DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE 2 - Legendary Pack 2 (DLC)

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 is a live-service arena brawler built almost entirely for Dragon Ball fans who want to be inside the story rather than just watching it. You create a custom character from one of five races - Saiyan, Namekian, Frieza's race, Majin, or Human - each with distinct stat curves and signature mechanics, then drop into Conton City, the game's persistent online hub, where other players' custom fighters wander around you in real time. From there you take on Time Patrol missions that remix classic Dragon Ball Z and Super story beats, fighting alongside canon characters to prevent history from being changed. It sounds gimmicky but it works surprisingly well as a framing device. The combat is faster than it looks in trailers and has more depth than the casual tag suggests. There is a full stamina-break system, ki management, super and ultimate skill slots you loadout before each mission, and a parallel quest system that gates the best loot behind replayed content. Character builds actually matter here. A heavy ki-blast Namekian plays nothing like a strike-based Saiyan, and chasing the right skill combinations through the mentor system (which has you training under Vegeta, Piccolo, and others to unlock their moves) gives the grind a direction. Online raid bosses and the PvP arena add reasons to keep logging in, though the PvP balance has always been loose - some transformation ultimates hit well above their cost and the developers have never fully addressed it. What does not work as well: the camera in clustered fights gets punished hard by the engine, especially when three or four players stack on a single target. Load times on PC are acceptable with an SSD but the game engine is old enough that CPU bottlenecks show up on some modern rigs in a counterintuitive way. The story missions themselves recycle maps heavily, and if you are not a Dragon Ball fan the constant callbacks and character cameos will mean absolutely nothing to you. This is not a game you play to discover a franchise, it is a game you play because you already love the franchise and want to punch Frieza in his smug face as your own original character. Legendary Pack 2 is DLC content that expands the roster and adds additional parallel quests and skills. As with all Xenoverse 2 DLC packs, the value is proportional to how deep you already are in the base game. If you are still grinding through the main story, hold off. If Conton City is basically your second home and you have a build you love, the extra moves and characters will slot right in. For the shooter crowd reading this wondering if the action scratches a competitive itch: it does not, not really. There is an execution ceiling but it is lower than most dedicated fighting games and the netcode in PvP ranges from fine to frustrating depending on region matchmaking. Play it for the power fantasy and the co-op missions, not for a ranked ladder. Fred, Scout Team