Buying this game without knowing anything about it beforehand other than it having Tenkaichi in the game felt like the ultimate betrayal as a kid 😭

Never forget that they had you fight Giant Metal Cooler, when Cooler isn't even in the damn game.

I remember wanting this game, my best friend at the time got it day one and invited me over, we both literally were so hype we were told to be quiet, then we played it.... First time I learned not to be hype for games

Lets not forget how OP Piccolo was in this game as well when you had to unlock super saiyan lol...when I was a kid I legit almost cried because I couldnt beat him😂

The one good thing I remember about this game was the visuals. It's still nuts to me that it took until Fighter Z, 7 years after Ultimate Tenkaichi came out, for us to get a better looking Dragon Ball game. Then Kakarot a while after that. Even then the visuals still hold up a decade later and it blows my mind. So much hard work from the artists and graphics team for such a steaming piece of crap.

I grew up on Budokai and eventually Budokai Tenkaichi. Budokai 3 to this day is still my favorite. That being said, when the ads for this game came out, it was like somebody took the dragon rush mechanic from Budokai 3 (which I hated since it was all luck), and made an entire game out of it.

This was the first DBZ game that I didn't want. As a kid I would want to buy any dbz game I saw, but this made me actually look more at reviews. Also, don't forget this game was designed by data they got back from fan surveys; this is the most control the fanbase had in voice what they wanted

I have a soft spot for this game it was the first game I ever gotten a platinum trophy in and played a lot of it and the soundtrack was absolutely phenomenal

“Soul crushing” is exactly how I felt when I got this game. I remember being SO disappointed, and same as you, I really tried to like it and get the most out of it, but man, what a bummer this game was.

This was the first game Dragon Ball game that came out when I finally got a current gen console. I grew up with the Budokai games and at the time I was still loving and playing Tenkaichi 3. Man it was it really depressing to hear how bad it was.

When I was a kid I preordered this game in hopes it would be like a Budokai Tenkaichi 4 🥴🥴 I played it for the first like 2 days and then had my mom return it

This is like the first dragon ball game ive ever played like 6 years ago and loved it

Love these videos Matty! Thanks for posting another one and take care of yourself!

There is a glaring flaw about the story mode’s presentation. They reuse some of the voice clips from Raging Blast while adding new dialogue. It clashes a lot since characters like Kid and Teen Gohan, Frieza and most of the Ginyu Force have different voice actors between this game and RB1

I truthfully really did enjoy this game when I was younger. I loved the custom story, character creation, the boss fights, the master system. I even enjoyed the fighting system, it felt pretty strategy based…excluding the 50/50 scenarios.

One dope thing is that when you pick a mentor, your basic combos change to their combos. Would've loved to see this in xenoverse

11:46 To be fair, the RPS element was first introduced in Budokai 3 via the Dragon Rush mechanic. You could negate someone's whole super move just by guessing the same button. To your point, it seemed like they were copying ultimate ninja in that game too. The problem started earlier than people realize

So glad I only bought Tenkaichi 1,2,3 (and the OG Budokai 1,2,3 games) This one looks like the combat got stripped back HARD Edit: Its cool to see you talk briefly on Xenoverse 1,2 as well because I'm currently playing through Xenoverse 1 again (its pretty damn fun and the combat is not too shabby)

I loved this game as a kid, hero mode and the impact and destruction of supers had my little brain going crazy.

What a plot twist that Matty would self-report as being "that" customer. I remember a local game store where I live had to put up a sign about people who did that stuff that said "We are not a rental store. You buy a game, you keep it."

This was coming out around my birthday and I used my one gift on this 💀I was crushed

Budokai 3 had a similar thing with Dragon Rush where if the opponent hit the same button as you they would counter but that was one mechanic. It wasn't like 75% of the combat. That's kinda funny to think about when you see this game

Yes, I can definitely say I feel nostalgic towards this game as It was the last game along with Raging Blast 2 that I played on Xbox 360 before I moved onto the Xbox One then a year later onto the PS4. And I played a crap ton with this game. I can’t exactly describe in full detail why I kept playing this game every day before I left the Xbox 360, other than with this phrase “It’s so bad that it’s good” to which is a phrase I usually hear with certain movies. That’s the best in how I can explain it on how I feel with Ultimate Tenkaichi. It’s not actually good, But I can’t help myself from being willing to play it back then. Though I obviously don’t play it anymore so that feeling is gone other than the nostalgia I have for it.

