Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 Gold On Wii, Out On PS2

As announced by Atari over the weekend, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is one of the first games to reach Gold status on the Nintendo Wii (officially, the first one was Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz). The latest title in the DBZ series was developed by Spike, and should be available on the Wii from day one of the console's North American launch, on November 19, while the game's PlayStation 2 version has just been released.

By now, it's a pretty common thing for anime series to be turned into video games - and vice versa - and DBZ is by far one of the best examples of successful games based on a Japanese animation. According to Atari, the immensely popular Dragon Ball Z series is the gold standard of anime-based video games, with more than 25 different games and over 10 million units sold since May 2002.

As for the new Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (also known as Sparking! NEO), the game is described as taking the acrobatic and intense 3D flying and fighting dynamic made popular in last year's blockbuster, and elevating it to a whole new level with exciting new features - such as a roster of over 120 playable characters, 16 huge, destructible 3D environments, nine single and multi-player game modes, and the ability to trigger transformations taken straight from the DBZ movies and anime TV series.

For more information on Dragon Ball Z video games, fans are advised to visit Atari's official DBZ website.

Christ, those English dubs are absolutely horrendous!

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