![]() The game was hugely successful: Tekken 7 has sold more than 9 million copies to date, according to series producer Katsuhiro Harada, so a sequel makes a lot of sense. Bandai Namco supported its fighting game with four seasons’ worth of new characters and stages, culminating with the release of its apparent final DLC character, Lidia Sobieska, in March 2021. The previous game in the franchise, Tekken 7, was first released in 2015, exclusively in arcades, and brought to consoles two years later. Despite being announced during a PlayStation livestream, Tekken 8 is not a PS5 exclusive the fighting game is also coming to Windows PC and Xbox Series X.īandai Namco first teased Tekken 8 at this year’s Evo fighting game championship series. Bandai Namco said simply to “stay tuned” for more information. (Of course, some of the effects, dialogue as well as the camera angle is currently being updated and may change when the game launches.)”Ī release date for Tekken 8 was not announced. In the Tekken 8 trailer, we can see Jin Kazama go up. “Although this was captured from the story mode, it is not a pre-rendered movie made for the trailer but rather real-time rendered footage, running at 60 frames per second, similar to how you would experience the game in versus battle modes. Tekken 8 has officially been announced during Sonys September 15th State of Play and we cant get enough of what is about to come down. Thanks to Unreal Engine 5 technology available exclusively on PS5, Xbox X Series XS and digital PC TEKKEN 8 pushes next-generation. “In other words, all the character models, backgrounds, and effects are the same ones that are used in-game,” Harada explained in a post on Sony’s PlayStation Blog. TEKKEN 8 continues with the tragic narrative of the Mishima and Kazama clans bloody, bitter father-son battles, and insanely upgraded fighting and visual effects. The first trailer for Tekken 8 debuted during Sony’s State of Play showcase and showed Tekken mainstays Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima duking it out, in classic Tekken fashion, but in higher fidelity than ever before.Īccording to Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, the first trailer for Tekken 8 was “taken directly from a certain part in the current work-in-progress Tekken 8’s story mode, played on PlayStation 5.” Tekken 8 is being built from the ground up for Unreal Engine 5 and current generation hardware (PS5, Xbox Series S/X, and PC) and the results are immediate and impressive. Tekken 8 will be coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and PC via Steam sometime in the future.Bandai Namco and the Tekken team made Tekken 8 official on Tuesday, showing first footage of the next-gen fighting game. "I don't think they've said yet, but they typically do free-to-play titles." Maybe there's another shift in the fighting game business model," Harada said. "I’m quite interested in what's going to happen with Project L. Harada also said he was interested in how the fighting game scene will shift, commenting on the transition from arcade to console, and now what could possibly happen in the future. "There may be less mid-sized titles coming out, but big fighting game IPs and indie fighting games are still going strong." "Some of the younger players now have this impression, although inaccurate, that the fighting game audience has shrunk because there are fewer titles, but that's not necessarily the case," he said. Looking toward the future, Harada expressed optimism about the longevity of fighting games. It's unknown if Tekken 8 will include Rage Arts or how the system will be modified. In case you missed the trailer, watch it below: In this trailer, we can confirm the following characters to be part of the Tekken 8 roster: Jin Kazama. Harada did not answer when asked if Tekken 8 will include Rage Arts as seen in Tekken 7, though he did comment on the unpopularity of the Rage system and Rage Arts when the features were first implemented. "So now we're showing everyone a pinnacle of the story from the start of the campaign, but this is showing the remaining Mishimas, the two of them, the only ones left, and then you've got Jin Kazama and what he's trying to achieve." And that finished with that installment," Harada said. "Tekken’s story has always been about the Mishimas and their blood feud, and Tekken 7 showcased Heihachi Mishima and Kazuya and the showdown that took place there. So you can see the kind of results of the battle on the character models."Īs for the story, Harada called Tekken 8 a turning point and promised that the story mode hasn't been shrunk from what players saw from Tekken 7. ![]() "But when they fall down on the ground, their clothing gets dirty as a result. "This is actually the first time that we're taking rain and outside effects and having that effect of rolling down the character models. ![]() Now Playing: Tekken 8 - State of Play Sep 2022 Announcement Trailer By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's ![]()
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