18 November 2007
Ferry

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 might feature a character creator

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 is already talked about by the game’s creators. They mention always listening to fan comments and admit that was the reason why they added online multiplayer on Wii and many more characters in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 after Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 on PS2 and Wii. One of the features still missing is a character creator, but that might change in 2008.

To quote Atari producer Donny Clay: “Unfortunately there are some things that are requested by several different fans that we aren’t able to do just yet. For example, one of things we get asked for quite a bit is a completely custom character system from the ground up. Meaning players want to be able to build their own character with their own moves and their own look. This is definitely something I would love to do as well, we just haven’t had the chance to get this into a game yet. Don’t worry though I won’t forget.”

That should come as no surprise since the upcoming Dragon Ball Online MMO game also features a character creator tool that allows you to make your own Saiyan, Human or Namek.

In recent interviews the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 team mentions working on a next-gen game and being a fan of the Xbox 360, so my guess would be that the next DBZ game is coming to not just Wii and PS2, but also Xbox 360 and PS3. Makes sense for them to want to make the graphics look even better and have more online features. Throw in the character creator on top of even more than the 161 characters in the last game and you’ve got yourself Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4.

As the official DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi blog says: “When we’re coming up with a new DBZ game, we first think about what the fans on the forums and message boards have been asking about.” So what do you want in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4?

PS: There’s also a Dragon Ball Z: Budokai “Burst Limit” game in development for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Update May 19th, 2009: After 1.5 years of waiting, the first magazine announcement of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 4 has been revealed in Japan, where the next Tenkaichi game for Xbox 360 and PS3 is titled Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast!

Update May 27th, 2009: Read the Dragon Ball: Raging Blast official announcement!

Update June 17th, 2009: Watch the first Dragon Ball: Raging Blast trailer!

Update June 23rd, 2009: Check out the Official Dragon Ball: Raging Blast character list so far.

8 June 2008 11:48
gamer 94

Atari, if you truly are reading this then why the **** havent you said anything about this game coming out yet. LISTEN TO WHAT 9898946447 said. Also if you want to figure out how to do a character creator then just let us pick stuff from different characters. For example choose Gokus kamehameha, vegetas controls, trunks hair etc. Then for the ultimate blast we choose different parts of someones rush attack and finish off with a blast (also allow us to add little stuff like grabbing them by the neck, or punching them away or stomping on their head etc.

8 June 2008 13:49
Dominic da dbz fan

Man Atari aint readin this. If they wuz reading tha blog they would have at least told us. I want to list some sh*t to add too but all were doing if fantasing on something that we are not even sure its gonna happen.

[Mod edit: Calm down, most likely the game won't be released for a while, so they can't talk about it yet in public.]

8 June 2008 15:16
sa dbz fan

well done dominic. finally sum1 responded. so at least sum1 is reading these. atari u best be too.
i think i know y they ent sed anything yet. i think they r waitin for the hype of burst limits to dye down a bit before mentioning anything bout t4 because they don’t want tenkaichi 4 announcement to over shadow the release of burst limits. so this means we cud be waitin couple more weeks if their is an announcement on t4. also i think if they announce it they will just say its cumin out and reveal aspects of the game in the e3 game show which is in mid july i think.

8 June 2008 16:55
ABC

I hope the guy above me is right. That would make tons more sense. I just hope they tell the release date some time before summer is over. Some stuff I’d like them to add is more characters [Goku and Vegeta jr.'s especially],for characters to have all different moves not just like for 20 characters to all have this cruddy energy volley stuff [I can understand if like more than 3 characters have Kamahamaha though],SMALLER CHARACTERS-you guys make ALL and I mean ALL the smaller characters really weak. Now I can understand some of them being weak but like Goku GT he’s small but he’s stronger than Tenkaichi 3 makes him, I also want them to improve the small things like warping. I’d like to see cooler,longer,faster warping like in the anime in the games so far all they do is these slow “get out of the way warps” in the anime the warping and attacks while warping made it the coolest thing ever.also one last thing make the story mode like an RPG like in TEnkaichi 2 but you can go in the cities and look for dragonballs and stuff.

add in every character in DBZ history, character creator,more arenas, more and cooler moves and thats the best game in the universe

I would buy that and spread the word about it too. I hope you liked my ideas.

8 June 2008 20:01
Orlando

Hey It Would Be Beeter If They Put A Character Creater And If You Could Make Your Own Stage And Wi-Fi For Wii And If You Could Get More Modes Like From Budokai Tenkaitchi 3,2,1 (Same Mode Put In 3 But They Can Put It For All Systems IN 3 I Was Only For Playstation

9 June 2008 03:14
javel

i love dragonballz budokie tenkichi 2/3
/dbz burst limit

9 June 2008 05:16
matt wright

Hey and on dbz budokai tenkaichi 4 im a big fan of the rest of the series and other games try and make a selection of all the dbz races sorry for making it so hard but like changelings like frieza or aliens like cui and saiyans humans and nameks most comenly the most popular in game and also half saiyan might be really popular

9 June 2008 09:45
Ayndrew

Please make a normal controller function in duell and multiplayermodus!!!!!!!! that means 1PLayer use his own Controller and the 2. PLayer his owns too. Its horrible that the 2. player use the 1. players controller for a single duell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLease PLease PLease

9 June 2008 11:30
ABC

what the crud is that suposed to mean.

9 June 2008 11:49
ABC

you know what I’m gonna come back in a month and then they might say something about Tenkaichi 4.

why won’t they say the release date already!
someone email me when they tell it.