Tekken five review!
tekken five review!
Well, put another feather in Namco's cap.
tekken five is out, and it is sweet.
The first notable improvement over T4 of course, (fer me at least) is the kick in the game speed. While T4 was kinda clunky, T5 feels a lot like Tekken Tag again. The graphics of four, with the speed of tag. Whee. The physics stay like four, though. So, sorry, Jin laser-cannoneers. Wouldn't do you any good anyway.
Character movement feels good.
The characters have new/updated moves of course. Some to their detriment(Personally, Jin) others to their advantage.(King's Magma drive, Kazuya and Heihachi's new strings. Xiaoyu SS+3!! Wheee!!! Xiaoyu B+3>california roll!! Whee! Xiaoyu UF+34!! WHEEEEEEE!!!) And a new addition is air grabs. (King, Marduk, and Hwoarang with his overhead kick a la Pele.) I still mourn the loss of Jin's Laser canno/scraper though. It's not totally crap, but it takes some getting used to. On the flip side, he gets a crouch-dash juggle again. Also, almost everyone gets a spring to feet and cross chop to standing now. Ph34r my Xiao, crouching okizeme whores. Other characters, however just get new animations for old moves. Kazuya's flash punch for example.
Wall games and cornering still rampant, though. Bleah. The arenas are just as dangerous as they were in T4.
For some odd reason, the universal offensive shove(f+13) is gone. Huh. Well, the arenas are bigger.
BGM is fine, and so're the voices. ("Yoink! Toya!"<---Listen carefully to Kazuya.) In any case, the tekken characters amaze me with their ability to overcome the language barrier. We have Jin speaking japanese, Hwoarang speaking Korean, and they perfectly understand each other. Again, huh.
The new characters include:
Asuka Kazama(Jin's cousin. Welcome back, Jun-users.),
Raven(A Wesley Snipes look-a-like ninja wannabe with teleporting moves which somehow aren't cheap)
Feng Wei(A kenpo powerhouse with shit for range. Like Paul. With no range. And not as much damage. Crap. My opinion may change someday, but for now, I'll maintain him as crap.)
Jack-5(Another Jack. Go figure.),
and the jackass cheapshit boss, Jinpachi Mishima. Just play against him. Even once. You may kick his ass first time like I did, but his moves are cheap as hell. At least Ogre was escapable. Bleah.
Familiar returning faces include:
Bryan Fury
Christie Monteiro
Heihachi Mishima(No, he's not dead. Sorry.)
Hwoarang
Jin Kazama
Julia Chang
Kazuya Mishima
King
Kuma/Panda
Marshall Law(Ow. That pun has always stunk.)
Lee Chaolan
Lei Wulong
Craig Marduk
Mokujin(!)
Nina Williams(FF+3 on counterhit=ow.)
Paul Phoenix(Unfortunately, he has that.. 'hair' on both costumes. Damn.)
Steve Fox
Ling Xiaoyu(Huzzah.)
and Yoshimitsu.
Did I miss anyone? I don't think so.
Comeback characters are
Anna Williams
Baek Doo San(hotfeet, nothing.)
Bruce Irvin(ph34r.)
Ganryu
Wang Jinrei(!)
and 'Roger'. Well, techinically, it's Roger. Actually Roger JR., but who cares?
And, oh yeah. Devil Jin. TTTJin armed with some new knockdown moves, a laser beam, and a few new juggles, and we've got a cheapshit in the making. Too bad his wings count as hit sprites. Some high moves will actually connect while he's crouching.
Story? Who cares about the story? It's a fighting game. Here it is in a nutshell, anyhoo. Jin flew away, Heihachi and Kazuya duke it out with some Jacks, dojo blows up. Heihachi survived explosion, Kazuya flew away, explosion frees Jinpachi, Heihachi's demon father which in turn triggers Jin's transformation to Devil Jin, wherein Jinpachi organizes the T5 tournament in hopes of finding someone to defeat him before the devil within him takes total control of him.
If I got it wrong, tell me. For individual character stories, go play the game or check out Tekken sites. There are a lot of good ones out there.
