IGN has posted their own preview for the Dragonball : Evolution video game for the PSP from New York Comic Con.

A fighter through and through, Dragonball Evolution packs several modes of play — network battle, training, mission, and more — but the main one I got to try at the New York Comic-Con tells the tale of the film. Story Mode starts you in the shoes of Goku and introduces you to the world via some weird-looking dialogue screens. See, the game has the likenesses of the actors and actresses from the movie, but the developers went in and tweaked the colors of the real life photos. Basically, you’ll fight someone and then have peach-colored photos of the actors pop up with text along the bottom of the screen. You’ll get your dose of information, and then have to go duke it out with whomever the game just set you up to fight. My time as Goku had me training with grandfather Gohan and his deadly cane, going to high school, and getting my first Dragonball. According to gramps, if I collect all seven Dragonballs I’ll be given “one perfect wish.”

Don’t hit him in the Dragonball.

If you’ve played a Dragonball outing before, the actual fighting mechanics should be second nature. The face buttons are your rush, sneak, and special attacks as well as your block button, while the Left Shoulder Button will charge you Ki so that you can do devastating special moves. When I took Bulma into a mission battle, she was shooting her guns during all sorts of moves, using Ki, and dropping motorcycles on Fu Lum’s gray, spiky body. Mastering these techniques will be key to cracking your opponent’s skull in one-on-one competition. As you hurl fireballs and move throughout the environment, the percentage of damage you’re inflicting will pop up on the screen and you’ll get a rank at the end of your battles.

If you’re used to the manga that Dragonball Evolution is based on, it might be odd to see the character models are 3D and made to look like their movie counterparts. How much do the characters look like the actors? Well, the real life photo of every character is placed next to the in-match health bars, and when I took Master Roshi into battle with Chi Chi, the creepy old man kept staring at her legs to the point that even she commented on the creepy old man staring at her legs.

DBMB has also posted spoilers from the game. Beware of game and MOVIE spoilers.

- The High School scenes are so short. I can’t imagine them taking up more than 10 minutes of the film. Seriously. There’s the parking lot scene, the classroom scene, the locker scene, and then the party scene. That’s it.

- Goku rides to school in his scooter thinger, then her and Fuller crash.
“You wrecked my bike” says Goku.
“Agundas, did you just fart?” Says Fuller.
“No, it was that kid squealing”, Agundas replies.

-Agundas and Fuller think Goku is just a skinny weakling, which I thought was funny since almost all the villains in DBZ think that about Goku.

-Chi Chi can’t get her lockers open. Goku focuses his ki and the all open. Chi Chi notices he used his ki.

“You know about ki?”
“Just because my name is Chi Chi doesn’t mean i’m a complete idiot!”
“Of course, I mean there are worse names.. I mean. uh…”

-Goku doges all of Fuller and his buddies attacks and they end up beating each other up.

Chi Chi: “Goku!”
Goku: “It was self defense! You saw!”
Chi Chi: “I guess it was”
*they laugh*

-Piccolo kills Gohan.

Piccolo: “You are trembling. Do you fear me, human?”
Gohan: “If I am trembling it is with excitement, not fear”

-Gohan dies, Goku takes his gi and says he’ll go find Master Roshi. Then Bulma shows up.

Goku: “Are you Piccolo? Did you kill my grandpa?”
Bulma: “If I were a “piccolo” I would have killed you by now. Are you the one who stole my promethium orb? Give it back”

Bulma says that it belongs to her father and that he has kept it for over 10 years. Hers has 5 stars so when she sees that Goku’s has 4 she is surprised to see that there are more.

Bulma: “I always knew there were more!”
Goku: “Seven, to be exact. How did you find this one.”
Bulma: “I track the energy with this device I created”
Goku: “You have a Dragon Ball locating device?”
Bulma: “Well, I always called it a Promethium Energy Extracor.”
Goku: “PEE, that’s gross!”

Then Goku says that she should help him find Master Roshi, and he’ll help her find the Dragonballs.

Bulma: “Why do you think I need your help?
Goku: “Because it’s dangerous”
Bulma: “I see”
Goku: “See this house, the people who destroyed it are also looking for the dragonballs. The killed my grandfather. WHo knows what they’ll do to you. We may not even make it”
Bulma: “Spare me the sales pitch, you had me at ‘dangerous’.

-Then they find Roshi, and he thinks there criminals so he attacks Goku, but Roshi recognizes Goku’s technique, as he was Gohans master. Then they explain the situation and Roshi talks about the prophesy and all that stuff. Then he says they can go to this private place where he and Gohan used to train, and he would train Goku.

-They continue on their journey. They get to the place Roshi was talking about as find that it is no longer private. There is a school of fighters there (including Chi Chi).

Bulma: “I thought you said this place was private?”
Roshi: “Times have changed. They even have a snack bar!”.

Goku meets Chi Chi, she tells him that this is wear all the fighters come to train for the tournament. Then she tells Goku that she has always secretly been a fighter. Then they have a sparing match.

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