Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 takes you beyond the earlier Dragon Ball Z sagas. Experience the full force of the most powerful fighters in the universe, in a challenge like no other. Discover a new "Dragon World", wilder match-ups and amazing new missions -- and see if your martial skills will prevail against deadly new villains!
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Flex and blast through incredible game world made from gorgeous cel-shaded graphics
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Customize your characters and unlock features from previous Budokai games
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The most lethal villains of DBZ are waiting to challenge you -- from Cell and Freza, to Buu in three forms
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Even more explosive Ki energy attacks to devastate your opponents
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Challenge your friends in brutal Multiplayer and VS. Tournament Modes
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52 of 55 found the following review helpful:
DBZ Budokai 3Jul 09, 2004
By Ryan I am in the army in Japan right now and I have played DBZ Budokai 3 and let me tell you, it's awsome. It hasa similar story mode to the Budokai 1 and the same graphics as Budokai 2 and it also has some extra modes that i have no idea what they are because the're in Japanese but they are prety cool and there is one mode where you can make your own melee or ki attack in which you can choose the color of the beam which character knows it how strong it is and all sorts of stuff and the characters include Goku,Vegeta,Kid Gohan,Teen Gohan,Adult Gohan,Kid trunks,Teen Trunks,Adult Trunks,Kid Goten,Teen Goten,Vegeto,Gogeta,Gotenks,Picollo,Krillin,Tien,Yamcha,Videl,Hurcule,Great Saiyaman,Supreme Kai,Raditz,Nappa,everyone in the ginyu force,all forms of frieza,DR, Gero, Android 16,17,18,19, al forms of cell,cell junior,Garlic junior, salt,pepper,mustard,ketchup,all forms of buu,baby,and more that i forgot their names. But overall this game is the best DBZ game to ever come out so far so get this game!
41 of 45 found the following review helpful:
A fun simple fighting gameNov 21, 2004
By Shaun O'Donnell
"Shaun O'Donnell"
Of all the Dragon Ball Z fighting games the Budokai series has always been easily the best. With simple responsive controls and fast paced action, and of course the crazy energy attacks, this stands above the first two as the best of the lot.
The story mode is vastly improved over last years title in that it not only follows the story, but allows you to develop your character (limited to the main Z hero's not villians or hidden) and unlock all sorts of hidden goodies as well as the natural progression of attacks and skills. The difficulty in story mode of course fluctuates and some times forces you to take time to strengthen your character (at randomly placed Battle Zones which range from Saibamen to Meta Cooler). Also at certain points in story mode (usually the second + time through with a certain character) you can sometimes branch away from the saga and do a movie battle of sorts (after you beat Frieza the first time but before Goku goes Super Sayin you can face off against Cooler instead). However this leads to complaint #1. During the key story moments instead of a cool cutscene we get this almost story book form instead that is really uncool.
The controls are identical with a few new improvements. The first is in order to make the action faster you can teleport behind your foe and hit but only if he attacks you first (a counter basically) as well go into hyper mode (all energy at once) which then allows you to unleash your most devastating attacks, which leads me to complaint #2. When doing the ultimate attacks it's either fastly speeding bar which is fairly inaccurate when you click to max it out or a 3 stage attack which increases the odds of you foe succeeding using the X O /\ or []. Most of the time despite being cool and powerful it's more of a pain to unleash than it should be.
Graphically it looks like last years model so if you liked the cell shading great if not tough.
The Voiceovers are great as expected, I found no problems with any of the voices while playing. However the Music is complaint #3. The music is Atari custome midi with little (and I mean very little) to none of the great american tracks that most fans who watch the series state side (not the imported Japanese) get to listen too. So at moments like when Goku first goes Super Sayin 3 it would be great to hear that track from that moment in the series playing. Or any big Vegeta fight have his theme going on.
Despite some of the shortcomings this is truely is a great game worth playing. It easlily destroys the past games and overall is worth picking up. I still say that this is what a 3D streetfighter should be like (or maybe more like the Recent Mortal Kombats it's hard to say).
