That’s because Dragon Ball: The Breakers is an asymmetrical multiplayer game, set in a universe where players take on the role of human survivors. Instead of fighting to defeat Frieza, Cell, and so on head-on, they’ll try to secure a few paths to victory as Bulma, Oolong, a customizable and weak human character, or others. Asymmetrical multiplayer games have a mixed reception overall, with games like Dead by Daylight seeing success but games like Evolve folding.
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In this case, it’s sort of easy to see why. While the 7v1 gameplay of Dragon Ball: The Breakers seems interesting, players are stepping into a franchise that has insane power scaling as some of the weakest characters there are. Reasonably, many may be wondering if Goku is in the game, and he is—in fact, in a roundabout way, he’s playable.
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In asymmetrical games, the problem is that playing the killer, or the raider in the case of Dragon Ball: The Breakers, is usually more fun than any survivor. Dragon Ball: The Breakers makes a few key changes to the asymmetrical formula that may actually change this dynamic. The key feature here is that there are multiple paths to victory for survivors and raiders.
Dragon Ball: The Breakers’ Survivors can find equipment boxes for weapons and vehicles, collect Change Power, and collect Dragon Balls, all before activating the super time machine to win. With enough Change Power, players can use an ability known as Dragon Change that’ll let them turn into powerful Dragon Ball Z characters to attack, defend, rescue, or flee. Dragon Balls will allow players to increase power for everyone or raise their Dragon Change level to the max—allowing them to become Goku, for one example.
It’s an interesting mechanic to see, making Dragon Ball: The Breakers stand out from other asymmetrical multiplayer games. It’s also nicely rooted in franchise lore. Ultimately, who else players can become will remain to be seen, but all of this is promising for an otherwise odd-seeming game.
Dragon Ball: The Breakers will launch on October 14 for PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.
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