The main games in the series follow the events of the King of Iron Fist Tournament, hosted by the Mishima Zaibatsu, where players control a plethora of characters to win the tournament and gain control of the company; the conflict between the Mishima family serves as the main focus of the series' plot, while players explore other characters' motivations in aiming to control the Zaibatsu.
The first game in the series, Tekken, was released in 1994, first as an arcade game and as a port for the PlayStation in 1995.[2] The game features eight playable characters, each with their own sub-boss. The PlayStation version features remixes of the stage themes and also made the sub-bosses playable for a total of eighteen characters, including a costume swap for Kazuya (Devil Kazuya). In addition, a cutscene is unlocked when the player finishes arcade mode with each of the original eight characters. The canon ending of the game consists of Kazuya exacting revenge on his father Heihachi Mishima, beating him in the tournament and tossing him off the same cliff that he was thrown off by Heihachi.[3]
A teaser for a new mainline entry in the series was shown during Tekken 7's tournament at EVO 2022, before being formally announced on September 13, 2022 during Sony's State of Play presentation. It is set for release on the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC through Steam in January 26, 2024. As a continuation from the seventh mainline game, it will focus on a conclusion of Kazuya and Jin's enmity.[19] In contrast to the seventh mainline game's utility of Unreal Engine 4, Tekken 8 will utilize Unreal Engine 5, making it the first fighting game to do so.[20] This game was announced on January 6, 2023 to be co-developed with Arika, who also handles the recent patch(es) for Tekken 7.[21]
Players can choose from a diverse cast that hails from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and fighting styles. A few characters have supernatural origin, such as Devil, Alisa Bosconovitch, Angel, Mokujin, Ogre and Azazel, while animal characters like Kuma, Panda, the Roger family, and Alex provide comic relief.[50] In the story mode of the game, each character generally has their own personal reasons for entering the tournament and competing for the prize.
Over the years, Tekken just kept on getting better and better and it is still one of the best fighting games around and a lot of major tournaments are happening each year. Tekken 3 was the first game that I played but during that time, there was no Youtube yet in the Philippines so I wasn't aware that tournaments are happening (and I was a kid back then).
When I started playing Tekken 5, that's when the internet was booming here and that's when I watched Tekken tournaments and then when Tekken 6 came, a lot of more tournaments became available in Youtube and that's when, I believe Tekken rose to total fame. Thank you Namco Bandai.
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