It's no secret among Tekken players that Tekken 3 was the series' best showing. That's why it was such great news that Tekken 5 was a much-needed return to form for Namco's flagship fighter, as well as one of the prettiest PS2 games ever released.
Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, a sort of expansion to the original Tekken 5, was quietly released in arcades last year, and also made a surprisingly great showing on the handheld PSP. But now it's headed to the PlayStation 3 as an exclusive downloadable game, and Gamepro got the first hands-on experience with the final U.S. release code.
Join Dave as look back at every Tekken game ever produced, and how Namco evolved the series and the technology over the years.
Sirus Gaming: Tekken 7 will be launching later (tomorrow for US), and it’s time for us to go back to its main predecessors and rank them from worst to best.
Soul Calibur is better than both.
By the way, where the hell is Tekken Tag on this list?
Virtua Fighters is actually better then Tekken. Still, out of all the Tekken games Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 are probably the best in the series. Soul Calibur is still one of my favorite franchises.
Depends if you want an animation movie with ok battles or great fighting game with some animations.
Tekken tag tournament 2 is probably my favourite (still didn't play 7 unfortunately)
Others would be: 5, 3, tag1, 2
Tekken 4 gets a lot of hate, but it has the best story, atmosphere and soundtrack in the series IMO. Sure the gameplay was very unbalanced thanks to the new stuff they tried out but I'd pick it over Tekken 1 any day of the week.
I'd probably agree with the rest of the list, more or less.
Hear hear. I had a lot of fun with 4. The tiered levels were kind of odd, but it's got a chill style.
Tekken Tag 2 is still my favorite though.
I'm a bit lost on the hate as well.
I mean the engine was different but they had to update the game to a new generation. The tier list gets criticism but Tekken 5 also had huge issues with this and doesn't get half the bad mouthing. The aesthetics of the game were wonderful, the sound design amazing, the music very memorable, and I loved their attempt to reduce the cast and keep the roster diverse while pushing the most down to earth narrative Tekken has seen or will ever see.
I think the fact Tekken 4 was so different from the other Tekken's is why I like it the most.
Good points. And at least they tried something new with the stage design affecting gameplay, sure it didn't work out well that time, but I wish they kept at that, I think they were on to something there.
Preach, and the opening of T5 was amazing! Still the best opening in the series. Sucks that it seems they haven't tried to top it.
Was never a huge fan of the Tekken series but I always loved their presentation, characters and cinematics.
The latest one is just all out epic, especially the last battle between Kazuya and Heihachi.
Following its official release in other territories this autumn, The Ling Xiaoyu Bishoujo Statue is now officially available throughout Europe. The latest addition to the popular line of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Bishoujo Statues, Ling Xiaoyu is based on a new illustration by master Japanese illustrator Shunya Yamashita.
Hmmm, I would prefer a proper Ps3 build of a Tekken game but this will have to do for now I guess. Oh, and that footnote to the article in gamepro....about what they would like to see in Tekken 6, WTF! Yoshimitsu, 'over the top' character? That comment right there, proves how $hit and clueless about fighting games that guy is. If he was a 'long time Tekken player' as they say, he would know that if you can master Yoshimitsu, you can OWN in any Tekken. And 'gritty' look ala Gears of War? Finishing moves? Jesus, any decent fight game fan will tell you that
the Japanese know their art, and their $hit, and Mortal Kombat games are absolute button mashing crap.
seems like each new instalment is getting steadily worse and worse, heres hopeing they manage to bring tekken back up to date as the king of fighters!
should i really get this for the PSN. I mean, i have it for the ps2 and i gave that game so many hours to unlock everything. (Yes everything)all the items,endings,scores,minigameJ in,and it took me forver to raise alot of money.. Yea its new and have more stuff and the boss is playable and new levels and gallery is added but.. thats it. It still looks like the ps2 graphics in a way. VF5 looks way better. So what do you say...should i get it.