Every single day. They're a lot of games I played during the pandemic. But their were only 2 titles I would play everyday rain or shine. The other is Guitar Hero 2. This game though, was the top dawg. It was the most affordable Budokai Tenkaichi on amazon 5 years ago (not very cheap anymore), so it's the one I bought. It was worth every penny. It follows the entire DBZ sagas, the movies, and sections of the original dragon ball as well as key events from GT. This was a DBZ fan's wet dream. My copy was broken, so certain levels didn't load in properly, that didn't disuade me though. I was locked in to this game, so I overcame that issue and powered through the campaign going onto unlock every character. So, without a doubt the combat is the best a Dragon Ball Z game has ever been or will be. The amount of content offered is perfect. All in all. It's the perfect Dragon Ball Z game. If I still had my PS2, this would be one of the games I still played everyday.

At attempt at bringing Dragon Ball Z's fights to life in a different way, Budokai Tenkaichi is unlike contemporary fighting games in that it uses an over-the-shoulder camera, placing fighters in a wide arena that they can fly freely around. It's an ambitious concept, but unfortunately it's not well executed here. Many of Dragon Ball's imagery and ideas are recreated, such as powering up, rapid-fire melee, and a bevy of signature attacks, but it's odd that not everything is right - after all, these kind of games live or die on their accuracy. There aren't quite enough ideas to make each fighter distinct, many of them blurring together, especially with many sharing special moves. Budokai Tenkaichi is a classic example of a great idea hampered by a poor execution.

I commend this game for giving the fans tons of content to play around with, with a ridiculous number of characters, stages, and customization options available. The drawback is that the gameplay is so radically different from the Budokai games that it is a completely different game.

That by itself isn't a bad thing, however, this game plays worse than Budokai 3 and for that, it makes it a lesser experience for me. I liked having to transform my character, having them slowly get stronger throughout the fight was fun. This game removes that and has them listed as separate characters in a menu. I can see why this is done, for balance, however, they then throw that balance out the window with character-specific quirks. Like androids being untrackable or the Majin Buu's slowly healing throughout the fight. These are just small changes that lessen the experience.

The big control changes are making this one of the first true "arena fighting" games, which pits you and your opponent in an open area to fight, using any and every direction imaginable. The camera for this game was way too close to your character's back and it made fighting extremely annoying and not very fun.

The game also doesn't look great, and the animation feels sluggish. To be fair, with the amount of content here I can understand why it's like this but it's not great. I think this game is not very good. There is something here, but as it is now I wouldn't bother playing it at all. There are sequels and successors out that are more worth your time, play those instead.