Digimon Rumble Arena 2

Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (Digimon Battle Chronicle in Japan) is a Digimon fighting game released in 2004 by Bandai Games for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and the Xbox. It is the sequel to Digimon Rumble Arena and has the same style of gameplay as Super Smash Bros. Melee, except with a health meter.

Story
Digimon Rumble Arena leaps onto next generation platforms with a flourish! Play as one of over 40 television characters in this fast and furious fighter! Battle your way through icy glaciers and across fields of fire in this digivolving contest of skills!

Characters
The game features characters from the first four seasons of the anime (or Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, and Digimon Frontier in Japan). Each one has their own special moves and evolutions, as well as slightly varying normal attacks and taunts.

Playable characters
Agumon: Has a mixture of weak and strong attacks, but good range on his Pepper Breath attack. He evolves to Greymon and WarGreymon. Gomamon: Fast with weak offense. Evolves to Ikkakumon and Zudomon Biyomon: Has advantage with speed but low in offence and defense. Evolves to Birdramon and Garudamon Flamemon: He can evolve to Agunimon and BurningGreymon Gabumon: A slow, yet very offensively oriented Digimon. His evolutions are Garurumon & MetalGarurumon. Guilmon: Somewhat weak physically, but is very quick on his feet. His special attack, Pyro Sphere, travels straight forward and has a bit of a recoil. His evolutions are Growlmon & Gallantmon. Gatomon: She is the 2nd fastest character in the game and can also paralyze her foes. Her evolution line is made up of Nefertimon and Angewomon. Patamon: somehow quite weak in battle but is the fastest character in the game. Digivolves to Angemon and Magna Angemon Palmon: She is fast and attacks with poison and sleep dust.Togemon and Lillymon are her evolutions Tentomon: Both fast and strong, Tentomon can Digivolve to Kabuterimon and MegaKabuterimon Veemon: Limited range on all attacks, yet powerful. His Vee-Headbutt, Vee-Knock-Out and Vee-Punch moves can cause a lot of damage. Flamedramon and Imperialdramon Fighter Mode are his evolutions.

Hidden characters
These are characters that are not available at first, but have to be unlocked by fulfilling certain conditions.

BlackAgumon: A virus version of Agumon, with a slower, more powerful normal attack. His evolution is BlackGreymon and BlackWarGreymon, and can be unlocked when beating the game with 2 different characters.

BlackGabumon: Evolution: BlackGarurumon and BlackMetalGarurumon. Unlockable in the same way as BlackAgumon.

BlackGuilmon: Evolution : BlackGrowlmon and ChaosGallantmon.Unlockable in the same way as BlackAgumon.

Duskmon: Duskmon is well balanced in all stats, with one attack having infinite range, and another move being teleportation. He is a strong melee fighter and is second hardest on the 1-player mode. Unlocked when beaten in 1-player mode.

MaloMyotismon: Has a strong defense and melee attack, plus several "dark" projectiles. He is hardest on 1-player mode, and unlocked when beaten.

Diaboromon: Has exceptionally powerful attacks, one being a spin attack, and a projectile which is as big as he is. He is 4th hardest in 1-player mode.

Omnimon: A well balanced character, and is a fast combo attacker. 3rd hardest in 1-player.

Neemon: The weakest, but fastest, boss. He is weak in almost every aspect, though is swift and is fast at attacking. Second-last in difficulty in 1-player.

Other Characters
These characters are not playable but play a big part during different modes of the game.

Calumon: Calumon returns from the original Rumble Arena game, now the main character in the game's Crazy Chase mini-game. In the mini-game the players must give chase to Calumon and touch him 20 or above times to win. Calumon also makes cameos during the loading sequence of battles holding info boxes of random character information.

Phantomon: Phantomon is the only minor Digimon to make an appearance. He is a rare powerup known as Summon Phantomon. He randomly appears and stalks a Digimon. If a Digimon touches Phantomon, he'll instantly KO it with his Shadow Scythe.

Levels

 * Jungle Ruins: A forest setting, with plenty of stumps to jump on.
 * RubberTree Falls: A forest setting as well, but with a waterfall and palm trees. The trees bounce you high, and you must stay on the rocks/trees or be knocked out.
 * Danger Gulch: An "Old West" setting, with exploding barrels and carts.
 * Lava Lake: Fight on platforms and a cage over a river of lava which rises and falls slowly.
 * Pier 47: Fight on a pier, with moving crates which can knock you out if you are caught in between them and the edges of the screen.
 * Steamworks: An oil rig in water, which you cannot leave or you are knocked out. Includes flames and steam which push you away.
 * The Cannery: A factory with moving platforms-- but watch you don't fall into the tubes on the sides, or you'll be turned into a can.
 * Twisted Toytown: Constantly moving side to side. Fight on cookie platforms, and be shot at by a fire-breathing duck.

Unlockable Levels

 * Ice Palace: Fight on frozen, slippery platforms. Unlocked during a boss battle.
 * Chaos Wasteland: Fight on hexagonal platforms high overtop a bed of lava. Unlocked during a boss battle.

Mini-Games

 * Crazy Chase: Battle against 2-4 other opponents, to be the first one to touch Calumon 20 times.
 * King of the Hill: Battle against 2-4 other opponents, try to gain 20 points first by being the only one on the hill.
 * Keep-Away: Battle against 2-4 other opponents, and try to be the first to get 20 points by keeping the spirit egg to yourself.
 * Digi-Race: Battle against 2-4 other opponents. Digivolve and use your Ultra attack three times to win.

Cast

 * Tom Fahn: Agumon
 * Lex Lang: War Greymon, Omnimon
 * Kirk Thornton: Gabumon/Garurumon/MetalGarurumon, Omnimon
 * Jeff Nimoy: Tentomon/Kabuterimon/MegaKabuterimon
 * Wendee Lee: Palmon/Togemon/Lilymon
 * Dave Mallow: Angemon/MagnaAngemon
 * Mary Elizabeth McGlynn: Gatomon/Nefertimon/Angewomon
 * Steven Jay Blum: Guilmon/Growlmon/Gallantmon, Flamedramon, Phantomon
 * Paul St. Peter: Diaboromon, MaloMyotismon
 * Michael Sorich: Neemon, Imperialdramon, Zudomon
 * R. Martin Klein: Gomamon/Ikkakumon, Veemon

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