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1.0 out of 5 stars What a drag, 3 May 2010

By	Mr. D. L. Charlton (Durham, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars

This review is from: Tekken 6 (PS3) (Video Game)

It was with much anticipation that I first bought Tekken 6. Trailers promised a fluid fighting game that would build upon the success of Tekken 5 with an unprecedented cast of characters. All of our old favourites are back, but the overall roster of characters is now bigger than ever putting thousands of moves as your disposal. Tekken Force has made a return... this time as the game's central scenario mode. I won't bore you with the (non} story, but lets just say you will wish you never had to play it.

It is now required that you play through each and every broken level of the Scenario Mode, which follows the adventures of new characters Lars and Alisa in order to unlock every other character's story mode. It's typical anime fair with a young amnesiac male lead character accompanied by an attractive female android and the boredom doesn't take long to set in. Action stages instantly switch from insultingly easy to insanely hard halfway through. Equipment must be purchased in order to make your characters stand a chance later on. Scenario Mode is what you get when you cross a cookie cutter brawler seemingly 20 years out of date with a very basic action RPG, with none of the polish that would otherwise have been put into either.

Onto the fighting itself and it all seems heavily fixated on range, even moreso than weapon based fighters such as Soul Calibur. The feeling of not getting close enough to your opponent in a particularly challenging battle is incredibly jarring and the sense of urgency that comes when you finally lock horns feels all too brief. With that being said, Tekken 6 attempts to compensate by giving a very large number of characters projectile attacks. These feel completely out of place. Juggles are so easy to execute that it seems battles are a contest between who can juggle their opponent first. As for balance... forget about it. It became immediately apparent that Alisa, Lee, Steve and Asuka were higher tier. All in all, a huge cast of characters with bulky movesets can't cover for the fact that Tekken 6 is a shallow fighting game.

And the arcade and story modes don't get much better. AI only ever challenges you to work out the most effective cheap attack pattern. They are stupid at best, spamhappy at worst and higher level AI seem to have access to an auto-juggle button at all times.

Presentation-wise, Tekken 6 is simply not up to scratch, running at a sub-HD resolution with middling-at-best character models. Environments are bland and many stages lend themselves well to wall juggling (have Namco learned nothing from Tekken 4?). You get some cool looking motion blur, but it is disabled unless you run the game at a low resolution with no anti-aliasing. You will hardly notice this though, as the visuals are fugly either way and it is easily the first instance of a Tekken game that does nothing to push the hardware of the system it was ported over to.

So there you have it. Namco does the sort of apathetic thing that should have been expected from them after their recent disappointments and rely once again on a familiar brand to carry a poor fighting game. Does it have any redeeming qualities? Sure, there is a sprawling customisation system and nobody could claim it didn't deliver in terms of the sheer volume of features and content, not least among them being a comprehensive training mode. But this counts for surprisingly little with the big picture in mind. You can get countless hours o gameplay out of Tekken 6 before you have even started the online, just don't expect those hours to be well spent or even pleasant.

Incurable Tekken junkies might be inclined to forgive its faults, but I would advise anybody else never to spend their money on it. If you're looking for some cheap fighting game thrills, the lightning fast gameplay of Dead or Alive 4 offers so much more. Those looking for a rewarding fighting game with depth would be better off playing Virtua Fighter 5 which more than compensates for what it lacks in the sorts of embellishments you'd expect from Tekken with focused, realistic gameplay and a robust tournament mode. with that thought, I wash my hands of Tekken 6. A game that is so much less than the sum of its parts.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Straight Forward Review, 5 Nov 2009

By	S. M. Zaidi - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars

This review is from: Tekken 6 (PS3) (Video Game)

I am a very aggressive tekken fan and have been following it since tekken 2, so you can imaging how impatient i must be to wait for tekken 6 to be released.. i was extremely surprised to read some off putting reviews, but i coudnt resist to buy it and try myself... so here is my little experience

the first 1 hour of tekken 6 was very disappointing, the first thing i noticed were low resolution character graphics i said to myself damn what they have done to the graphics its not even 720p and the blockiness resembles playstation 1, my heart sank and thought that its plain waste of money.

the second off putting this was the disc load time, which was way too long if you compare to teken 5 DR online. after sometime i just turned my ps3 off and took a break with just a sad heart. went online to google the remedies. In no time i had some solutions...

Turned back on the ps3, started the tekken disc and the first thing that i did was to install the tekken on harddsk.. this option is available in the options menu - other settings.. it took about 4-5 mins to install, than according to my research i had to turn off motion blur which increases picture quality.. after doing these two things i went back online to try a couple of matches...

now IMMEDIATELY I COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE now they are much much better no more blockiness... although graphics are 720p but the movements, sounds affects just make the whole experience outstanding.. addition of new characters with new features is good too.. i never had problem playing online no lag whatsoever maybe coz i applied the online update just before i played the game for the first time...

all those tekken hardliners dont be put off by some not so fair reviews this games deserves nothing less than 5 stars i am very happy with it.. if anyone wants to challenge me add me my psn id is shehryaar

oh one more thing i defeated azazel on the very first fight in arcade mode with king lolz...

hope this review helps.... one last word after playing tekken 6 online for about 3 hours i tried tekken 5 and it honestly looked dull.. tekken 6 ROCKS

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5.0 out of 5 stars awsome!!!, 3 Sep 2010

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Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars

This review is from: Tekken 6 (PS3) (Video Game)

completed the game evry quickly got the platinum within a week, but the large amount of outfits in the game will keep u playing for hours after end

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