Your friendly
neighborhood xradicalblues is back, bringing Budokai Tenkaichi information. This
time it's BT3 aka Sparking! METEOR
For the new, this is just an info page with shitty thumbnails, but click on em
for bigger res.
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First Scan:
Sparking! Meteor scheduled
release for Japan is fall 2007 (PS2 and Wii). This follows the tradition of the
annual Budokai games. We should expect an american release a bit later.
Ki bars look very much like the ones on Budokai 3. Multiple health bars and the
B1 stock is still there.
SSJ (Namek Saga
uniform) Goku is seen with a fitting hairstyle this time. In BT2 it looked like
his Buu Saga hair. Who knows if they'll change his SSJ hair for other forms, but
it's nice they're being more accurate in details. He's seen making the one-handed
Kamehameha.
On the leftmost screen we see Kid Goku staring at the moon on a night stage
rocky area (here
is bigger screenshot)
Three first new characters: King Vegeta, King Cold (apparently using Trunk's
sword, or a sword), and Nail (using a beam). Many speculate on King Vegeta
having an Oozaru form in the future for tradition's sake. :D
150 characters are announced for this game. This surely includes forms, as
that's the way they have counted characters for previous games. However, I'm
sure this number is bound to change or to be an approximate, judging from
previous year numbers.
The space stage (freezer's
spaceship at outsides of Planet Vegita) that was included in the Wii
version of BT2 is seen here! . It's sure to guess all old stages are coming
back.
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Second Scans:
The 150 number appears
again on characters (the 170 number at the bottom is unrelated to BT3, ignore it).
King Vegeta, King Cold and Nail reappear for confirmation. More characters are
said to be revealed in the next mags (monthly, suck it). More "popular"
characters will come this time. Supposedly graphics are improved.
SSJ (Namek Saga uniform) Goku is seeing making a two-handed Kamehameha this
time. Will he have two beam B2 moves? or is this a sign of more B2 moves?
Nail is seen doing a beam again, he doesn't have his blue coat on. I hope his
alternate costume has his coat on, and the programmers don't go stupid and just
give him an alternate color.
New stages are
announced, as well as daytime and nighttime stages. We can see Cell Games at
night this time, and apparently the rocky area is at night too. We see space
stage again. An article has said 20 STAGES are planned, along with the words "over
20 characters".
"Transformation D"
has improved for some characters, using "Transformation Gimmick", which we see
will make the saiyans with tail go Oozaru. This probably means that in night
stages when transforming you'll see the moon to make it more realistic. This
means you can only go Oozaru at night stages this time? Maybe some characters
can have a "fake moon" gimmick during day like Vegeta and Turles made, and
simply the moon on night? Maybe other characters will have their own
transformation gimmicks? (Cell absorbing androids, etc). I do hope
transformations get waaay better than those stupid white flashes in BT2 >_>
These scans also say
that different teams are working on Wii version (for better controls) and on PS2
version.
Out of scans, word is the
Wii version will have online option. Unconfirmed for me. Who knows about PS2.
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Useful links nao:
Japanese
site (now you can refresh every 5 seconds for updates!)
http://dbzs.jp/meteor/
Atari boards, check stickies for articles and screenies:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=630
Hi Res screens, screen 4009
shows a real bad facial expresion <.<
http://thewiiremedia.revolutionreport.net/games/228/
