Tekken 6 review

[vonroulema]

Hello this is my first debut on reviewing games, I'm not going to use the vonRoulema catch-phrase when I'm going to make a review, because it would result an epic phail. So instead maybe I'll just going to be my own self.

So lets review tekken 6

I've been waiting for this game since a year or so, not sure and first time I was playing this game during that time I was playing on the arcade version yes the grand-daddy of video games "The arcade". Even though I am one of those people who never rely much on the information on the internet, it was expected that everything will be changed. Well I never had much having good time with the Arcade because I am not that type of guy who wants to be disrupted by someone who will declare "Here comes a new challenger" in the arcade, to be honest i am not that good on using joy stick, but when it comes to joy pad that's a different story.

About Tekken 6

Playing Tekken 6 in PS3 for the first time is like saying, this is the first time I played tekken 3 (or 4 or 5) on a video game, the same feeling I responded on other gameplay as well...

So what can i say about Tekken 6? Well its more like a tekken 4 and tekken 5 combined and turn it into tekken 6. like I say it was expected that everything will be change, especially for my character Yoshimitsu. While playing Tekken 6, it will make you forget all the things you learn from the past including the juggles. For what i learned this game is somehow design for players who loves button smashing, I mean if your fighting an expert player and if you are nearly dying, just simultaneously press all the button and hope for a miracle that you can defeat your opponent, which somehow ended up 90% of chances that you can actually beat your opponent using that kind of technique and seriously this thing happens every time whenever I'm challenging someone, especially if its in the rage mode.

Oh yeah the rage mode this one only happens if you and your opponent's health bar is in near death. It actually increase attack which gives you a good chance defeating your opponent that has high health bar.

By the way I played Tekken 6 not just on PS3 but also in Xbox, let me tell you one thing about the controls in Xbox, its really messed up, but there's a joy stick controller only for Xbox which I'm not really familiar with, my friend told me that if you are going to buy tekken 6 in Xbox, buy first the controller.

I know what your thinking, why does PS3 don't have a joy stick? I don't know because Xbox said so. Somehow I don't see any problems in controlling in PS3 version, everything is fine and smooth except for the campaign scenario.

Features

Talk about another features of Tekken 6, the campaign scenario, this beat'em up mini game similar to double dragon or bare-knuckle (an old game from super famicom and sega) whatever you call it, its just awesome, its very addictive and its worth for the money I spend, (even though I still like the Tekken Force in Tekken 4) the controls is similar to Tekken Force and gameplay also similar to The Devil within, like I say it's a mixture of tekken 4 and tekken 5, two games combine into one. The controls is kind of complicating, especially if you are going to change analog stick to directional button (or vise versa) whenever you want to flee or fight enemies (sometimes I need to flee even though you cannot flee in this game) and another thing I think they need to improve more on their auto-target-lock system, Tekken Force and Devil Within has better auto-target-lock system compare to this one, or maybe because I have an AI partner who ruins my plan.

There's also an offline mode, which consist of arcade, time attack team battle, practice enough said...

Story

The Story about Tekken 6... Well not much an importance all you need to know that there's Jin and his Zaibatsu, Kazuya and his G corporation friends, there's Lars who has an interesting hair style, Alisa a kawaii nightmare who has a very unique and disturbing fighting move and some other characters who have different motives and desires on the tournament. And that's the best way to describe Tekken 6.

The Flaws

There's also problems I encountered in Tekken 6, one of them is the obnoxious loading screen, You might say I don't have the patience but seriously. Arcade loads faster and I'm using a PS3 console not a PS1 console, its recommended to install tekken 6 on your console if you don't want to experience the slow loading screen.

Another thing is the lag, no I am not using the internet, in scenario campaign there are times that the game would actually lag, if I'm running around and fighting six thugs at the same moment. At least dynasty warriors doesn't lag while fighting three dozens of enemies compare to six thugs.

The Graphics

The graphics, I cant say its eye candy, at least the background is better, problem is I often get distracted on moving objects, I think the light colour is too bright on some stages and the characters I got a feeling that it has a similar graphics of tekken 5. But if you are going to compare it to Soul Calibur 4 in terms of graphics, I think Soul Calibur caught my eyes. There are some who would want to complain about the graphics of Tekken 6, well you'll just have to remind yourself that this is a fighting game and not a cinematic game.

Overall

If you are a fan of tekken, I think you'll going to enjoy the same way I enjoy playing this game, there are 40 rosters to choose from, there are plenty of costumes you can customized, Scenario campaign is okay, there's online mode which you can battle with friends or someone else, there's vs. mode and most important of all it last longer

The grade is 8 out of 10