As for character costumes, they came up with a bunch of whole new ones.
Plus, T5 now introduces the 'character customization' system like in Virtua Fighter, where you can now save your wins, losses, and individual custom characters to a memory card. You earn currency by kicking the crap out of your friends, and you use that 'GP' to buy character accesories, hairstyles, colors, etc. One of the best character customizations I've seen was Hwoarang in a bandanna with blue as his main color, an electric guitar strapped to his back, and a knife sticking out of his boot heel. Heheh.
With some fooling around, though, you can also make some characters look like their old costumes. (Jin and Hwoarang for example.)
BTW, Here's something I've noticed. Tap the punch buttons(p1 costume) for a character's fighting gear. (Heihachi's gi, Nina in her purple camo) or tap the kick buttons(p2 costume) for their 'civvies.' (Jin's horrid huge jacket, Lee in a tux.) May not hold true for everyone, but it's a pattern.
The AI has improved some, thankfully. It's actually started thinking. Still patterned on easy mode, but bump it up to normal, hard and above, and it's actually different. Not always hard, but definitely different.
In the PS2 version, you get to play Tekken1,2, and 3 as an added bonus, and you get two mini-games, one of which you have to finish as one of the possible ways to unlock Devil Jin. I've heard there are other ways to, but I accomplished it by finishing the 'Devil Within' minigame.
Oh yeah, I've heard that you can connect PS2 controllers to the arcade machine, but since I'm here in the philippines, I haven't seen how.
Again, Tekken manages to deliver another excellent fighting game to it's list. (Even though T4 was kinda slow.) Some guys say that it feels recycled, but hey. It's a fighting game. What do you expect? I play for the sweet, sweet sound of delivering a succesful California roll>Kangaroo kick with Xiao just to hear the other guy comment in frustration "Dammit!"
With the new character customization system, you too can make your character more fearsome! Rargh!easter egg: Anyone recognize that dude in the horrid purple shirt in the background? :)
Tekken 5
the king of the iron fist tournament
by Namco
fighting game
Platform:Arcade, PS2
screenshot courtesy of: www.1up.com
Well, put another feather in Namco's cap.
tekken five is out, and it is sweet.
The first notable improvement over T4 of course, (fer me at least) is the kick in the game speed. While T4 was kinda clunky, T5 feels a lot like Tekken Tag again. The graphics of four, with the speed of tag. Whee. The physics stay like four, though. So, sorry, Jin laser-cannoneers. Wouldn't do you any good anyway.
Character movement feels good.
The characters have new/updated moves of course. Some to their detriment(Personally, Jin) others to their advantage.(King's Magma drive, Kazuya and Heihachi's new strings. Xiaoyu SS+3!! Wheee!!! Xiaoyu B+3>california roll!! Whee! Xiaoyu UF+34!! WHEEEEEEE!!!) And a new addition is air grabs. (King, Marduk, and Hwoarang with his overhead kick a la Pele.) I still mourn the loss of Jin's Laser canno/scraper though. It's not totally crap, but it takes some getting used to. On the flip side, he gets a crouch-dash juggle again. Also, almost everyone gets a spring to feet and cross chop to standing now. Ph34r my Xiao, crouching okizeme whores. Other characters, however just get new animations for old moves. Kazuya's flash punch for example.
Wall games and cornering still rampant, though. Bleah. The arenas are just as dangerous as they were in T4.
For some odd reason, the universal offensive shove(f+13) is gone. Huh. Well, the arenas are bigger.
BGM is fine, and so're the voices. ("Yoink! Toya!"<---Listen carefully to Kazuya.) In any case, the tekken characters amaze me with their ability to overcome the language barrier. We have Jin speaking japanese, Hwoarang speaking Korean, and they perfectly understand each other. Again, huh.
The new characters include:
Asuka Kazama(Jin's cousin. Welcome back, Jun-users.),
Raven(A Wesley Snipes look-a-like ninja wannabe with teleporting moves which somehow aren't cheap)
Feng Wei(A kenpo powerhouse with shit for range. Like Paul. With no range. And not as much damage. Crap. My opinion may change someday, but for now, I'll maintain him as crap.)
