Product Description

Armed with new HD graphics running flawlessly at 60 fps; the largest character roster ever in Tekken gaming history; ground-breaking online game modes and robust character customization system; the greatest fighting game franchise soars onto the next generation of consoles.

Master 40 unique fighters representing the worlds top martial arts styles, including 34 beloved characters, such as Jin, Heihachi and Kazuya, as well as 6 brand new characters with unique fighting styles and combo systems. Prove your supremacy against players from around the world with online VS mode, create new characters and customize them with every imaginable detail. With new dynamic, interactive and destructible Environments, punching your enemies through concrete walls or through floors can open a whole new battleground.

• Gorgeous Graphics: The advanced high-definition graphics and 3D animation technologies create the most impressive HD visuals in Tekken history.
• The Largest Character Roster Ever: Master 40 unique fighters representing the world's top martial arts styles! The character line-up includes 34 beloved characters, such as Jin, Heihachi and Kazuya, as well as 6 brand new characters with unique fighting styles and combo systems!
• Compete and Battle Globally: Prove your supremacy against players from around the world with Online VS Mode!
• Endless Possibilities to Customise: Create new characters and customise them with every imaginable detail. Customise their hairstyles, apparel, fashion accessories, tattoos, etc. Then take your own ultimate fighters online!
• Dynamic, Interactive, Destructible Environments: Punch your enemies through concrete walls or kick them through floors to open a whole new battleground. The stages go through dynamic changes ranging from a sudden attack helicopter crash to vehicle explosions!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Atari
• Released on: 2009-10-30
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .53 pounds

Customer Reviews

Simple Straight Forward Review
I am a very aggressive tekken fan and have been following it since tekken 2, so you can imaging how impatient i must be to wait for tekken 6 to be released.. i was extremely surprised to read some off putting reviews, but i coudnt resist to buy it and try myself... so here is my little experience

the first 1 hour of tekken 6 was very disappointing, the first thing i noticed were low resolution character graphics i said to myself damn what they have done to the graphics its not even 720p and the blockiness resembles playstation 1, my heart sank and thought that its plain waste of money.

the second off putting this was the disc load time, which was way too long if you compare to teken 5 DR online. after sometime i just turned my ps3 off and took a break with just a sad heart. went online to google the remedies. In no time i had some solutions...

Turned back on the ps3, started the tekken disc and the first thing that i did was to install the tekken on harddsk.. this option is available in the options menu - other settings.. it took about 4-5 mins to install, than according to my research i had to turn off motion blur which increases picture quality.. after doing these two things i went back online to try a couple of matches...

now IMMEDIATELY I COULD TELL THE DIFFERENCE now they are much much better no more blockiness... although graphics are 720p but the movements, sounds affects just make the whole experience outstanding.. addition of new characters with new features is good too.. i never had problem playing online no lag whatsoever maybe coz i applied the online update just before i played the game for the first time...

all those tekken hardliners dont be put off by some not so fair reviews this games deserves nothing less than 5 stars i am very happy with it.. if anyone wants to challenge me add me my psn id is shehryaar

oh one more thing i defeated azazel on the very first fight in arcade mode with king lolz...

hope this review helps.... one last word after playing tekken 6 online for about 3 hours i tried tekken 5 and it honestly looked dull.. tekken 6 ROCKS

Unbiased Review
I'll break this review into bullet points so it's easier to digest.

Pro's:-
- Pick up and play - Controls are straight forward and make the game easily accessible for newcomers, whilst at the same time having alot of depth for the more experienced players. Prime example of easy to pick up, hard to master.
- Very fluid gameplay, great graphics and awesome sounds effects.
- 40 characters to choose from! You will not be moaning about the amount of characters to play, each with their own wide range of moves and special attacks to learn and enjoy.
- Interactive environments - Smack opponents into walls, smash them through the floor, etc.
- Plenty of game modes - Scenario mode (Big part of the game, allows you to unlock alot of the custom items, endings, etc. It's a fleshed out Tekken Force mode or like a 3D Streets of Rage style game), Arcade Mode, Survival Mode, Ghost Mode, Practice Mode, Online Mode, Team Battle mode, etc.)
- Tons of custom items to get - Customize the look of your character in tons of ways! From Cowboy Hats to Bikini's, you can fully customize your look and save it for battles.

Con's:-
- Online play - As of the time of writing this review, the game suffers from SERIOUS input lag when playing online for the vast majority of people, this makes the game damn near unplayable online and no fun at all. If you want the game for this mode, then do NOT buy the game until a patch comes (if it ever does) to fix this.
- No CO-OP play for scenario mode, seems odd they didn't include this, and though it's not an issue for me, alot of people will wonder why its not there.
- Rage - This is a nice idea, basically, when you are low on health you go into 'rage' mode where your hits are more damaging, however, the major problem with it is a player in rage can kill a player on full health in one combo, this is very frustrating if you are on the end of it.
- Azazel - The boss of the arcade mode and arena, this is the most annoying boss in history and will have alot of gamers swearing at their TV. It uses the same cheap powerful moves over and over and you will feel cheated as you struggle over and over trying to kill it.

