New Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi Game Announced (2024)

Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is the goat and last DBZ game I played, a new entry in the series would get me to buy a new DBZ game in a heartbeat!

Played these games back on the PS2. The 3rd game was the best one, good times. Not sure if I’ll ever go back to this series though.

I remember how the Budokai Tenkaichi games were so busted in terms of character balance. They just did not care. If you tried to fight Gogeta with a Saibaman, he wouldn't even react to your attacks.

True to the actual power levels, but it also meant 85% of the cast was borderline useless!

Would definitely be up for a new game all the same...

Boy what a throwback seeing gameplay from the first three games. Can't wait to see the 4th game.

Best dragon ball games ever. So many memories playing the third one. I bought a couple db games since and regretted immediately, but if this is close to Budokai Tenkaichi 3 then I am all in.
Yes, characters were closer to their true level, but with such a gigantic roster it was cool creating 5 on 5 battles of the same power levels against a friend.

Low key excited for this.

I need it right now

High key excited for this.

That art and graphics were looking great can't wait to see how this turns out

Dragonball Z voice actors needing to voice the same arcs all over again for the millionth time instead of something new like FighterZ

I thought the Xenoverse games were the successors to Budokai Tenkaichi.

I remember playing and loving 3 on the ps2. If this new one is a good sucessor, i might get it.
As much as i like watching today's fighters, 2D or 3D, the fact of the matter is i gave up playing them because it requires a lot of memorisation. The budokai tenkaichi games used mostly the same inputs for every character. Sure, they get boring faster that way, but they are great casual fun. Not every game needs to be an esports one, so this is fine with me.

Of all the pre-FighterZ fighting games within Dragon Ball games the Budokai Tenkaichi series is the one I remember the best.
I can only hope the new installment is good, especially after the success of FighterZ which I'm sure it will be (unfavourably) compared to, unfortunately, by a lot of people.

@Diowine @Deadlyblack @GorosBat Same here I'm excited. It won't be a full price purchase for me, but definitely interested.

Do all the way from Dragon Ball to the end of super I will be a happy person.

Easily my favourite DBZ games.
So so happy about this!

Tenkaichi 3 was one of my favourite fighting games back in the day- a huge roster (admittedly, not always perfectly balanced, but great nonetheless!) And so many great mid-game/ fight mechanics. I hope they bring this all back, plus the customisation and rpg aspect, rather than just 10 different Goku forms. Let us transform mid-match!

@RemembersGems All of this! Such a great game and totally unlike any other fighter out there. I would do something similar, playing as Cooler, and transform for every fight. And if I lost a match- oh well- he'd have his spaceship come resurrect him into metal cooler and I'd surprise my friends with an extra life! Superb.

@ShogunRok better this honest (albeit busted) reflection than, for example, playing God of War on 'give me God of War' difficulty, thinking Kratos is the biggest baddest guy in the whole Greek pantheon, only to come to Denmark and get slapped and killed by a nameless draugr in 2 hits.... 😱

FGC people got their Dragon Ball game with FighterZ so don't take the fun out of Tenkaichi to please them no removing giant characters like Great Apes or Hirudigan because "REEEEEE BALANCE, ONLINE AND JUNK!!" this should be Tenkaichi please don't revive the series and take out all the stuff that made it what it was so it can please eSports people.

I played Budokai Tenkaich a lot on my PS2. For sure my most played Dragon Ball game. I didn't played any on PS3, PS4, and must retify that sometime...

I think there's a fan project also called Budokai Tenkaichi 4. They'll probably need to change that.

Exciting news though.

BT3 is the greatest db game i used to play it a lot I still remember spamming my enemies to death with tien Yes it was broken ah but I love it

Sparking? WTF does that mean?

@Arisen FighterZ is the best Dragon Ball game that's not from the 2D era. Every single one from the 3D era is slow and clunky.

@Saitama117 Sparking is what the Tenkaichi series is called in Japan

It's been 84 years...

@Keyblade-Dan Thanks for the info.

@Saitama117 No problem ^__^👍