

The two characters rotate control sticks in order to push the two beams to one character or the other. Beam Struggle – If two beam attacks collide, instead of cancelling each other out, a beam struggle is activated.Additionally, some transformations (like Cell, Broly and Frieza's) are irreversible. In Budokai 3, a transformation will instead increase the base ki level, and is only reverted if a character is hit with less than one ki gauge, or if they allow hyper mode to run out. Transformation – In the previous two games, a transformation gradually drained ki, and being knocked down with less than the ki level needed to transform would revert the transformation.

Additionally, auras have been redone, and now look very close to the auras seen in the anime. Transformations, now instead of draining Ki slowly, can increase base Ki (this also evens out transformations as having less than base Ki will reduce a character's defense). If Ki is higher than the base Ki, then a bonus in attack is acquired (under base Ki level, a defense bonus is gained until you are back at normal defense level). Each character now has a base Ki level, Ki will increase/decrease slowly until it is at base Ki level.

Soon after, the Greatest Hits version was released in North America and contained the extra features, including the ability to play with the Japanese voices. Japan later saw a release from Bandai on February 10, 2005, and also included the extras that the North American release did not have. It was developed by Dimps and published by Atari for the PlayStation 2, and released on Novemin North America through standard release and a Limited Edition release, which included a DVD featuring a behind the scenes look on the game's development.Įurope soon saw a release on December 3, 2004, and obtained a new edition in Fall 2005 which included character models not available in the North American release, as well as a few items and the ability to switch the voices over to Japanese. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, released as Dragon Ball Z 3 ( ドラゴンボールZ3, Doragon Bōru Zetto Surī ) in Japan, is a fighting video game based on the popular anime series Dragon Ball Z.
