![]() Tekken 4 included some new aspects…which wouldn’t be seen again since it didn’t quite work out as planned. Now onto the gameplay-which was likewise seen as a mixed bag with people. But…when you look at the cast, it does look a little…sparse…even though Tekken 3 didn’t have a ton, it somehow seemed a bit more filled out for some reason. That being said, the new characters otherwise were taken fairly well, Lee was generally welcome back, and Kazuya was highly welcome back. Many people were missing Anna, but also wanted to see other old favorites return like Armor King, and thought taking out people like Anna for, say, Christie who was pulled in from out of nowhere, wasn’t a grand idea. Yeah, this cast missed a Jack, it missed Anna Williams, Forest disappeared for Marshall again(this didn’t particularly upset anyone however)-and Jack/Anna’s disappearance was never actually explained. Returning roster includes Hwoarang, Kazuya, King, Ling, Marshall Law(back from 2), Paul Phoenix, Yoshimitsu, Bryan Fury, Heihachi, Lei Wulong, Jin, Julia Chang, Kuma, and Nina Williams. Then there was Combot, Violet/Lee’s creation, who was a robot sort of mimic-programmable fighter type(sort of goofy looking.) Panda was included as a palette swap of Kuma, Miharu Hirano(a palette swap of Ling who, at the time, *had her same story*), Eddy was back as a palette swap of Christie, and Violet/Lee were both in the game. Newcomers to this game were Craig Marduk(a Vale Tudo using MMA fighter and rival of King), Steve Fox(a British boxer who ended up being tied to Nina later on, honestly I’m not sure how much they planned this from the start-he would be unique in that his kick buttons were sways, though he DID have a hop-kick and a toe kick lying down, which is more than what most boxers get), Violet(who was actuall Lee Chaolan in a very bad 'disguise’, which is to say like none at all practically-just so he wasn’t uncovered trying to enter the tournament), and Christie Montero(the grand-daughter of Eddy’s trainer)-who was basically exactly like Eddy only a bit faster, less range and not quite as strong…and seen by many as completely an un-necessary addition when Eddy still had story to explore. A big portion of the cast was unlockable, even moreso than before. The cast was only nineteen unique characters in this one and there were once again some old mainstays missing(but some returning.) This cast ended up being a bit more controversial than 3’s changes though namely since there was no actual reason for some of the missing people to really be gone at this point, and it wasn’t a huge time skip. Abel, his lead scientist), and then he announces the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, of course to lure in Kaz.Ĭut to game. Heihachi of course is mad he’s back, but is told to settle down(by Dr. So Kaz of course is pissed, but figures if he could combine his Devil within himself he’d be unstoppable and go on his own rampage of revenge. We didn’t know HOW, but we knew Kaz would be back.) Turns out after his TF members get obliterated, they were successful in their tests, they managed to bring Kazuya back to life(honestly we all saw this coming one way or another in those days. Hei was probably thinking the same thing.) Turned out finding this G Corporation led him on the right path they were experimenting on this very corpse(they were really good at genetic shit apparently.) So time passes and eventually Heihachi’s Tekken Force raids the G-Corporation’s main bit to try to find this infomation. (Devil Gene does some awesome things, you’d have though he’d been ash. He could have sworn it was Kazuya after the volcano. In Heihachi’s investigations he turned up an old photograph a charred corpse with weird wing-like things coming out of it. He had disappeared after the last tournament, having transformed into a Devil himself. Someone DID have it that was alive-one Jin Kazama. He found out, though, after his scientists researched-the needed this thing called the '¨Devil Gene’ (This is where you see it popping up) to make it work. He wanted to create new life(somewhere Heihachi became Dr. He did manage to get some samples from True Ogre, however, to send to his scientists for experiments. Taking place two years after three, Heihachi never did capture Ogre like he wanted to. It was released in summer 2001 in the arcade, with the console version following in Spring of ‘02(Japan), and Fall of '02(US/EU.) The arcade version ran on Namco’s system 248.įirst we’ll get the story out of the way. It wouldn’t be taken as well as Tekken 3’s cast and gameplay changes, though. Changes to the story, changes to the cast, and pretty big changes to the gameplay as well, much moreso than before. So Tekken 3 was taking over the world…and the team felt like it was time for a change. Part 4: Geeze, Lee, for a 45 year old, you sure still have a nice ass
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