
You can constantly change the appearance of your characters with little accessories and costume pieces. And the game's habit of constantly giving you money - and stuff on which to spend that money - makes leisurely arcade fighting fans that much more at home. It all helps make Tekken Tag 2 friendly and accessible to beginners in a unique way. And slapping the "story mode" into Fight Lab encourages everyone - beginner or vet - to play through the lessons. But Namco makes sure that everyone has plenty of tools. Tekken's particular brand of fighting is not easy, and learning is time-consuming to say the least. Like most, it lets you perfect your button-presses against a dummy, but you can also learn defense Tekken Tag 2 lets you input a bunch of commands in for your dummy, then fight back against it. Tekken Tag 2's practice mode is easily the finest in the genre. Everything I mentioned above, from Bounds to team throws to launchers, can become second nature after Fight Lab, and you get a humorous tale backing it.Īnd if you want further experience, you can go to Practice Mode. Tekken Tag 2 lacks that depth.īut the tutorial mode does teach you all the basics, and the decision to pair it with Tekken Tag 2's story will help keep newcomers immersed, even as they're redoing lesson after lesson. While Tekken's stories, typical anime stuff, never actually make sense, they've always been rather enjoyable. The nonsensical story lacks the narrative depth of prior Tekken games, and that's a bit disappointing. Tekken Tag 2 includes an in-depth tutorial mode known as Fight Lab, and newcomers won't find an easier way to learn a fighting game. This is certainly not the best version of Tekken Tag Tournament out there, but it is one of the most accessible.You can learn everything in the game's wealth of tutorial modes, too. Tekken Tag Tournament is a fun fighting game that you can enjoy alone, or with a friend thanks to its versus mode.

In spite of this, the game is still incredibly fun. In fact, the graphics more closely resemble those from PlayStation’s Tekken 3. The graphics in this Tekken Tag Tournament are somewhat inferior to the PlayStation 2 version we all remember. All of them come with their characteristic moves, so anyone who has played the franchise before will know how to control them.

Once you’ve done this, you can access the franchise's classic cast of characters, such as Eddy, Jin Kazama, Lei, Paula, Heihachi, Xiaoyu, Brian and company. The best thing about this version is that it only takes up 65 megabytes of memory, plus you simply have to decompress it into one of your hard disc's folders and then double click on the MAME executable to start playing. Tekken Tag Tournament, the legendary two-on-two PlayStation 2 fighting game, is now available for PC thanks to the magic of the MAME emulator that allows you to experience its legendary combats on just about any computer.
