Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans
The game follows the Saiyan Saga of the original DBZ story starting from the World Tournament and Goku's triumphant defeat of Piccolo. Players take the role of Goku and travel the DBZ universe from jungle to…
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Monolith Soft, released 29 April 2009 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 9 hrs to finish.
What Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans is
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Monolith Soft and released in 2009. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans, known in Japan as Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyan Invasion, is a 2009 role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco Bandai Games for the Nintendo DS. It was released in Japan on April 29, 2009, and in Europe and North America in November 2009. It is based on the Dragon Ball franchise. It is one of the first games in the Dragon Ball franchise to be published in North America by Namco Bandai, as the company would acquire the license from previous holder Atari in July of the same year. The game covers events from the "23rd Tenkaichi Budokai" story arc through the end of the eponymous "Saiyan" arc of the original manga.
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dragon Ball series
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans is the 75th of 179 entries we hold in the Dragon Ball series. The next entry was Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo in 2009. Its critic score of 73 is 6 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 at 88.
How it was received
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans launched on 29 April 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!! and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!!, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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