Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22[lower-alpha 1] is a video game based on the real manga Dragon Ball Z. It is called "Ultimate Battle 22" or "UB22" by the fans because it features a roster twenty two playable characters from the series.

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
North American cover art
Developer(s)Tose
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Ichisuke Hiten
Producer(s)Kazumasa Ogata
Designer(s)Aiko Nakatsuka
Haruse Kataoka
Jiro Inoue
Programmer(s)Shinzo Tokiwa
Artist(s)Aka Yasuda
Atsushi Fujimoto
Composer(s)Kenji Yamamoto
SeriesDragon Ball Z
Platform(s)PlayStation
ReleaseOriginal release
  • JP: 28 July 1995[1]
  • EU: July 1996
  • NA: 25 March 2003
Re-release
  • JP: 6 December 1996
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
(up to two players)

Development and release

It was released in 1995 in Japan and 1996 in Europe.

Another fighting game called Dragon Ball Z: Shin Butôden was released in the same era for the Sega Saturn, and is considered by many to be the better between the two games. The aforementioned game never received an American release.

When Ultimate Battle 22 was officially released in North America eight years later by Atari, no English dub track was produced and the pre-battle cut scenes were removed.

Gameplay

This 2-D/3-D combination PlayStation game features many attacks from the manga. The game is notable for using actual cel drawings from the animators as character sprites and cut scenes before the fights which were a novelty at the time of its original release in Japan (these cut scenes were removed on the European and US releases).

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PlayStation version of the game, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "About the only thing this one has going for it is the vast selection of characters."[2]

Upon its 2003 release in the United States, Ultimate Battle 22 received "generally negative reviews", according to Metacritic.[3]

Notes
  1. Japanese: ドラゴンボールZ アルティメイトバトル22 Hepburn: Doragon Bōru Zetto Arutimeito Batoru Towintetzū

References
  1. "PlayStation Soft > 1994-1995" (in Japanese). GAME Data Room. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
  2. "Finals". Next Generation. No. 11. Imagine Media. November 1995. p. 168.
  3. "Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22". Metacritic. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  4. Davis, Ryan (25 March 2003). "Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2 August 2003.
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