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Choose from a huge Dragon Ball roster for fast 3D arena fights, story branches, tournaments, and player-made battles.
Released 10 Oct 2024
Clash Energy Beams
Transform Mid-Fight
Create What-If Battles
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO takes the legendary gameplay of the Budokai Tenkaichi series and raises it to whole new levels. Make yours the destructive power of the strongest fighters ever to appear in Dragon Ball!
Developed by Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · Published by Bandai Namco Entertainment
Take control of fighters from across Dragon Ball in fast-paced 3D arena battles. The roster includes more than 180 fighters, each with signature abilities, techniques, and transformations.
Fly and rush toward opponents, charge energy, counter attacks, and use special moves in close or ranged combat. Transformations and character switches add options during fights, while clashes can turn powerful attacks into contests of timing.
Play story episodes from the perspectives of eight characters, with certain battles offering branching what-if routes. Other options include offline and online battles, tournaments with different victory conditions, and creating and sharing custom battle scenarios.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its fast, showy combat, dramatic effects, wide fighter roster, and nostalgic feel, with local matches among friends especially appealing. Reviews also repeatedly criticize the cost and packaging of additional content, and some describe the story and other solo modes as sparse. Online matchmaking, balance, and the quality of competitive matches are recurring concerns.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 50 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports online PvP and local offline PvP. Official Steam features list shared/split screen PvP, and reviews confirm local split-screen/local versus play. Online play includes ranked, unranked/player matches, private lobbies, friendly matches, and tournaments. Cross-play is repeatedly described as absent. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention mods as a way to extend content or improve the experience, but no provided information confirms official multiplayer mod support or how mods function in online play. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 12 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 83/100 View on Metacritic |
