Shin Dragon Ball Z

Shin Dragon Ball Z (真のドラゴンボールゼット, Shin Doragonboru Zetto, "True Dragon Ball Z") is a fighting game based on the Dragon Ball frnachise and created by Zeon Inc. It features over 100 characters and transformations, uses heavy cell-shading to make it as close to the anime/manga as possible, and destructible enviroments.

Development
First announced at the E3 of 2011, Shin DBZ was revealed to be released the following year. Beta testers were called to demo and critique the game. Most were heavily impressed by the acurate graphics, interesting gameplay, and amount of characters, transformations, and costumes.

On July 30th, a demo was made available on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network in the Americas and Europe. It ws later released in Japan. The demo features 4 playable characters: Mid Goku (Base, Super Saiyan), Mid Piccolo, Raditz, and Mid Gohan. Two stages were available, those being Plains and Supreme Kai's World.

DLC was confirmed for the game on December 21st, 2011, and currently, 12 packs are planned.

Gameplay
Gameplay is a unique fusion of the Budokai series and the Budokai Tenkaichi series. The game uses the "behind-the-back" camera perspective, and characters can move forward and backward, up and down. However, to move from side-to-side, a "dash" movement from the Budokai series is added. This "fusion" of sorts went down well with beta testers.

Health bars have also been redisigned, looking somewhat like the ones in Raging Blast, but more like a meter and tilted towards the horizion. There are 3 Health Blocks, and in order to make gameplay somewhat longer, each battle is divided into 2 rounds (and more, if the player chooses).

Console Bonuses
In January 8th, 2012, it was announced that console bonuses would be released. The Xbox and PS3 bonuses came with a dubbed version of Episode of Bardock, and watching the video unlocked the Mid Bardock character, with a Super Saiyan variant.

The Wii version was announced to have a dubbed, shortened version of Plan to Eradicate the Super Saiyans. Doing so would unlock Hatchiyack (only available in the Wii version).

Game Modes
The Game Modes for Shin DBZ are as follows:

Dragon Zones
The new storymode for Shin DBZ is called Dragon Zones. The player starts out with 2 zones, Earth and Namek. Each Zone allows the player to fight through all the major battles that occured there. U

Unlockable Zones
If the player beats the Earth and Namek Zones at Hard difficulty in the Xbox 360 or PS3 version, they will unlock the Fake Planet Vegeta and Underworld Zones, allowing them to go through the fights of Broly- The Legendary Super Saiyan, and Fusion Reborn.

In the Wii version, beating the Earth and Namek Zones at Hard unlocks the New Planet Plant Zone. Players temporarily unlock Super Saiyan 4 Goku and Baby Vegeta, and engage in their 3 battles. If the player beats these, the two characters can be used in Versus until the game is exited.

Versus
Single Battle- A simple 1v1 match. The player can fight the computer, the player can fight another computer, or the computer can fight itself.

Team Battle- Up to four characters can fight a team of equal number, controlled by the CPU or another player.

Battle Royale- Up to 7 characters can fight at once in a Free-for-all match.

Super Battle Royale- Up to 11 characters can fight all at once in Team or Free-For-All battles.

World Tournament
Basic Tournnament- The player chooses a character, and must join a tournament of 12 fighters. Senzu Beans, characters, or transformations can be won.

Cell Games- Players yet again choose a character, and figtht 13 others (the last opponent is always Perfect Cell). Senzu Beans, characters, or transformations can be won.

Fusion Games- Players can choose one character, and must battle all the fused characters in the game. Senzu Beans, characters, or transformations can be won.

Space Games- Players choose one character, and must fight through all the non-human/Saiyan characters in the game. Senzu Beans, characters, or transformations can be won.

Co-Op
Basic Battle- Play as Goku and a friend as Vegeta, and fight through several waves of enemies.

Advanced Battle- Play as Goku and Vegeta in their highest Z forms and battle through all the villians in the game.

Ultimate Battle- Play as Goku and Vegeta in their highest forms in all of Dragon Ball, and defeat every character in the game.

Capsule CORP
Basic Customization- Create a character (Male or Female, Saiyan or Namekian), and choose their basic stats.

Gravity Room- Train your character to enhance his strength.

Challange- Defeat waves a fake enemies based on characters in the game with your custom character.

Online
Character Duel- Fight up to 7 other custom characters in a ranked match.

Brawl- Choose your character, and fight up to 10 other players, each with their own character, in a ranked match.

King of the Hill- Fight up to 7 other players with custom or normal characters to take control of the hill.

Online Tournament- Fight up to 12 other characters in a World Tournament. The host picks what type of tournament.

Music Upload
Players can also upload thier own music from a idevice or MP3, and use them instead of the standard music.

Characters
There are 133 characters in Shin DBZ, counting transformations.

Stages
All stages have day and night variants.
 * World Tournament Stage
 * Planet Namek
 * Destroyed Planet Namek
 * Rocky Wasteland
 * City
 * Destroyed City
 * Break Wasteland
 * Cave
 * Cell Games Arena
 * Destroyed Cell Games
 * Islands
 * Kai's World
 * Kami's Lookout
 * HFIL
 * Glacier
 * Dark Planet
 * Alien Planet
 * Dead Planet
 * Original Namek
 * Frieza's Planet
 * Unknown World
 * King Kai's World
 * Snake Way
 * Otherworld Tournament
 * Forest
 * Laboratory
 * Roadside
 * Kame House

Trivia

 * It is the only game to feature Goku w/Halo.