The Dragon Ball franchise has seen its share of video games throughout its history, but none make players pine for the past more than the Budokai Tenkaichi series of fighters. Despite robust story-based adventures like Kakarot and the frantic 2D madness of Dragon Ball FighterZ, fans still long for the behind-the-back, go-anywhere feeling of the PS2 era. Later this year, Dragon Ball Sparking Zero is finally answering the call, and we recently visited Bandai Namco at Summer Game Fest to get our hands on the future of Tenkaichi.
Our hands-on session allotted us about 30 minutes of Versus Battle gameplay, where we could choose a team of up to three warriors–for both ourselves and the CPU–and a stage to fight in. The available roster for our demo included more tha…