Fortunately, the subsequent release of games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse, Dragon Ball FighterZ, and Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot would land Bandai Namco back in the good graces of diehard DBZ fans. Since then, Bandai Namco released two sequel 2D fighting games, Budokai 2 and Budokai 3, before releasing a trilogy of 3D fighting games with the Budokai Tenkaichi series (Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! in Japan) in 2005.īandai Namco would follow the release of 2007's Budokai Tenkaichi 3 with the less-than-stellar Dragon Ball: Raging Blast series, Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi, and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Z games. The first Budokai game was released in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube. The Budokai Tenkaichi series has long been lauded by fans as one of the best anime fighting games ever made. Their brief tussle is later unceremoniously interrupted by Broly from Dragon Ball Super: Broly who thrashes his opposition into the ground like the space rent was due. Before we see which hero prevailed in their test of strength, the trailer cuts to a Super Saiyan Blue Vegeta battling Frieza on a soon-to-be-destroyed Planet Namek. The opening moments of the trailer show Goku and Vegeta blitzing across the Gizard Wasteland, destroying mountains in their wake, before transforming into their Blue forms and firing off their titular beam attacks.
