And yes, just like the Japanese version of Tag Tournament before it, the jaggies are here in multiple forms (but not as prolific).
We did manage to find a few little graphic quandaries, mostly by way of clipping. Whether it's the fabulous pool of water in the jungle and mall arenas, or the smashing helicopter simulation streaking through the night skies in the building level, Namco's flagship fighter looks awesome. The special effects gave us a quite a chill, too. And in classic Namco style, each outfit ranges from wild '70s disco clothes to a variance of past trends. Old man Heihachi looked rather entertaining, with a sumo mawashi that's just a little too revealing. A few characters sport a third costume, such as Lee and Xiaoyu.
TEKKEN 4 INTRO HD PLUS
All of the characters sport new outfits, and just like in Tekken Tag Tournament, each character displays his or her standard outfit plus one bonus one. While the character models aren't too much of an improvement over Tekken Tag's (if any at all), the stage design and look is much improved. But even if you don't have a heavy-duty eye pleaser, the fourth Iron Fist Tournament is still a sight to behold. The first game to support true progressive scan, T4 on one of the high-end monitors is a beauty. Visually, Tekken 4 doesn't look too much different than its arcade counterpart unless you have a high definition television. Blazing through your hero in heavy butt-ripping groups of doom, the tougher-than-tough hooligans will give you more than a run for your money. The small learning curve is the least of your problems though, especially considering the insane difficulty of the latter "Force" stages.
Similar to a smaller-scope State of Emergency, the hectic action game takes a little getting used to, as the camera directions don't always match your character's directions. Much more difficult that the thinner afterthought version from Tekken 3, Tekken Force can pits players against 10 guys through four stages of hell. One of the coolest features this side of fighting games, however, has to be Tekken Force mode. Sadly, there isn't a tag option to mirror last year's Tournament helping. SNK that enables you to assemble a posse of up to eight fighters in a "best-of" contest. There's even a Team Battle mode that takes a cue from titles like King of Fighters and Capcom vs. Other standard features like Versus (where most of us will be spending our time), Survival (see how far you can make it against an endless stream of opponents before you get beat down), Practice (Beat up on a stupid computer dummy), and Training (a mixture of the aforementioned Practice and Virtua Fighter 4's command training option) will give you plenty of goodies to mess with as well. "Arcade" is an excellent choice for gamers who play alone and just want to whomp on some CPU tush. Non-Japanese speaking players will have a much easier time in this arena as not a single on-screen display breaks the English tradition, and playing through is just like the American arcade unit.
TEKKEN 4 INTRO HD MOVIE
Next is the standard arcade mode, an identical replica of what we've been playing in our favorite movie theaters for the past six months. Be prepared though, a lot of the text and vocals are in Japanese so unless you have a strong understanding of the language, you may not understand what's going on. Forget about the 20-second epilogues of yesteryear, the Tekken 4 solution to every adventure can be multiple minutes in length. Basically a deeper version of the coin-op, every character (immediate or hidden) has his or her very own epilogue and unbelievably well-crafted ending cinema. The first is a story battle that takes you through the adventures of each combatant more so than in the previous installments. Once past the kick-ass intro I moved on to the mode screen, of which there are many. Also, never before have I seen a woman look so real and authentically sexy as Christina (mental note to self: buy fiancée cut-off jeans and cleavage-barring glitter top this weekend). For example, Steve Fox's sparring session with an unfortunate opponent is brought to life in convincing fashion, as he pounds the opponent with solidly connecting and bruising uppercuts. Beautiful animation and super-clean models only begin to describe how nice this CG really looks. A redone version of what we saw in the arcades, the whole return of the Kazuya thing has been expanded with inter-cut shots of the other classic Tekken fighters.
Hurriedly slashing the shrink-wrap like an overzealous kid in a candy store, I fired our Japanese unit up in excited anticipation.Ĭatching my eye from the get-go is the brand new intro movie.
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