This game come out very late in PS2’s lifecycle and everyone was moving onto the PS3/360 so not surprised this game didn’t take off. But I couldn’t afford a new console back then, very underrated DBZ game. I played this more than BT3 back in the day

Infinite world is the best 2D Dbz game, it's basically Budokai 4 and a direct upgrade in almost every aspect, I truly believe the main reason it didn't get enough love is because it's not named "Budokai 4"

Believe it or not, this was for years my favorite Dragon Ball game, even though Budokai Tenkaichi 3 already existed.

I played Budokai 3 to death back when it came out. I can't believe im only just hearing about this game.

I was hardcore plugged into Dragon Ball and Video games in 2008. The fact that this flew under my radar is astounding. I actually only found it when I was, years later, researching the PS2 library.

The problem I had with IW is that it felt rushed. In the sense that you wanted more from it. While I enjoyed the gameplay additions plus the capsule system, the lack of beam struggles & tournament mode was a sin. They removed some characters to add some (better) ones; however at this point you expect a more reasonable amount of new characters: 19, Zarbon, Dodoria, Cui, Burter & Jeice, etc. B3 just had a vibe that IW wasn't able to get in my opinion.

I think people forgot about it because it released 2 years after the PS3 released. I think by then everyone hopped over to the Halo/COD/Bioshock next generation of gaming. I remember I bought the game but I was just so into the new games that were coming out that I forgot about it. I honestly think 2008 was a legendary time for gaming so many good games came out around that time.

I loved dragon ball sagas as a kid, I knew it had problems but I really loved it lol

The very last Dragon Ball Z game on the PlayStation 2 back in late 2008 from 15 years ago. When I went to Target store, and I saw Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World on the shelf. So I picked it up and buy it for $40. I hooked it up on the PS2, and it was good but it was a complete different from Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3. Dimps took out hyper mode from Budokai 3, they took out dragon rush qte sequence during gameplay, and they took out the World Tournament on the main menu. Which I don't know why they took the World Tournament out in Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World? The story from Dragon Ball Z, GT, and DBZ films were good, the cutscenes were good as well, but the mini games were lackluster during story mode. They've added brand new characters such as Goku (GT), Vegeta (GT), Pan (GT), Super Baby Vegeta 2, Super #17, Syn Shenlong, Janemba, Pikkon, and etc. So I was we can play Baby Vegeta, Goku (GT), Pikkon, and more in a Budokai game. Where as Budokai 3 only let you play as Kid Goku, Kid Uub, Cooler, Bardock, Broly, Omega Shenron, SSJ4 Goku, SSJ4 Vegeta, and SSJ4 Gogeta. Which its also good too. But I think they could've done a bit better for the last DBZ game on the PlayStation 2.

This channel is so criminally underrated fr

The hours i spent grinding on this game in 2008-2009 best times

My problem with this game is that it was more like a DLC for Budokai 3 than a standalone game

this was my first DBZ game ever and man is it fucking good, played it for so long as a kid and tried my best to 100%, i then got Tenkaichi 2 and Budokai 3 but did not enjoy them as mutch as Infinite, if anything i hated them lol

Never played this game but the story mode looks fun. Take my like 👍🏻

The music of Budokai 3, beams of Budokai 3 (including beam struggles), with the added features of Shin Budokai 2, that would be perfect. Still hoping for a Budokai 4

This reminded me of Shin Budokai so much , one of my friends had this

7:15 its a well known fact that the dev's forgot to adjust the difficulty. Pretty clear oversight, even on Very easy , the fights against Kid buu and Shenron are insanely hard for casuals like me. I still have fun with IW, but it has some small downsides that prevent it from being as good as B3

Nostalgic Vibes for sure...

Considering how close it was, and how similar they feel on an Xbox controller. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was in development around the same time as burst limit.

While the motion capture of moves, their speed and physics are clearly an improvement of Budokai 3 (and heck, even Tenkaichi 3 and Super DBZ), the gameflow/ "gameplay loop" of the single player experience of *Infinite World* is much worse. You just keep unlocking these disjointed story events, and there's little sense of ever immersing yourself in DBZ lore -- a feeling of joy and immersion/ atmosphere that Budokai 3 actually managed to pull. And only using some basic 3D overworld with voiceover work for the story thrown in for good measure, which only goes to show that in order for Infinite World to _truly be complete_ it wouldn't need much. The fact we have zero new stages with all of them being 1:1 carried over from Budokai 3, with changes in the background music in the Story Mode being the only difference (with the OST and stages being the exact same in VS) makes this game feel like well intentioned patchwork. Infinite World needed at least half-a-dozen new stages (not that much tbh); changing the lighting/ time of day of the Stages from Budokai 3; changing the music of some of the stages; bringing back the 3D overworld (again, they could have just changed the time of day lighting to keep it feeling fresh); polishing the menus (which look very uninspired tbh). *^^^* Adding the above would have made the final game we got feel much more satisfying, and it wouldn't have required much more than 4/6 extra months -- maybe even less, considering in the 128 bit era, entire fully featured games were often created in less than an year.

