Bandai Namco supported its fighting game with four seasons’ worth of new characters and stages, culminating with the release of its apparent final DLC character, Lidia Sobieska, in March 2021. The previous game in the franchise, Tekken 7, was first released in 2015, exclusively in arcades, and brought to consoles two years later. Despite being announced during a PlayStation livestream, Tekken 8 is not a PS5 exclusive the fighting game is also coming to Windows PC and Xbox Series X.īandai Namco first teased Tekken 8 at this year’s Evo fighting game championship series. Bandai Namco said simply to “stay tuned” for more information. (Of course, some of the effects, dialogue as well as the camera angle is currently being updated and may change when the game launches.)”Ī release date for Tekken 8 was not announced. “Although this was captured from the story mode, it is not a pre-rendered movie made for the trailer but rather real-time rendered footage, running at 60 frames per second, similar to how you would experience the game in versus battle modes. “In other words, all the character models, backgrounds, and effects are the same ones that are used in-game,” Harada explained in a post on Sony’s PlayStation Blog. The first trailer for Tekken 8 debuted during Sony’s State of Play showcase and showed Tekken mainstays Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima duking it out, in classic Tekken fashion, but in higher fidelity than ever before.Īccording to Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, the first trailer for Tekken 8 was “taken directly from a certain part in the current work-in-progress Tekken 8’s story mode, played on PlayStation 5.” No release date has been set for Tekken 8 at the time of writing, but it will release on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC.Bandai Namco and the Tekken team made Tekken 8 official on Tuesday, showing first footage of the next-gen fighting game. The list of confirmed characters for Tekken 8 so far includes: He can also be seen following up a knock-back punch with the new ‘Heat Dash’ technique, which lets him chase his opponent and continue a combo. The trailer shows Jin activating Heat with several hard-hitting moves, opening up avenues for strings of uncontested attacks. Entering Heat mode gives you an advantage while you’re on the attack – Heat-specific moves will be available, characters can deal damage through block, and the attributes of certain moves for each character will change. Other mechanics new to Tekken 8 include the ability to recover a portion of your health by being aggressive, as well a time-limited ‘Heat’ system, enabled manually or via specific moves with each character. Jin’s Rage Art ability sees him summon the devil within him in order to let loose a powerful dashing punch, a culmination of his new tricks. In terms of mechanics, Tekken 8 sees the return of the Rage system, which increases a character’s attack power once their health lowers to a certain threshold, and gives them access to a special Rage Art – a powerful move whose execution is common to each character – and unleash a flash, cinematic ability that does significant damage, but ends the rage state. Since Jin’s character arc across the series has involved him coming to grips with the ‘Devil Gene,’ which literally gives him horns and wings, this could be a new facet of the character’s arc in Tekken 8, as he harnesses the power on his own terms.
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