#TEKKEN ADVANCE SOUNDTRACK: ARCADE INTRO SERIES#
#TEKKEN ADVANCE SOUNDTRACK: ARCADE INTRO PSP#

Matchmaking with existing 3DS buddies is effortless.

I found it easy enough to create a room, hook up with a random and have a match, and despite a tiny bit of lag, it was pretty smooth. Other than that, you have your standard online modes, which allow local or worldwide battles, ranked matches or friendlies. Gradually the number of opponents increases, and later on there are some additional conditions to contend with, such as enemies who you can only damage whilst airborne, or whilst they are on the deck. To begin with you have to defeat five opponents in a row in single-round combat, with only a little bit of your damage being replenished between rounds.

#TEKKEN ADVANCE SOUNDTRACK: ARCADE INTRO SERIES#

The primary single player experience is a take on Survival mode, where you get to choose a character from the roster, and then engage in a series of gauntlet-style battles. Fair enough, Namco have made it clear that there is probably no story from the lack of pre-game glitz, but Tekken has always been about a series of arcade battles, culminating in a boss battle, right? Not here. The first thing that strikes you as odd is the lack of an вЂњArcadeвЂќ or вЂњStoryвЂќ mode.

Press start and you are transported straight to the mode select screen, which turns out to be as barren as the Gobi Desert. I have said it before and I will say it again, a story is far from essential where a fighting game is concerned, however this is Tekken, for goodness sake! Since Tekken 2 I have come to expect at least two minutes of bombastic intro sequence, perhaps ending with an enigmatic shot of Kazuya, a dancing sense of danger flickering in his eyes. When you boot the game, you get a pretty picture on your top screen and after a little while the demonstration will run, and you get to see two CPU bods have an underwhelming scrap. Unfortunately, everything else has been stripped away. All of the forty characters from that game show up here, and to the best of my knowledge each of the combatants comes fully loaded with every single move and nuance that they would have had in the original game. Tekken 3D: Prime gives us a scaled down version of Tekken 6.

But as Capcom have shown us with the PlayStation Vita version of Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom, and their grand 3D Street Fighter, these compromises do not have to be massive. You expect a handheld version of a game to have to make some compromises. Is it good enough to sit shoulder to shoulder with the formatвЂ™s existing trio of punch-itude, or should it be forever consigned to the bin marked вЂњDeath By DegreesвЂќ? Namco have decided that now is the time to bring their King of Iron Fist Tournament to bleary eyed patrons of NintendoвЂ™s 3D wonder.

I am of course including Blazblue in all of this, despite our less than perfect-scoring review, it was a ruddy good effort that got pwnd by its merked controls. There has yet to be a truly bad big-hitting fighting game for the 3DS though, for my money it is now three-and-0, to coin some American sports-speak. Namco have been active in the fighting game market recently вЂ“ flexing their muscles with a dazzling new Soul Calibur, but also underwhelming the masses with their oddly thrown together Tekken Hybrid package, which we reviewed not so long ago. Even lowly old Tekken Advance (bless it) was a decent effort on NintendoвЂ™s curiously backlit-free Gameboy sequel.

#TEKKEN ADVANCE SOUNDTRACK: ARCADE INTRO PSP#

Tekken: Dark Resurrection earned high praise and acquitted itself with distinction when it arrived on the PSP way back in the mists of time. Tekken has been represented in handheld form in the past.

Tekken advance soundtrack: arcade intro