I mainly played Budokai 2 and love it. Followed by the HD Collection with 3 on Xbox 360. I've never realized this was "Budokai 4" for such a long time, and now that I'm buying PS2 games for myself that I loved and owned on GameCube, I'm frustrated to never have played this. It's worth $100 CAD now, and I noticed it two or three times, but once again, completely forgot what it was, neglecting it for the price and thinking it wasn't the original Budokai I loved. Although, I could get it on PCSX2 one day, but that's for away when I build my first PC. I would still like to try it, but I might still love Budokai 2 the best. Looking at the gameplay though, I don't love it... I'll try it on PCSX2 one day.

To be honest, i never heard of this game but it looks super saiyan amazing!

This game my friend is definitely the best of the budokai series. I am sorry that it was rushed and underrated because it was released around the time that DBZ Burst Limit for ps3 released so alot of persons paid it no mind. If the devs had named it Budokai 4 it would have made more waves. But i guess they didnt because they knew that it was rushed. Otherwise the game mechanics are the most solid and the AI in this game will destroy and break you till the point you will never want to play again and i love it !! Definitely should have considered moving it to the ps3.

Also my favorite of the budokai series because of the GT Charadters. The heathy bar and energy bar portion looks cheap tho. Budokai 3 did that best

For as much as I love IW, saying it's rushed and unfinished it's still a compliment. Game is broken, borderline unplayable, with shitty minigames and a totally messed up fatigue system. Which is a shame, considering the rest of its gameplay was really really solid.

I played this more than any game back in my highschool days.

Really wish I knew why they dropped the ball with burst limit.

If we're being honest Infinite World is basically DBZ Budokai 4

Infinite world came out hella late along with burst limit IW took the mechanics from the psp games and brought it to the ps2 combat was fun but took awhile to get used to

Got this game my sophomore year of high school in 2012 second semester it was a pretty solid better roster even if it did back me wanna rage quit at times 😂😂 still enjoyed unlocking characters with my bros in this game

This game deserves remake version

The dumbest decision in video game history was NOT calling this game Budokai 4. I remember as a kid loving the budokai games and me and my friends played all of them faithfully but whenever we saw infinite World on the shelves we ignored it because we thought it was a spinoff game with different gameplay. Im pretty sure many kids did the same growing up hence why its so forgotten, fact is a lot of us didn't know this game was Budokai 4 in everything but name.

I just happen to come across this game in 2008, otherwise i wouldnt gave known about this game.

why is he make love to dragon ball at beginning LOL

I’m sure I still have this game somewhere and I need to find it it’s worth £100

Bro ❤

3 months ago 😮

They shoulda just made a budokai 4 instead of a budokai 3.5, maybe then it wouldve done better

This game got a lot of unnecessary hate, but in reality was better than all of them in a lot of ways. If you think about it, this game combined the Budokai 1 and 2 story mode style with Budokai 3 graphics and Shin Budokai ish gameplay. The best of all worlds lol.

I will admit that the game looks fun, but sadly I'm not the type to enjoy mini games. I would probably not have liked playing the game much if I owned it.

Am i the only one who didn't have any difficulty with this game? I remember my first time playing the game on hard difficulty till i bought Very Hard and Z difficulty and played all the game on that difficulty even the many games it was quite the challenge and i loved it

BEST GAME

*_Infinite World is Lifeless!_* Out of the 4 Console DBZ Budokai games, it is easily the worst and deserves its 3/10 rating.

No beam struggle is crazy bro 👎🏾

BRUH THE REASON IT WAS HARD IT IS BEACUSE THAT U B3 PEOPLE SAID THAT U WANTED MORE OF A ACTUAL CHALLANGE AND NOW THIS IS TO HARD FOR YOU GUYS?

Aside from some fighting improvements, everything else is awful. I kinda regret buying it.

Nah U Forget That Tenkaichi 3 Is Way Better But We A Never Forget Tenkaichi 3 The Best There Ever Was💯

Sorry but the checkpoint thing was trash

Dragon ball soundtracks just ain’t as banging ever since they fired the plagiarizer 😔