Top 10 dragon ball z games pc

No other anime has had as big a ripple in the world of gaming as Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball. For many, the games are hit or miss. Some are a masterstroke, but others are Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22, a game dropped into game stores without any fanfare or critical love, or the unfinished Dragon Ball Z Sagas.

With the recent resurgence in Dragon Ball popularity stemming from the anticipation of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, let's take a long look back at the absolutely massive amount of Dragon Ball games and pick out the modern successes, fan-favorite classics, and some hidden gems. There has never been a time when fans have stopped consuming some form of DB material.

It helps that new Dragon Ball content is always being released, such as the recently-announced movie. As for the video games, rarely do a few years go by without something coming out. So much so that every collection of the best Dragon Ball games will always have a few significant omissions.

For instance, our list was missing a few really popular titles that deserve mention. Therefore, we've updated the piece to add a few more gems. The first thing to notice about Burst Limit is how beautiful the game looks. Few Dragon Ball titles include character models as stunning as the cel-shaded ones featured in this fighter.

While Burst Limit's visuals are its biggest strength, it's not the only thing the game offers. Battles provide plenty of substance to go with the game's style as each one plays out at a brisk and enjoyable pace. And even though it might seem simple at first, there is some depth to the gameplay. If only there were more depth to the roster, as one of the few downsides to the title is its small set of characters. But all the main figures pre-Buu saga make the cut.

Most of the best Dragon Ball Z games simply re-tell the tale of the anime. Supersonic Warriors does that, too, yet it also includes multiple 'what if' scenarios. These unique stories play around with the well-known DBZ narrative to provide something different. For instance, at one point in Piccolo's scenario, he brings back and fuses with Demon King Piccolo to gain the strength to take on Buu.

These original storylines are interesting and allow for the spotlight to be shined on less celebrated characters. The gameplay, on the other hand, isn't as groundbreaking, but it's enough to keep you entertained. It's always nice when the DB franchise experiments with other genres. This bit title is an RPG, which focuses as much on the adventure part of the series as the big battles. Of course, there are still many fights to be had in the game, but you don't jump from fighting Android 19 to immediately squaring up to Android Instead, you travel around the fascinating world of Dragon Ball, finding things and talking to people.

As a result, combat is a little simple, yet it's also oddly satisfying. Raging Blast attempted to take the formula for 3D, action-packed fights to the next level with more cinematic elements and big, flashy, fitting attacks. For the time, and even now, the game is a graphical beauty that does well to capture the feeling of the manga and anime. Gameplay-wise, Raging Blast doesn't introduce many new elements to the series as it plays similar to the Tenkaichi games.

Yet, battles are still fluid and fun, even if the wonky camera can be annoying. Plus, it provides something the anime never did: Super Saiyan 3 Vegeta. While the Xenoverse titles might not be ranked among the best RPGs of the generation , they're still both solid games.

There are very few Dragon Ball games out there. DBZ, yes, but not Dragon Ball. The old-school series is often neglected for the more over-the-top action, and fans who go back to the old series often don't care for the softer, comedic tone of Dragon Ball.

Which is why many fans made a huge mistake overlooking Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure, a Gameboy Advance beat-em-up game where you play from the start of the series to the final fight with King Piccolo.

Through a combination of platforming stages, flying stages, and fighting stages, the game boasts incredible variety even before considering you can play through the game using multiple characters.

It's one of the best Dragon Ball handheld titles. Sadly, when the Budokai series came out, many had forgotten these old-school games in order to focus on the new 3D fighting game entries.

It took all the great gameplay of the prior games -- western RPG gameplay, for example -- and made it even better. Plus, it has digital renditions of Bruce Faulconer's Dragon Ball Z music, which, for many growing up with the series, is a huge dose of nostalgia.

While that doesn't sound like a lot of content, it starts in the Dragon Ball era and adds a lot of content to pad things out. However, what it offers is a complex, interesting JRPG gameplay system. For fans sick of DBZ fighters, this game is great.

As the PlayStation 2 neared its demise in , one last Dragon Ball game was released to add to the already fantastic lineup the PS2 was known for. This game is essentially like a Budokai 4, taking most good elements from Budokai 3 and tweaking some major flaws. The exclusion of the "Dragon Rush" feature from Budokai is entirely left out here, which is seen as a huge plus.

While not nearly as popular as its predecessors, garnering quite a few low review scores from game critics, this game is loved by many fans and stands as one of the most underrated and underplayed games in the franchise. To many modern players, it may seem like borderline blasphemy to place some ancient, 2D fighting game above the like of Budokai Tenkaichi or Xenoverse. Other people who might've been on the old school internet might recognize the sprites as being omnipresent on forum signatures since the early '00s.

But few have actually played this incredible SNES fighting game. Among SNES fighters, this game was superb. It features stages so massive with so many different environments the game needed a split-screen. While it features far fewer characters than modern Dragon Ball Z games, none of them feel like model swaps.

It also features a unique story that leads to some strange plot threads involving Bojack. It attempts to do what has been done countless times, having the player punch and ki-blast their way through Dragon Ball's all too loveable story, but this time adding in some key RPG elements and polishing the 3D battle system. Kakarot is a fantastic single-player experience that really appeals to die-hard fans, and one of the only downsides is the lack of content for players who haven't grown up with this anime titan.

The RPG elements are fun and intuitive, but get extremely repetitive and stale pretty quickly. But, looking past the minor flaws, this is a must-play for any aspiring Saiyan warrior.

For a while, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 was the best fighting game in the series. It featured a terrific balance of characters, gameplay mechanics, fast-paced action, story mode, and just plain fun of any Dragon Ball Z game around. No other game has managed to integrate a rock-paper-scissors mechanic as well as Budokai 3. No other game save for the final one has featured a cast of well-balanced Dragon Ball Z fighters like Budokai 3 has.

Budokai 3 exists as a love letter to the whole franchise, featuring characters from the franchise's entire timeline. It offered fans a way to compete against one another in a sense in the pre-online heavy days of video games.

It made the less-appreciated Dragon Ball GT cool — arguably more so than anything has before or since. Burst Limit those models weren't even from the anime they all had huge muscles and it was so unrealistic. Raging Blast has the models down to the pixel. Runs at 60FPS online too. The best dbz games ever released were on snes and genesis imo. The best being yet imo dbz 2 : the sayan legend on Supernes. The rest of the games , especially the hd ones , were too busy being eyecandy and milking the franchise and roster , to be caring about gameplay , fihgting mechanics , proper balance , and most of all the speed sensations that should be displayed in a good db adaptations.

It was turn based, can't remember the name but it went up to the end of the Namek saga. It was like open-world and you get random encounters as you travel around the world. You can find dragonballs i think, not so sure. But it was just a really awesome game. The only jitter was that the English translation was not so gud. It was not as bad as "All your base are belong to us" but you get the point. Really need to find it again sometime. Only the best DBZ game ever!!

Burst Limit looked hot but the fun factor wasnt as good as Budokai 3. Samething with Raging Blast and Tenkaichi 3. The devs just rehashed the same game with less characters for a new system. Still beta after all.

Budokai 3 is the best DBZ game in my opinion. If they only made it in HD, I would buy it right now. That's Burst Limit for you then, just less characters.

Look at how crap that was. Yeah i know that the gameplay kinda sucked cause was way to slow but the soundtrack is pure gold. I think that Budokai 3 should be first and Tenkaichi 2 second cause their were simply the best.

The story is too old to be commented. FishCake9T4 d ago Im playing Budokai 3 right now. Tenkaichi 3 and Budokai 3 are my favs.