Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai

Dragon Road is the title of the game's single-player campaign. The game takes inspiration from the plot of the Dragon Ball movie, entitled "Fusion Reborn". As the player progresses, they will find themselves participating in fights, either for friendly competition or against enemies. The campaign begins with a portal from hell, opening up on the earth, and the dead being resurrected. Goku and his allies must fight their way through, arenas such as the plains of earth, or the ruins of hell. The Dragon Road consists of a total of 5 chapters.

The training mode allows the players to battle CPU (computer-controlled enemies) to hone their skills.

Several options are afforded to the player which they may tweak as they see fit, these include:

• Health: The amount of health either player begins the fight with, there are 7 total bars of health for each competitor.
• Starting Ki: How much energy the player wishes to begin the battle with. There are 7 bars of Ki for each competitor.
• Check Energy: The amount of Ki needed to teleport behind an enemy to dodge their attack, the default consumption is 3/7 of the Ki bar.

Network Battle Mode allows the player to have wireless battles with their friends. The player may also add friends to their profile card, which displays their victory ratio. Each battle won will raise the players' power level.

The objective of the arcade mode is to collect all 7 dragon balls. The player is forced to fight 10 opponents in a row, in a ladder-like setting, such as the arcade mode present in Mortal Kombat. Occasionally, depending on the existing in-world relationships between each character, there may be short dialogue scenes.

In Time Attack, the player must fight 7 courses of enemies and defeat them as fast as possible.

Survival allows the player to fight nonstop hordes of enemies until they lose, after a certain number of wins, their health will stop regenerating all 7 bars.

Here, the player can create a special ID card that is used during Network Battles. It records the players data, battles won, battles lost, Survival Records, Time Attacks, Rankings in Dragon Road, Power Level, Friends, Money, and the players Victory Ratio. The player can also buy stamps from the shop to customize them to their liking.