The fighting game “Tekken 7” has already been in the Japanese arcades since March 2015. It has been previously reported that its gaming platform and PC version will come out one year later but that did not happen.
Instead, Japanese game developer Bandai Namco released this year a variant of the game called “Tekken 7: Fated Retribution” on Japanese arcades yet again.
However, as of late, the buzz is growing louder that “Tekken 7” might finally hit the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, and the PC early next year.
It was actually Katsuhiro Harada, the producer of the “Tekken” franchise, who disclosed the release date to the game during the North American finals for the King of the Iron Fist Tournament, which brought the best “Tekken” players from around the US.
The participants competed to the currently unreleased “Tekken 7” for cash prizes in San Francisco, California.
Harada said that while eSports is becoming increasingly popular these days, the addition of “Tekken 7” to the lot upon its release to the gaming consoles and the PC next year would further spike up interest on eSports, reports Gamespot.
He said that they expect that “Tekken 7” might start off slow but after its release on the gaming consoles and the PC, things will start picking up too.
What makes ‘Tekken 7’ different
When asked what would be the difference of “Tekken 7” from the other fighting games now in the video game retail markets, Harada said that the upcoming game is 3D while most of its competition is 2D.
Harada explained that a lot of other 2D fighting game are using 3D game models and graphics, but to actually have 3D coordinators and be able to move into the background and foreground in a way that changes the gameplay is something that sets “Tekken 7” and the franchise per se from other games.
He pointed out that there were more 3D fighters in the field many years back but “Tekken” has been the only major one that remains to this day, indicative of the durability and dynamism of the game.
When asked if Bandai Namco has considered incorporating PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox Scorpio support for “Tekken 7,” Harada said that the gaming platforms are relatively new so it is unlikely that they would have the support considering that the game is about to hit the gaming consoles and the PC in a matter of weeks.
‘Tekken 7’ trailer
During the Golden Joystick Awards live stream held on November 17, a new half-story and half-brutal violence-boasting “Tekken 7” trailer has been released.
The game marks the fighting series’ debut on the PC and it shall feature Heihachi Mishima and Street Fighter-turned-Tekkenite Akuma as well as the tall-haired series stalwart Paul Phoenix, bringing along with them old school martial arts master, Marshall Law, details the PC Gamer.
Based on the trailer, “Tekken 7” shall feature a typical amount of body slamming, pre-match grandstanding, and eye-laser blasting.
Meanwhile, as the fighting game that truly revolutionized the genre, “Tekken 7” shall be returning the storied fighting game franchise to its purest form with bone-crushing head-to-head bouts, new developments in the game’s canon storyline centered on the struggle for power amongst the members of the Mishima clan, and technical prowess that will take the fighting game circuit by storm.
With an Unreal Engine 4 powering it under the hood, “Tekken 7” would deliver numerous new modes and enhancements including an epic Story Moder that enables players to fully experience the canon storyline of “Tekken.”
“Tekken 7” players will also be able to play as new fighters such as Kazumi Mishima, Claudio, Josie, Shaheen, Katarina, Lucky Chloe, Gigas, and Akuma from the “Street Fighter” franchise among an impressive stable of fighters for the first-time-ever outside of the arcades.