Huge Tekken 8 Showcase Has Story Mode Gameplay, Full Matches, and Much More | Push Square
28.09.2023 - 00:05
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Bandai Namco hosted a huge Tekken 8 presentation at Tokyo Game Show, which basically gives us an overview of the entire game. It features gameplay footage from the story mode — which sees Jin and Kazuya duke it out over the fate of the world — full-blown matches from the latest build, and information on loads of different game modes, like the single-player Arcade Quest, Super Ghost Battle, and, of course, Tekken Ball.
The presentation also confirms a number of smaller details, particularly to do with tutorials, training mode, and replays. Without a doubt, this looks like the most welcoming gateway into Tekken yet, and one genius idea in particular is being highlighted on social media.
When you're watching your fight replays back, you can actually rewind the action and, for ten seconds, take control of your character in order to see what you could have done better, or differently. This has the potential to be a bit of a game-changer when it comes to learning Tekken at a higher level.
The aforementioned Super Ghost Battles sound crazy, too. Using an AI model that can learn patterns of play from you or anyone else, you can challenge the 'ghosts' of yourself or other players. Again, this could turn out to be an amazing way of learning specific character matchups, or the deeper game in general.
How do you think Tekken 8 is shaping up? What part of it are you most excited for? Commence your training in the comments section below.
Robert's been a dedicated PlayStation fan since the days of Tekken 2, and he still loves a good dust up. When he's not practising combos, he's usually getting lost in the latest 100-hour RPG, or, y'know, replaying The Witcher 3.
Lost interest after Tekken 3( yes, I own the trilogy for the PSX), tried Tekken tag tournament and 7, but they got rid of the sweet, wacky CGI animated endings and had so much DLC packs that it's borderline genius scams.
Also, bring back Gon the boxing dragon!
Wow that replay feature is really cool and smart. Really great idea there. I could see that being a huge game changer as using training mode to re-create those very specific situations is really tough to do. As much as I love fighting games I don't love using the training mode constantly to learn new ideas. I like to watch replays much more to figure out where to improve so I gotta give Tekken big kudos for this. Honestly might have sold me on the game with that feature alone.
I'm really liking a lot of the new ideas this latest batch of fighting games has come up with!
@SonOfPSXDave Tekken 3 was my last Tekken game. Playing against my brother, he'd always pick Eddy and do that annoying spinning kick which I could never counter or block unless I was true Ogre.
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