So in that sense, this game isn’t even as gory as a real-life MMA match. The choices are myriad, and the lightning-fast moves are dizzying … but never quite deadly.
1’s attack so that he can come leaping in with a kick to a staggered foe’s face or as part of a two-person tag throw. You don’t necessarily tag between players just because one is feeling a little peckish. And, of course, it’s important to learn which moves and combos incorporate these kinds of attack types and how your characters deliver them. These slam a foe to the ground where he bounces back up for another potential assault. If that kind of move is blocked or dodged though … oops, you’re left open to receive a little pain of your own.īounds are sort of the opposite kind of move. And if you’re ready with another split-second fist or foot strike you can keep her suspended there for more mid-air punishment. The launcher attacks smash your opponent up into the air where she hangs helplessly for a fraction of a second.
This section also happens to hold the only bit of story in the game: You follow one of the characters as he trains his “Combot” to be an ultimate fighter.Īs far as the moves go, they can be lumped into three basic groups: launches, bounds and tags. The mode that really helps gamers flip up on their feet, though, is a new training area called Fight Lab. There are a variety of gaming modes on hand-including Arcade, Versus, Team Battle, Time Attack and Survival-that can strengthen your abilities just through repetition. The goal is to either knock out one of your opponents or have the most cumulative life left when the match timer runs down. The fighter outside the ring then regains a little strength while his tag-mate battles. As one basher’s life bar starts taking a few too many hits, he can tag out and let his fresh partner charge in. You choose two fighters you can switch in and out of any given match. To make it all simple enough to actually fit into a review, let me boil down the game action a bit. Just about every look and martial arts style you can imagine is part of the lineup. There are fleet-footed flip-kickers, a heavy-pawed panda, a colossus-like metal man, a giant fire-breathing ogre, a winged angel girl, a bouncing kangaroo and a battling robot. And there are over 40 different Tekken characters you can fight with, each with his or her own set of attacks and defenses-some with over 100 possible moves to learn. To make the moves and combos ever more challenging, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 essentially doubles the number of characters you can use in any one fighting mix. And there are none more robust in those areas than the Tekken games. Nowadays the fighting game is all about complexity and options.
They couldn’t even get near the ring with today’s games. But those old old-school battlers are laughably simple now. It was all a matter of timing and good hand-eye coordination. You jabbed your thumbs into a controller to throw punches and kicks, and if the game mechanics were slick enough, you could even block when the need arose. Many, many roundhouse kicks ago in the days of button-mashing yore, fighting games were a much simpler lot.
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