![]() ![]() With such a large roster, characters can feel samey, but there’s real diversity here, so you could be scorching through the air as jet-powered bishōjo android Alisa Bosconovitch, or doing Zafina’s creepy tarantula crawl. All look and feel incredible: Nina Williams in her tasselled violet dress, Sergei Dragunov with his high-heeled biker boots, monstrous cyborg Jack-8 sporting those pulverising extendable fists. There are veteran combatants such as rogue American street fighter Paul Phoenix and psychic wildlife protection officer Jun Kazama (returning after a long absence), as well as three newcomers Victor, Reina and jittery coffee fiend Azucena. Tekken 8 is a graphical and technological marvel, its 32 characters lustrously detailed, intricately animated and crammed with personality and swagger. If it sounds like a relic from a bygone era, it both is and isn’t. That’s pretty much everything you need to know. One of the characters in the game is a giant panda. There is a ridiculous backstory about the warring Mishima family who are sort of like the Roys in Succession, but with a lot more wrestling and throwing each other into volcanoes. Photograph: Bandai Namco EntertainmentĮach fighter has their own style, combining genuine martial arts with quasi-magical attacks. View image in fullscreen ‘A love letter to arcade culture’ … Tekken 8. ![]() Players fight against successively tougher computer-controlled opponents in Arcade and Story modes or against each other in local or online Versus bouts. The result is a thrillingly vibrant video game.įor the uninitiated, Tekken 8 is the latest in a series of fighting games by arcade legend Namco, in which a group of gloriously ostentatious warriors compete to win the King of Iron Fist tournament in one-on-one battles in an enclosed arena. While Tekken 7 was subtle step forward rewarding committed players, Tekken 8 feels like the first iteration in a long while to truly up its ambitions and entice newcomers. Arriving on PlayStation, the game’s smooth, detailed 3D visuals, arresting characters and accessible control system brought a new generation of fans to the fighting game genre, and subsequent instalments have built on those solid credentials, although not always with the same impact. It’s been almost 30 years since the original Tekken burst into arcades to face off against Sega’s Virtua Fighter and kickstart a decade-long battle for fighting supremacy. ![]()
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