Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot launched yesterday, and players are already looking for more content beyond what the game's lengthy single-player campaign offers. It doesn't matter that Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot offers a story exploring all of Dragon Ball Z's sagas, from the Saiyan invasion to the fight against Kid Buu. At least, it doesn't matter when modders are already opening up the opportunity to play the game with a goose or Shaggy from Scooby-Doo instead of Goku.
It took only a handful of hours after Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot launched for modders to start releasing content for the open-world RPG. Virtually all of the mods that have been released so far are model swaps for Goku or the other Z-Fighters. They effectively replace Goku with the modded character visually, but don't change the game in any other meaningful way.
Some mods are complex, like Shaggy, and can perform Goku's animations. But they still look kind of nightmarish with extra joints and really long fingers, since they're often quickly-made mods pulled from other games. Others, like the goose from Untitled Goose Game, are unmoving and are mostly available just for humor. They completely replace the character and do none of their animations. The goose is great for mid-fight screenshots against during battles with Vegeta or Freiza, though.
Shaggy may have been the first mod for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot put out, but the developer that added him has already created another mod that's even more impressive. Modder Beatz has also released a mod replacing Goku with CJ from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Maybe it's just that CJ's proportions are closer to Goku's than Shaggy's, but CJ looks great in the game. He's able to Kamehameha with the best of them.
Given how odd and funny Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's mods are just a day after launch, it's clear the game has a bright future in the modding community. There's an opportunity for full-conversion mods like The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim received, or maybe even online multiplayer RPG servers like Grand Theft Auto 5 has. Only time will tell.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.