I was extremely disappointed in this game. Besides the stunning visuals, the actual game play lacked in variety. Every character pretty much fights the exact same, minus the moves that are theirs. I guess I was hoping for more of a Budokai 3 style of fighting. I'll definitely start checking reviews more often, so I dont waste my money as I did with this game.

Yes, this is the worst dbz game ever. Gampleay sucks HUGE time. Boring. They have killed dbz. I dont get why people love this. seriously. Maybe for kids, ok.

I signed up with Metacritic just now just so I could give this game a bad review. I was so stoked to buy this game for $60 just to be disappointed by it bigtime. I loved Budokai 3 and played it for probably 40 hours. And I loved Budokai Tenkaichi 2 & 3 and made sure to unlock all the characters etc. Those had great fighting mechanics. I feel like playing them again now to get the taste out of my mouth from UT.

This game shouldn't have been made like this. The close range is totally restricted - you can't do anywhere near the number of attack initiatives that you could in the other games I mentioned -- or in the long range stance, you still are restricted to some unsatisfactory moves. If you want to dash up and slam into your opponent's face, like in the other Tenkaichi games, you can't -- you have to dash up and initiate a coinflip minigame to see if you can get close range or not. This game has the worst fighting mechanics I've seen since playing some of those terrible random 2D PS1 DBZ games that should have never made it out to market.

I'll still get myself to play through the storymode because the battles are playable, but it's just so clunky and restrictive -- like firing a kamehameha is a rare and requires certain conditions instead of being able to just fire them off like you used to be able to - a really sour experience.… Expand

Seriously, is this really a fighting game?! It is nothing more than a game of repetitive rock paper scissors. Trust me, after 1 hour of gameplay, you will realize that you are doing the same thing over and over again, albeit with different characters. But then again, there's not much difference between using different characters, since everything in this game is more or less fixed; whether you are Saibamen or Gogeta, whether you are shooting Kamehameha or just a simple energy beam, the whole gameplay is circumscribed into a game of coin flipping, rock paper scissors style game of probability. Which in turn, makes the game incredibly stale, boring and repetitive. You press a few buttons, the game freezes, and takes you into preset cutscenes of combo attacks(all the same), conveniently taking out the manual button mashing style of combo attacks which was what fighting games are supposed to be about. Boss battles are more irritating than rewarding, some are so difficult that when you beat it you feel more relieved than satisfied and rewarded because you finally got through that horrible ordeal. Quick time events are poorly implemented(in normal battles as well as the boss battles), and feel like they are there just to restrict your every movement. You cannot even fire a Ki Blast at will, because of the introduction of the lackluster melee and range modes. The amount of freedom given to the player in this game is near to 0. Between the original Tenkaichi series and the RB series and this, I would say the fighting mechanics are given constant downgrades rather than upgrades. With this game, it is a HUGE and MAJOR downgrade. Plus its limited character(you can't even play as Goten) roster, coupled with this really horrible gameplay, this game isn't even worth $6, much less $60. You might think the character creation may be its saving grace, but it is so limited in customization that it might as well have none. The only thing commendable about this game is its graphics-which I have to admit is pretty decent. But then again, what is the use of pretty visuals when the gameplay is absolute crap. And story obviously does not save this game because the DBZ story is well... as we know of it. And the game does not even tell it in a refreshing way, or at least introduce interesting "what-if" scenarios, merely replacing it with its meager character creation. In overall, the game is a dismal DBZ game, one of the worst I've played(yes, I am a DBZ fan, all the more reason I cannot tolerate badly made DBZ games), which tries to cover up for its abundance of flaws with visual aesthetics. Conclusion: This game is NOT even worth a rent. Heck, 0/10 is already being lenient. It is so bad that even a long time fan of DBZ like me is so pissed at it that I sold it within 4 days. Buy/rent it at your own risk, and I have to warn you that it is very likely you would find much more joy in playing Raging Blast or its sequel than this game. An utter disgrace to the Tenkaichi series(not even worthy of having Tenkaichi in its name, it shares absolutely NO gameplay mechanics with the BT series), and a definite waste of your time and hard-earned cash should you buy it. My advice- save that $60, this thing should be the last thing on your list that you should spend it on.… Expand

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 3 is a million times better ..........................................................................................................................................… Expand