Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai is a fighting game developed by Dimps and released in 2006. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PlayStation Portable only.

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai is the 62nd of 179 entries we hold in the Dragon Ball series. The next entry was Battle Stadium D.O.N in 2006. Its critic score of 70 is 3 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: Shin Budokai holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

The main story runs about 9 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 13 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.

Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai launched on 7 March 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II and Daxter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Final Fantasy XII, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Daxter.

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