Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit Details FROM IGN New info on the fighting mechanics and more. by Erik Brudvig and Chris Roper March 18, 2008 - Burst Limit is the first entrant into the HD era of gaming for Dragon Ball Z. You've seen the hi-res screenshots but that, as they say, is only the beginning. To learn more, we went to Donny Clay, producer at Atari, for details on the fighting mechanics, number of playable characters and much, much more. IGN: When and where in the DBZ universe does Burst Limit take place? Donny Clay: The storyline goes from the beginning of the Saiyan Saga to the end of the Cell Saga. So basically from the time Radditz arrives on the Earth until Cell is defeated. IGN: Does the story follow an existing narrative, or is it an offshoot? Clay: The story mostly follows the existing narrative but we have little off shoot "what if" storylines as well. We like to add those in since at the moment they are really the only new DBZ stories being told. IGN: Can you explain the basics behind fighting mechanics? What other DBZ games is it similar to? Clay: I would definitely compare this title to the Budokai series a couple years back. The combo system and ultimate moves are very easy to pick up and play. But once you start getting into the countering system you'll see it's a very deep fighting game and very twitch based. You need to have really good timing in order to really take advantage of all that Burst Limit has to offer. IGN: How does the counter system work? Clay: Well there are a couple ways to counter attacks. You can press forward and the guard button the instant an attack lands on you to teleport behind the opponent and strike him back. Careful though he can do the same by countering your teleport as well! There are also ways to completely dodge an attack or even attack through an opponents punch if you time a smash correctly. IGN: What are Drama Pieces, and how can those affect a fight? Clay: Drama Pieces are basically allies that you can call into a fight in order to help you in some way – such as blocking a super move or giving you more health or even defense power. There are quite a few Drama Pieces. The nice thing is that you can use them to counter an opponent's individual playing style. So for instance, if you know your opponent is always Kamehameha-ing you, you can pick a Drama Piece that will block those attacks! IGN: How can you use Aura Spark mode against your opponent? Clay: Once you have a full Ki bar you can activate Aura Spark Mode with a simple button press. Once active, your attacks do more damage and some even get modified into unblockable attacks. You can use unlimited Ki while it is active as well so you can fire lots of ultimate moves. There is also an Aura Smash Attack you can use that sends the two opponents all over the place attacking each other at very high speeds. Plus it looks really cool =) IGN: Besides the main Z Chronicles story mode, what other modes of play can we expect to see? Clay: Well you will have the VS mode which is where the online component is as well. We also have a tutorial section and some extra modes like a survival mode and a couple other unlockable modes I'll let you discover. IGN: How many characters will be present? Clay: 21 IGN: How many stages can we expect? Clay: 5 IGN: We've been told that Burst Limit will include international leaderboards, rankings and more. What can you tell us about this? Clay: Well we have a multi-regional online mode set up so you can play people all over the world. This is the first time this has ever happened for a DBZ game, as far as I'm aware, so we are pretty excited about that for sure. This mode will of course track your progress on the leaderboards and rankings systems but as of now that is the only online functionality planned at this point as this was our first try on these systems we didn't want to get too complicated. Definitely look for more next time around! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Correct me if Im wrong, but: How many characters will be present? Clay: 21 How many stages can we expect? Clay: 5 Please dont tell me these are the final results and thats their final numbers. There HAS TO be way more characters/stages.. What disapoints me if that there are no destructable environments, and that the story mode is REALLY Short (considering that it only goes from the saiyan saga to the cell saga!) I own a PS3 and I want this game... Please tell me if this phrase of "Definitely look for more next time around!" relates to those numbers above Please!
Sorry, someone moved it to the correct section of Sony (thanks) But Im willing to know, if these numbers above are true?
those numbers seem about right. theres not a lot of secret characters and the ones that you don't know suck real bad. the stages have a destruction setting after someone uses their ultimate limit break thing (mostly saiyans).
