Believe it or not, all of this repeated frivolousness actually manages to hone your talents into something that can hold up well in any online matchup, no matter how minimal your experience was at the outset.Įven with its adamant focus on a strict training regimen and a serious narrative deficiency, TTT2 stays emphatically true to the quirks of the series at its heart. Before you know it you’ll be squaring off against an obese version of Street Fighter’s Ryu, having your cranium transmogrified into that of a swine, and dodging baked-good projectiles left and right. Once you look past its moderately dull surface value, Fight Lab becomes fairly entertaining despite its lack of ingenuity. Luckily, Fight Lab’s combat mechanics are as sound as anything Tekken has ever possessed, and the introduction of the comical robotic sparring partner fittingly named Combot lightens the load considerably. Fail to pass any of the epic tutorial’s (dubbed Fight Lab) increasingly brutal courses and you simply won’t be able to press on. By presenting them with a story mode that’s fundamentally an extremely in-depth training system in disguise, the developers have crafted what’s perhaps the entry with the steepest learning curve in Tekken history. Per usual, Namco Bandai goes to great lengths to cater to hardcore arcaders and Tekken connoisseurs, essentially tasking them to perfect their skills to the maximum before enjoying any sort of casual leisure-time gameplay. It’s a real fighter’s fighter, an experience that offers an assortment of modes and enough playable characters to last well beyond the release of the next Tekken installment. The first thing anyone is likely to notice about TTT2 is its remarkably condensed, quantity-over-quality approach.
What with the much more definitive Street Fighter X Tekken still the superior 3D-brawler alternative, it’s safe to say that TTT2 just might be strictly for the most diehard fighting-game fanatics or the truly Tekken-obsessed. Roughly 12 years later, its highly anticipated sequel, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, has arrived, albeit a bit late to the 2012 fighting-game market, and while the vastly updated visual presentation is unquestionably gorgeous, and the decade-spanning roster is stacked, the overall package lacks the innovation and wonder, both immediate and long-lasting, of its storied predecessor. Admittedly, Tekken Tag Tournament was the exclusive title that drew me and fellow naysayers away from our beloved Sega Dreamcasts and its magnificent SoulCalibur. Undoubtedly, one of the reasons for this was the original Tekken Tag Tournament, which was being displayed in video-game stores all across the country, intended to entice those to jump into the current generation, showcasing the Sony console’s then-cutting-edge graphical abilities. It was October of 2000, and the PlayStation 2 was the hottest thing on the gaming market.
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