Atari Announces Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

Atari has announced the development of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for Wii. Environment-based transformations, how does that sound to our DBZ fans?

Atari today announced that Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is in development for Wii and PlayStation2 computer entertainment system. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 combines the lightning fast fighting and action that have made Budokai Tenkaichi 1 and Budokai Tenkaichi 2 the #1 fighting games of 2005 and 2006. Developed by Namco Bandai / Spike, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is slated to release during the 2007 holiday season.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 delivers an extreme 3D fighting experience, improving upon last year's game with over 150 playable characters, enhanced fighting techniques, beautifully refined effects and shading techniques, making each character's effects more realistic, and over 20 battle stages. In addition, an improved control system for the Wii will allow players to easily mimic signature moves and execute devastating energy attacks as they are performed in the Dragon Ball Z animated series.

"Atari is incredibly excited to offer the ultimate chapter in the Budokai Tenkaichi series with over 20 new characters that have never been seen in any other DBZ video games such as Nail, King Cold and King Vegeta and battle stages that fans will love," said Emily Anadu, Senior Product Manager at Atari. "Each year, the developers refine the game to bring fans closer to feeling like they are actually playing the show."

In addition to the unprecedented number of characters and improved Wii control system, the environments have also been enhanced to feature day and night stages. The power of the moon in the night stages gives players additional ways to transform their characters and lets fans recreate some of their favorite memories from the show.

The immensely popular Dragon Ball Z series is the gold standard of anime-based video games, with more than 25 different games and over 10 million units sold since May 2002.

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is set for release this holiday season.

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  Dragonball Sparking meteor. Pretty much the same as all the ones before except King Vegeta and King Cold are not added to the list. So the players can now use the 2 characters that's only known for made some random speech before they where killed in one attack.

  LeSomeGuy, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Sparkling Meteor is the Japanese title for the game :) Was Nail playable in Tenkaichi 2 yet?

  Dennis, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  What's next, Bystander A, B, and C are also playable?

  LeSomeGuy, 30-11--0001 at 00:00