Saturday, September 5, 2009

360 / PS3 - Dragon Ball Z Raging Blast - Random Information

Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (ドラゴンボール レイジングブラスト Doragon Bōru Reijingu Burasuto?), despite its title, is the fourth installment in the Budokai Tenkaichi series. The game is currently under development for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.[8]

The game was first mentioned in the Namco Bandai 2009 fiscal report. It was revealed that a new game was in development for both Xbox 360 and PS3, and that the game will be released the second quarter of the 2009-2010 fiscal year.[9] A full announcement was featured May 2009 issue of V Jump magazine.

The issue included several screenshots showing that the game contained gameplay elements from the previous Sparking games, polished Sparking character models, and revealed the official title.[10] A week later, Namco Bandai's European branch released a statement announcing that they would release the game throughout Europe sometime in autumn of that year.[8]

On June 2 the Namco Bandai's US branch issued a press release stating that they would release the game throughout North America and that they would retain the game's title.

It would also mention that the game would feature new interactive and destructible environments a new special attack system called "Super Rising", and that the release date would be for North America is November 10, 2009. After an interview with Ryo Mito, the producer of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast said their will be 40-50 characters without transformations and over 70 characters with transformations, including costumes over 120 playable character variants (2-3 per character), and ten playable stages.

Thus far, only thirty-six characters (discluding transformations and multiples of the same character) and four stages have officially appeared in the screens and trailers, so the full roster of characters and full list of stages has not been revealed yet. So far the stages: Plains, City, Supreme Kai's planet, Mountains, World Tournament, Island, and Namek have been confirmed.

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