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Developer(s) | Bandai, Hudson Soft |
Publisher(s) | Bandai |
Series | Digimon |
Platform(s) | PlayStation |
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Genre(s) | Fighting |
Digimon Rumble Arena 2 lets you play as and against your favorite Digimon characters. The game features all the popular Digimon from all four seasons of the TV show, plus secret Digimon. Each Digimon has a signature move that can earn Digipoints and, with enough Digipoints, you can Digivolve and destroy your opponents.
Digimon Rumble Arena (デジモンテイマーズ バトルエボリューション, Dejimon Teimāzu Batoru Eboryūshon, Digimon Tamers Battle Evolution) is a crossoverfightingvideo game developed and published by Bandai in association with Hudson Soft for the PlayStationvideo game console. It was released in Japan on December 6, 2001 and in North America on February 24, 2002.Players are able to choose from up to 24 characters (fifteen of which need to be unlocked) from the Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers seasons of the Digimon anime, such as Terriermon, Agumon, Gatomon, and Renamon. The game's sequel, Digimon Rumble Arena 2, was released two (three in Japan) years later on the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.
Characters[edit]
Digimon Rumble Arena features 3D characters and backgrounds on a 2D plane, resulting in a 2.5D effect.
There are 24 playable characters in Digimon Rumble Arena, all drawn from the Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers anime. 9 characters are available at the start of the game, while the other 15 require either a password or the completion of a certain task to access,but there are 6 characters that can be unlocked only by some very difficult challenges and only one of them can be unlocked by code but to activate it you first have obtained the other 5 characters.
Main characters[edit]
Character | Specialty | Japanese voice actor | English voice actor |
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Agumon | Fire | Chika Sakamoto | Tom Fahn |
Gabumon | Water | Mayumi Yamaguchi | Kirk Thornton |
Patamon | Nature | Miwa Matsumoto | Laura Summer |
Gatomon | Water | Yuka Tokumitsu | Mary Elizabeth McGlynn |
Veemon | Fire | Junko Noda | Derek Stephen Prince |
Wormmon | Nature | Naozumi Takahashi | Paul St. Peter |
Guilmon | Fire | Masako Nozawa | Steven Blum |
Renamon | Nature | Yuka Imai | Mari Devon |
Terriermon | Nature | Aoi Tada | Mona Marshall |
Impmon | Water | Hiroki Takahashi | Derek Stephen Prince |
Other characters[edit]
- WarGreymon - Type: Fire.
- MetalGarurumon - Type: Water.
- Seraphimon - Type: Nature.
- Magnadramon - Type: Water.
- Imperialdramon Fighter Mode - Type: Fire.
- Stingmon - Type: Nature.
- Gallantmon - Type: Fire.
- Sakuyamon - Type: Nature.
- MegaGargomon - Type: Nature.
- Beelzemon Blast Mode -Type: Fire.
Hidden characters[edit]
- Omnimon - Type: Fire/Water.
- Imperialdramon Paladin Mode - Type: Fire/Nature.
- BlackWarGreymon - Type: Fire.
- Reapermon - Type: Fire.
Reception[edit]
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Digimon Rumble Arena received mixed reviews upon its release, with a Metacritic score of 64%.[3]
The game sold successfully and was rereleased under the Greatest Hits name in 2003.
References[edit]
- ^Electronic Gaming Monthly (152): 144. March 2002.Missing or empty
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(help) - ^Fox, Fennec (February 8, 2002). 'Digimon Rumble Arena'. GamePro. Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
- ^ ab'Digimon Rumble Arena'. Metacritic. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
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