DRAGON BALL Z: BUDOKAI 3: Collector's Edition - FREE BATTLES ALL CHARACTERS Story #01 (PS2/PCSX2 HD)

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Published on March 29, 2022 2:30:05 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bdW7OyLrPM

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (2004)

Duration: 9:07:20

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So I'm letting the CPU (computer player) fight each other as every character following the story of the manga/anime up until the end of this game which is the DB GT Saga.

This were the third Dragon ball game released in November 2004 - I did never play this game during my teenager-years despite still being a DBZ-fan at the time of its release. In 2004 I were 14-15 years-old and I don't know why I never bought this game back then. I do remember looking at the cover in the store and thinking the movie-characters weren't very interesting to me - the movies suck with the exception of the "History of Trunks"-special. The second DBZ Budikai game had all of the original story of DBZ and maybe I thought it was good enough.. But I didn't know that the third game had a freaking RPG-styled story mode, had I known I would have bought the third game for sure back then.

So, this game is the third in the BUDOKAI series and as such it has improved on the first and second games in many areas. It didn't include cinematics in the Story Mode unlike the first game, and it didn't have the unique but boring cardboard strategy-game of the second game neither - but it did include a RPG-styled story-mode for all the DBZ-fighters and this is where this game shines the most, in the story mode you can pick different DBZ-fighters to play as and then you'd play through each of their stories, you level them up, earn new capsules/skills, moves and transformations - each character will move on a world map and then fight the battles like in the 2nd game - but unlike in the second game there are many improvements to the fighting-mechanics as well. For one you can now counter a move such as the "kamehameha" with your own, you can teleport away at the very moment an enemy blast is abut to hit you and all the ultimate moves now require some extra mini-games to pull of completely - reducing the spaming of the ultimate attacks and making them more difficult to pull off and more rarely used. The stages have been improved and now look much more detailed, all of them have a destroyed version and the music will change in the destroyed stage to more epic music, the music still isn't optional and each track is still locked to a specific stage or destroyed stage - every character now has a ultimate move and many of them can destroy a stage with their ultimate move. The details of colors, energy, moves etc are improved - everything good in DBZ Budokai 2 is expanded upon here and made better - the story mode is vastly superior, you have more characters and the nly thing a prior game had that is still missing here would be the cinematics of the first game.

This video became over 9 hours long due to the many characters, fights and rounds I decided to watch when trying to emulate the story of DB, DBZ and DBGT.

The game has mostly DBZ-characters, only two DB-characters unique for DB and about four DBGT characters. It has pretty much every DBZ-character except Dodoria and Zarbon who where in the first game but not in the 2nd and 3rd. It also is lacking most of the Ginyu Force.

The game is in HD -1920/1080p - due to the PCSX2 EMULATOR.

I only got this game as an adult llike back in 2009 when I were 19-years-old.

If I'm going to play the story-mode I think I'll do that on the PlayStation 3 HD Remaster. Sure, this PS2-title is in HD-resolution thanks to the PCSX2-Emulator for the PC - but the HD-remaster is even better looking.

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