As a long time Tekken fan I'm happy to write the newest installment is awesome. First off the character models are very polished (maybe a little too much.) However the environments have incredible detail. Online play is alot more fluid this time around. you don't lose connection via mic when battling online. They have also added a new ranking system. Offline play offers the same modes as usual. Story mode is back this year and its as boring as ever. I wish they would bring back bowling. There are 5 new characters. I was very impressed with the new fighting styles these characters bring. There are new feautres as the bounce technique. this is where during a combo you can bounce your opponent against the ground to continue a juggle. Also weapons have been added but only as a combo finisher (except for yoshimitsu.) Overall I strongly recommend this game to any hardcore fighting fan. The depth and detail is awesome!

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This game is awesome. It's one of the few I've bought in a while. I've been playing it non-stop since I've got it. I put it on my hard drive thinking the game would speed up, but there is sooooo much loading! I hate to think how long it would take if I didn't put it on my harddrive. The Tekken force mode was kind of annoying at first, but I've come to enjoy it. The final boss is ridiculously hard, even though I put it on easy. The online play is hit or miss. Sometimes I get great connections, but then others are horrible. Unlike the first tekken game, if you play the rank mode, you pick you character first then it finds a match for you. A big welcome in my book. I always hated when people picked someone just because you picked a certain person. Overall the game is great. I just wish they got rid of those stupid juggle moves, and the cheap characters. But overall the balance is a little better. IF you like the Tekken games, you'll like this one.

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I deeply enjoyed this game. The music was a bit odd and the vs backgrounds were a little less to pick from and the load times do take a bit. Some of the cpu characters are a bit much to play against and a few button pushes hear and there can do immense amounts of damage. There is a slight balance problem meaning you will have to work a bit more to beat other heavy hitter with some other characters but it can be done. Online play... Forget it. To unbalanced. I do like playing the 'ghost' charcters, those are fun, sometimes. But again you get a character or two that can whipe the floor with ya. Not so immpossiable that it isn't fun to play though. I do enjoy the new characters, especially bob and the customizations are fun to work through. Not the best game out there, but fun enough on your own or with a player next to you. The graphics are good enough for ps3.

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What I hate about this game is the "Scenario campaign". This is basically Tekken Force, or The Devil Within from the last games. This time it's not just a side game though, It's the main game you have to play if you play solo. If you liked the individual stories for each of the characters, be prepared to be disappointed. They're still in the game but you have to play through this Tekken force sort of mini game to unlock them. (Which isn't all that fun). The stories themselves have been heavily dumbed down (Opening cards are short, no vocal narration, short cut scenes that explain next to nothing about the story) and the rival interaction scenes that Tekken 5 introduced have not been included in the story mode.

In terms of gameplay Tekken 6 doesn't really introduce anything. It plays just like Tekken 5. The characters have the same default outfits, the same win quotes/posses and the same moves for the most part. That's not bad, because Tekken 5 was a great game, but I just wish there was more there.

I would have to give this game a 6.5/10 for the online, but a 3/10 for the single player game. You can get this, but I would suggest waiting for the price to go down. It just isn't worth it.

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I was so excited to get this game. I spent money that I don't have. Boy, was I disappointed by the shoddy gameplay. The graphics are awful. Why in the world would Tekken 6, something that took years to make, have bad graphics? There is no excuse for it. The load times are pathetically long. This used to be one of my favorite franchises, but I don't think I will be purchasing any more Tekkens. Awful.

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My impressions of the game is that it is a good 3D figther for old and new fans alike but for online gamers like myself it falls short of expections, i have a Fios connection and still the game plays slow to the point that its very difficult to execute a juggle combo or any combo for that matter (low blocking is terrible also), i have Tekken 5 DR and even though it has lag issues of its own its somewhat manageable compared to Tekken 6, it doesn't have a match lobby (for ranked matches) that you can choose to enter, it randomly chooses your opponent for your to fight against and your win percentage is with what ever character that u select as supposed to your overall online user name in Tekken 5. The offline aspect of the game however is enjoyable, the robust characters makes this game one of most among current fighting titles (well maybe DBZ games have more), story mode is kinda short but interesting and vs. mode is great for 1 on 1 friendly matches with your buddies (locally not online). Overall if you like playing online you will be frustrated due to some serious lag issues other than that its solid title that's is good for renting as supposed to buying.

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I've always loved the Tekken series. More than any other fighting game. In all honesty, Tekken 6 delivers everything that I've loved about the past Tekken games. But the ability to play online matches was the one thing I looked foreward to most about Tekken 6, and the online play just isn't there at all.

The amount of lag in the online matches is just unexceptable. Every online match I've played so far was impossible because of the tremendous amount of lag. At times I'll press a button and it takes more than a full second before my character responds. Even when I'm lucky enough to land a hit, some of the simplest combos in the game are utterly impossible to finish in online matches because the lag is so bad. You may as well forget about online 10 hits or juggles altogether.

I've played plenty of games online with virtually no lag problems, so I know my internet connection isn't to blame. In fact, after 2 hours of playing Tekken 6 online without a SINGLE match that wasn't ruined by lag, I played a few rounds of SF4 and didn't notice any lag at all.

Tekken 6 is a solid game aside from the online issues, but if you've been looking forward to playing it online you'll be sorely disappointed.

Hopefully Namco can fix this...

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The graphics is so so and the loading time on the ps3 will make you fall a sleep. The recent soul calibur 4 that was realeased a long time ago had better graphics than this one. Even though I got it really cheap it still not worth the money. Just stick with the older ps2 versions and save your money.

