights were a little too cinematic. The create a character feature was so cool!