While there are several different stages, they all take place within a 3D battleground. Shortly into Jump Force's campaign, you even get to battle. It is split into a central plaza, with branching pathways that lead either to Director Glover's command room, or one of the teams' areas. This hub is a place where you accept missions, shop, interact with NPCs, check events, and so on. Then, after a brief tutorial, you're booted into the homeworld “hub”. It's basic stuff - you pick a nickname and choose from a Dragon Ball, One Piece, or Naruto focused fighting style - which are mostly superfluous. Instead of taking on the persona of an iconic Jump character, you instead create your own. The Jump Force brings you under its wing to help fight against Kane and his underlings. You, the protagonist, have managed to break free of this hold and have the ability to remove the cube from other possessed characters (and add them to your fighting roster). It's a small cube that has the power to infect and turn heroes and villains into mindless brawling zombies under Kane's control. Kane wields a power that instantly reminded me of the Tesseract from the Avengers movies. Split into three forces, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, and under the guidance of Director Glover, they must lead the effort to save the world from the evil Kane. To combat this, we break out the heroes - Goku (from Dragon Ball), Luffy (One Piece) and Naruto (from, well, Naruto). In Jump Force, the JUMP world and Earth are merging, unleashing villains from Shonen Jump to invade our world.

But the proof of the pudding is in the button mashing.īefore the fists start flying, however, it's nice to know what you're fighting for. So, you've got two companies that certainly have the chops to execute a game like this.

Bandai Namco, of course, have had Dragon Ball in their stable since time immemorial. If you're familiar with Spike Chunsoft, you'll know them as developers of several of Shonen Jump properties, including One Piece: Burning Blood and J Stars Victory (which you might call Jump Force a spiritual successor to). Developer Spike Chunsoft and publisher Bandai Namco have commemorated the milestone with a new game called Jump Force, a beat-em-up that calls on heroes from across the JUMP world to save little old Earth.

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