Arc’s pedigree for making some of the best-looking 2D fighters on the market is on display in full force, and what it's done with the source material is special. Everything you do delivers screen-filling spectacle, from one-button attacks to literally earth-shattering moves that dramatically end matches. Fighter Z’s action marries the intensity of Dragon Ball’s battles with Arc’s history of exciting fighting games. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the team's interpretation of Dragon Ball.
Arc has already created one of my favorite fighting game franchises in Guilty Gear, and the company blew me away with what it did with the Persona fighting games.
So when I heard that Arc System Works, a company known for its stylish fighting games, was working on a brand new Dragon Ball game, I was eager to see what it would do. There was always a disconnect between the level of visual flair in the cartoons and what I saw in the games. I’ve played a handful of the Dragon Ball fighting games in the past, as early as 2002’s Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, and I was never impressed. FighterZ looks and feels like the most faithful representation of the Dragon Ball universe we’ve seen in video games. With the release of Dragon Ball FighterZ, Akira Toriyama’s classic series has found a form of representation to rival its comics and cartoons.
