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Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden Demo Trailer Streamed
posted on by Kevin Pennyfeather
Bandai Namco Entertainment America began streaming a gameplay trailer on Thursday for the demo of Arc System Works' Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden fighting game for Nintendo 3DS. The demo launched in the Nintendo eShop on Thursday.
The publisher plans to ship the game in Europe, the Middle East, and Australasia on October 16, followed by a release in the Americas on October 20.
Bandai Namco Entertainment announced in July that those who pre-ordered the game will get early access to six support characters: baby Goku, Super Vegito, kid Gohan, Meta-Cooler, Garlic Jr., and kid Goku. The company also announced that a New Nintendo 3DS bundle for the game will ship in Europe. The bundle will include a black New Nintendo 3DS with custom orange cover plates, as well as the Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 2 digital SNES game (the game will be in Japanese only). The bundle will come with Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden pre-installed.
The fighting game features more than 120 characters (only about two dozen are playable; the rest are Z Assists characters) from Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise.
Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden shipped in Japan on June 11 for 5,690 yen (about US$47). First copies of the game in Japan came bundled with a Dragon Ball Disk Cross disk featuring the version of Frieza that appears in the Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F (Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F') film, a product code to download the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo) game Dragon Ball Z Chō Butōden 2 to the Nintendo 3DS, and a card for Dragon Ball Heroes featuring the film version of Goku. If players have save data from the Dragon Ball Heroes Ultimate Mission 2 Nintendo 3DS game, Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta will appear within Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butōden.
The franchise debuted on the Super Famicom system in Japan with Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden in 1993. Dragon Ball Kai: Ultimate Butōden was released for the Nintendo DS in 2011.
