Gamespot got this review all wrong.
Gameplay:
The new game tries to get the behind the shoulder perpsective, allowing you to move all around you small envirement. With this, you can perform your specials a lot quicker, and easier with the L2 button as your charge. The game offers nearly 60 characters, but no In-game transformations. This sucks first of all, as you must now choose the character trans. and stick it it. Although, the gameplay is still pretty good as you get knocked through the envirement and get your clothes ripped. You also have all your moves from the beginning changing the capsule system. Overall, the gamplay has changed following the full 3D, but button-mashing, ki-blast challenge have all stayed the same. The only complaint you can really see in the teleportations, as they usually never work! (8.4/10)
Story:
As before, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi offers a longer story from Dragon Ball all the way to GT. This should last you a good 15-25 hours, depending on what you do in between. The are now fully-3D cutscenes, altough the characters only say one sentence before battle. And they often say something awkward or dissapointing, killing the story. Now as you win battles, you collect capsules to improve your characters Strenght, Ki, etc. You also collect Potara capsules, which you can combine to create new characters!! The story also keeps in the Dragon Balls which you can use to make wishes to get more characters, or new passwords. (9/10)
Controls:
All I can saw about the controls is that they suck until you begin to understand them. The tutorials are terrible, and are now vidoes instead of you playing through them. When you first begin the story, you often get your ass kicked against the AI, as they are hard and unforgiving. There is only one attack, block, KI, and base button. You use R1 and R2 to ascend and descend from the ground. The charge button is now L2, now much easier to charge that KI. The block button has four directions, one for each side located on a compass. The teleportation button are not responsive, and often happen on miracles. Try to picture the reversal system in Smackdown! VS Raw!! (7/10)
Sound:
The sound in the game is great, borrowing heavily from the late Budokai 2, which some of the music will be returning. The Japenese voices are also in this game, so if you want to see some Japenese. The sound of the attacks and KI blasts are amazing, and the sound of you crashing through the buldings. The voice talent is borrowed from the American and Japenese actors, with most of them all convincing to their characters. The only complaint with the sound is the specials, as many of them don't actually say the name of the blast, and give a weak HAAAAHHHHH!!! Overall, the sound is pretty good and looks like effort was put into this area. (9.1/10)
Graphics:
This is perhaps better than Budokai 3, now most of the characters have reaistic looksing skins with electical bolt firing up. The KI blasts looks bright and amazing, although the backgrounds could have looked a bit better. The frame rate contains a consistant 60fps, and often the loading is no more than 6 seconds. Although some characters could have looked better, such as Goten who looks a bit blocky at close. Overall, the graphics fit the bill of the sucessor of Budokai 3. (8.9/10)
Value:
Unless you really have something against DBZ or wanted something like Budokai 3, definately get Tenkaichi. The graphics, combined with the somewhat bad controls and great story make a worthy sucessor fo Budokai 3. With nearly 60 characters, you really can't find the ultimate character missing excluding Pikkon. With this said, the 3D backgrounds will keep you on your feet for as long as the ride lasts.
Overall:
(8.6/10)