Tekken 5 - PS2 Game

It's been a while since I last played a Tekken. I had a brief experience with Tekken Tag Team which was a lot of fun. But the last Tekken I'd played primarily was Tekken 3. Tekken 5 blows it completely out of the water, as one would expect. It's got the most amazing graphics, which comparing it to Tekken 1-3 (which comes included in the game) makes those characters look like mutants.The new stages and music are absolutely stunning. A far cry from Tekken 3. Though Tekken Tag Team was fun since one could almost interact (kill) the spectators. The stages are uniquely amusing since one can travel to a lovely country side (by a church?), to a pool party, and beyond (space: the final frontier)!I suppose my only main complaint would be that Xiaoyu looks too old to be acting the way she does (disturbing), and that Law looked completely different: unrecognizable until I looked at his Move List. That and the thumbnails for the characters were pretty tiny.On a side note, it seemed that Tekken decided to include one of those overpowered bosses that takes off about 1/3+ HP with every hit in their Story Mode. Difficult, but fun once you get the hang of it.Over all this game was a lot of fun with the inclusion of a few new characters, and new moves. The fighting is smooth and slick with the hope that the opponent does not spend his entire time crouching. Steve will always make me laugh since I tried to use him without looking at his list. Needless to say I was quite surprised to.

That's all I have to say....okay, not really. Not only has NAMCO made another Tekken that beats the previous titles, it's another case of, "This latest Tekken(great fighting) game beats the latest Dead or Alive(crappy excuse for a fighting) game".I break down the game in the following categories:Gameplay - Now, Tekken has never been about "press buttons randomly and you'll stand a chance, dude!", that's Dead of Alive and Virtua Fighter. So once again there is a great deal of challenge involved. It's combo system is a better Tekken 4 combo system, but the juggle system is a dream, bringing back the glory days of Tripple T, which fits unsurprisingly excelently. The arenas are a little more interactive than the last game, the ground breaks beneath you when hit hard enough, although it looks the same in every stage. The only floor effects that look different are the glass and ice, they break like glass, obviously. I personally thinks it's a nice touch. Also, wall combos are harder to do, but are, in return for the sake of balance, harder to get out of than in 4. Each character is balanced perfectly and the 3 new characters, Asuka, who plays like Jun Kazama, and Feng Way and Raven, who have original fighting styles, fit in just like characters that have been in the series since the first game, and they are major fun to pick up, and once again, Jin Kazama's fighting style is almost completely redone form 4, but Devil Jin plays exactly like Tekken 3 Jin. The minigame could'.

My son was really excited to get this game. It was for his birthday and he spent the day enjoying it.

Very nice...very nice. Infact Namco has outdone themselves (until the PS3 arrives that is) in this remarkable game. Now, everything you read from the other people who have owned the game longer than a month, and reviewed it, is TRUE. However there's one thing they forgot to mention:In respect to the fighting system, there's a little shortage of defense here even as impressive and balanced the fighting is. Comparison to Tekken 4, side-stepping, recovery from knock downs, walls (especially) have been limited to an extent. Side stepping (from Tekken Tag) has been brought back as "tap, quick tap and hold to strafe", unlike the relatively more useful "tap to move, tap and hold to strafe" in Tekken 4. This problem is really a massive headache (especially in difficulty Ultra Hard) when you ABSOLUTELY need to evade (i.e., Jinpachis' cheating, Irvin, Asuka Kazama), because if it is a failed attempt and you rush the D-pad command to side-step? You'll end up JUMPING straight up and making yourself 10 times more vulnerable than you were crouch-gaurding and praying they won't make a Mid-attack.Tekken 5 is a close-knit match of trying to excecute the best counter move, and unleash a string of mid-air combos to gain the advantage. This in part (taking away the multi-tierd levels in Tekken 4), walls are a problem. What makes it worse, Namco has decidedly taken out "Wall Ukemi" or Wall recovery to make the situation more dramatic and strategic. But this is where I see a conflict in the system.

Great game. Best Token for ps2.