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Download Dragon Ball Z Raging Blast 2 Iso DB: Raging Blast 2 download dragon ball z raging blast 2 iso DB: Raging Blast 2. The popular Dragon Ball Z fighter returns with even more fast-paced, hard-hitting versus battle action! Feel the destructive power of your bone- crushing blows with tons of Super Attacks at your command, special effects that highlight the moment of impact and destructible environments that sustain massive damage as the battle progresses. Featuring more than 90 playable characters, signature moves and transformations, a variety of both offline and online multiplayer modes, and tons of bonus content, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 turns up the intensity to create an authentic and exhilarating fighting experience. Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2. Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2: The second game in this high-flying, fast-hitting, and intense versus battles series, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 promises over 90 characters from the massively popular anime franchise. Dragon Ball Z fans can rest assured that the destructible environment, and character trademark attacks and transformations will be true to the series. These include signature Pursuit Attacks which enable players to initiate attack combo strings, juggling your opponent in a string of devastating strikes throughout the environment. Additionally, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 sports the new Raging Soul System which enables characters to reach a special state, increasing their combat abilities to the ultimate level. Featuring more than 90 characters, 20 of which are brand new to the Raging Blast series, new modes, and additional environmental effects, Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 is the next evolution in the home console series. As a bonus for Dragon Ball fans, Raging Blast 2 contains the exclusive new feature entitled “Dragon Ball: Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans” — a completely reconstructed, re-scripted and re-edited version of an original Japanese episode that has never been released in the U.S or Canada, offering something unique to fans of the series. Everyone who buys the game can watch this exclusive anime straight out of the box. Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 Review. Dragon Ball is one of those anime shows that seems to have been around for ages and has a very specific audience. Considering the fact that just one fight can take up about ten episodes of the show – if you’re lucky – then you know that you need a thirst for action and a high patience threshold in equal measure. Translating the sometimes over-the-top action into a fighting game hasn’t proved to be an easy task over the years, and the series has never quite taken off outside of its own fan base. With the recent love for all things cel-shaded though, can it be time for a rousing comeback? Time to power up to 9000 and find out. The art style for Dragon Ball will be instantly familiar to anyone that has played a Dragon Quest game or the more recent Blue Dragon, as Akira Toriyama is the man responsible for all of the above. The manga version of Dragon Ball followed martial artist Goku on his quest to find the mystical dragon balls. Along the way he found out he was a member of the Saiyan race and could draw upon their incredible powers; he also managed to get hitched, have children and fight a number of powerful foes along the way. To further confuse matters, some enemies then became allies and vice versa, not to mention the fact that even death didn’t seem to stop fighters from popping up with alarming regularity. It’s the kind of series that demanded attention from the start in order to properly understand what was going on and that is part of the problem with the game. There is no story mode as such in Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2, instead you can fight through ‘Galaxy’ mode with most of the fighters. This mode does recreate famous battles from the series, but as they are without any form of explanation, the meaning behind them is totally lost on newcomers. Each fight has its own difficulty, combatants and set of stipulations too, some of which can seem a touch unfair. Taking on two fighters – one after the other – is a tricky proposition at the best of times, so how about five in a row, all while your health is decreasing? Frustration is the name of the game here. Winning battles will unlock new challenges, often in other fighter’s Galaxies too, so you always have a new goal to aim towards. There are also annoyingly tough ‘Ultimate’ battles that only the strongest will survive. Other modes let you set up tournaments, fight your way through battle zones of specific fighters or even head online to beat up your mates – all of which are just variations on the same theme. The real problem is laid bare as soon as you go into the ‘Tutorial’ mode, as there are a massive array of moves that can alter depending on whether you are on the ground, moving or in the air. Plus, a lot of fighters can transform into alternate forms which alters their move set once again. It all seems straight forward at first, with basic and charged attacks mixed together into combos, but it never quite pans out that way. You can also unleash a variety of super moves and ultimate attacks, and use a mix of speed bursts and aerial attacks to get the jump on your foe. The problem is that things just don’t seem to work. Unfortunately the ‘Combo’ attacks seem incredibly twitchy at times, with moves either failing to trigger when you expect them to or the wrong move entirely emerging. It’s also far too common to get caught in a ridiculously damaging combo, from which there is no escape, leaving you near to death without landing a credible hit. You could argue that you can dish out the same treatment to the AI as well, as even on the harder difficulties you can pummel your foes mercilessly, assuming you catch them while they are down, and pretty much win a bout in one fell swoop. It just makes the whole thing about who traps the other player first and removes any sense of fun. Each of the battlefields is massive too, so you could theoretically just run away when your foe powers up or activates a certain move, and be assured of safety, which is surely not what a fighting game is all about. Things also get amazingly lost when one fighter is in the air and the other is on the ground, as the camera struggles to keep up and attacks often fail to register even when they should do. On the plus side, the game has the look and feel of the Dragon Ball universe, and there is a positively massive roster of characters to choose from, including all the various transformations each person can go through. There are also a number of giant arenas from the show, which you can blast your foes through to your heart’s content. Not to mention a lengthy animated episode on the disc, a bunch of pictures, music and character bios, all of which means you can immerse yourself in the universe. Again though, this is all tailored to the die-hard fan and doesn’t really appeal to anyone just picking the game up on a whim. Don’t be expecting an easy ride in terms of achievements either, as the list will require plenty of grinding. First and foremost you will have to complete all of the ‘Galaxy’ and ‘Battle’ modes, which is a major challenge, as well as all of the ‘Ultimate’ difficulty modes, which are a pain in the ass to do, meaning this one will only be for the most insanely dedicated completionists. Assuming you can manage that then, you will probably unlock all of the characters, items, music and pictures long the way too. Not to mention racking up the victories online and fulfilling very specific criteria for beating certain opponents; which is no easy feat. Throw in winning a couple of Tournaments on Hard difficulty – which is actually one of the easier tasks – and this game is best avoided for those seeking 100%. The Dragon Ball series has been trying to peddle long range, multi-tiered combat for quite some time now and it never seems to pull it off. The controls and combos in Raging Blast 2 can be fiddly at the best of times and fights can become decidedly one-sided which is annoying, even when it’s in your favour. Getting stuck in one long combo without a means of escape soon gets old, and the fact you can treat the AI in the same way is hardly a comfort. The lack of a proper story mode is a real letdown as the ‘Galaxy’ mode never quite takes off, so the intricate plot is never really explained to newcomers. In essence, Raging Blast 2 is a game for fans only and doesn’t really try to open itself up to anyone else, and when a fighting game doesn’t even get the combat spot on, then you know it’s in trouble. Decent voice work and the usual over-the-top effects mean that the battles are certainly a spectacle. Though why does Goku seem to have a girl’s voice in the Japanese dub? Crazy. A nice rendition, but one that sees the characters lose some of their charm thanks to the blocky 3D nature of the combatants. Plus, while the battlefields are large, they can often obscure the action especially when things get destroyed.
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