Gaming News Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 has already been released, but nobody knows!
Recently, Bandai Namco revealed that the Dragon Ball saga: Budokai Tenkaichi would be entitled to a new episode. Although there are fifteen years between this announcement and the release of the previous game, fans didn’t wait that long to develop their own fourth installment.
It’s good to be a fan of Dragon Ball in 2023
In early March, Bandai Namco delighted Dragon Ball fans. Fifteen years after the last episode of Budokai Tenkaichi on PS2 and Wii, The series is making a comeback with a new title codenamed Sparking Zero (Japanese name of BT). At the moment the project is only at the beginning of its development and therefore has little chance of landing it for a few years. An endless wait for fans of Akira Toriyama’s work, even if they are relatively spoiled in terms of current games, unlike other manga and anime.
In 2018 they were entitled to it Dragon Ball FighterZ, the 2D fighting game with anime-like graphics by Arc System Works. A true fan’s dream come true which was received with tremendous enthusiasm, both by the versus fighting community and by DB enthusiasts. But recently, in 2020, CyberConnect2 offered its version of Akira Toriyama’s universe with Kakarot, an action RPG trying to be as faithful to DBZ as possible. A proposal that was shared but nonetheless welcomed by all fan services. And then, starting in 2016, Xenoverse 2 will receive updates to stick with the latest versions of Dragon Ball Super. And yet, Despite this plethora of offerings, players are still playing the same game they were playing fifteen years ago, which is Budokai Tenkaichi 3but under certain conditions.
A dedicated modding community
With the announcement of a new Budokai Tenkaichi on current consoles, many players have brought out their PS2 or Wii to play Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3. But in the shadows, a community has never relinquished the title, and even, Thanks to the democratization and improvement of the emulation, they can start creating their own game modifications, as is the case with the Budokai Tenkaichi 4 mod developed by Team BT4 and if you’re part of the Dragon Ball fan base, you might have already seen the cover on the facing page. Obviously this is purely a fan creation that has absolutely nothing official as evidenced by the presence of the old Bandai Namco logo on the bottom right. And as you can see Dubbed Budokai Tenkaichi 4, the main purpose of this mod is to add new characters and transformations Dragon Ball great. And sometimes even power-ups that have never been seen in a video game before, like Vegeta Ultra Ego, which at the moment only appears in the manga.
Since the title was developed by a team of modders from Latin America, The experience is only available in Spanish. In general, this is a region of the world that Dragon Ball is particularly fond of, as evidenced by the airing of the last episode of Dragon Ball great in Mexico, which had brought together thousands of people, or even many memes like Gohan Blanco or Calvo (a new white-haired transformation for Gohan that looks suspiciously like Gohan Beast Dragon Ball Super: Superhero), El Hermano (Jiren’s brother) or Shaggy Ultra Instinct (Sami from Scooby-Doo in an overpowered version).
But that aside, that doesn’t stop smart people from adding totally unlikely characters that didn’t exist in the original mod, like Vegetto Super Saiyan 10, Super C-18, or Fusions that came out of nowhere. But where the mod is particularly impressive, is that it faithfully reproduces the attacks of the anime, which shows a good mastery of the tools of the game. Obviously the graphics are from the PS2 and the animations may seem rigid, but there’s a certain charm of the time. In any case, some will find it a good way to calm their impatience until the release of the real new episode of Budokai Tenkaichi.
