5 Best Dragon Ball Games For Creating Custom Characters

Highlights

• Dragon Ball
  games offer fans the chance to create custom characters in the universe.
• The Breakers
  has generic visuals but offers customization options for player characters.
• The
  Xenoverse
  series lets players choose from major warrior races and customize extensively.

Every fan of the Dragon Ball franchise has played pretend by doing the iconic super saiyan scream. On top of being hilarious, it’s just fun to imagine becoming a walking powerhouse, complete with the iconic spiky blonde hair and laser beam blasts.

Of course, lore-wise, there aren’t actually many saiyans left. However, there have been a good number of Dragon Ball video games over the years aiming to rectify this, featuring character creation to varying degrees and allowing players to build their dream avatar as one of the series’ various powerful races. What follows are the best Dragon Ball Games for creating the custom character fans have always dreamed about.

5 Dragon Ball: The Breakers

Metascore: 53

For a game that was released in 2022, The Breakers looks kind of like a PS3 game, something that’s seen in everything from the flat environments to the basic models of fan favorite characters. Worst of all, the created characters wind up being the most generic looking offenders.

On the flip-side, there are a ton of options to individualize their looks, from a full-range skin color palletes to a ton of hairstyles and eye types. It’s the kind of bright side that doesn’t really excuse the game’s faults, but goes a long way in making the experience tolerable enough to give it a try.

4 Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi

Metascore: 58

• Platform(s): Playstation 3, Xbox 360
• Released: 2011-10-25
• Developer(s): Spike
• Genre(s): Fighting

In addition to the main story that follows the events of the anime, Ultimate Tenkaichi features Hero Mode, delivered part and parcel with its own character creator. This is a separate and original story wherein players can create their own saiyan and battle iconic characters from the series.

Unfortunately, Hero Mode isn’t exactly all it’s cracked up to be, with disappointment starting right off the bat as players can only create male saiyans, and can only choose from a meager number of appearance options. There are, however, detailed color options for each piece of clothing, as well as some costume unlockables that players can chase as they progress through the story.

3 Dragon Ball Online

Metascore: TBD

• Platform(s): PC
• Released: 2010-2-4
• Developer(s): Shueisha, Bandai Namco Holdings
• Genre(s): MMO

This short-lived MMO’s premise was established as being within the manga’s continuity, but set in a sans-Goku future. In the year 1000, just about everybody wants to become a protector of the Earth, giving ample reason for players to be able to create their own player-character.

DBO launched with a mere three races to choose from, each having only two subclasses and a pretty short list of presets for their appearances. Part of the reason for such slim pickings was in keeping with the lore of the manga (Namekians have no gender and can’t change skin color, for instance), so one can only imagine how much more the devs could have added if the game had gained more popularity and lasted even a few more years.

2 Dragon Ball Fusions

Metascore: 72

In this original story that once again plays with varying tiimelines and universes, alliances are complicated, to say the least. The story brings just about everyone from around the Dragon Ball universe together, past, present, and even GT, to duke it out.

For a 3DS game, Fusions offers a lot of customizable aspects in its character creator. A lot of the available details belong to other well-established characters in the series, but they’re still a ton of fun to play around with. Plus, the lack of true variety can be forgiven in a game like this that is all about mixing and matching every Dragon Ball character under the sun to create some truly wild combos.

1 Dragon Ball Xenoverse Series

Metascore: 72 (Xenoverse 2)

In the Xenoverseseries, players create a character that is brought to life by the mighty Shenron, according to the wishes of Trunks, in order to help preserve the Dragon Ball timeline. This alllows for some fun, timey-wimey shenanigans, as every familiar threat in the series is put down once again.

Xenoverse 1 and 2 were released a little over a year apart, so much of the character creator remains the same in the sequel. That’s not really a bad thing, because on top of being able to choose from the five major warrior races in the series, including saiyans, players can customize just about everything about them, from pupil size to jaw shape.