Conclusion

There is alot to enjoy in this game and most people will come to love the same old Tekken with all the updates and new things to do, however, alot of people will feel ripped off after waiting so long for a game where the online element of the game is broken when they get the game. If you want to play online, don't buy this until the game is fixed, if you have no intention of playing online, you will find alot to do here and for the most part you will have an enjoyable experience.

Been there, done that.. don't buy the T-shirt!
I've been a Tekken-fan since the very beginning. All the way back to Playstation 1, I spent many nights on learning the moves, pressing the sequences to make a couple of cool characters perform 10-combo moves etc.

In the beginning, Tekken was a new way of creating a fighting game. As has been pointed out by others, it certainly took over what Street Fighter had fulfilled on the SEGA MegaDrive II console. Only, this was to an extend "better". Buttonlayout was more simple, and 2- or 3- combo moves absolutely possible without breaking your thumb trying to perform what in SF would be thought more of as physical exersize than actually having fun.

So where did Tekken go ? Well, up the ladder, for many years - finally.. on the PS2, we reached "Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection", which in my opinion was (and still is) one of the best Tekken games ever made. Needless to say - my expectations to yet another sequel have been very high.

Now I've recived the game.. I've been wondering when I should try it out, and tonight was my choice. Though it's been a while since I've kicked some serious B-hind with Tekken 5, an old dog may be hard to teach new tricks, but certainly remembers his old ones very well. Thus, to me - it's been a pleasure to experience over the years, that most of the moves with the different characters in question have been preserved. In this way, when you bought a new Tekken title, it wouldn't force you to practice everything all over again from the very start.

To test the game, I thought that "Offline Arcade Mode" would be a great start. But oh boy what a disappointment I was in for. I'll try and keep my critisism at a polite level - so please have me excused if you disagree or think I'm being too harsh.

Here's a list of really poorly implemented things, that I would expect to have been improved - taking into account of course, that the game now has been released on a piece of hardware I don't know how many hundred times stronger on all parameters.

1) The graphics insists on progressive-scan mode. Thus, those of us who have a flatscreen TV which won't display a full 1920x1080 HD resolution are stuck with 720p mode which can't be scaled (at least not to my knowledge).

2) The graphics are improved, not by making the characters appear more natural, but by throwing in more moving pieces of ridiculously irrelevant graphics on the fighting grounds (on one of the stages, you see a truck barshing through the air, while pigs and hens are plucking the ground for corn - best Street Fighter Chun Li style - come on guys at Bandai Namco, did we run out of imagination here ?). Also, I tend to think I am stuck in a kindergarden, due to the choice of expending too many different colors on everything. It doesn't look natural.. it looks like FisherPrice.

3) Loading time between matches is KILLING you, even more than what I'll mention last in this list (don't sneak peak yet :p). I just simply can't see why I would spend my time with this version of Tekken. True my version of T5DR is a downloadable content version, thus everything is "installed" instead of being read from a disc. But hey, then ask the user to install at least some of the textures/whatever. Ironically enough, I spent more time waiting for "GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE" than actually fighting them! What a failure.. being a former game reviewer for +5 years, this is just not acceptable for any game, no matter how big a name it has become.

4) And then yes.. as has been mentioned by others. I fought my way fairly quickly through battle's 1 to 7 of the "Offline Arcade" mode. I felt good, because well - I still know how to play tekken, and am about to begin enjoying what other new characters have been implemented (MANY! - which is good, but not enough to forgive the above points at all). But then came the final boss. Over and over again - no matter what combo/strategy/move(s)/tactic/luck you possess, it's simply nearly impossible to beat the sucker. Every move you make is anticipated by some sick sequence of combo's from the CPU's side - nailing your sorry character.

I think I managed 1 or 2 times to get one win out of the two it takes to win.. after maybe 15-20 minutes, I gave up. It didn't make it any more interesting that you have to stare at a loading screen, even though it's the same fight you have to play again.

I quit the game, I ejected the disc.. I placed it in my stack of games.. in the very bottom. Maybe one day, when I'm done with things that are more interesting, such as cleaning house/doing dishes/laudry or whatever.. I'll convince myself to become equally disappointed again.

If I wanna play Tekken - and a version of it that makes sense to spend time on. I worthship that you can actually feel/see/measure that you've improved at a game. This is never the case, if what it takes to beat the boss is "whether or not you feel lucky.. punk!".

My advice ? If you haven't played it yet, spend your money on Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection instead (it's even available in the online store at a much cheaper price I bet).