Jack-5(Another Jack. Go figure.),
and the jackass cheapshit boss, Jinpachi Mishima. Just play against him. Even once. You may kick his ass first time like I did, but his moves are cheap as hell. At least Ogre was escapable. Bleah.
Familiar returning faces include:
Bryan Fury
Christie Monteiro
Heihachi Mishima(No, he's not dead. Sorry.)
Hwoarang
Jin Kazama
Julia Chang
Kazuya Mishima
King
Kuma/Panda
Marshall Law(Ow. That pun has always stunk.)
Lee Chaolan
Lei Wulong
Craig Marduk
Mokujin(!)
Nina Williams(FF+3 on counterhit=ow.)
Paul Phoenix(Unfortunately, he has that.. 'hair' on both costumes. Damn.)
Steve Fox
Ling Xiaoyu(Huzzah.)
and Yoshimitsu.
Did I miss anyone? I don't think so.
Comeback characters are
Anna Williams
Baek Doo San(hotfeet, nothing.)
Bruce Irvin(ph34r.)
Ganryu
Wang Jinrei(!)
and 'Roger'. Well, techinically, it's Roger. Actually Roger JR., but who cares?
And, oh yeah. Devil Jin. TTTJin armed with some new knockdown moves, a laser beam, and a few new juggles, and we've got a cheapshit in the making. Too bad his wings count as hit sprites. Some high moves will actually connect while he's crouching.
Story? Who cares about the story? It's a fighting game. Here it is in a nutshell, anyhoo. Jin flew away, Heihachi and Kazuya duke it out with some Jacks, dojo blows up. Heihachi survived explosion, Kazuya flew away, explosion frees Jinpachi, Heihachi's demon father which in turn triggers Jin's transformation to Devil Jin, wherein Jinpachi organizes the T5 tournament in hopes of finding someone to defeat him before the devil within him takes total control of him.
If I got it wrong, tell me. For individual character stories, go play the game or check out Tekken sites. There are a lot of good ones out there.
As for character costumes, they came up with a bunch of whole new ones.
Plus, T5 now introduces the 'character customization' system like in Virtua Fighter, where you can now save your wins, losses, and individual custom characters to a memory card. You earn currency by kicking the crap out of your friends, and you use that 'GP' to buy character accesories, hairstyles, colors, etc. One of the best character customizations I've seen was Hwoarang in a bandanna with blue as his main color, an electric guitar strapped to his back, and a knife sticking out of his boot heel. Heheh.
With some fooling around, though, you can also make some characters look like their old costumes. (Jin and Hwoarang for example.)
BTW, Here's something I've noticed. Tap the punch buttons(p1 costume) for a character's fighting gear. (Heihachi's gi, Nina in her purple camo) or tap the kick buttons(p2 costume) for their 'civvies.' (Jin's horrid huge jacket, Lee in a tux.) May not hold true for everyone, but it's a pattern.
The AI has improved some, thankfully. It's actually started thinking. Still patterned on easy mode, but bump it up to normal, hard and above, and it's actually different. Not always hard, but definitely different.
In the PS2 version, you get to play Tekken1,2, and 3 as an added bonus, and you get two mini-games, one of which you have to finish as one of the possible ways to unlock Devil Jin. I've heard there are other ways to, but I accomplished it by finishing the 'Devil Within' minigame.
Oh yeah, I've heard that you can connect PS2 controllers to the arcade machine, but since I'm here in the philippines, I haven't seen how.
Again, Tekken manages to deliver another excellent fighting game to it's list. (Even though T4 was kinda slow.) Some guys say that it feels recycled, but hey. It's a fighting game. What do you expect? I play for the sweet, sweet sound of delivering a succesful California roll>Kangaroo kick with Xiao just to hear the other guy comment in frustration "Dammit!"
With the new character customization system, you too can make your character more fearsome! Rargh!easter egg: Anyone recognize that dude in the horrid purple shirt in the background? :)
Tekken 5
the king of the iron fist tournament
by Namco
fighting game
Platform:Arcade, PS2
screenshot courtesy of: www.1up.com
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