Never got a chance to play this game, so thanks for the summary. Really enjoyed the review, you have a good personality.

As a kid I absolutely adored this game but it all makes sense now

Is anyone gonna talk about the fact that he says "rock, paper, scissors SAYS shoot!"

I don't like playing rock paper scissors to see who wins but like how it was the first dragon ball game where you can create your own character and they had a pretty good story for it

I remember seeing screenshots, thinking it looked cool but kinda weird with the visuals/HUD, then I went to a friends house to play when it came out and JFC, it’s terrible. Easily on the level of Taiketsu

I remember I gave myself the BIGGEST pat in the back when I passed the the Metal Cooler big boss QTE. As a kid that was one of the hardest qte experiences I had 😮‍💨

Great video man. I am on a DBZ Marathon right now, reliving all the classics and this helped me stay away from a terrible experience. The rock paper scissors mechanic is what I hated so much in Budokai 3 (known as Dragon Rush there), which was really sad to me because everything else about this game is amazing, but everytime the AI drags me into Dragon Rush, I feel like rage quitting.

The only thing that makes me nostalgic about this game is reading so many comments that shared the exact same disappointment I felt at the time. I grew up on the Budokai series, I just started my work career at the end of 2011 and with my first ever paycheck...This is the game I bought. It was a bit weird that the game was barely promoted, I think I'd seen like 1 ad for it, and ofcouse I too assumed this would be technically "Tenkaichi 4". I remember clearly coming home after purchase, firing up the Xbox at around 8PM after supper...Here we go... And while I don't remember my word for word thoughts, I distinctly remember looking at the screen during a battle with a look of confused disgust. Seeing the idea of your own created saiyan was SUPER intriguing at the time, I was filled with ideas of creating fan fiction characters, The son of Raditz, Vegeta's older brother etc. And I don't know how long or how far that concept would have gone but I didn't stick around long enough to explore it. I played the first session for about 2 hours before quickly ejecting the disc, then I think I gave it a retry a few days later for MAYBE half an hour at most, that was all I could bare of it... then I never saw it again until the day I picked it up to trade in at my local store. Well, hey, atleast it's now 12 years later in 2023 and we're on the horizon of getting the proper successor to Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

can you do a retro rebound on brave story new traveler or popolocrois on the psp pls

when i was a kid i found out that if you got a fighting style where the charged ki blast had good enough tracking you could fly up as high as you could and spam charged ki blast. the cpu would never fly up to get you and you could cheese them.

This was my first Dragon Ball game and I was so stunned by the visuals that I loved the hero mode and was on it almost all the time especially the boss battles

Have you done burst limit if so link me if not, bro please do one

I saw the trailer for the game when I was in 11th grade and was excited by the graphics, the creation mode, and the boss battles. I watched gameplay and read reviews and knew not to expect much. Unfortunately, I wanted to get the game, the Christmas after launch so my dad bought it for me at full price. I enjoyed it for the aforementoned aspects but it was not worth $60.

Your commentary is amazing 😂

Great video dude❤

I vaguely remember this game, but I think I was satisfied because there was character creation although it was limited

it’s weird looking back at this bc it was my first dragonball game that was like my own I owned and I loved it at the time and would beg my older brother to play it with me and I have a ton of fun memories but i’m sure if i were to go back to it now it would be awful

can you please make a retrospective of the original resident evil (1996) or a so i played video if you havent played it please!!!

my memory is a little fuzzy on the exact spelling of the last name but i had an art teacher in highschool with the same last name as your in game character. not sure if that’s your actual last name but it’s a nice thing to imagine

This game is what introduced me to dragon ball and for that it'll always have a special place in my heart. I loved it as a kid, until I played Xenoverse.

Hopefully we get the essence of the bt series and the raging blast series’s with the new ideas they were gonna put in Ult Tenkaichi I liked it the small good things you could take away from this game but the potential to improve with hero mode they can be undefeated

I remember my friend letting me borrow this back in high school.....I was disappointed deeply disappointed

I remember the discussions and arguments I had with people before this game came out. The immense disappointment I felt when I saw the gameplay was just... ugh. It was also what caused some of the arguments that I ended up having with people. It looked incredibly dull, and nothing I saw in the trailers was encouraging me to get hyped. If anything, it felt like the more I watched, the worse it looked. Thankfully I stuck with my gut and didn't buy it. I have no regrets about that decision whatsoever.

