Review of Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers for Xbox

Goku and company are back in a pretty fun asymmetrical multiplayer proposition

License dragonball It has a long history, and throughout it we have seen a huge number of adaptations in different formats and genres. However, Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers He is responsible for offering us a facet in which we had not yet seen Goku and his companions.

Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers is a new proposal that offers an asymmetric 1v7 survival experience; a formula we’ve seen before in titles such as Dead by Deadlight, Viernes 13 o Evolve. In it, 7 players, “heroes”, must cooperate to find some power keys that will allow them to escape the level before it is destroyed. During this time, an attacker, “nasty”, will be responsible for hindering the players and preventing them from escaping.

The title was created by Dimpswho had already worked on the license previously with the saga Dragon Ball Xenoverse. However, the experience they had with this previous work was not used to obtain a product that complied with what was expected; Well, we’re already moving on paper Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers doesn’t quite come together despite good ideas. And that the franchise it’s based on had good potential to adapt to that genre.

One of the main problems with this work is the obvious lack of content. The video game has a tutorial in which they present the mechanics and explain how to play, a training mode and the main core: the online mode. Although it is expected that news will be released with the different seasons of content announced, the truth is that currently lThe offer seems fair enough.

Leaving aside this great inconvenience, the game presents us temporary seams, the excuse that justifies the multiplayer battles that take place in Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers. Because of this, DBZ villains (Raiders) appear on Earth to devastate its citizens (survivors). This way we get in on the action as citizens or villains. The former, which can be an avatar created and customized by ourselves, have several objectives to complete to return the villain to his origin, such as: obtaining different keys and placing them in specific places or protecting structures from the raider’s headquarters . With this, if the survivors manage to complete the tasks in time, they will be able to escape in a time capsule. The second, the villains, are extremely powerful and must hinder the survivors at all times, that is, their main task is to sow chaos. In the end, it remains a “game of cat and mouse”, where cunning and cooperation take precedence over force.

The survivors are only humans, weak opponents but not defenseless against the “hunter”. These have different arts and skills at hand that they can use; such as: concealment, evasion, the ability to stun or transform into objects to go unnoticed for a short time. However, the true potential of the survivor is the Change of the Dragon, an ability that is charged and gives our character some of the most iconic attacks of Dragon Ball heroes. Now, these attacks will be unlocked through a random gacha mechanic, which also influences other aspects of the game such as cosmetics, among others.

Returning to the possibilities of the citizen, to say that as a group the seven together can have more options. These can collect Dragon Balls to make a wish Shenron, which will give a good increase in power to our abilities, as well as those of our allies. Although there is also the possibility of transforming ourselves into the heroes we want from the license itself, so we can face the raider directly for a short time. In this fight, we can either defeat the villain and win the game, or entertain him so that our teammates have more action time.

It’s all great and fun in concept, but the truth is that on a playable level, that’s not so much the case. This is due to the fact the controls feel rough to us and the camera is very fiddly Many times this happens especially when we manipulate the villain or when we become the hero. This way, the most interesting mechanics fall on deaf ears, becoming frustrating moments.

As we said, the big negative factor of the proposal is the control and the camera which affects both the survivors and the villain. However, and even so, playing the villain is fun because he turns out to be very powerful and superior to the rest. Chasing the rest of the players has a certain satisfying character, as well as destroying the environment; because in the end we see how it changes depending on the chaos we cause.

Another frustration, aside from the gameplay, are the long wait for matchmaking. Queues to find a game are tedious and long, up to 10 minute waits on many occasions. And we no longer talk about the possibilities we have to be able to play as a raider, since the truth is that it has cost us dearly to play as an “attacker” even having set it as a preference in the search options . At least things get better when we play with friends, because the tension and the fun are shared, and the server doesn’t have to search for so many players to get us into the game.

As for the graphic section, the title is one of lime and another of sand. On the one hand, It has very good concept and artistic art, with great designs, but really languishing for a somewhat crude and old-fashioned visual finish. It really feels like Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers was supposed to be a game mode for Dragon Ball Xenoverse, but ultimately turned out to be what we’re dealing with today. However, the storylines save the ballot in this section, as these are quite extensive and masterfully blend several iconic locations from the license into one place.

conclusion:

Dragon Ball Z: The Breakers It’s a proposal that has some good concept ideas, although the final product doesn’t quite execute them as intended. Obviously the outcome could have been better, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun when the survivors cooperate or the bad guy lays waste. Certainly, the video game must finish tweaking certain aspects, such as: the camera and the control. However, since it is a game as a service, we believe it will be constantly updated and eventually they will fix their issues and add new content that will improve the playable offering.