15 April 2007
Ferry

Dragon Ball Online game coming to Xbox 360! PC MMORPG storyline revealed

After the PC announcement, Japanese Dragon Ball Online developer NTL has posted a job advert on Gamejob, asking for a “Collection of MMORPG Dragon Ball Online Xbox 360 Edition development programmer.” Which clearly states they need someone with Xbox 360 development experience. Hopefully this Xbox 360 version will be released worldwide, since the PC version is so far only announced for Korea.

Dragon Ball manga/anime series creator Akira Toriyama is personally supervising the development of Dragon Ball Online with Bandai and Bandai Korea. He’s also designing the new characters, buildings, and backgrounds. Since he originally wanted the TV series to stop after the Frieza saga, this is his way to get a fresh start. As a result the Dragonball storyline goes as follows…

Story: It was Age 784 when Goku snuck away from the Tenkaichi Budokai with Uub. Then, about 200 years later, in Age 1000, the stage is set for “Dragon Ball Online”! One day, during rigorous training, you sense a disaster has struck the world! The Earth is divided into parts by the Dark Eye, a lively group of scoundrels, whose mastermind is a total enigma… With the guidance of Time Patroller Trunks, who suddenly appeared, you set out on a journey to reclaim the lost peace. On your adventure, you will meet many other players who have the same goal. Together, can you overcome your limits, defeat the mastermind, and save the world!?

As you can see in the below screenshots, you get to choose between playing as your own customized (change your hair, costume, etc.) kid Saiyan, Human or Namek and in-game you grow into an adult character. (correction: it was later revealed that Saiyans only appear during timetravel, in the game you cannot be a Saiyan and instead can choose for Majin).

An open Dragon Ball Online beta test is promised for the PC MMORPG in the summer of 2007, with a release following in 2008. Nothing is known about the possible Xbox 360 release yet. Nor are any fees or payment schedules decided on at this time. One thing’s for sure, it won’t be free with a development investment by Namco Bandai of 15 trillion yen, it costs over $125 million to make!

Thanks to Snaku for the pics.

29 September 2008 22:07
arsalan

plz

9 October 2008 10:59
luke

Ow m8 this gona b cool
best be able to be a siayan and go super saiyan level 4 or sumtin.

13 October 2008 17:02
chris

OMFG i was going to make a video game like this when i grow up now i cant wait for it to come out i recently bought SC4 its fukin awzum im 10 btw

14 October 2008 11:46
nvbfel

kip

24 October 2008 04:02
bladibla

it sucks that you cant be a saiyan.. the whole story is based on the saiyans.. they were always the strongest of all.. and the idea you cant transform to a super saiyan in the game suck so hard..

13 November 2008 06:17
tokoy

so basicly japans gonna screw the game up like they screw everything up get rid of sayins oh come on you cant do that and the land probably wont even be able to be destroyed dam it dbz is a good seris if they are making and online game they can at least put it on ps3 or wii x box sucks

19 November 2008 15:15
dbz fan

maybe they say there wont be any saiyans just to trick us until we actually play it and find out that there are saiyans after all

6 December 2008 10:48
sjoerd

hello ik like it to i want now when he is out i want now him i have alrady the XBOX#^)

11 December 2008 00:44
bo

maybe its just me but i kinda like that there isnt going to be sayians. dragonball was fine before everybody started going super sayian anyways. sayians would be way to overpowered if they were in the game anyway.

20 December 2008 20:57
rod2528

hey iv read a few coments and almost every second one is someone moaning about that there are no sayains…… yes i no …. we all no ….. and i was so disapointed when i found out about it… althought the past few months iv thought about it from time to time… and i feel that its a shame that you cant play as a sayain but its good in away because thats all dbz is based on basicly all the series and i think its good that they are turning away from sayians (for now) and that it would be good to introduce new types of races….. but before people start moaning at my coment i just wanna say i do hope that the make a download so that you can play as a sayain:D