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Digimon Rumble Arena
File:Digimon Rumble Arena.jpg
Box art featuring Guilmon and Veemon
Developer(s)Bandai, Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)Bandai
SeriesDigimon
Platform(s)PlayStation
Genre(s)Fighting

Digimon Rumble Arena (デジモンテイマーズ バトルエボリューション, Dejimon Teimāzu Batoru Eboryūshon, Digimon Tamers Battle Evolution) is a crossover fighting video game developed and published by Bandai in association with Hudson Soft for the PlayStation video game console. It was released in Japan on December 6, 2001 and in North America on February 24, 2002. Players are able to choose from up to 24 characters (fifteen of which need to be unlocked) from the Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers seasons of the Digimon anime, such as Terriermon, Agumon, Gatomon, and Renamon. The game's sequel, Digimon Rumble Arena 2, was released two (three in Japan) years later on the Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.

Characters

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Digimon Rumble Arena features 3D characters and backgrounds on a 2D plane, resulting in a 2.5D effect.

There are 24 playable characters in Digimon Rumble Arena, all drawn from the Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers anime. 9 characters are available at the start of the game, while the other 15 require either a password or the completion of a certain task to access, but there are 6 characters that can be unlocked only by some very difficult challenges and only one of them can be unlocked by code but to activate it you first have obtained the other 5 characters.

Main characters

Character Specialty Japanese voice actor English voice actor
Agumon Fire Chika Sakamoto Tom Fahn
Gabumon Water Mayumi Yamaguchi Kirk Thornton
Patamon Nature Miwa Matsumoto Laura Summer
Gatomon Water Yuka Tokumitsu Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Veemon Fire Junko Noda Derek Stephen Prince
Wormmon Nature Naozumi Takahashi Paul St. Peter
Guilmon Fire Masako Nozawa Steven Blum
Renamon Nature Yuka Imai Mari Devon
Terriermon Nature Aoi Tada Mona Marshall
Impmon Fire Hiroki Takahashi Derek Stephen Prince

Other characters

Hidden characters

Reception

Digimon Rumble Arena received mixed reviews upon its release, with a Metacritic score of 64%.[3]

The game sold successfully and was rereleased under the Greatest Hits name in 2003.

References

  1. ^ Electronic Gaming Monthly (152): 144. March 2002. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Fox, Fennec (February 8, 2002). "Digimon Rumble Arena". GamePro. Archived from the original on 2009-05-08. Retrieved July 12, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ a b "Digimon Rumble Arena". Metacritic. Retrieved July 12, 2010.


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