Dragon Ball FighterZ Guide 

Dragon Ball FighterZ puts you in a lobby where you then select various game modes including traditionally offline experiences like training and arcade modes. You can hit a trigger button to bring up a speedier menu, but this seems like an obtrusive extra step when there's no choice to skip the automatic internet connection until it fails to find the network. From there, playing online matches can be a hassle. You stand in front of an avatar, select ranked or player match, and wait around in the lobby until a notice pops up that a connection has been made. Story mode can be a bit lonesome and drags toward its end, but the lengthy nature of the narrative will be a great draw for curious fans of the manga and anime.Dragon Ball FighterZ has the depth more dedicated players will crave, but it doesn't stop itself from being a fun experience for everyone. Much like the series it stems from, the core of the series is based on a simple premise with deeper themes for those who wish to explore it fully. Build your dream team and sharpen your skills to master high-speed tag combinations.

Experience aerial combos, destructible stages and famous scenes from the Dragon Ball anime. Discover a never-seen-before scenario featuring Android 21, a brand new character whose creation was supervised by Akira Toriyama himself. Engage in ranked matches, interactive lobby, crazy 6-player Party Match play there is something for every taste. Story mode's only real downfall is how repetitive it becomes--you fight clones of only a portion of the game's overall roster ad nauseam. Each chapter is presented like a map with locations connected by a branching path. In order to get to the chapter boss, you have to navigate the board and pick and choose your fights along the way. Given that there are optional pathways in each chapter and that you can concoct your own team, it's not surprising to learn that there are optional cutscenes to unlock depending on these conditions.

Story mode's on Dragon Ball Fighter Z only real downfall is how repetitive it becomes, you fight clones of only a portion of the game's overall roster ad nauseam. Each chapter is presented like a map with locations connected by a branching path. In order to get to the chapter boss, you have to navigate the board and pick and choose your fights along the way. Given that there are optional pathways in each chapter and that you can concoct your own team, it's not surprising to learn that there are optional cutscenes to unlock depending on these conditions. You earn money as you fight and complete story mode milestones and these can be cashed in for a capsule which turns into a random cosmetic item, be it graphics for your fighter profile, the aforementioned avatars, or alternate color palettes for in-combat outfits. The premium currency in the game can be earned when you open a capsule to find a duplicate item. Spending premium currency will simply net you an item that you don't already own--not one of your choosing. FighterZ puts you in a lobby (which will knock you around until you find one with an opening) where you then select various game modes including traditionally offline experiences like training and arcade modes. You can hit a trigger button to bring up a speedier menu, but this seems like an obtrusive extra step when there's no choice to skip the automatic internet connection until it fails to find the network. From there, playing online matches can be a hassle. You stand in front of an avatar, select ranked or player match, and wait around in the lobby (or one of the other modes) until a notice pops up that a connection has been made.

Build your dream team and sharpen your skills to master high-speed tag combinations. Experience aerial combos, destructible stages and famous scenes from the Dragon Ball anime. Discover a never-seen-before scenario featuring Android 21, a brand new character whose creation was supervised by Akira Toriyama himself. Engage in ranked matches, interactive lobby, crazy 6-player Party Match play there is something for every taste. Dragon Ball FighterZ puts you in a lobby where you then select various game modes including traditionally offline experiences like training and arcade modes. You can hit a trigger button to bring up a speedier menu. Lets start it play Dragon Ball Fighter Z! Dragon Ball FighterZ is a 2D fighting game with only 24 characters at launch and a fighting system where the most complicated move is a quarter-circle forward or back. It’s easy to find a favorite character or three to participate in the game’s three-on-three tag team battles.Dragon Ball FighterZ made me want to learn more about the series. That’s partly due to the game’s small stable of fighters. It’s much easier for me to pay attention to and care about 24 characters (technically 21, since Vegeta, Goku and Gohan show up twice) than the massive rosters found in older Dragon Ball games.

There are light, medium and heavy attack buttons, each of which can be tapped in quick succession (or mashed) to automatically string together a combo of moves. The special attack button generally fires projectiles while pressed. Left trigger handles swapping characters in and out of battle and assists. The right button and trigger takes care of Dragon Rushes (block-breaking throws), homing Super Dashes and tide-turning Sparking Blasts, which recover health and increase damage for a brief period.Once you’re connected to another player and the match starts, it’s usually smooth sailing. It’s the getting connected to another player that’s the tricky part. The story mode is broken up into three unique chapters, each of which has you taking control of various characters in the Dragon Ball universe. The premise of the story mode is a tad confusing, but through mysterious reasons, Goku and his pals end up being knocked out all at once. As the player, you are somehow “linked” to Goku, and you must travel around the world reviving your friends and squaring off against evil clones of yourselves. Because you can mix and match characters in your roster, the story mode offers some unique moments of dialogue as characters who normally wouldn’t interact share quips and references before encounters.

Battles in story mode are chosen by the player on a map screen that has multiple routes leading to a story-specific fights that will move the plot forward. If you’re still getting your bearings, then the ability to choose how many fights you want to do will be welcome. However, if you’re already comfortable with the game, some of these forced battles against various fodder can get tedious. All of the story mode fights offer experience points and the chance to earn power-ups that you can use in future single-player battles, but I never felt a noticeable difference, no matter what level I was or what I had equipped. At best, going through these additional fights gives you more opportunities to see various characters chat with one another. Otherwise, these needless and easy bouts feel like they are slowing you down as you fight your way to the battles that contain the anime-quality cutscenes.

Arcade mode is a different beast. For players looking to battle against the computer, you get your pick of three courses of varying difficulty. In each, you face off against a handful of the game’s roster, and the opponents' difficulty is determined by how well you do. While the latter half of each course can become devastatingly challenging, the arcade mode is a great place to practice your skills against computer-controlled opponents who can put up a fight unlike story mode, where the bad guys are pushovers.The most common way fighting games address this issue is by displaying a meter approximating each player’s connection speed. While helpful, this method is broad and doesn’t accurately indicate the moment-to-moment lag you might experience. In FighterZ, you’re shown a running display of the current match’s frame delay as it fluctuates. This feature precisely illustrates how many actual frames of lag you’re experiencing at any given moment. For casual players, this will give them a more granular awareness of how much lag is currently affecting their match. For more experienced players, understanding the exact frame delay will be helpful in modifying strategy on the fly, as combos that demand precise timing may be difficult to do with significant lag.