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

18 November 2007

Posted by:Ferry

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!
Dragon Ball Z: Raging Blast scan 1

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.

Categories: News, PS2 News, PS3 News, Wii News, Xbox 360 News

DBZ Fan

Also A Character creator would be the best thing to happen to the dragon ball z things being able to create your on dbz fighter!!!
9898946447

I got an idea. On the places such as where you’re flying in space like on the frieza’s ship level how about if you take big damage you fall onto a different planet like namek or earth or summet or like on kami’s lookout when they go down usualy they can’t they just float on nothing but you should be able to go down a lot and fight by korin’s tower.
ABC

I don’t care if this comes out on E3 or not they should at least make it though. Take your time Atari but just add everything!
Old School Fan

Hey, one thing I think fans should remember before saying things are easy and wont be to hard is that; the more characters you have in a game, the more memory it takes. The more space we get to fly in and all of the effects that we see, animation, game play;, all of this takes memory. We should really think about this before trying to assume just how “easy” it is to drop in a game. Now with that aside, I hope they do make another Dragon Ball game and that they take into consideration the ideas that we have given. Also I hope that if they put a new Dragon Ball game out, it comes out for the Next Gen consoles because, there is no way in Hell that they would fit what we want on the PS2 or Xbox.
DominicDaDBZ FAn

Thats what Ive been saying earlier in this blog.

If you guys want more detailed levels, all characters, character creator, then this game HAS to be on a Nex Gen console
GoHan

Teen Gohan in SuperSaiyan, and SuperSaiyan 2 with long hair
dbz fan

if they can make those Final Fantasy games like FFX and FFX-2 with all that world to explore and hundreds of fiends, im sure they can make a DBZ game that everyone is wanting with no problem
GoHan

Can VegetaGT have a choice to go the ss,ssj2 or oozara, golden oozara, super saiyan 4 In the character creator can you make your hair longer than trunks and make have a band like trunks and if you are a saiyan make your self have a tail in What If Saga can you have Goten (Gt) and Kid Trunks(GT) make Gotenks(GT) ss,ss3 if you do i would be happy , Thank You
GoHan

in 1-4 player mode can there be a special mode called freetime where you can get money rob banks beat up people enter tournament and destroy peo
GoHan

ple that are what