[8/16/04] Tekken 2

[Mag]

Game: Tekken 2

Genre: Fighting

Platform: Arcade, Playstation

Emulator: Zinc

Release: 1995

 

Picking up after the first King of Iron Fist tournament, the second tournament was about to announce. The story continues unfolding what has left off after the first tournament. This time the competetion is very remarkable than the first, now instead of 8 competeting, there is a total of 23 fighters competeting for the prize in the secon King of Iron Fist tournament.

 

A total of 23 selectable characters, but only 10 is availiable from the start, in order to earn the rest, the play must play through and finish the game with each character to unlock everyone. All the previous fighters from the first tekken is being added to the roster along with new characters. All new characters that are hidden are involved with all 10 main characters of the game, and the stories will unfold along the way. This time, the story plot is quite expanded, with CG cinemas endings whenever you finish the game with a character. Each character will face through 7 rounds follow by a sub-boss, you will encounter your own character's specific sub-boss (which is someone in related, involve, or rivalry). After that you will went on and face Kazuya follow by the last boss Devil (Kazuya's Devil form). As for the second King of Iron Fist Tournament, the story revolves differently than the previous tekken, some are trying to acquire the championship while some are there to stop Kazuya's evilness. The story is quite setup along with all the charactes, and it seems that every single character is responsible of the tekken story puzzle.

 

Seems like the graphic is quite improve. The polygons are more sharper than the first tekken, although the game ego has been slower than the previous tekken. Sometime, whenever a long move is performed, it causes slowdown. In general aspect, the game is slow-pace indeed. They have also added camera angles whenever a grabble or a special move performed display multiple angles of the view could make you caught in a state of confusion of the direction your character is moving. The game backgrounds is a nice improvement, almost all the characters get their own background. The background detailed is pretty much interesting, some you could tell like it has been duplicated from a photo of an area. Although the CG Cinema endings are incredible even though they are short, they are worth watching everytime you beat the game.

 

Controls seems the be the exact as usual by default(Left punch/kick, and Right punch/kick). Now that they have enhanced the fighter system, the game ables you to pull various combos. The new combination of moves can be learn by praticing. They also added the new 10-Hit string combo technique for every character, some character has more than one 10-hit string, they can be pull off according to the buttons and sometime requires timing.

 

Same average as before with every tekken music, the beats and rhythem fit nicely to the scenery of the stage. Other than that, the voice-over has been redone, nothing much expect from a better tone of voice from every single character though. The sound effects maybe one of the best improvements in the sound department. You can actually hear bone crunching and snapping as well as other damage sounds, which made the game look nicer than before.

 

This game is worth picking up where the first tekken left off. The big improvements aren't satisfy as I thought it would be but finding out the story of the game worth the money. It could last a while too despite 23 characters to play from, and you could find out the new stories of the new character as well. Every tekken fan deserve to give this a try or own it for their taste for more tekken.

 

Visual: 8/10

Gameplay: 7/10

Control: 8/10

Sound: 8/10

 

Overall score: 8

 

Overall Grade: B

 

Overall, I gvive this game a

[Weirdy]

IMO, this game needs an A. It changed the Tekken fighting engine from that point on.

[Mag]

Well, not percisely, the game has became more slower than the previous installment (this is absolutely true, Tekken 2 is by far the slowest tekken game yet, try a comparison with the first installment to see fer yerself.), but graphic isn't what makes the game an A, but I grade it among the gameplay concept.