DBZ: Dead Ball Zone
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Savage Arena is a futuristic handball game, funded by local crime lords for amusement. The game is violent, fast and with few rules.
There are three different weapons that are available in Savage Arena: Guns, Bombs and Chainsaws. Players are in teams and teams are fighting. As players take damage, they will begin to vomit on the arena floors, which means that they are nearing incapacitation.
The Savage Arena courts has three scoring zones, with more points being awarded for scoring goals from difficult play positions.
Each Savage Arena player has a default playing position in the game. There are six different playing positions; Goalkeeper, Defender, Sweeper, Winger, Forward, and Midfielder.
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- Бои без правил - Russian Windows spelling
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Average score: 59% (based on 21 ratings)
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Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 1 reviews)
The greatest future sport/death sport game was released in 1998
The Good
The gaming industry really doesn't need to make endless FPS clones, when DBZ provided the model for a future online hit. Featured various throws/moves and illegal power-ups but, most importantly, a multi-tier league system with permanent injuries and death. A new version could also combine well with Frozen Cortex style play-calling, though the game is better than Blood Bowl because there were no die rolls, nor any artificial attempts to match team abilities - sometimes you played against teams significantly weaker than you and you could chainsaw half of their team and remove most of their players. Seriously, people who think Speedball is as good as this genre gets haven't played DBZ. Desperately needs a reboot.
The Bad
It was 1998 - there was only so much you could put onto a PS1 disc.
The Bottom Line
Future sports, death sports,
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Game added by ClydeFrog.
Windows added by tarmo888.
Additional contributors: Terok Nor, tarmo888, Alaka, Plok, DemonikD.
Game added November 4, 2002. Last modified March 6, 2024.