The complete journey / Spike, later Spike Chunsoft
Behind the shoulder, sky high
Spike's 3D arena fighters, known as Sparking! in Japan, began in 2005. The camera sits behind your fighter and the battles roam whole maps, as they do in the anime.
One series. Every step.
In release order. Select a game below.
Game 1 of 5
01 of 05
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi lets you play as more than 60 characters from the Dragon Ball Z TV series. You can battle using authentic special attacks of each character as you run, fly, and swim through fully destructible and free-roaming levels. Design your own character by assigning and upgrading 10 different attributes. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi has multiple game modes for both one and two players.
Before you press start
These games retell the anime, so no entry depends on another. Sparking! Zero is the natural way in. Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is the one to try for the PS2-era feel, and Tenkaichi Tag Team is a handheld spin-off built on two-on-two fights.
More than the main path
Where Budokai kept things side-on, Tenkaichi lets fighters fly, dash and blast across open arenas. It is built on deep rosters and big set-piece moves. Sparking! Zero revived the line in 2024 after a long gap.
Worth getting lost in
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Entries
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi lets you play as more than 60 characters from the Dragon Ball Z TV series. You can battle using authentic special attacks of each character as you run, fly, and swim through fully destructible and free-roaming levels. Design your own character by assigning and upgrading 10 different attributes. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi has multiple game modes for both one and two players.
Tenkaichi 2 is a fighting game with more than 120 playable characters, the biggest amount ever featured in a Dragon Ball game. The main Dragon Adventure mode follows an epic story mode that covers the first Dragon Ball Z saga (Saiyan Saga) right up to the last Dragon Ball GT saga (Dragon Saga), including all of the major battles, making it one of the most comprehensive Dragon Ball Z games.
When the credits roll
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is a 1vs1 fighting game based on the anime/manga Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama. It includes the apocalyptic battles and the essence of the Dragon Ball series following the main story of the popular manga. As in the previous games of the series, you'll have to select your character (over 162 characters with their own movements and combos) and fight against a friend or the computer in many different game modes with many different stages and weather/time conditions.
