The Tekken Tag Tournament 2 tour was just not enough
coverage for me, so had to get up close and personal with the game at the Namco
Bandai Summer Showcase. Here Namco Bandai had three games on show for me to
play with TTT2, Tales of Graces & Ni No Kuni Best of both worlds some top
class RPG’s with some beat ‘em up.
Here we got to try a new build for TTT2 on PS3 and Xbox 360,
along with the arcade machines. The focus was on the Fight Lab mode, which is
the new in-game tutorial led by the fabulous character Lee Chaolan’s alter ego
Violet.
Fight Lab completely breaks Tekken down to its component parts and
teaches you from the ground up, it's entirely different to tutorial modes in
other fighting games and goes a long way to remove the much maligned barrier to
entry the genre is known for. Frankly the background of dancing Kuma &
Panda ballerinas were what sold the game for me plus Lee being my favourite
male character in the game.
Also Namco Bandai provided Tekken experts on-hand to teach us
some more advanced techniques. These guys were here to test our abilities
against and to just chat with. This is a great opportunity for and my friend
Josiah as I play Tekken religiously whereas he hardly touches fighting games.
We spotted a guy with a Katamari Kind of moustache & beard ensemble, turns
out this was Tekken Tournament winner who I encountered at previous Tekken
events. The guy was more than happy to show us his own exclusive battle against
Tekken designer Katsuhiro Harada. He currently hosts his own gaming event’s at
Kingston University called Lion’s Den follow him on twitter for the latest
tournaments:
@Liono_Meridian
Great bonuses included in the game are new & old
characters: the return of Kunimitsu, Michelle Chang and Prototype Jack from the
original Tekken, Angel and Alex from Tekken 2, Humanoid Ogre (now known as
Ancient Ogre), Tiger Jackson and Forest Law from Tekken 3. Alongside Jun Kazama
from Tekken 2, True Ogre from Tekken 3 and Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken 5 all
with updated character designs. Devil Kazuya also makes an appearance but as an
in-game transformation of Kazuya and Unknown from Tekken Tag Tournament also
reappears as one of the final bosses. The game also introduces a new masked
character named Jaycee who is in fact Julia Chang's alter-ego. She retains her
fighting style of Chinese Kenpo, with added Lucha Libre wrestling moves.
You also get to play in a Snoop Dogg exclusive background
with him in his throne watching and singing a Tekken inspired song with his
ladies dancing to you thumping your opponent.
Also you will notice the little details in TTT2 a lot of
characters speak in their native language. This has been noticed as Lili speaks
French, Eddy Gordo and Christie Monteiro speak Portuguese, Leo Kliesen speaks
German and Miguel Caballero Rojo speaks Spanish. Still, there are some
characters that do not speak in their native language (e.g. Lei Wulong still
speaks English despite being from Hong Kong).
Any true Tekken fan should order their ‘We are Tekken’
limited edition of the game now ! PS. great Indian buffet & drinks, I was happy to trash talk and continued to win though I do despise Josiah's choice of non humans Roger Jnr & Yoshmitzu - stop using cheap marsupial moves to beat me >_<
Lee we will have our revenge !
His animation career began with 'Haloid', a showdown between characters from the video games franchises Halo and Metroid. That led to a job as a combat designer at Midway Games. After a stint at Namco Bandai Games, where he worked on the vidgame Afro Samurai, Oum joined Internet production house Rooster Teeth as character animator and choreographer.red vs blue In 2012, he created, directed and was lead animator for RWBY. Last year, the show won Streamy and International Academy of Web Television awards for best animated series.
