14 DAY TRIAL // The identity of the mysterious characters shown wearing a Capsule Corp jacket in the upcoming Dragon Ball Xenoverse video game has been unveiled, and it's quite surprising: it's you.
Players will be able to create their custom character and bring it to the adventure and in fights, which is a pretty clever twist, definitely much better than having basically the same story in every installment in the series.
Publisher Bandai Namco has been pretty coy about the reveal, teasing players regarding the mystery character's identity and asking fans of the series for their input and opinions several times before unveiling the secret.
Additionally, you don't even have to create an Earthling, as the upcoming fighting-based adventure game allows you to be a Namekian, a Majin or some of the other races, as Siliconera points out.
The game will also enable you to customize your character in a wealth of different ways, as you can see in the gallery below. In the game, Trunks will summon the character in the starting hub world called Toki Toki City.
In the upcoming Dragon Ball Xenoverse, players will be able to free-roam through massive open levels, and fight on the ground, in the air or underwater, with fully destructible 3D environments. Of course, none of the fighting will impede the characters from talking, and they will deliver dialogue while swinging at blazing speeds, just like in the anime series.
In addition to this, the jump to next-gen allowed developer Dimps, the maker of the popular Dragon Ball Z: Budokai trilogy, and co-developer of Super Street Fighter IV and Street Fighter X Tekken, to give characters detailed facial expressions, which will be seen when hitting opponents or taking damage.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse will take a step sideways from previous games in the series, and will not follow the Dragon Ball canon, but instead will be based on a new universe, featuring an entirely new storyline, where you are the protagonist.
Dimps has so far showcased two entirely new areas, one that looks like a Hyperbolic Time Chamber, called the Time Storage Vault, and another one, a high-tech city where a Time Machine landed.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse is currently in development for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One platforms, and will be the first Dragon Ball game to hit next-gen platforms. For the time being, publisher Bandai Namco has not issued any release window for the title, apart from sometime in 2015.
