Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3, originally published in Japan as Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! METEOR (ドラゴンボールＺゼット Ｓｐａｒｋｉｎｇスパーキング！ＭＥＴＥＯＲメテオ, Doragon Bōru Zetto Supākingu! Meteo) in Japan, is the third installment of the Budokai Tenkaichi series. Like its predecessor, despite being released under the Dragon Ball Z label, Budokai Tenkaichi 3 essentially touches upon all series installments of the Dragon Ball franchise, featuring numerous characters and stages set in Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT and numerous film adaptations of Z. The game also features one of Akira Toriyama's original characters, related to Dragon Ball through crossovers, Arale Norimaki from Dr. Slump.
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi is a series of fighting games developed by Spike based on the Dragon Ball manga series by Akira Toriyama. The series was published by Namco Bandai Games under the Bandai brand name in Japan and Europe, and as Atari in North America and Australia from 2005 to 2007.
Genre(s): Fighting game
Developer: Spike
Platform(s): PlayStation 2, Wii, PlayStation Portable
First release: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi; October 2005
Publishers: PREMIUM BANDAI, Atari, BNE Entertainment, Atari, Inc., Namco, more
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