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Review: DBZ Heroes United!
Remember! This review is not objective because it is just my own opinion about the game, if you think my rates are too high/low, make your own review of the game.

Dragonball Z: Heroes Unites isn't a game which I like or dislike. I want to give the game fair review based on my opinion about the game and my experience from 2 hours of playing.
When you first log in to the game you can see the login screen with character selection, the login screen is probably image from google with added "Choose Your Character" text.



Who could I choose? Of course the strongest character - Hercule, winner of uncountable Budokais. (now for real, I noticed that the characters are very unbalanced and most of people chose one of the few strongest characters - usually Goku or Vegeta, so what are other characters for? It is like 50+ clans in naruto game when everyone chooses uchiha). Back to the game, after you choose the character, you are teleported to tutorial map where you learn basics about the game. (Fighting, Dodging, Flying etc.)



When you finish the short tutorial (took me about 2 minutes), you go to the Mr.Roshi house, you can always meet there few players, the only thing they are doing is ...umm I don't know, I think aren't doing anything except standing there (AFKers house?).
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We can finally go outside and explore the world, we are on the small island on the sea.



There isn't much of free space on the island so you may want to fly somewhere else, I went to the city center which was very near - like 20 fields on the north from the Mr.Roshi island.



I have met some Goku, Vegeta and Trunks characters there (clients), they told me to go to the Capsule and train.



There are 6 ways to train in the capsule: hitting Speed Bags/Punching Bags, walking on the course, Ki Deflecting, Sparring and Gravity training. Ki Deflecting rely on "attacking/deflecting" upcoming ki bullets from the machine. Bags, everyone know what hitting a bag is like :P. Gravity - set gravity power and walk around, Walking on the course - umm just walk on the machine which pushes you to the left, you have to walk to the right.
Sparring - you choose enemy, for example Cell or Freezer, you set his power and you fight him, but be careful - you can easily die when you train this way. When you die you go to the other world and you meet King Yenma. [there are 2 (if not more) other ways to train - doing missions and training/walking in HBTC - Hyperbolic Time Chamber]



If you are dead, don't cry, just walk trough the door on the left or on the right and walk to the King Kai's planet by Snake Way. You will be revived after you talk to King Kaio.
As far as I know from other players, there are 6 or more planets (earth, namek, yadrat planet, tuffle planet, playertopia, playertopia2). Most of BYONDers who watched Dragonball but didn't play DBZ:HU must have no idea what playertopia and playertopia2 planets are like. On those planets you can find houses of the players. The game has a very nice system which allows players to buy House for 100,000,000 zenie when they get level 100. (Subscribers get free houses). Below are the screenshots of interesting places in Dragon Ball: Heroes United.

Earth:


Namek:


HBTC:


Chmilax's House


About the fighting system: hand to hand attacks aren't as strong as ki attacks (just like in the show), besides that from the start you can dodge any attack if you are fast enough(macro "T"), using T macro once eats 10% of your Ki. Most (except few) Ki Attacks (beams, bullets) are almost the same, the only things changed were the icon, name, power and sound effect.




Ki attacks can actually destroy the buildings on the map, I find it very cool feature not seen in any other dragon ball game.



Here is the screen of my statistics tab:





What are subscriptions?
Unfair bonuses for players who pay real money.

Subscription Prices
$6.00 for a 1 month sub ($6 per month)
$24.00 for a 6 month sub ($4 per month)
$36.00 for a 12 month sub ($3 per month)
$50.00 for a Lifetime subscription

Bonuses you get in DBZHU:
Upload Custom Icons
Equipment Never Breaks
2 Extra stat points each level
Can change character anytime
Free player house (100,000,000 Zenie Value)
Black Star DBs (10x Normal Wish Values, 30 Minutes)
White Star DBs (100x Normal Wish Values, Once per day)


I think that subscriptions are very unfair to players who actually came to BYOND with a hope of free and fair games for all players games.



Gameplay: 6/10
(Quality of play experience user-friendliness of interface.)
The game play isn't bad. Actually dragon ball fans get excited a lot but if you are not a big fan of dragon ball, the game will be just boring for you. I give the quality of play experience 7/10.
Skin of DBZ:HU isn't good in my opinion, map window is too small (view:6 - 13x13) and the interface hurts my eyes. Interface - 3.5/10

Presentation: 3/10
(Quality of graphics, sounds, etc)
The graphics and sounds are pretty good but they aren't original, login screens looks like random images from google, most of the icons are ripped from LOG (Legacy of Goku) ,same with sounds. There are few original icons and many added icons states for not important characters (for example, icon state: fly for Herule character). I give 3/10 for the presentation.

Originality: 9/10
(How original is the concept or style of play?)
I can say the game is very original if you look at the concept and style of play. When the game was made, there weren't any (idk if there are some game like HU on the BYOND right now) missions based dragon ball games. Many not seen systems in the other BYOND games make the game really unique.

Overall: 7/10
(What is your general impression of the game?)
The game is pretty good and unique, community is very bad - every minute you can see people insulting other people with F-words. The game would be much better if owner deleted all the ripped icons, hired pixel artist and replaced current icons with original work. Also the interface should be improved and the map window size should be at least (view:8 - 17x17)