Tekken 6 (PS3) - Review

Introduction

After some changes of the release date, because of the Scenario Campaign mode, Tekken 6 hit the consoles. And it was worth waiting. Tekken is a 3D fighting game, similar to Virtua Fighter, that focus in a more “realistic” fight system (if compared to Street Fighter, MK and KOF) having a big variety of moves for each character, addictive gameplay and some really cool characters, and this version comes with the Scenario Campaign (SC), a mode that is similar to Tekken Force, but with a storyline and more than 30 stages.

Story & Characters

As in most fighting games, the story is not the best aspect of Tekken 6, actually it can be a little confusing at times, but it’s still enjoyable. After taking control of the Mishima Zaibatsu, on the end of Tekken 5, Jin declared war against the world, and Kazuya come as a savior, to oppose his son, controlling the G Corporation, them Jin announces The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6.This Tekken focus a lot on story on the SC mode, where you play as Lars, the hero of this game. Lars loses his memories and together with Alisa, a cute female robot, that helps him to try to accomplish his secret mission. The characters of Tekken always catch my attention, they’re very cool and fun, some have really fun endings.

Gameplay

The roster is amazing, from the beginning, you get all 40 characters to play on all modes, except on the SC mode, where you have to unlock the characters to play. Not only you have a great variety of characters, but also each one has an amazing variety of moves, most have more than 60 different moves. The controls are very responsive and it’s easy to new players learn how to play, but it takes time to master. On the SC  you use the same moves from the fights, but the controls for this mode are imprecise and you may have a few problems to control the character, but it doesn’t ruin the mode at all. In the normal fight, now you have the “rage” mode, which increases the strength of the fighter, this is triggered when the fighter’s health bar get under 10%.

Visuals

Tekken 6 hit the arcades 3 years before come to the consoles, for this reason the graphics can look a little outdate , specially in the cut scenes on the SC, in the other hand the CG’s are superb! But most environments looks really nice and has a lot of things happening, like jets flying by and thunders falling. Also the characters has cool details, but some of them looks not that good when the camera zooms in.

Sound

The sound effects are classic Tekken’s sounds, great musics, but not the best on the series, and the voice acting is very good, the only strange thing is the fact that some characters speak English, others Japanese, and others Chinese and also Korean, that’s ok on the fights, but in the cut scenes one character asks in English and the other answers in Japanese, that was a little weird.(^^)

Replay

The game has tons of modes, the classics ones: Arcade, Time Atack, Survival, Versus, Pratice and also the Online mode, where you fight people all over the world, while you do some ranking up and gain battle points. The SC mode adds a lot on the game, since it’s almost a game for it’s own. The SC mode is like a “Beat them up” game, using the Tekken 6 fight system, where you fight tons of enemies on each stage, with a help of a partner, also there’s possible to play SC online with a friend. The customization is phenomenal, each character has dozen of different options for each part of their body, that was really a nice touch to the game.

Good & Bad

The Good: 40 characters available, big variety of moves, tons of modes, fun and interesting characters, deep customization mode and a solid online mode.

The Bad: Graphics a little outdate for some characters and SC mode does’t let you play together with a friend in the same console.

Conclusion

Tekken 6 is a amazing fighting game, has many modes, addictive gameplay, a superb story (for a fighting game, of course), a fun and solid online mode, and a great variety of fighters and moves. If that’s not enough for a fighting game, I don’t know what is.