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.

28 July 2009 02:47
doomsday 2012 not ture

do you think there will be beam struggles

28 July 2009 08:56
JQ

@doomsday 2012 not ture
IT SO IS! JQ

28 July 2009 21:47
doomsday 2012 not ture

you cant tell if its true because you r not god nobody is god and people need to so lieing about that because god can end the world right now if he wanted to

29 July 2009 08:49
vin

its not gonna be for the wii, the wii has there own new dragonball game coming out so why would they give them 2 new games

30 July 2009 07:18
james ball z

can somebody anser doomsday 2012 qusetion about the sturggle

30 July 2009 09:39
JQ

You can gurrantie the Wii port will have s**t sorry I mean appualing graphics. JQ

30 July 2009 15:02
kdibbs mosthated

this is what you need on da game:all super

31 July 2009 08:00
Majin monkey

Are you ABSOLUTLEY sure this is tenkaichi 4 not its own seperate game, Like burstlimit isnt budokai 4, Because this looks good, But i was looking forward to tenkaichi 4 being like tenkaichi 3 but with LOADS more characters and a character creator, I dont care about improved graphics, The graphics are fine as they are, I’d rather all the data went into more variety, And bigger arenas, ETC… Also (If this is tenkaichi 4) does this have the charactor creator ive heard so much about, Or did they scrap that part?

31 July 2009 08:14
james ball z

do sombody know if there are going to beam struggle

31 July 2009 09:34
JQ

Don’t ask me. JQ