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Dragon Ball Xenoverse

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‎This article contains information about a topic still in development, and may change as more information becomes available. Please feel free to update it as soon as any new material is made available.



Dragon Ball: Xenoverse (ドラゴンボール ゼノバース, Doragon Bōru Zenobāsu) is a Dragon Ball game developed by Dimps for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows (via Steam). The release date for all consoles is February 5, 2015 in Japan, February 27th in Europe, and February 24th in North America. The Steam release date is February 27th, 2015.[1]

The game contains many elements from the 2010 PC game Dragon Ball Online and the 2010 arcade game Dragon Ball Heroes.

Overview

Development

Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, shortened as Dragon Ball XV, is the fifteenth Dragon Ball fighting game released on home consoles since Dimps' first Dragon Ball Z: Budokai game, and the first fighting game developed by Dimps to feature full 3D battles similar to the Budokai Tenkaichi video game series. It was originally known as Dragon Ball New Project,[3] until the actual title was revealed on June 10, 2014.[4]

Gameplay

Battles are set in full 3D destructible environments. Fighters can traverse the levels free-roaming in very large spaces and can be fighting on a platform, go in the air, and fight underwater. They run when on the ground, and swim while underwater. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse has dialogue while fights go on, and fighters show facial expressions when they strike an opponent or take damage. In addition to the ever-present ki meter, there is a green stamina meter which can be used up to instantly disappear behind an opponent. This meter can also be used up by certain super attacks like the Kaio-ken.

The players have some freedom to explore the planet Earth as it exists in the Dragon Ball universe along with a handful of other locations, including a mysterious new city which is the point of origin for the game's new character. Like in all the Dragon Ball Z fighting games developed by Dimps, rather than choosing between Goku in his base form and his different Super Saiyan transformations, the character's power and abilities can be gradually increased over the course of each match. However, other multi-form fighters like Frieza and Buu will not be able to transform, as their transformations require many physical modifications to their character models, and as such, all their forms will be separate characters.

The PS4 and Xbox One versions of Dragon Ball: Xenoverse also include unique gameplay features proper to this generation of consoles.

Split-screen multiplayer is also featured for the game similar to the Budokai Tenkaichi (series).

In a similar fashion to Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z, there can be more than 1v1 in battle. There will also be no Quicktime Events in battle and there will be cancels for special attacks.

Features

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100% Power Frieza hit by Super Saiyan Goku's Super God Fist

  • Fights can be up to 3 vs. 3.
  • New world setup - a clock that once had stopped will start to tick again in an enigmatic and futuristic city.
  • Original battles - take part in epic fights against ferocious enemies such as Vegeta, Frieza, Cell and more.
  • Character customization - players will have a wide variety of customization options including physical features from the Earthling, Majin, Namekian, Saiyan, and Frieza's races. In an interview with Masayuki Hirano, a Bandai-Namco producer, it was stated that custom characters will be able to level up, allowing for improvements in skill. Each class will also have unique traits and starting stats as shown in the recent Network test beta, like Namekians having greater healing with items and gaining regeneration when health is low with high health and defense, Saiyans have low health and high attack and grow stronger when they are revived.
  • Become an apprentice - custom characters will be able to become the apprentices of characters from the original Dragon Ball characters to gain their special moves and costumes. [5]

Plot

Towa and Mira's Time Breakers have begun interfering with time, and so the Time Patrol, led by Future Trunks and the Future Warrior, are sent back in time to stop them. The Future Warrior can travel through different parts of the Dragon Ball timeline using a scroll named the Book of Endings and Beginnings. Every time the Future Warrior fixes the events which were changed by the Time Breakers, history returns to running its original course. The game takes place in age 850.

The Time Breakers destroying history causes many changes to the timeline:

  • During Goku, Piccolo, and Gohan's battle with Raditz, the Time Breakers interfere and power up Raditz, allowing him to dodge Gohan's attack and escape the Full-Nelson Special Beam Cannon, causing only Goku to be hit. Later on, Vegeta does not kill Nappa, and both he and Vegeta are powered up and transform into Great Apes to battle Goku.
  • Later on Namek, Vegeta joins the Ginyu Force in attacking the Z Fighters, and due to the Time Breaker's interference, Frieza begins to win the conflict, forcing the Future Warrior to interfere, though Frieza still defeats him, Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo. Frieza is also given a dark power up, but is eventually defeated by Goku and Future Warrior.
  • Cell is given the dark power up during the Cell Games, and Mr. Satan is also taken control of after Cell tries to kill him. At the climax of the Cell Games, when Gohan and Cell are preparing their Kamehameha clash, Cell is powered up by the Time Breakers.
  • Majin Buu is given the dark power up when he fights Super Saiyan 3 Goku. During the final battle with Kid Buu, Goku is not strong enough alone to push the Super Spirit Bomb into Kid Buu, so the Future Warrior arrives and helps him to use the attack.
  • When Beerus comes to Earth, Vegeta manages to stop Buu from eating all the pudding, and gives some to Beerus. Later Beerus is given the dark power up and tries to destroy Earth.

