Tekken tag tournament8/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The fighter outside the ring then regains a little strength while his tag-mate battles. As one basher’s life bar starts taking a few too many hits, he can tag out and let his fresh partner charge in. You choose two fighters you can switch in and out of any given match. To make it all simple enough to actually fit into a review, let me boil down the game action a bit. Just about every look and martial arts style you can imagine is part of the lineup. There are fleet-footed flip-kickers, a heavy-pawed panda, a colossus-like metal man, a giant fire-breathing ogre, a winged angel girl, a bouncing kangaroo and a battling robot. And there are over 40 different Tekken characters you can fight with, each with his or her own set of attacks and defenses-some with over 100 possible moves to learn. To make the moves and combos ever more challenging, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 essentially doubles the number of characters you can use in any one fighting mix. And there are none more robust in those areas than the Tekken games. Nowadays the fighting game is all about complexity and options. They couldn’t even get near the ring with today’s games. ![]() But those old old-school battlers are laughably simple now. It was all a matter of timing and good hand-eye coordination. You jabbed your thumbs into a controller to throw punches and kicks, and if the game mechanics were slick enough, you could even block when the need arose. Many, many roundhouse kicks ago in the days of button-mashing yore, fighting games were a much simpler lot. ![]()
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