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.

6 July 2008 16:36
GoHan's Bro

Future Trunks ssj,supersaiyan grade 2, supersaiyan grade 3

6 July 2008 16:41
DominicDaDBZ FAn

Thats a good character list but drop the (early,mid,end) crap

Only
Goku (dragonball)
Goku
Goku (gt)

That would be way better than having 5 gokus

Oh and to the person that talked about final fantasy

I sure hope you are right.

6 July 2008 18:53
dbz fan

yeah man im sure they can with no problem. but if they cant then i hope they can make the best of it.

6 July 2008 22:32
Paul

Can you tell us when it comming out

7 July 2008 00:24
dbz fan

man im telling yall, if i could write down all my ideas step by step, it would literally be 30 pages long.

7 July 2008 05:28
SS4_GOKU

gotta have another tenkaichi!!!!

7 July 2008 06:02
Dexter Boykin

they might as well make tenkaichi 4 i played burst limit and the speiclas where repetitive and they look the exact like in shin budokai another road the game itself had no uniqueness other than graphics making budokai 3 still the best in budokai series but we hav a very good chance for tenkaichi 4 if the producers feel that another game is neccessary since we sent so many lovely ideas then yeah its good chance this game might be made at the end of this year or beginning of next year

7 July 2008 09:03
Mark

In burst limit I think perfect cell absorvs energy from his hands he doesn´t do that in the dragon ball z series

7 July 2008 10:15
Josh

Create a charcter mode, online play, dragonball and dragonball GT story modes and characters, better graphics and more realism. Get rid of the damn Z points and capsules because they are terrible. They need better transformations and more characters that are unlocked once met or beaten during the story mode and to be able to go through the story mode with a created character.

7 July 2008 11:32
ABC

I think they will make T4 because they made Burst limit and that to me is considered Budokai 4. If they made Budokai 4 [Burst Limit] than they have to make another Tenkaichi.

PS: if they make it for everything except a PS2 than I’m buyin a Wii

PSS:I’m stuck with only a PS2