DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Dimps. It centers on area and route exploration, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.3 / 10
About this game
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on area and route exploration, character and object interaction, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Dragon Ball games turn the manga and anime’s battles into fighting games, character-building adventures and action RPGs. You might assemble a tag team, create your own fighter or revisit Goku’s journey between explosive encounters.
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AI review
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A custom-fighter fantasy built on substantial grinding
Custom races, attributes, learned techniques and equipment create a personal Dragon Ball fighter with worthwhile growth choices. The underlying arena-combat rules are comparatively simple, however, and prolonged fighting exposes their repetition. Time patrols and Parallel Quests give familiar battles a new participatory angle, with plentiful rewards supporting long-term development. Repeated drop farming and slow story passages mean that scale does not consistently translate into variety. Signature attacks and airborne exchanges still communicate Dragon Ball’s exaggerated power, supporting the fantasy of joining its cast. Static scenes and awkward delivery weaken the dramatic possibilities of the surrounding time-travel story. Much faster loading in the native PS5 version reduces the waiting attached to repeated missions. It does not remove finicky combat or aged staging, so the upgrade improves convenience more than it transforms the underlying experience.
Strengths
- Character customisation and technique collecting
Weaknesses
- Repetitive combat and slow storytelling
Who it is for: Players who want to develop their own Dragon Ball character
Play notes: Based on the historical review conditions of 2024-06-03, not a guarantee about subsequent patches or current matchmaking populations.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Time patrols and Parallel Quests give familiar battles a new participatory angle, with plentiful rewards supporting long-term development. Repeated drop farming and slow story passages mean that scale does not consistently translate into variety. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Custom races, attributes, learned techniques and equipment create a personal Dragon Ball fighter with worthwhile growth choices. The underlying arena-combat rules are comparatively simple, however, and prolonged fighting exposes their repetition. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Signature attacks and airborne exchanges still communicate Dragon Ball’s exaggerated power, supporting the fantasy of joining its cast. Static scenes and awkward delivery weaken the dramatic possibilities of the surrounding time-travel story. | Reviewed | 7.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Much faster loading in the native PS5 version reduces the waiting attached to repeated missions. It does not remove finicky combat or aged staging, so the upgrade improves convenience more than it transforms the underlying experience. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Dimps
- Publisher
- Bandai Namco
- Release date
- May 24, 2024
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Fighting · Primary genreRole-Playing
- Tags
- 3D GraphicsExplorationSlow BurnLinear LevelsInvestigationMain Story 10–20 HoursPuzzle SolvingStory-drivenAnime StyleFantasySolo-friendlyThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opSingle playerMultiplayer
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideMay 24, 2024
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2017
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Sources
- www.nintendo.com