Aside from a brief cameo experience on the Game Boy Advance, the Tekken series has had a strong affiliation with Sony. Ever since the first Tekken title debuted on the original PlayStation, Sony fans have been given a reliable franchise that's consistantly pushing Sony's hardware. Last year's Dark Resurrection (a port of the arcade version) pushed the PSP and resulted in a brilliant fighting game. With Tekken 6 still quite a while away, Namco Bandai has released a virtually arcade perfect port of Dark Resurrection for the PlayStation 3, but with some online features. Is the game a slapdash port or a title that no PlayStation 3 owner should be without?
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.
...and a great way to hold me over till Tekken 6 arrives. but its not the complete tekken experience (no cut scenes after completing it which was a shame).
I bought this one before the online patch played it a few times with my friends. Didnt really have much incentive to beat it with each character as there where no more characters to unlock or cutscences to watch. (Other than the special 3 you purchase) However when they released the online add on (US$10) it quickly rocketed up in use to now one of my most played PS3. It's got my bigger brother back into gaming and he's been out of it since the early PS2 days. Tekken 5 DR: Online is just a solid title a must have for any PS3 owner who's even slightly into fightin games.
Addictive!
this game shouldn't even be talked about anymore, it was so boring