User Review : Tekken 6: Bloodlines

Ups

• Great System. Characters are balanced very well, many styles to choose from.{Addictive Modes that'll have you knocking out more people than Tyson{Interesting Characters, Loads of content and replay value.

Downs

• Loading times can be a bit long{Scenario mode shouldn't of been the main mode

Tekken 6, Has arrived to consoles.

I remember playing Tekken 2 as one of my first PS1 games. Awesome memories throughout the years with each new installment of the series. Well Tekken 6 has arrived after a long wait. Tekken is known for it's cool, interesting, and even insane characters. In this area it is excellent. With 40 Characters to choose from, and not having to unlock most of the characters (unlike past tekkens) you can get started right away with your favorite chracter.

The Offline mode, has your classic game types: Arcade, VS, Team Battle, Survival, Practice, and a new Ghost mode where you play against characters who were customized by namco (like the one's in Tekken 5's arcade if you've played it). When fighting against the CPU you can have your character rank up and gain fight money to buy customizable goodies for your characters which can be worn and used in fights.

Gameplay - The classic 1 on 1 fighting is superb. The fighting styles are so fluid like and fast paced, all while running at 60 FPS. The Motion blur gives it a really good smooth look and feel. The animations and graphics are great considering it's a multi platform (Yeah this isn't ain't exclusive like the rest). This is probably the best fighter I've played this Generation in terms of balance, look, characters, and feel.

The Scenario Mode, which is new and the main part of the game, I found to be a little odd. The voice acting isn't too great (Eddy for example) but the rest is in Japanese usually so you'll have to read what they're saying in english. This is based off stages, usually short with a boss at the end of each level (being another tekken character) and upon beating the boss you'll unlock them for use on the other stages. You can also take these characters to the Arena to unlock their videos which is pretty cool. Once you enter the arena it goes back to the classic Tekken style (Sort of wished they depended on this more because it's what all the tekken players want) until you beat it, and then it goes back to the stage/area selections. You also get gear which raise your chances of getting better items, more money for fights (best way to get money in the game) and other power ups. It's a RPG in a way but not as deep as most people would assume. For non RPG fans it might be a little odd, and for RPG fans it won't seem to be fulfilling. The Graphics seem to be lowered down compared to the regular fighting as well. Despite these few minor flaws it can actually be fun plowing through enemies and picking up their drops (items, money, health) You'll also get to use weapons like Machine Guns, Flame Throwers etc. for a limited amount of time/ammo. You also have a companion with you (Cpu only). It would of been nice for a co-op and would definitely increase the fun.

Storyline - Tekken has always had a crazy story line. Jin is taking over the world, fighting against his Father. It's pretty cool and different for a tekken story. Although the individual stories which fans look forward to, to see what they have in store for their favorite characters are a little lacking. But that's due to the fact that they have 40 characters in the game and making them each have a story as good as the Mishimas would be very time consuming and difficult. Although I think some of the videos could of been improved. An example would be Yoshimitsu's in Tekken 5, which looked better animation and graphic wise. It was insane, while his video in Tekken 6 is just, odd. In terms of the storyline overall yes it's just as unique as the other ones and has insanity involved of course.

Overall - All of the classic modes superb and excellent. Namco Delivered for sure and nobody should be upset in that department. While Scenario mode is a little different for the Tekken fans, if you enjoyed Tekken force you'll enjoy this for sure. Tekken fans should find it enjoyable to gain money and items while racking up trophies and beating some skulls.

If you haven't played a Tekken game before and enjoy fighting games, this is definitely worth picking up. It has an amazing amount of characters with each one being awesome with a great system to match it. I can get sucked in easily fighting my brothers or friends for hours and with the online mode you can take on the world and let them experience your epic beat downs. It really is a fun game.

If fighters aren't the game for you but you're interested, I'd say give it a rent. Besides for the Boss in arcade mode being hard as hell to beat, the system and feel is easy to get into especially if you try sticking to just one character and going into practice mode.

As for the online, I haven't played it so I can not say how that is. This is another thing I have been looking forward to in Teken 6. Although it is a hit or a miss for most people in terms of lag. The Good news is that a patch is on the way to fix the problems and once that happens I'll update this and let you know.

Score

9.5

Graphics

With 40 videos, tons of items for each character, a whole scenario story mode, online play, and of course the classic battles this game is the kind of game that if you don't finish, or buy a new came you can always come back to and enjoy it.

9.0

Sound

Excellent Graphics at 60FPS with no lag or slow down in the offline modes. The Characters look outstanding in detail and amimations. I would Give 9.5 for this in a heart beat but based on things in the background (people, the pig truck not looking too great)and the scenario mode I'll balance it.

