Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Megathread

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[jefXfree]

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 unveiled

Following yesterday’s Twitter tease from Katsuhiro Harada regarding an impending announcement at the Tokyo Game Show today, the Tekken series producer has made good on his promise and unveiled a sequel to Tekken Tag Tournament.

Harada-san broke the news during a fighting tournament at the Japanese trade event earlier today, confirming Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is officially in the works for a summer 2011 release in Japanese arcades.

While a console version has yet to be formally announced, you only have to take a gander at the series’ history to know that a PlayStation 3 port is highly likely to happen later down the line.

The original Tekken Tag was a launch title for PlayStation 2 back in 2000 and fans have been clamouring for a follow-up ever since.

 

[elmo]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

 

[jefXfree]

Harada-san spills the beans on Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada has divulged a heap of juicy details on the newly unveiled Tekken Tag Tournament 2, confirming among things that the game will sport the largest character roster in the series' history.

For starters, Harada confirmed that players will able to execute a variety of tag-specific manoeuvres, and unlike the first Tekken Tag, you and your partner will be able to appear on-screen simultaneously and deliver a combined assault.

"In the first Tekken Tag you would just launch your opponent and you could change out and you could have your second character come out and possibly continue to attack."

"As you may have seen in the trailer we had a little bit more going on, so maybe two people could attack at the same time."

"First off there was three people and if you look closely there was actually four people on screen at the same time," Harada told Gamespot.

"So with that in mind you can call your tag partner out and kind of attack simultaneously. Or perhaps you could launch your opponent, have your partner come out, continue your attack while you switch out and perhaps even switch back again."

Elsewhere, Harada-san confirmed that recent series additions such destructible scenery and the bounce system will make a comeback, adding, "All of this naturally makes its way into Tag 2 but it's not just those elements plus tag, we kind of take those elements a step further."

"You can kind of include that in your tag combos and there are many possibilities that open up as a result."

"There's also one other thing that I can hint at that's that there might be some other new additions to the stages."

As for the number of playable characters, while Harada wouldn’t commit to a specific amount, he did reveal that beat ‘em up would contain "the largest roster in the series to date."

In regards to the game’s release, Harada made it clear nothing has been set in stone for an inevitable console port, though acknowledged the decline in the popularity of arcades in the West:

"We do realise that there are a lot of areas of the globe where arcades are non-existent, the West in particular, but Asia's still doing pretty well."

"Thinking of that we do aim to get it out as soon as possible for the fans but that's all we can really say."

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is pencilled in for a release in Japanese arcades in summer 2011.

 

[jefXfree]

Tekken Tag 2 probably won't hit consoles until 2012

Namco Bandai’s Katsuhiro Harada has revealed that the console port of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is unlikely to see the light of day this year.

Speaking to Eurogamer, the Tekken producer said that TTT2 will be the first in a barrage of fresh Tekken games to see release though admitted it probably won’t launch on home consoles until 2012.

"I can't tell you the order at this moment because, naturally, we haven't announced some of these release dates," said Harada.

"TTT2 is probably the first one people will see. It's still only 80 per cent complete, but it'll be released around fall in Japan and Asia. That'll be the first one people will see."

Pushed as to when TTT2 will see the light of day on consoles, he offered: "It's really hard to say. I can't say even that'll it'll be this year. We can't really have a console version right after the arcade version. Probably not this year is the only answer."

Namco has a heap of Tekken games in the works, including Tekken x Street Fighter, Tekken Hybrid (a HD revamp of the original Tekken Tag bundled with CG flick Blood Vengeance), Tekken 3DS, Tekken Wii U and, of course, Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

However, that’s not all the firm has up its sleeves; Harada hinted that more games are also in the pipeline that have yet to be announced. Tekken 7 perhaps? Namco's not saying.

“You might be surprised to hear that this isn't even all of what we have for Tekken," Harada teased. "There are some things we haven't announced yet. If you heard that you probably would be quite shocked at the volume overall."

 

[DaMexiRican]

The last few have really sucked

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[Beard Esquire]

Tekken Tag is by far my favorite fighting game of all time. Used to love having a bunch of friends over and having tournaments!!!

 

[Horhay]

I got Tekken 6, but I wasn't a big fan. Good thing I got it for free!

I guess I just never got used to the character movements I am a fast paced guy, I enjoy fast paced fighting games. This doesn't fit the criteria, just not for me I guess.