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Listen I am a extreme hardcore Tekken fan but I hated Tekken 6 review.

First of all, Scenario Campaign mode was the worst thing that could ever happen in Tekken 6. Forcing this mode into the main game of Tekken 6 was dreadful. Scenario Campaign mode should not been the main mode to unlock everything in the game. It felt like a bad 3d imitation of Fighting Force or Streets of Rage. The player was forced to endure this mode to unlock everything in the game. That was horrible Namco. You, Namco are chasing away gamers outside the Tekken fan base and some of the Tekken fans. The player loses interest after losing a stage in Scenario Campaign mode a ton of times. The player can money money in matches but it is not as much as Scenario Campaign. Was Scenario Campaign mode the only thing that Tekken 6 has to offer to make serious money?

In addition, the ranking system in Tekken 6 was downright intolerable. Players whom played Tekken 5 DR online for PS3 had a better experience because of the ranking system. Players in Tekken 5 DR online had the freedom to rank up in that game online and offline. In Tekken 6 once a player reaches First Dan, the player is forced to play online to continue to rank up. That is unfair to anyone who doesn't wish to participate on online activates in Tekken 6. Furthermore, the players experience online can become unplayable and, it can lag even after numerous of patches were uploaded.

For die hard Tekken fans character customization might have been okay. However, for other players who have played other games such as Soul Calibur 4, the character customization in Tekken 6 was too limited. Players that are not a part of the hardcore fan base are sick and tired of not being about to create a character in the Tekken franchise. Tekken 6 only having character customization is no fun and very unappealing to other players that are not a diehard Tekken fan. The players can only customize in game characters and the items in the game are way too expensive and limited. In Tekken 6 the player was unable to change the color skin of the character and was stuck with whoever was in the game. Players have experienced Soul Calibur 4. The items where cheaper and the player was allow to change the color of the items that were purchase as much as they see fit. Namco you try to fool the player with tricks like selling the same item with different colors in Tekken 6. That is unacceptable.

Hey don't waste your money on Tekken 6. You would rather play Tekken 5 DR online for PS3.

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This game was horrible. The story mode was difficult to learn how to play, slow paced and moronically stupid. The online or arcade mode is better, but each character has too many moves to learn in order to use them efficiently. I would recommend you not waste your time or your money unless you are a die hard tekken fan.

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I waited three years for this game and what I got is lagged online games, when you play online you can't choice your player after if your component bring some cheap laggy character to play. Players look so fake that they made by wax. There is no face expression, dull looking look.

Some arenas are good to play in, but some arenas so bad lighted that you hardly see anything around.

It's not worth the money maybe when its $13 or so. I liked Tekken DR better than this newly overly graphically killed game.

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If you buy this game for strictly one on one play with your friends on your couch, you'll have a blast.

If you buy this game looking to play serious competition online, you'll commit suicide.

Tekken 6 has to include some of the worst online code I've seen in a fighting game. Even playing common opponents in the same area with full green bars yields lag in many instances.

Why Namco didn't learn their lesson with Tekken DRO is beyond me. They had a TON of community feedback about how close to unplayable DRO was.

Gameplay is classic Tekken. No big changes besides some new move lists for almost all characters and the inclusion of the Rage system which seems like a gimmick to me, doesn't balance gameplay enough.

The graphics are OK. Nothing to shout home about, which is unlike the graphic GODS that Namco used to be. I remember how pessimistic gamers were when Namco announced Tekken 3 for PS1 and how it would be near impossible to duplicate the arcade game on limited hardware.

Namco succeeded and succeeded with flying colors.

This feels like a half ass port of the arcade version, and it seems the Tekken team, tasked with multiplatform dual development for the first time, couldn't handle it and it shows in both the 360 and PS3 version.

Namco would have been better off chosing one platform and maximizing the platform's potential and I think Tekken 6 would have been leagues better.

For online gamers.....stay away unless Namco fixes the god awful online mode.

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One of the best fighting games i've played in a while, if you have a local group of people to play against regularly. The online play is completely unplayable. Horrible lag keeps you from blocking low, breaking throws, and low parrying.

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Now don't get me wrong, Tekken 6 itself is a great game...the gaming package and what you're paying for? Rip off. Not only do they only allow one profile to access customizations offline; not only is the game not running at full HD; not only do they remove the ability to scroll through the moves list in practice mode while it's stationed at the bottom of the screen like in Tekken 5; not only have they removed the record feature (W T F!??!!?!?)...but they have actually managed to single handedly create the worst online code for a fighting game anyone has had the displeasure of experiencing. 3 Years and they give us THIS? The name 'Scamco' just seems more and more valid these days. If you have no offline comp, don't buy this; if you do...don't buy this...if it still had the record feature in training mode then maybe. Even though, is it worth the cash? Scenario mode is terrible so don't place your hope on that.

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Graphics are nice, load times are not. Online ranking is completely messed up because Naamco/Bandai decided that, for some reason, it is a good idea to create offline rankings that carry over to online play. So, if you're playing the classic arcade mode and even if it takes you half an hour to be a higher ranked computer opponent you still shoot up in the rankings strictly because you won. So, if you got lucky in that fight and actually did not learn any new moves or techniques then when you go online you get the great joy of fighting someone many levels above your realistic skill set. Thus your opponent tosses you around for a quick three and out and you're left pissed off with a nice "L" towards your stats.

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