Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, released as Dragon Ball Z 2 in Japan, is a fighting video game based upon the popular anime series, Dragon Ball Z. Budokai 2 is a sequel to Dragon Ball Z: Budokai and was developed by Dimps and published by Atari for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube. It was released in North America on December 4, 2003. In 2004 its sequel Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 was released. As the GameCube version was released sometime after the PlayStation 2 version , the opportunity was taken to improve the graphics slightly and add new costumes. Japan received the game on February 5,... 2004 for the PlayStation 2 from Bandai. There was no Japanese version of the GameCube version, although the European GameCube version did feature the Japanese voiceover. Budokai 2 is a fighting game with cel-shaded graphics to mirror the look and feel of the combat in the series. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2 has characters up to the Buu Saga. Other differences are that Frieza and Cell no longer need to charge up to their most powerful forms as they are already in those forms.
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