Tekken 7 Director Surprised by Feedback on Arab Assassin; Addresses Assassin’s Creed Similarities

Yesterday Tekken 7 Director and Producer Katsuhiro Harada asked the fans for feedback on an Arab-looking assassin concept that might be used for a new character, and the community definitely scrambled to comment and discuss.

Harada-san commented on Twitter, expressing his surprise for the amount of feedback received and talking about the experience, which definitely isn’t very common for a game developer.

[Golden_Mud]

Im not that much surprised cause the arabian region is full of gamers , the arab gaming is a wide successful community but it isn't that known cause most of the developers are just starting , for example : Hako Games had just started and many other studios are just starting to come out with quality games.

[Ripsta7th]

Maybe if the wars stopped over there ,people would have better things to do w their time

[Golden_Mud]

What wars ? I live in Saudi Arabia and right now Im in Egypt , there is no war ? also I just told you , arabs are beginning to come out to showcase their skills in programming games...

[HammadTheBeast]

Well that's a huge generalization.

[rocketpanda]

You sir are an A class simpleton! Why bring something completely unrelated to this topic? You somehow think anything to do with that region is war. I reckon Fox news must be your got to source for everything newsworthy!

[TongkatAli]

Tell that to America and Israel and maybe the wars would stop, it's not those Arabs countries fault at all.

[DarkOcelet]

:/ just like ihassounah said and you seriously need to see for it for yourself before saying things like this ... ignorance is a bliss

[bouzebbal]

and maybe the day you leave your cave you will understand the world a little better.
just how mental old are you?

[q8kik]

@Hoodaaction
Egyptian tradition wearings are highly influenced by the ottomans . for example, egyptians used to wear a typical arabic turban before the ottomans came but then it became the tarboosh :)
But the gcc countries traditional wearings remained 100% arabic
Peace.

[Salooh]

No wars , just bad governments that doesn't support their people. That's why you don't see our talents . Most arabs that make games travel to other countries. Their work doesn't show up in media because the amount of people that make the game is huge so ..

I for one study electrical engineering. If i go and do huge work in usa i won't get the credit to the public ( only people that know about that field will know me) because it's not my country. That's what i mean.

[nope111]

Really awesome of Harada-san to seek player feedback.
I'm not a fan of Tekken but seeing this really makes me want to buy Tekken 7 out of respect.

[ironfist92]

That character design looks badass

Similarities to AC I have no problem with.

Hell, you could even give him an alternative costume which uses the AC robes.

Ezio himsefl was included in Bandai Namco's Soul Calibur so dont see why not.

[nope111]

LOL yeah, i'm waiting for a pair of hidden blades to pop out.

[mafiahajeri]

As an arab I like the design, he needs longer hair though much longer. He said for an Arabic fighter long hair is not the norm maybe nowadays in the army here you need to pretty much be bald when your in camp, but this is tekken a fictional universe. In the past our hair was long and this is a fictional fighter so he should have long hair. Heck there's still a lot of people here with long hair, especially bedouins...

Also when you think about any fighter shouldn't have long hair, much easier to grab it and slit your throat...

[MegaRay]

Now if more developers do this, we would of had Jak 4 long time ago :/

[jc48573]

He reminds of that one guy in Uncharted 3.

[MWH]

very interesting. it would also be nice to have multi-voice overs which you can specify for each character depending on his/her origin like in SFxT.

[Darkfist]

its funny how in some of the comments they call it a hood which its not, thats a Keffiyeh

[ironfist92]

Westerners, eh?

[Reek]

Happy to hear that there's a lot of Arab gamers out there!
I think game developers should give them more love.

[kasser]

I am an Arab gamer (specifically from Saudi Arabia) and I like the concept.

However I think it will be a lot cooler if the Shemagh (aka Keffiyeh) can be placed on the neck rather than wore on the head (maybe alternative customs?) because it is kinda funny seeing it on the head and without a formal dress below. But hey, I dont mind the look :D

I am glad that Harada is being very open with our region. We rarely see a developer that acknowledge us as a gaming region. Specially with modern "war" games like CoD or BF, our region is being used as setting with false presentation of who we are and the developers do not even bother to seek feedback from their fans who actually are living in the same settings.

I also want to add that Tekken is one of the most popular games here since Tekken 2. It is very popular with all ages too because it is very accessible. Whenever a group of friends gather around infront of TV, it is highly probable that they will launch any Tekken game. You can say it is our "party" game lol.

[Exoil]

I'm sorry buddy, but "false presentation of who we are"?

Perhaps false presentation of who you are, but what I've seen as a UN-soldier in those areas those games are pretty spot on when it comes to depicting war zones in ME. In my eyes that is.

[PurpHerbison]

Knock it off.

[wls1012]

I'm not loving the pants, but it looks like a great new fighter.

[PurpHerbison]

I am really not feeling this. Too many similarities to Ezio, hell, even Prince of Persia. For starters, buff that damn pathetic beard.

[hkgamer]

using social media for feedback is a pretty cool idea. it also gives consumers the feel that they had help in development.

depicting an arab character can be dangerous, could in a sense cause controversy if they did something wrong or over the top. so feedback maybe the way to go.

however too much feedback on ideas can take away the artists impression on things. lets hope harada will not do this too often.