I’ve talked about my inefficiency when it comes to fighting games in the past, but I must admit that I have a soft spot for the Tekken series. It reminds me of the Tekken 3 tournaments we used to have when I was younger, which are still good times regardless of the fact that I hardly ever got to a final. That may be because I could never settle on a particular character to hone my fighting abilities with; jumping between the likes of King and Yoshimitsu. Since those early days I’ve never really paid much attention to the Tekken games that followed, but now that Tekken 6 is on the way I’m thinking that I may have to try to kick some ass with that bear called Kuma.

Unfortunately Tekken 6 just makes my job of finding out which character I’m best at using (which is probably none of them) by having a full roster of 42 characters. Eight of these characters will be new, including the likes of Bob; an American fighter who happens to be obese (stereotype?), Alisa Bosconovitch; an android that is able to remove her head and throw it at opponents as a makeshift bomb, and Lars Alexandersson; a guy wearing a stupid cape. So, as usual, Namco Bandai have managed to come up with some totally unique characters. Plus, there’s also the ability for players to create their own unique characters for use in the game.

While Tekken 6 is currently out in Japanese arcades there doesn’t seem to be much about the story currently in English form, but expect it to be just as delightfully ridiculous as the rest of the Tekken series. From what I’ve seen ‘revenge’ is on the mind of some of the tournaments participants, which is a nice excuse to kick the crap out of someone.

Tekken 6 will be out later this year for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

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