

Finally, at the end of each stage of Fight Lab, you're given a Boss Battle-essentially a "test" combining everything you've learned up to that point, but focusing on that stage's lessons. Once you think you've got it, you'll then try and get the technique down several times, and once you pass you're given the option to replay the tutorial if you think you need extra practice. Instead of just having you practice a move or principle over and over again until you get it right once, Fight Lab tells you what you'll be practicing, tells you why it's important and how it's used, then gives a looping demonstration so you can see what you'll be learning in action. Taking control of Combot, players learn the basics of Tekken's fighting system, starting with movement, then going into strikes, throws, and later focusing on core mechanics like follow-up attacks and tagging. TTT2's Fight Lab follows Lee Chaolan as he attempts to rebuild Combot, a customizable fighting robot. You see, in the real world, you don't pass for doing something right once, and then move on to the next lesson-but in video games, this is the way "teaching" has always been done.


The biggest features the new title pushes is Fight Lab-which doubles as the game's Story Mode-and a very in-depth character customization mode.įight Lab is like many other training modes seen in recent fighting games, but it does something new: it actually teaches.
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However, the game isn't so broken that rookies can win on blind luck alone-strong players win with a combination of skill and experience.Īlong with the expected Arcade, online and offline Versus, Time Attack, Team Battle, Survival and Practice Modes, the Tekken series spices things up with a few series-specific additions: Ghost Mode works as something of an "active practice" mode that lets you play against a series of computer-controlled opponents who mimic arcade players' styles, and Pair Play lets four players battle it out in teams of two. The 50+ (and growing!) cast of characters all have around 75-150 individual moves each, with simple-enough inputs that newbies can accidentally do a move or two while just fooling around and mashing buttons. In addition to grim-faced martial artists and hyper schoolgirls, Tekken's cast includes kung-fu bears and a freakin' velociraptor. For players worried about the often-complex controls of fighting games, Tekken eschews the sometimes-confusing-for-newbies "light-medium-hard" attack structure of most fighters in favor of a "one button per limb" control scheme. You can either go solo, or pick two characters and fight it out tag-style-like the original TTT or Street Fighter X Tekken, all you need to do is knock out one character to win the match. Those of you who've played the original Tekken Tag Tournament in arcades or on the PlayStation 2 will instantly be at home with the basic tag-match gameplay. However, after the disappointing-for-purists Tekken 6, the series has fallen somewhat to the wayside-but Namco has come back, firing on all cylinders with Tekken Tag Tournament 2. As one of the front-running 3D fighting games, Tekken is a favorite of hardcore and casual players alike.
