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

15 April 2007

Posted by:Ferry

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.

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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
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
sjoerd

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

of course there will be no sayins, because nearly every player would be a sayin and the namiks and buu race wont even be played, so therefor that’s why they made it 250 or wateva in the future all sayins are dead, yet u can do the time captural quest and becoem a sayin through that BUT, only for the quest.
Awsome Sayain man

Urm did you guys read the top?

3 Races Human Namek and sayain.

You can play as Sayains its just their blood has been diluted over the years or summin so their not as strong. Who the hell said ther was a buu race????
Hlock

There are other sources that say you can play as Buu’s race. Personally i don’t see a problem with having Sayains other than everyone will start there first character as one. That just means “you” as a true gamer should not. Also it seems from other sources I have read the only real healing class will be a Namek, this should create some diversity. Also they could make Sayains an unlock-able character you have to get, or have it a an addon later. Also i would like to see them, the creator’s add a way to play as an android. I mean if they do put in Buu’s race androids are as big a part of DBZ as Buu.
Javiggadink

The three races are the Humans, Namekians, and Buu. The game doesn’t need Saiyans. The point is that they don’t want servers full of the same class with no healing specialist or anything. It’d all be Saiyans. I’d say you should just stop crying.
beni

when is this game coming out in austrailia if it does come out here