Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is a fighting game developed by Dimps and released in 2003. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 is the 44th of 179 entries we hold in the Dragon Ball series. The next entry was Dragon Ball in 2003. Its critic score of 74 is 7 points above the series average of 67. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 at 88.

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 85 votes.

The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 launched on 14 November 2003, within three weeks of Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom.

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