Once each of these changed times have been righted, the Dragon Ball timeline returns to normal.

However, new parallel timelines are created from fragments when the timeline is fixed. These events are dramatically different from anything that happens in the main timeline.

  • A time when Goku fights alongside Raditz.
  • A time when the Ginyu Force attack Earth.

Modes

Universe Mode

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Goku vs. Vegeta being observed by the Future Warrior

In this mode, the player creates a Dragon Ball history unknown to all by their own hand. [4] Early promotions for the game draw attention to a mysterious figure watching the first battle between Goku and Vegeta from the shadows, and pose the question of who he is and what this means.[3] With red hair, a scouter, and the Capsule Corporation logo on his sleeve, this character is referred to as Future Warrior, and has come back to intervene in the legendary battles of the series.[4] Bandai Namco does note that it is quite intentional that he seems to have features from many other, established characters in the series.[6] Two new areas are also introduced in the game: the Time Storage Vault which is stated to be almost like the Hyperbolic Time Chamber and a high-tech city with what appears to be a Time Machine landed on it.[3] Standing next to the Time Storage Vault is none other than Future Trunks, the warrior who once came back to the past to save his future, and he is wearing clothes similar to the ones he wears as Time Patrol Trunks in the computer game Dragon Ball Online.[4] Bandai Namco announced that the Time Machine, hourglass, and other features in these futuristic locales all tie together.[6] In an interview from the Japan Expo, it was revealed that story mode will be called “Universe Mode”.[7]

Sagas
  1. Prologue
  2. Saiyan Saga
  3. Return of the Saiyans Saga
  4. Ginyu Force Saga
  5. Frieza Saga
  6. Cell Saga
  7. Android Saga
  8. Majin Buu Saga
  9. God of Destruction Beerus Saga
  10. Saga of the Demon God Démigra
  11. Saga of Super Saiyan legend

Tenkaichi Budokai (World Tournament) Mode

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Tenkaichi Budokai Mode in Xenoverse

World tournament mode is confirmed to return and for the first time this mode will take place in real time, and make an actual entrance. you'll be able to participate and face other people online as well as spectate matches.

Villainous Mode

In this mode, players will face Villainous versions of Kid Buu, Frieza, and Cell.

Characters

Playable characters

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Super Saiyan 4 Goku & Vegito (Base & Super Saiyan)

*Super Vegeta and Super Vegeta 2 are the names for Vegeta's unique Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan 2 transformations, including different stats and a different transformation animation. It does not refer to Vegeta's 2nd Grade Super Saiyan form like most Dragon Ball games.

New Characters and transformations

Demigra full

Demon God Démigra

  • Raspberry[8]
  • Jaco[17][9] {Pre-Order Bonus/DLC}
  • Villainous Frieza (100% Power)
  • Villainous Cell (Super Perfect Form)
  • Villainous Kid Buu

Custom characters

  • Earthling (Male, Female) (Base, Kaioken, X3 Kaioken, X20 Kaioken)
  • Saiyan (Male, Female) (Base, Kaioken, X3 Kaioken, X20 Kaioken, Super Saiyan, Super Saiyan 2)[19][20][8]
  • Namekian (Base**, Kaioken, X3 Kaioken, X20 Kaioken)
  • Frieza's race (Male) (Base*, Kaioken, X3 Kaioken, X20 Kaioken)
  • Majin (Male, Female) (Base, Kaioken, X3 Kaioken, X20 Kaioken)

All custom characters are temporarily stuck in Ginyu's body during part of the story, and thus are also playable in that state.
*Frieza's race custom characters can be customised to appear in any of their races different forms, including First Form, True Form, and Super Evolution. This has no effect on their stats and is merely a visual change.
**Namekian race custom characters can be customised to appear as a Great Namek similar to King Piccolo in height.

Giant Bosses

Other characters and forms

These characters appear in the game, but have not yet been confirmed playable.

  • Supreme Kai of Time
  • Tokitoki
  • Mira
  • Towa
  • Démigra[21][15]
  • Démigra Final
  • Villainous Teen Gohan (Super Saiyan 2)
  • Villainous Ultimate Gohan
  • Villainous Piccolo
  • Villainous Mr. Satan (Villainous Hercule)
  • Villainous Gotenks (Super Saiyan 3)
  • Villainous Saibaman
  • Villainous Raditz
  • Villainous Vegeta
  • Villainous Appule
  • Villainous Frieza (First Form)
  • Villainous Frieza (Final Form)
  • Villainous Android 17
  • Villainous Android 18
  • Villainous Cell (Perfect Form)
  • Villainous Cell Jr.
  • Villainous Majin Buu
  • Villainous Super Buu
  • Villainous Beerus
  • Nabana
  • Navel

Battle stages

There will be at least twenty four different maps. The ones that have been revealed thus far are:

Pre-order bonus

The Dragon Ball Xenoverse Collectors Edition, called the Trunks Travel Edition. The collector's edition is only available for Europe. 

