What type of game will Dragon Ball Age 1000 be? Everything points to a heir of Xenoverse and Dragon Ball Online

The new Bandai Namco project is set centuries after Goku and bets on an ambitious online approach.

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The announcement of Dragon Ball Age 1000 has left more questions than answers. Bandai Namco confirmed the project along with a new character designed by Akira Toriyama, but barely offered concrete details about its gameplay. However, the first trailer and the chosen context allow us to start drawing what type of experience this new title in the saga could offer.

What is clear is its setting. Dragon Ball Age 1000 is set far ahead of the known events, several centuries after Dragon Ball, Z, Super, and Daima. This takes us to a clearly futuristic world, with the Capsule Corporation still active and with much more advanced technology, which opens the door to a very different approach from the traditional games in the franchise.

Dragon Ball Age 1000 and its possible playable focus

The trailer suggests that the protagonist would be inside some kind of digital simulation, with the ability to access or replicate abilities of legendary warriors like Goku. This idea inevitably reminds us of concepts already seen in the expanded universe of the saga, especially Super Dragon Ball Heroes, although everything points to the fact that here we will not bet on card battles or closed systems.

• The most direct comparison would be with Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2: an action game with a strong online component, cooperative missions, character progression, and shared events. However, the temporal context of the year 1000 within the Dragon Ball universe also connects very clearly with Dragon Ball Online, an MMORPG released in Asia in 2010 that allowed creating avatars of different races and exploring the world many years after Goku.

Everything fits if we think of Age 1000 as a natural evolution of those ideas: an online action RPG, with character creation, deep progression, possible subclasses, statistic management, and a persistent world that invites exploration, combat, and cooperation with other players. It would be, in practice, a spiritual successor to both Xenoverse and Dragon Ball Online, but adapted to current standards.

For now, Bandai Namco has not confirmed anything officially. The full presentation of the project will take place during the Dragon Ball Battle Hour, which will be held in Los Angeles on April 18 and 19. That’s when we’ll finally be able to clear up our doubts and find out to what extent Dragon Ball Age 1000 wants to become the great online RPG of the franchise.