LogFAQs > #962149414

...If you were to go back in time to the early-to-mid 2000's, and show people the game, they would in all likelihood think it's lame because:

1. It's a 2D fighter, which had pretty much fallen out of favor at the time.
2. It doesn't have the same degree of movement freedom as the Budokai and Tenkaichi games had; being able to freely fly around the battlefield was kind of a big deal.
3. The roster is smaller than what the Budokai/Tenkaichi games had, even if the fighters in DBFZ have far more work and attention to detail put into them than the fighters in especially the Budokai games had.

Those were some strange times.

(Actually, I just remembered Super Dragon Ball Z, an even earlier attempt at retreading 2D Fighting that was release on the PS2, and failed to make any kind of impact.)