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The mighty and fearless would soon have the opportunity to become TEKKEN gods: NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe announced that development of TEKKEN 6 was complete. The sixth King of Iron Fist Tournament will be released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on October 29 in a standard version and also in Arcade Stick and Limited editions, both packed with new online and offline gameplay features and the largest character roster ever. An exclusive TEKKEN 6 PlayStation 3 hardware bundle will also be available in selected regions.
For the first time, NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe also fully reveals the extensive content of the online gameplay features. The characters’ lightning-fast response times and consistent 60 FPS ensure that TEKKEN 6 players around the world can come together to compete for the title of TEKKEN god.
“The entire development team, myself included, have put our heart and soul into the series for 15 years. We therefore await the game’s release with great excitement—we can hardly wait to see it in the fans’ hands,” says Katsuhiro Harada, TEKKEN Project Director at NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc. “We were incredibly and positively surprised by the tremendous response and anticipation from the media and fans. TEKKEN 6 is the culmination of the series, and we are very eager to see the worldwide reaction from players when they can finally get started.”
With full support for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, the TEKKEN 6 online features include the following content:
Ranked Matches and Player Matches:
- Climb the rankings through hard training to improve your fighting skills.
- Compete online against opponents worldwide with full chat functionality;
Data Upload & Download:
- Create your own ghost characters that accurately imitate your fighting style and upload them;
- Any player in the world can download your ghost character to fight against it, whether you are online or not;
- Upload replays of your best matches to share them with friends and opponents around the world.
- Online Co-op Campaign
- New feature appearing that winter after launch as a free downloadable update;
- Set out together in this exciting co-op campaign against AI-controlled opponents and experience the dramatic large-scale action with friends around the globe.
- Leaderboards
- Battle Points: online only, divided into World, Asia, America and Europe categories;
- Rank: shows the overall online and offline ranking, from beginner to TEKKEN god;
- Further rankings are available for ranked games, co-op campaign, Time Attack and Survival.
Exclusive PlayStation Home features include:
- TEKKEN 6 Title Lounge
- Host Versus and Co-op Sessions: gather friends and start matches from the lounge in PlayStation Home; Online Co-op Campaign arrives free that winter; ◦ Home Rewards: players have the chance to win exclusive costume items and furniture in the lounge for their own rooms.
TEKKEN 6, developed by NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc., brings the blockbuster fighting series to multiple platforms for the first time in the history of the Tekken franchise. Breathtaking realism, uncompromising quality, major gameplay developments including campaign mode, and the largest character selection of any TEKKEN game characterise the title. For 14 years, TEKKEN had been one of the world’s most popular and best-known game series. More than 34 million games had been sold by then. The new features and exciting HD fighting action of TEKKEN 6 create an experience that simply must not be missed.
TEKKEN 6 will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360® on October 29.
The PSP (PlayStation Portable) version follows later in the autumn. Further information about TEKKEN 6 is available at http://www.tekken.com.
