


As you would imagine, any character that has been tagged out will slowly regenerate their health, making it important to manage your characters’ health bars, while also taking care not to to recklessly tag in when your opponent is able to punish it.īasically, this will all seem super familiar to anyone who’s played any of the Marvel vs Capcom games, but so far, it seems like Dragon Ball FighterZ is doing a great job of adapting the 3v3 style and putting a Dragon Ball Z spin on it.Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension is a 2D sci-fi fantasy fighting game developed by TOSE and published by Bandai for the Super Famicom exclusively in Japan on March 29, 1996. Assists can be called down with a press of the left trigger and bumper, tags can be done by holding the buttons down, and you can even do delayed hyper combos by inputting the command of your teammate’s super and pressing the assist button during the active character’s super. Next up, taking a page out of Marvel vs Capcom’s book, Dragon Ball FighterZ is 3-on-3 fighting with all of the depth and complexities that go along with it. Even going beyond just the look of the game, which is stunning in its attention to detail, just about every maneuver, stance, taunt, and pose is taken straight from the source material. It’s also worth mentioning that this is perhaps the most true to the source material Dragon Ball video game that there has ever been. It can be used in combos as a way to extend them and increase their damage, or it can be used defensively to get out of a bad situation. Players can only use Sparking Blast once per match, and popping it will give a character an immediate boost in power in addition to regeneration of all of their blue life. Then there’s Buu, who’s a comparatively slow-moving powerhouse.ĭragon Ball FighterZ also has a comeback mechanic very similar to X-Factor from Marvel vs Capcom 3 in the form of the Sparking Blast. Gohan and Vegeta are straight-up aggressive rush down characters that excel at getting in your face with dizzying speed, and Frieza’s especially good from a distance with a bunch of long range attacks, including unblockable destructo discs.

As for how they play, Goku and Cell feel like the most well rounded, not particularly excelling or faltering in any areas. As far as characters go, the developers have been mostly quiet with regards to who we can expect to see populate the roster, but for now, we’ve got seven confirmed characters: Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Frieza, Cell, Majin Buu, and the recently announced Future Trunks.
