Digimon Rumble Arena

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Digimon Rumble Arena
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Box art featuring Guilmon and Veemon
Developer(s) Bandai, Hudson Soft
Publisher(s) Bandai
Series Digimon
Platforms PlayStation
Release date(s)
    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

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    Reception
    Aggregate score
    Aggregator Score
    Metacritic 64%[3]
    Review scores
    Publication Score
    EGM 52%[1]
    GamePro 70%[2]

    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.

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