Growing up I was never into the whole Dragon ball franchise. It was a franchise that never appealed to me till I was in high school. About that time is when Dragon ball GT (Grand Tour) had come out had it really caught my eye. In fact Dragon ball GT was the first series in the franchise I ever watched. In fact even now as an adult I'll still watch it from start to finish. But I'm here to talk about the one and only game released here in the States based on the series Dragon ball GT: Transmission. So does it compare to the love I have for the series? Well let us take a look in my review of Dragon ball GT: Transmission.

   Dragon ball GT: Transmission is a side scrolling 2D style beat 'em up that was published by Atari and developed by Webfoot Technologies and released for the Game Boy Advance back 2005.

   True the game is an action beat 'em up but there is also a hint of RPG elements and has a character swap system implemented in the very first TMNT games for the NES. So how does the RPG factor fit in? Going through the game when you kill enemies you will grab 3 colored orbs. Red is for health, green is for energy, and yellow is for strength. Takes about 10 of those orbs to increase a stat. Now every once in awhile you will find a giant orb of one of the 3 colors I mentioned. When you grab the giant stat orbs its equal to 10 of the smaller ones. Therefore your stats increase by 1 with just one of those big orbs. So now that I"ve given you a look at what type of game it is on to the review itself.

   Difficulty 3: The game is pretty easy to go through. There is no real challenge. The buttons are real responsive. The L button recharges your energy the R button fires off energy blasts A is jump and B is attack. The only downside to the controls is when ever you want to use an energy blast you have to stop moving. It leaves you open to enemies attacking you. My advice is to just use short energy blasts instead of one big blast.

   Depth 5: Depth is okay. Game took me about 2 hours to get through. Nothing much that it has to offer other then you moving through the various stages and beating bosses at the end.

   Story 7: To sum up the story Goku's long time enemy The Red Ribbon army is fed up with him always beating them. So they break into Kami's look out and steal the & magical Dragon Balls. But these aren't just any ordinary Dragon Balls. These are the fabled 7 Black Star balls. Once Emperor Pilaf made a wish on those balls they scattered to the far reaches of the Galaxy. Now its up to Goku, Pan, and Trunks to find them and stop any evil that gets in their way.

   Addictiveness 3; The game is only addictive enough to play through one time. Sure you can go through the story with different characters after you've beaten it once. But I never felt the need to seeing as the story is the same but your using different characters then the main 3.

   Sound 5: The sound is pretty good. Good use of the shows music. But that's it. Its nothing you would want to listen to outside of the game or the show. So for that reason It gets a mediocre rating. Not good but not bad either.

Graphics 10: Considering the GBAs hardware limitations the graphics are very brightly colored and very well detailed. Not once did I ever tire of looking at the graphics at all.

   Overall 5.5: Overall the game is a faithful translation of the first half of the series. Yeah that's right. The game stops with the end of the Baby Saga.. There was supposedly a sequel in the works that would have taken place right after the first game where you would be tasked with fight 7 dragons to get the balls back. But it never happened. But for what the game is I absolutely recommend it. Its one game that will appease action fans and Dragon ball fans alike.

Your introduction was pretty solid, talking about the game mechanics. You also included a little more detail than your previous review (in the difficulty section mainly). Keep up learning; you will become a great reviewer too!