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The collector's edition includes:

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Those who pre-order the game get:

  • Black metal case of Shenron (Europe or if PowerUp rewards member at Gamestop)
  • 2 in-game battle suits of gold[22] and crystal[23]
  • Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta

Day One edition includes:

  • 2 in-game battle suits of gold and crystal
  • Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta

DLC content:

GoldenApe Baby

Golden Ape Baby Vegeta vs Custom fighter

Bandai Namco has announced a super-charged Season Pass is containing 3 different amazing DLC packs for all Dragon Ball fans wishing to extend their experience.

  • DLC Pack 1 (Available in March 2015) 3 playable characters (Goku GT, Pan & Trunks GT); 4 Time Patrol Quests; 12 Quests; 15 Special Moves for the players avatars; 5 new costumes
  • DLC Pack 2 (release date not confirmed) Exclusive Playable Characters, Quests, Special Moves and Costumes.
  • DLC Pack 3 (release date not confirmed) Turtle Hermit set, Jaco the Space Patroller and highly exclusive content.

Timeline placement

  • The events taking place in Toki Toki City in Xenoverse take place in Age 850. This is 60 years after the conclusion of Dragon Ball GT (Age 790), and 39 years before Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi's Hero Mode and Dragon Ball Heroes: Victory Mission.
  • Due to time travel, most of the story happens during the events of Dragon Ball Z, from the arrival of Raditz, to Beerus' visit to Earth.

Trivia

  • Xenoverse is Dimps' first attempt at making a 3D Dragon Ball fighting game.
  • Xenoverse is the fifteenth Dragon Ball fighting game for home consoles since Dimps' Dragon Ball Z: Budokai. XV, the official abbreviation for Xenoverse, also stands as the Roman numeral for 15.[24]
  • The Greek word "Xenoverse" means "uncharted territory".
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Yamcha's "Fake Death" super move

  • During an interview with Masayuki Hirano, he stated that although the game was announced for consoles only, they may consider releasing it for PC if there was sufficient fan demand. It has since been confirmed to be released on Steam.
  • Yamcha's pose when he is killed by a Saibaman is referenced in the game as a special attack. The "playing dead" emote animation also uses the pose.
  • Each created character has their own set of default settings as well as their own attributes.
  • This is the first Dragon Ball fighting game to include both Super Saiyan God and Super Saiyan 4 together.
  • This is also the first Fighting game by Dimps to feature all the members of the Ginyu Force as playable characters (adding Burter, Jeice and Guldo).

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://store.steampowered.com/app/323470
  2. ↑ http://youtu.be/bgouvz7vmPI?t=1m2s
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 V-Jump #7, 2014
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 V-Jump #8, 2014
  5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKgU26GDeZk
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Bandai Namco, E3, June 2014
  7. ↑ Dragon Ball: Xenoverse Japan Expo Interview
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 Dragon Ball: Xenoverse, December 4 2014 Live Stream
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 https://www.facebook.com/DBZ.videogames
  10. ↑ http://i.imgur.com/cSlBo2c.jpg
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://www.saiyanisland.com/2014/12/dragon-ball-xenoverse-achievements/
  12. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbHXKACl2lY
  13. ↑ http://i.imgur.com/BcVmuhu.jpg
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnFdLmcqhk
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 http://www.shonengamez.com/2015/01/16/dragon-ball-xenoverse-v-jump-scan-reveals-demigra-super-saiyan-4-gogeta-omega-shenron/
  16. ↑ "Scenario 10 Complete" Achievement/Trophy
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 http://www.shonengamez.com/2014/11/18/dragon-ball-xenoverse-scan-reveals-beerus-whis-jaco-playable-characters/
  18. ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-12-16/super-17-original-anime-to-appear-in-dragon-ball-xenoverse-game/.82231
  19. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/DBZ.videogames?hc_location=timeline%7CDragon
  20. ↑ http://www.saiyanisland.com/2014/11/dragon-ball-xenoverse-transform-to-ss3-saiyaman-outfit-ss3-goku-spirt-bomb/#
  21. ↑ http://www.saiyanisland.com/2014/12/dragon-ball-xenoverse-achievements/
  22. ↑ http://images.saiyanisland.com/data/618/Dragon-Ball-Xenoverse-1023-03.jpg
  23. ↑ http://images.saiyanisland.com/data/618/Dragon-Ball-Xenoverse-1023-02.jpg
  24. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Ball_Xenoverse#Development

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