Worth getting for single player alone?

[zmanbuilder]

I get far too tilted in online fighting games due to sweats and latency, so i tend to prefer fighting offline.

[Craig]

Not at this price tag. Maybe when it's 30-40 bucks or if they add a ton of single player content for Christmas the 60-70 dollar tag would make it worth it. Right now singleplayer is

- Story
- Custom Battles
- Battle mode, local, cpu
- Tournament Modes (which dont support the differing kinds of battle AIs you would be able to fight in Custom Battles or just pure battle mode)
- Extensive character and skin modding (she's early in the modding scene but it's prospering, for example someone just made a support character mod today and there a bajillion costume and character mods)

It's pretty barebones compared to stuff like Xenoverse 2, BT3/2, Raging Blast 2 or even Kai Ultimate Butōden (Japan only DS game with high fidelity fighting). REALLY barebones when you start comparing dedicated single player games like Kakarot or Legacy of Goku 2. A GBA cartridge got more single player content this then boyo.

If you like the single player content in games like Dragonball Origins, Attack of The Sayains or Budokai 1 where there is just the story and very little post game then this is for you.

With all that being said if I had to choose between recent DBZ fighting games for single player content it would be Kakarot > Xenoverse 2 > Sparking Zero > FighterZ

Yes I know many of the games listed aren't in the fighter genre, just trying to give a broad idea of how much content is in this game relative to the average DBZ experience. Also a shoutout to the real dbz fans.

[Crowbaria]

The player vs AI is pretty mid
Tournaments are pretty fun but only for the first few go arounds.
Bonus Battles are actually pretty fun
World Library Mission is pretty fun, as you can play other people's custom made missions that range from Great to Unhinged.
Making a custom battle yourself is pretty tedious. As it only uses existing quotes that you can change around and there's no search function.

As for story mode: It's really fun! Though it's kinda short once you complete Goku's story mode. And it excludes movies, gt. Plus vegeta and piccolo don't even get to do the Dragon Ball Super arcs.


In terms of longest to shortest, excluding What If scenarios.
Goku [Goes through all of Z and Super] - 32 Battles
Vegeta [Goes through Namek Saga to Buu Saga] - 14 Battles
Gohan [Goes through Cell Saga to T.O.P.] - 11 Battles
Frieza [Goes through Namek Saga to T.O.P] - 8 Battles
Piccolo [Goes through Saiyan Saga to Cell Saga] - 6 Battles
Jiren [Goes Through T.O.P] - 5 Battles
Trunks [Goes through Goku Black Saga] - 4 Battles
Goku Black [Goes through Saga Black Saga] - 4 Battles

With what ifs included:
Goku - 54 Battles
Vegeta - 22 Battles
Gohan - 18 Battles
Piccolo - 14 Battles
Trunks - 13 Battles
Frieza - 12 Battles
Jiren - 9 Battles
Goku Black - 8 Battles

If you only intend singleplayer, i wouldn't buy this game off sale. Xenoverse 2 and Kakarot are way better singleplayer wise.

[ህዐጎጋ]

DO NOT BUY FOR STORY ONLY ! Buy Kakarot instead!

[TheHuskyGT]

I have not touched multiplayer once, and I don't plan on doing so. I don't care about Story Mode either, specifically in this game since it's done very lazily. I hope they improve it with updates. The rest is enough for me. Tournament needs some work, in my opinion. Custom Battle is by far the best mode in the game, and it makes everything else kinda pointless. The only reason I haven't put more hours in this game is due to work.

I'd say it's 100% worth it, but that falls into subjective opinion. My experience might not be yours. I personally don't mind the price, I make enough money to throw away in hobbies and I love DBZ. But I feel for the majority of people it might be on the expensive side for what it offers. If money is a factor, wait for a few months until the game is improved and when it goes on sale.

[~~Andrew~~]

Absolutely, No !

Sparking Zero is a massive downgrade from Tenkaichi 3.

Story mod is basically annoying voiceless screenshots made in powerpoint that you have to skip manually.

AIs in this game have brain damage. They either get stuck in animation or go AFC or de-transform and than re-transform. At best AIs can do 3 combos and than it goes AFC.

To make the matter worse, this game costs more than RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077, Baldrus Gate, Persona

Oh and to add more : online is broken too.

[Wipkonijntje]

this ain't a single player game.

best DB (fighting) game for singles is Kakarot.
best DB game for single player overal is SDBH world mission ( probly like 350+ more characters then sparkling zero ).

[Tebza Ngwana]

Buy Kakarot. skip this. Its not worth it. buy it at a huge discount.

[Buster]

No go huntdown a copy of Raging Blast 1 and 2 if you want decent BT gameplay and modern graphics, despite the fact those games only came out 2 and 3 years after BT3. They are the true BT4 and 5.

RB1 also has Actual destruction on the stages for offline. You can dig super Deep craters in RB1, by smashing characters into the ground on some stages that have it enabled like grasslands.

FUNNY how You can't do that in SZ, its "almost" like they just rushed this game out and did not give a dang about former mechanics, costumes supers and features, like ground destruction oh and ONLINE balance.