Inadvertently teased last night with a premptive trailer upload, the new video game formerly known as “Dragon Ball New Project” has been unveiled as “Dragon Ball: Xenoverse” (ドラゴンボール ゼノバース Doragon Bōru Zenobāsu), stylized with an “XV” next to the name.
The trailer for the game, already over-dubbed in English with narration from FUNimation voice actor/director Christopher Sabat, has been officially unveiled by Bandai Namco EU, showcasing several major battles from the “Z”-era of the story.
The trailer features an appearance by the still-mysterious-figure (wearing a cape, Capsule Corporation jacket, scouter, and sporting red hair) with additional narration:
A clock that once had stopped… will start to tick again.
The game — stated by the company to be developed by Dimps (previously of the Dragon Ball Z / Budokai series) — has also now been officially announced for the Xbox One (in addition to the previously announced PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360). The Xbox One console itself will release in Japan 04 November 2014.
Stay tuned for more coverage of the game live from E3!
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I like how they’re explicitly stating the developer is Dimps – nice for them to create a little hype there. Also interesting to note there isn’t a “Z” in the title anymore. Which is certainly strange.
Looks promising, might be the first time in quite a while I might actually consider buying a new DB game. Hope the Story Mode is similar to the one we had in the first Budokai game but with the addition of the Buu saga.
This new Mad Libs character and the suggestion of time travel makes me think this will be like a single-player version of Dragon Ball Online; i.e. a custom player-character going back to take part in historical events.
I agree with jrdemr. There’s just something about the original Budokai story-mode that constantly draws me back to replaying the game. Hopefully this one can follow suit.