Digimon Rumble Arena

Digimon Rumble Arena
Box art featuring Guilmon and Veemon
Developer(s)	Bandai, Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Bandai
Series	Digimon series
Platform(s)	PlayStation
Release date(s)	JP December 6, 2001 NA February 24, 2002 PAL 12 July 2002
Genre(s)	Fighting
Rating(s)	ESRB: Everyone (E) ELSPA: 3+
Media/distribution	1 CD-ROM

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

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 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 seiyū	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
Terriermon	Nature	Aoi Tada	Mona Marshall
Renamon	Nature	Yuka Imai	Mari Devon

Hidden characters

• Beelzemon Blast Mode -Type: Fire.
• BlackWarGreymon - Type: Fire.
• Omnimon - Type: Fire.
• Reapermon - Type: Fire.
• WarGreymon - Type: Fire.
• Imperialdramon Fighter Mode - Type: Fire.
• Gallantmon - Type: Fire.
• MegaGargomon - Type: Nature.
• Sakuyamon - Type: Nature.
• MetalGarurumon - Type: Water.
• Stingmon - Type: Nature.
• Magnadramon - Type: Water.
• Seraphimon - Type: Nature.
• Imperialdramon Paladin Mode - Type: Fire.
• Impmon - Type: Fire.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	64%[1]
Review scores
Publication	Score
Electronic Gaming Monthly	52%[2]
GamePro	70%[3]

Digimon Rumble Arena received mixed reviews upon its release, with a Metacritic score of 64%.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Digimon Rumble Arena". Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/psx/digimonrumblearena. Retrieved July 12, 2010. 
2. ^ Electronic Gaming Monthly (152): p. 144. March 2002. 
3. ^ Fox, Fennec (February 8, 2002). "Digimon Rumble Arena". GamePro. http://www.gamepro.com/article/reviews/20582/digimon-rumble-arena/. Retrieved July 12, 2010.