Honestly I really like this game even though I played the other Tenkaichi games don't get me wrong the combat is kind of dumb but the way the story is presented you can create your own character and the story of your own character is really cool the boss fights the action sequences within the combat like the destructive environments and the fact that they stay that way is really cool the beam struggles the way the game just looks in general is really good I think if they wouldn't have dropped the ball with the combat it would have been probably better than xenoverse 1 at least

I’m so pissed off because randomly at 4 am I remember the part where you power up against great ape baby but now I can’t even find the ost for it. 😭the music for this game was great even though I despised the button mashing parts for the big boss fights

I remember hating this game so much😂

We had custom characters way before this. It's the first time the West was able to have something like this. Because Dragon Ball online was the first. In fact it was the first time Towa and Mira showed up. Way before Xenoverse was conceived.

You should make a video about the games based on the original series like origins or advanced adventure of revenge of king piccolo

This game was the biggest disappoint. I love the content you create! Would be awesome if you did a review on dragon ball z ultimate battle 22 for the ps1

i traded a friend multiple xbox 360 games for this game on the ps3 and i couldn’t get past the fight with great ape vageta. every time he’d squeeze goku, i could never mash the button fast enough to break free

Any recommendations on dbz games? I want to buy a good one. There are so many

I remember this game and the betrayal I felt the only good aspect was creating the character and visuals

Some cpu opponents in this game only use the heavy/ or light attack In the Rock Paper Scissors segment which made them easy to beat.

I bought this as a kid and it was such a weird feeling thinking "this is it?" when as a kid it was always a blast with new DBZ games

I’m about to play kakarot tonight when it drops on PS plus! Got excited af from the tenkaichi 4 announcement I was gonna buy kakarot of the ps store the last day it was on sale the 16th but that day ps plus said their adding it on the 21st. I was like say lessss

I thought about that exact same GameStop hack before. It's pretty much infinite free used games if you beat them before the week is over

This actually was a game I enjoyed at the beginning but the moment we reached the cell saga was when I think the devs just gave up and rushed it out.

What I love about it the first thing is its OST's especially the intro one (Adventurous Spirit) damn it's so amazing I even downloaded it, then the cutscenes it's really clean, the graphic of the ki blast like final flash man its graphic is so damn raw and powerful, it's the best ki blast graphics I've ever seen better than the modern DBZ games like XV2 Or FighterZ etc.

You should play Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. I think you said in an older video talking about the sequel that you haven't played the original.

See I asked my dad for this game when I was a kid, we played it, he hated it so much he returned it the same day.. I never got to play it again till I was way older and coulda kinda appreciate it even if it was bad

I'd totally love to see a retro rebound on battle of z

Are used to have this game long time ago but I got rid of it however I still enjoy playing it at the time and it was my first dragon ball game and of course my only issue is that they don’t have a lot of characters

Man I use to do That GameStop hack allll the time in highschool as well but for me the employees ended up becoming really good friends because of how often I was in there lol

I fuck with it. 100% as a kid when I struggled with the quick time button mash events

I remember this exact feeling growing up.. and at 30 yrs old im like maybe i just didnt know wtf i was doing... nope that was literally the game... Rock Paper Scissors

2:30 I remember I had a game that I beat and returned and I didn't tell them in the return. Later while I'm looking for another game the cashier asks me about the game I returned and I said I beat it, then he tried the whole "oh well you can't return something just cause you best it you have to not like it or it has to be damaged" so I hit him with the "I beat it and I don't like it anymore"

Never played it but this battle system sounds absolutely fantastic, watching the npc doing all the cool stuff while you just watch and press sometimes a button sounds like a dream come true.

First got this game as a kid, I was so upset me and my brother went back and returned it, it feels like you’re not even playing the game just watching.

Cmon homie credit rifti beats for the cha la head cha la in the beginning

The Music, Hero mode & Graphics were pretty 🔥 so Ultimate Tenkaichi will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart

So. How you feeling about the announcement of Budokai Tenkaichi 4?!

I remember the crap I had to do to get that game too :/ , so I won a competition once when I was 15 I got £50 in vouchers for a store , I went to the store bought skyrim then cex to trade it in and get ultimate tenkaichi, still a painful memory

This and resident evil 6 are the reasons I do not ever pre-order games

Can we get a Ghost Rider PS2 Review please?

