Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi: Surprise, the legendary franchise is making a comeback! First pictures

Gaming News Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi: Surprise, the legendary franchise is making a comeback! First pictures

Published on 06/03/2023 at 07:08

In the 2000s, Dragon Ball fans often rallied around a 3D fighting game license, the now legendary Budokai Tenkaichi franchise. But since 2007, the license had not known a new so-called main episode. That should change.

Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi: 16 years already

In 2005

, Bandai has vigorously renewed players’ interest in the Dragon Ball Z license by releasing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi on PS2, which was more or less a successor to the Budokai fr anchise. The success was considerable and a second work was published in 2006, followed by a third installment in 2007 PS2 and Wii

. Dozens of characters could then be embodied, accompanied by the many transformations from the various arcs.

And since ? Well nothing. The Budokai franchise “Very Short” continues on PSP, and it took until 2015 to find Dragon Ball in a fighting game with Dragon Ball Xenoverse. The approach was a bit different as it was all about creating his character and saving spacetime. In recent years, Dragon Ball have been fighting games beautifully presented by Dragon Ball FighterZ, which relied on 2D and high-end animation designed by Arc System Works, and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, the spiritual legacy of the Budokai.

Budokai Tenkaichi is back!

But many were the players Request the return of Budokai Tenkaichi, and it looks like Bandai Namco heard that request. Without telling anyone, the editor just announced what we will call Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi 4 for now ! Bandai Namco used the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour event dedicated to licensed games to showcase it the first teaser of the new fighting game stamped Dragon Ball. We see images of the first game, broadcast on an old cathode ray television, in which we see Son Goku concentrating his ki to transform. A few seconds later, This transformation takes up the entire screen and looks much more modern since it’s displayed in HD.

Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi: Surprise, the legendary franchise is making a comeback! First pictures

Is a remaster coming? NO ! We still see the mythical character focus, but this time he transforms into Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan, and wears her blue hair that was spotted in Super. In case the fans were still in doubt, Bandai Namco put an end to all the excitement at the end of the video. indicates on screen that a new Budokai Tenkaichi is beginning. The official title of this new opus has not been officially revealed, but the teaser insists on the name Sparking, which was the official title of the license in Japanese. So are we we can’t give you a release date, since nothing was announced. However, we can reasonably expect it End of the year or for 2024.