Dragon Ball Meets Destiny

Every year a new Dragon Ball game. We wade through menus, beat us in various modes to play for the history of the series, are used to control precisely the famous characters of the series. So that everything is said, everyone gets what he knows and we can finish this review ... NOT! So far, in fact any Dragon Ball game was exactly this scheme F. So far! One thing you have to this game from the beginning very high count: It shows how a series of games can reinvent itself without destroying the basic concept.

Story:
The biggest change you get right after the intro to see: You're playing not primarily with a famous hero of the series. A mysterious enemy changed the course of time. The Trunks from the future with his time-Patrol tried exactly this repeatedly to prevent. But the new enemy is so powerful that he is asking Shenlong summon a mighty warrior who supported him in battle.
The story itself will not win any awards for innovation and only unfold their full potential, if you know the story of the anime. I think that in principle but not bad. After what felt like Anime and millions of DBZ games where you played exactly this story over and over again, have fans who probably rely primarily on this game, the story slowly presumably so internalized that you can have a say every sentence. And that the fans be addressed with this "new" story. Clear it is still struggling known from the series fights. But even with modifications - sometimes even with interesting "what-if" scenarios.
But the break follows her not only in the story. The hero who is called by Trunks, is your own character. You can choose between 5 races, which differ in their attributes: Sayajin (The Goku-race) people Namek (Piccolo-race), Majin (the Boo-race), and the freezer-race (ie actually so ).
Have you decided on a race, the next step between the sex should be chosen. The sexes have again affect your stats. The look you can put together yourself. The choice of components is not huge, but large enough to create an individual character.
With your character you're trying now with trunks the changes in time to compensate, so that the time line is not changed.

Gameplay:
All menus in the series are almost completely gone. Output for all fights is the Tokitoki City. A town of 3 areas, serving as Hubworld. This Hubworld, provided you're playing the game online, at the same time a point of contact for the other players of this game. It recalls here very close to the Tower of Destiny. About Posen and predefined chat commands you can also communicate with other players.
Then all game elements are achieved over the city: story missions, parallel quests Versus matches, and tournaments online. The latter is in the game is not yet available, but it will be interesting how these tournaments will look. But also off it reveals itself that more in this game than just a brawler infected. Parallel Quests serve to improve your character. Here you control your character through a few areas linked and performs different tasks such as kill certain opponents, finding objects or the like. To support these tasks you get early in the game a Scouter who shows you the strength of opponents or marked items. Objects from the parallel quests Can you also take into Hubworld, more on that later.
The quests win structurally safe no prizes for innovation, but they loosen up the whole game on. You may be able also to perform with a specially configured team from a total of 3 players. Alternatively Computerized assistants rather than real players.
The quests help you level up, attributes, skills etc. to improve. And here suddenly hiding in this Brawler also RPG and is also similar to here in a way, Destiny. And that does not negatively evaluate one principle. The steady improvements fits naturally to setting (always stronger and more powerful will to fight stronger opponents), but it also motivates scary. Toll!
So you can customize your character further, you can unlock you new skills or equipment. This also works great and motivated insane.
If you ever do not want to play with your character, you can of course also fight very classic with the familiar characters playing in Versus.

The combat system is very intuitive. Here was attached importance to stage cool fights, instead of a strong barrier to entry. Special attacks can be, for example, easily activated via a menu via trigger button. Nevertheless, that does not mean that this combat system does not have a draft. It depends very much on reaction and who always has his combos and using it correctly, the better player will always be compared. The camera is how it was introduced with Budokai Tenkaichi, more behind the character, giving the fighting in my opinion much more dynamic.
A pity, I find that special attacks hardly show permanent damage in the area. Rocks, similar houses are only very rudimentary destructible.
Despite all the multiplayer integration the movement is in Übrigem but also completely offline games!

Graphics:
The graphic was always referred to in the tests as something old-fashioned, so I really can not quite understand. Yes, the graphics around the world has not become so much better. However, the character has improved significantly. Here I would say that you can say for the first time in a DBZ game that the characters as 1: 1 have jumped out of the anime. The special attacks are apart from the lack of destruction massive. This sure no graphics revolution - but a fancy game!
The sound is just as fine. English or Japanese speakers do well, fits the music. Runs!

Conclusion:
Dragonball Xenoverse is basically still a familiar Brawler, but the completely repackaged themselves, even reinventing. It revolutionized not itself, but an evolution of the series we have all. The RPG elements keep extremely long in the bar, the fighting work great and the whole experience is just great!
When the now apparently still pending online tournaments are carried out regularly, then here we have a pretty extensive game in which you will have fun for a long time. And simultaneously restarts play a character as a series may change and still remain true to the basic concept.
Dragonball Xenoverse located somewhere between MMO and klassichem Brawler. It resembles so in style to Destiny, and this mixture is the game well. Good Job!