One thing I really hated about the combat in this game was the spirit gauge and how it controlled your battle options, like if you wanted to do certain attacks it would consume spirit gauge or how you needed sg to dodge, block or counter npcs super attacks instead of just being able to y’know move out of the way. Also I’m a huge ultimate ninja storm guy I still play some w my homies every now and then and yes it does have pretty simple combos, you just spam circle but even though certain aspects of uns combat system are simple, they’re well thought out and combine together to make you feel like a magic ninja wizard. The game encourages you to play fast and cautious, and because of how the simple combat works together with the movement options and how that works together with the blocking mechanic and how that ties to substitution- there’s so much room for variation and creativity that players often have different strategies and fighting styles literally no two matches are the same but ultimate tenkaichi’s gameplay mechanics work against immersing you in the game, after every 5 hits an unplayable cutscene triggers, you can’t spam super attacks, the spirit gauge feels like a grind and more of a punishment than a cool game mechanic and the tactical nature of the game is mainly presented as mini-games and qte’s. It’s not the worst game ever but it’s somewhere on that list

can you do raging blast 1 &2?

I've never really thought of battle of Z as the precursor for xenoverse. Its always felt like dragon ball online had a lot more of xenoverses blood, at least in terms of presentation

16:13 Sonic 06 squad LET'S GO!!!!!

i too was a budokai tenkaichi fan who got conned into this. gave up on it at the great ape baby fight

I remember i was soooo hyped to preorder this game. I NEVER preorder games. The only exceptions i made was arkham city, skyward sword and ultimate tenkaichi… after taking it home and playing for 1-2 hours… i knew i screwed up. I returned it like 2 days later 🤦‍♂️

The fighting takes the piss but I remember the creating a character part being pretty cool

I really hope Matty tackles the Naruto series next. I'm interested in that series.

BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on the bt4 announcement day... you got lucky

2:03 is literally what I did too lmfao holy shxt I knew I wasn’t the only one who did this, that’s why I always had something to play, out of the used games I’d always keep a few that I really liked and now I have a huge backlog

all Spike had to do was just use the gameplay, combo's and roster of tenkaichi 3 and graphics of ultimate it would have been so awesome

You should review Dragonball Z Ultimate Battle 22. :D

When I played this game for the first (and only) time, I only played hero mode and I was like "as soon as I finish the tutorial this will get good" "I can't wait to finish the tutorial to kick everybody's ass" "oh no! this is not a tutorial, that's the gameplay" "what? I can't even fly to wherever I want during combat" I lost so many matches just because I pressed the wrong buttons. It was so repetitive, so tedious, so boring I only played for like two days and returned it. visually looks good, except for the super saiyajin, it looks to greenish, and the roster was probably small, I don't remember, as I say, I only played hero mode.

The Music... just the music🎼👌🗿

On god, the only thing I ever liked about this game was the Main Menu music. Seriously, I go back and listen to it even to this day.

Ultimate Tenkaichi for me is a guilty pleasure. I genuinely enjoyed the game. As bad as that is to say, the Hero Mode was so good. The giant battles were pretty fun. I really didn't mind the guessing game. I don't know, it was just really fun for me. And A BANGER soundtrack

Never played this game because I didn't have a console back then but I watched gameplay videos and it looked so cool and I wanted this game so much. Oh man... I've been living in such a cruel lie🤦‍♂

I feel like this was the precursor to legends. It has a similar look, and a somewhat similar (but 100% better) system

The true MrMattyPlaysWithHimself channel :)

I JUST played this game last weekend for the first time in a while. If you go full power at the start of the fight you pretty much have unlimited combos and can win without taking any damage. Got the super saiyan transformation at the beginning of hero mode by cheesing this tactic. I got this game when it first came out and it’s one of the biggest disappointments from a video game I’ve had.

Great minds think alike, I was like It’ll be cool if he review this one ☝️! And I’m brand new to the channel!

I remember when I was a teenager and i was super broke and this game was coming out and I had no money so i saved every dollsr i could just to buy this game, and when I finally did the week it released, I felt like a complete fool after buying it and being stuck with it.

Whar i hated the most was everyone has the same fighting style. It was like they just change model skins 😤They all had the same combos. I was fine with the rock paper stuff. As long as they all felt different. But this game was beautiful. I also hated fighting the same big transformed king Kong ozzra monster... Over & over. The first time was awesome. But after the 3rd I was tired of it. Fighting the dragon Sharon was a first for the series. I enjoyed the game but I hated some problems. I still have my copy. I liked it enough to keep it.