Ever since the early 90s, I’ve been hoping for a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup-esque combination of fighting and beat’em ups (“You got Streets of Rage in my Street Fighter!”). A number of games have tried this formula (including Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero and God Hand), but at E3, something caught my eye. We were showing a number of trailers at the PlayStation booth, when I spied Jin Kazama wielding a chain gun. What?
Later on, I was able to chat on camera with Tekken 6 game director Katsuhiro Harada. He was happy to share details on this Scenario Campaign Mode’s length, character customization, and online play.
For more updates on Tekken 6, this is the guy you want to follow on Twitter. Bob, you should be following *us*.
must be much harder doing an interview with a translator present. props for looking like you knew what the devil he was chatting about
I remember when this was called Tekken Force back in Tekken 3. I’m glad to see it evolving like this!
Oh, and none of that “There’s streets of rage in my Tekken” nonsense. It might not be the first beatemup ever, but Tekken is Tekken. Everything the series does is usually unique to Tekken. So when I hear “get that streets of rage out of my tekken” even though I know it’s a joke, I feel like saying how unique Tekken has always been. (Unless they gave Tekken weapons, then I’d say get Battle Arena Toshinden out of my Tekken or somesuch expression)
I agree with sNsKid
Holy moly this looks sweet!
Thanks!
Director said it’s a bonus mode. Hmmm!?
So what about the original Arcade story mode? I guess you get to see the character’s ending instead
October 27th? Yay! :D
Ok I know its not a question but a Request…
but please add Custom Soundtracks and a Slow-mo feature like in the preview videos and trailer (like in Qore inFAMOUS feature)….No matter if we have platinum…some of us will keep playing the game for months with a feature like that one…
Thanks a lot..
I’m tired of fighting games. I just want Uncharted 2.
Jeff, you don’t need to lie about the PS Cloud:/
Just review some sweet details for us and let everyone stop banging on about this leaked pic.
The campaign looked horrible. Very stiff and looked awkward trying to move them. Just stick with what you know please…
I *want* to buy this……
But seeing how other fighting games have been handled this gen, I don’t want to pay for the full game and then be expected to buy half the characters/levels in DLC a week after the game has been released.
I want insurance I’m not getting ripped off.
I’m already extremely P.O.d about Yoshimitsu being a pre-order character only.
Sweet. Looks like they turned a mini game into a campign mode. Hmmm….interesting….
Nice, it reminds me to the good old times with Final Fight and Streets of Rage. I hope it has a good story mode.
Thanks for the update jeff i can’t wait for tekken 6
Tekken was the first fighting game I ever played and is still my favorite, I can’t wait for this to come out! BTW great interview Jeff, you grow with every interview young grass hopper. XD
Namco Bandai is a terrible company. I mean they added a Penny Arcade skin or character in Tekken 6 AND made it multiplatform. I know I won’t be buying it (same with Tales of Vesperia which is just a port of a bad RPG with extras to make noobs want to buy it).
Will Tekken 6 be availalble for the PSP through PSN?
@sNsKid
You obviously havent had your Ps3 for long have you? The latest firmware updates allowed for multiple psn ids to be signed in on a single console – look at Resistance 2, you and a friend/sibling can both log on to psn with your ids at the sametime.
TEKKEN 6 is going bee AWSOME!!!! :P
is there going to be a vs. mode to where you can pick a fighter and choose your oponent?
Tekken 6 is going to rock my socks off.
PSP? WHoa, awesome.
The co-op campaign mode is online and offline.
This “new” mode looks a LOT like the mode they shipped with in a previous Tekken game… 3, I think. I’m sure it has some improvements, but hands on haven’t been very positive.
So far I think the most successful one has been the MK:Annihilation one. They realized you couldn’t just use the same controls and everything would just “work”. Not to say it was amazing… but… definitely one of the better ones I’ve experienced.
old school beat em up eh?
Cool..wanted this since tekken 4.
Im glad they included this campaign mode, it gives me a break from the regular fighting mode.
Shoot dawg, can’t wait to play this cause man I haven’t played tekken in a while
yo i got a question, can u play co-op online and offline