Akira Toriyama’s creation has many fans all around the world. Dragon Ball Z‘s popularity is so great that it’s had more game adaptations than any other anime ever. Formerly known as Budokai Tenkaichi 4, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero aims to be one of the biggest launches in the history of the franchise.
The rooster of characters may be breaking some kind of record. Fighting games have always been big business, especially where the roster of fighters is concerned, but this is taking things to a whole new level.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero presents more than 160 playable characters
As you saw in the latest trailer for the game, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero shows a beautiful battle engine praising the back of the Budokai Tenkaichi franchise. These games were very popular with the PS2 generation, launching more than five titles in the same saga. Then becoming Budokai Tenkaichi back in 2005. In Japan, this franchise was named Dragon Ball Z: Sparking!
Bandai Namco is anticipating this game as a way to get back to the 3D vertical fight from the original Tenkaichi. With the addition of breakable scenarios and the use of the Unreal Engine to achieve better graphics, Dragon Ball Z is no longer the limit of power and history; with Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero will have to add all the Dragon Ball Super arcs with new transformations and characters.
The anime-adapted title promises the biggest rooster of fighters in the history of Dragon Ball games. Confirming the first twenty-four characters. This first character will be all the transformations of Goku and Vegeta from all the Dragon Ball sagas since Z. But in the article published by the company, you can clearly see that there are 164 panels in the character’s selection menu. If you take the 24 Goku and Vegeta forms, you still have more than 140 fighters.
A new opportunity for the 3D fighting games
For the moment, Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero has no release date yet. It will be available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X. The first announcement was in the Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour in March, shocking fans all over the world to see this franchise coming back to the actual generation of consoles.
The last important launch of a Dragon Ball videogame was Dragon Ball Z Kakarot back in 2020, with a fine reception from fans and critics. This game follows the story of Goku since Dragon Ball Z and the birth of Gohan into the Majin Buu saga.
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