Bandai Namco has released a new trailer — both in English and Japanese — for the forthcoming DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO video game featuring characters from the Dragon Ball GT television series:
As part of the trailer, the following playable characters were announced:
- Goku (GT)
- Pan (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan (GT)
- Baby Vegeta (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan 3 (GT)
- Super Baby 1 (GT)
- Super Baby 2 (GT)
- Oob (GT)
- Super Oob (GT)
- Goku: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
- Golden Great Ape Baby Vegeta (GT)
- One-Star Dragon (GT)
- Super One-Star Dragon (GT)
- Vegeta: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
- Gogeta: Super Saiyan 4 (GT)
Dragon Ball GT was an anime-only sequel series that originally ran on Fuji TV from 1996 to 1997, spanning 64 episodes and a single television special.
Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO is slated for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (via Steam) 10 October 2024 in Japan, and 11 October 2024 internationally.
As opposed to the completely separate Dragon Ball Z (“Budokai”) series developed by Dimps which came before it, the Sparking! series — developed instead by Spike — featured 3D arenas with an over-the-shoulder camera angle. The new game’s title of Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO falls more in line with the original trilogy’s naming scheme in Japanese. The three Sparking! games — the original, NEO!, and METEOR — hit the PlayStation 2 over the course of 2005 to 2007, with the Nintendo Wii also receiving ports of the second and third games. The game series was released numerically under the “Budokai Tenkaichi” moniker internationally. A fourth games — Tag Vs. in Japan; Tenkaichi Tag Team internationally — was released on the PlayStation Portable in 2010. Spike (as Spike Chunsoft) later went on to also develop the crossover fighting games J-Stars Victory VS in 2014 and Jump Force in 2019.