Review: Tekken 6

Samurai Goomba

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Bleah. I'll take Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution and Dead or Alive: Ultimate, thank you very much. I've yet to see a 3D fighter come out which rivals either of those games. People laugh about Team Ninja's shameless pandering to male audiences, but at least the story in Dead or Alive kinda sorta almost makes some sense. I mean, for the first few installments, anyway.

King of Fighters is still the best fighting games series for story.
 

jabu354

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Dark Templar said:
I agree. I was mystified with the characters and settings of blazeblue, until it was ruined for me in single player.

Fighting games should not have a story.
BlazBlue's story line was the best part of the game, I was in awe.
 

Mattteus

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I know I want it but I don't think it's worth me buying a PS3 for it... unless it has an online mode...
 

SW15243

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There's nothing in the rulebook that says a giant crystal dragon can't play wide receiver.

Wait.
 

amazinglettera

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To me, it's still an awesome Tekken game. But Azazel is like playing against the CPU in Tekken 2. Or even the first Tekken! I-Can't-Believe-How-Hard-This-Is setting on Tekken 6 is the Easy from the first Tekken.
 

kingkillion

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I have to admit that i have never been a fighter fan of sorts the fighter style of gaming and this game seem to give me all the points that i need to never buy it tahnk you
 

Woem

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Is it just me or is this game incredibly slow paced? Compared to games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat it seems awkwardly slow.
 

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It's pretty nice. The fighting is almost like in tekken 5, better graphics , but the story mode...wow...I find it horrible, that target system is retarded, I have no idea what's going on and I don't see the reason for fighting the stage bosses (like when you meet Wang , the dialogue is like this : Me: "You're..." | Wang: "Speak with your fists" | Me: "If I must" , and so we start fighting.
It's good to play with friends in VS mode. That's about it for me.
 

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"Director! I'd like to put a purple crystal dragon in the game!!"

"I dunno... It doesn't seem very... you know ... *Tekken*."

"....that shoots lasers from its eyes."

"It's IN!"


I pretty much gave up on the serries after Jin sprouted wings like a emo fairy and some bear showed up to avenge his sensei.
 

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First off both Kuma/Panda (bear) and Roger (boxing kangaroo) have been in the game since Tekken 2 so they are no big surprise. Second I don't like the fact that all reviews i see of this game accuses it of being just like the old Tekken games. I guess that for most people the differences are perhaps not all THAT notable but they have changed the spacing, combo damage and juggles totally, not to mention the wall splat timing and stuff like that. For a player that spends enough time to learn how the game works, rather than just swatting a sweaty palm across the buttons in hopes that cool things will ensue, there have been a lot of changes. But like i said, it's not evident for players who just don't give a hoot about the actual workings of the game and just want to have fun with their friends, you really have to play seriously to see it. Oh and i'm not insinuating that it's wrong to not have the patience and time it takes to really get in to Tekken, i just think it's unfair to say that it's still the same old game.

Also Azazel (the dragon) isn't playable, it's just the end boss. And he is ridiculously easy to beat.
 

Illusive DiZ

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I agree with you John. I think it is Air Bud's fault for giving them the idea to let a crystal dragon join a martial arts tournament. Good Review by the way.
 

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i have a confession to make it seems, i must admit that i always rather liked the story in tekken, albeit it's silly moments. i think it is more nostalgia then anything since i practically grew up on the tekken series, tekken 2 was one of the first games i got for the ps, for me the story seems uniquely deep compared to other fighters were story seemed to be something scribbled done in under two minutes, with little creativity. granted the level of writing of tekken seems to mirror something on the level of a bad soap opera with gothy aesthetics, it still has its charm.

i wish they would stop including these poorly executed beat em up mini games, they have never been much fun, bring back the bowling or the beach ball mini games or something else like tekken soccer.

and about the review, it doesn't seems as if the review ever played a tekken game before for more than ten minutes, weird and somewhat over the top characters are practically a staple of the series just as much as the impressive cut scenes and graphics. have ogre, gon and devil been forgotten so soon?
he is right on one thing though, if previous tekken games have not managed to charm you, then this one certainly won't either.
 

DaBozz

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One question, can you play as the dragon ?
cause you if you can I'm buying this game right away!
 

konkwastaken

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Before anyone responds this is obviously INCREDIBLY biased since i am an avid Tekken fan.

Dragons name is Azazel.
No you can't play as Azazel.

(if anyone cares the notation is as follows. Up=U, Down=D, Back=B, Forward=F and combinations of that for up forward UF, Left punch=1, Right punch =2, Left kick =3, Right kick=4, im sure the rest can easily be worked out)

Whoever was talking about the game being slow and sluggish, the game runs at 60fps and there are moves which connect in under 12 frames of being pressed. To counter these attacks you have to press a combination of buttons according to the attack used by your opponent, in under 10 frames you have to see, think and respond in time with the attack connecting.

Tekken takes incredible reflexes and anticipation skills to succeed in higher level play. e.g. simply to counter a throw you have to read whether the enemy is extending their left, right of both of their arms in the amount of frames you get before the throw is executed and press either 1, 2 or 1+2 depending on which it is.

Due to playing on my friends xbox which is banned from xbox live i have had to restart scenario mode after i had fully completed it, it can get a bit boring but you can power through most of it very easily with just a basic move set e.g. with lars, the starting character all you have to do is combinations of B+1+2, UF+4, B+3+4, DF+3 and that is enough to be able to finish the game in 1 sitting. The only replay value is Achievements/Trophies if you are into that sort of thing or getting clothing items much faster than normal play.

Of course, me not having a playstation 3 and therefore being unable to get tekken 5 DR the on-line play is a huge improvement which i absolutely love there are a lot of other things and i could go on and on but i don't want this post to turn into a very poorly structured review in the comments of a review so im gunna leave it here.

PS: Lars, King, Kazuya, Jack-6, and Lili are the best ^_^