The boss battles can last long for no reason.

Most of the time you have to press the B/ Circle button in order to fill up the energy.

It does a poor job following the anime series, which is not a good reason because the previous Dragon Ball Z games (not counting Budokai 2, which had more of it's own story, and Raging Blast 2, which didn't had a story mode at all) followed the anime pretty well.

Too much grinding, and some missions are just pure filler, just to increase the length of the game. Battle of Z is a team fighting action game that lets up to eight players battle it out against one another in a gameplay and graphical style similar to those of Dragon Ball: Zenkai Battle.The game can have up to four players in cooperative play, and lets players perform attacks together and heal one another.

There are glitches and bugs, such as clipping through the wall.

Also, expect some other gameplay changes coming with the introduction of Z Assist Select and Limit Break Super Power. Completing challenges and Set Ranks within the revamped mode will reward players with new cosmetic rewards. Most of the characters are just reskins of existing charactes, like Goku or Vegeta. The Dragon Ball FighterZ Training mode will also be revamped in the new update.

Your teammates on offline mode have terrible AI: they will fight poorly and won't even heal you at times, so it's best that is up to you or just play online with other players.

Previous Dragon Ball games had far better controls.

Repetetive and boring combat: in fact, most of the time, you will just fight the same enemies over and over again.

The menu screen features a completely pointless world energy meter, which never changes.

The games main focus is online multiplayer, but there is no split screen/offline co-op or vs mode, meaning that you will need to be connected to Xbox Live or Playstation Network in order to play against other players, which is just lazy at best, considering that previous Dragon Ball games had split screen or offline versus.

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