“Look, if you want to be martial arts master who plants flowers in the middle of a fight, Tekken Tag 2 is your game.” - Evan Narcisse, Kotaku.Now if it would only help me pay off my student loans.” – -Evan Narcisse, Kotaku “ Tekken Tag Tournament 2 does justice to my fond memories of the first Tag game.Some characters feel as cheesy and overpowered as ever.A damn shame where speed and customisation are being emphasised. Navigating through menus is just plain terrible in Tekken Tag Tournament 2.The environments provide beautiful, living backdrops filled with spectators that track your brawling and dazzlingly atmospheric effects.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 maintains the frantic yet fluid feel of the series and doesn’t bog things down with weird single-player modes like Tekken 6 did.

Earned an offline rank of Disciple with one tag team and an online rank of 4th kyu with another. What I played: Finished arcade mode with several characters, played online for about 16 hours in various online modes. Type of game: Martial arts fighting game with solo and co-op play. Platforms: PlayStation 3 (Version played) / Xbox 360 The offline action represents one of the best Tekken games in years and the online portion is promising, though it still needs to be properly tested by hordes of players. Which, of course, is with kicks to the face. It’s the simmering tensions that matter, and how they get resolved. The story details never really matter - some parent is dead/angry/demonic, a fighting tourney is held, yadda yadda yadda. But it’s the action - lightning-quick and full of sly misdirection - makes Tag 2 so fun. Stages from past Tekken games appear in TTT2, seemingly forgotten fighters make their returns. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has all these things, and best of all, it arrays them in a way that will please longtime fans and newbies alike. There are other fighting game sequel pleasures too, like the return of old favourites, or the debut of new characters or design evolutions. I found a lot of those when putting my favourite character through his paces. Those moments of discovery provide the best kind of pleasure to be found in a new instalment of a fighting game series: when new strategies and suddenly possibilities reveal themselves. Looks like you might get lucky during prom after all. More unpredictability more things to learn. Is that something new there? Hallelujah, a new pose that leads to new attacks. Stutter into a Lift-Up Cannon that kicks at enemy shins and ends in a launcher. His low-to-high Rave Spin leads to a knockdown, just like always. My main in Tekken is Lei Wulong, a fluid s.o.b. So the best thing, I’ve found, is to start with the dance that you know how to do.

Tekken tag 2 character usage