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Hiram Lamar LockhartNov 06, 2004
This game is awwwesome in it you can fly anywhere you can warp behind people to, and there are plenty of characters like: 1.Goku 2.Vegeta 3.Goten 4.Trunks 5.kid trunks 6.Cooler 7.Broly 8.Piccolo 9.Tien 10.Captain Ginyu 11.Reccome 12.supreme kai 13.Majin Buu 14.Super Buu 15.Hercule 16.Android 16 17.android 17 18.Android 18 19.Krillin 20.Frieza 21.Dabura 22.Teen Gohan 23.Adult gohan 24.Cell 25.Bardock(Goku's father) 26.Gotenks 27.Teen Gotenks 28.Gogeta 29.SSJ4Goku 30.SSJ4Vegeta 31.1 Shadow Dragon 32.2 Shadow Dragon 33.3 Shadow Dragon 34.4 Shadow Dragon 35.5 Shadow Dragon 36.6 Shadow Dragon 37.7 Shadow Dragon 38.Bebi 39.Uub 40.Syn Shenron 41.Great Saiyaman 42.Kid Buu 43.SSJ4Gogeta 44.Dr.gero 45.Android 19 There is more characters than that but in this game you can even fire triple shot's it even has a Saiyan Overdrive System and when you go on story mode and you beat an opponent you get a level up it is in Walmart,Target,Gamestop,ebgames,toyr'us and Gamespot (...)
29 of 33 found the following review helpful:
This game is going to be greatJul 13, 2004
By GEORGE To start with, the graphics of the game will remain cel-shaded as in budokai2. This game will contain more than 40 playable characters including all the characters in budokai 1+2 plus Broly(normal form,ss1,Ultra ss), Baby, Cooler(and Meta-Cooler), all the three forms of cell and Frieza and Buu, also Gogeta (ss1,2,4), Vegeta(ss1,2,4), Gogu(ss1,2,3,4) and many others. Also, there will be a mode called Dragon road in which you can customise your character`s attack, defence and other... The story mode will be available. Also, the aura of the characters has dramatically improved and the characters can use teleportation. That is, characters can be teleported behind their enemy avoiding his attack. The teleportation can also be used in the world tournament to avoid getting out of the arena. I am not sure that freeflight would be available. This game is going to be great and i would buy it as soon as it comes out!!!!
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
Amazon doesn't know what there talking aboutNov 11, 2004
I saw the the commercial for this game and this game is going to be so unbeleivible. But at the end of the commercial it said "In Stores November 23rd". Amazon has been telling us every since they had it on here that it was coming out the 16th. If the people at Amazon get a chance to read this you might want to look into it and fix your release date for this game. For those of you who haven't seen this comercial, then here are some things that have been said to not be true but was in the commercial which would mean the it is for sure going to be in the game.
Power struggles with 2 energy blasts
Free flying
Baby will be playible
GTA style game mode which is totally 3D which allows you to pick a character an roam freely around the DBZ universe such as small citys and, islands, mountians and more. This is going to be just like the show. You can walk at anytime or take it to the skys and fly at lighting speeds at will.
I know for a fact that at least one of the shadow dragons will be in this game because Goku was fighting one of them
A whole new fighting system which has been completly redone
Damage can now be done to the stages
12 levels
Remember whenever you transformed in the last 2 games and all the happened was a quick white flash then you were transformed. This time around it's much closer to the show. It takes about to 2 seconds to transform and it make a pretty good sized explosins. If you watch the show then you know that the character sometimes scream when there transforming kinda like there in pain, this is how it's going to be when you transform in this game.
Another thing that's really cool is change in apperance. Example: says you are playing as Goku and you are fighting Vegeta and he uses is Big Bang Attack. After Goku is hit with the bomb he will be really scratched up and his clothes will be badly ripped.
Another thing is even though this game is still cell-shaded like Budokai 2. It looks so much better this time around. This game has some of the best looking cell-shaded graphics i've ever seen. Better than The Legend Of Zelda: The Windwaker and Viewtiful Joe.
Thats all that the commercial reveled except teleporting but everyone already knows that. I hope that this was helpful to every one
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