9.5

Gameplay

Wouldn't be a Tekken Game without the "Ah, uh, Wooooooahhh"'s. The Music is always interesting and all the background noises from pigs squeeling to vehicles all sound great.

9.0

Fun Factor

Overall

9.3

[Cajun Chicken]

So, to clarify; is this the real Tekken 6 we've been expecting? Does it really feel 3 games away from Tekken 3, is it vastly better than Tekken 5?

Who am I kidding, I'll be picking this up anyway, I hammer Tekken: DR on PS3 all the time with my friend, I'll be getting this for my collection one day.
You just can't beat Tekken.

[nan0]

No doubt Tekken 3 was awesome, but Tekken 6 has all of the best characters the series had (unless you loved Jun and Kunimitsu) with tons of moves each. I believe Yoshimitsu himself has atleast 191 moves in his list. I can't get over the traditional fights. It's crazy smooth and I've also been playing online. The lag isn't as bad or as common as people make it seem. This alone could add some nice hours to it.

Just be careful in the ranking matches, you'll catch a spammer here and there who use cheap floaters/juggles that won't end.

[superfedya]

Sorry man, but HOW you can give 9/10 for the graphics? O__O
3 years old VF5 looks mutch better!

And gameplay? Tekken 2 has a great gameplay, T3 too. But after... its all clones, without ANY difference.

I'll buy this game for PSP.

[ABizzel1]

I agree with you Virtual Fighter is still the best looking fighting game (PS3 Naruto being the best looking artistically) and it's been 2 years. However, VF5 doesn't run at 60fps, nor does it have as many characters or as fast a pace as Tekken so it's disappointing Tekken doesn't look better, but understandable.

As far as gameplay Tekken has always had great gameplay, and you can't really improve in this area except by adding things like a counter system or something of that nature (which it already has if you're a deep player). So I agree with his score for gameplay.

Nothing special, but the hits sound powerful (music is annoying at times).

Fun Factor. Here's where the problem comes in for me. I love the offline fighting. However, the 10 - 15 second average load time puts a damper on it. The cheap boss fights put a damper on it (why would the put a giant robot and a whatever it is Azazel). The horrible campaign mode puts a damper on it (it would be as bad if it had local co-op). Having to beat the characters in the campaign mode to unlock them so you can beat the arena mode just to get their endings put a damper on it. Online isn't where it should be, it works, but ranked matches suck, because people can turn their system off if their going to lose and you get nothing which puts a damper on it. Customizing characters would be fun, but you have to play 100 matches to get enough to fully customize one character, and if you buy the wrong color you have to purchase the entire shirt again (Namco makes Soul Cal. why idn't they use the same customization system is beyond me). Tekken 6 has a lot of problems, but the main draw is the fighting and that thankfully is as good as ever (I've noticed they've changed some moves around some for the better some for the worse).

Graphics - 9
Sound - 9
Gameplay - 9
Fun Factor - 7

Overall - 8.6 Still good, but a bit of a let down to SERIOUS Tekken fans, especially those waiting forever for the game.

[nan0]

@-2

Considering it's running 60 FGPS, with motion blur, no slow down, and it still looks better than MW2 massively. And MW2 has been getting tens (which is a joke) I thought 9 would be fair game for Tekken 6.

@-2.1

I see what you mean, the loading times were bad until I saved the data on my PS3. Much faster. I didn't think it was too bad after that. As for unlocking the videos, after about X amount of hours doing anything seems to unlock them I actually only have 2 videos left and I only did a few matches in the Arena. Azazel isn't too hard actually, you just need to know when to block and do a few juggles/fast moves.

Although I'm not too much of a fan myself, the scenario mode wasn't meant to be the main part of the game. Even though it is long, nobody is going to keep going back to it like the Traditional fight modes.

Although I use it to solve your customization problem. If you equip all good gear like high amount of health, Damage increase etc. but use your highest amount of "increase value of money items" on both lars and Alisa, you'll be getting 32,000 per money bag. I usually just go through Mokojin's stage and try to get all of the money bags I can. Even if mokojin kills me I'll get 2.3 million fighting money. If you beat him you'll get like 2.7. Point is do it twice, you'll have about 5 million which is pretty nice. Just use Lars's throw (1+3) on the section that you break through floors. You'll kill all the guards and you'll still get points. Makes it faster as well.

[Dragunov]

Totally agree its a letdown, especially the lag online, Tekken 5 dr was less laggy! Way to ruin a good franchise Scamco