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Tekken 4

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty amazing! The graphics are great and the storyline is good. My favourite character Kayuza who is Jin's father and Heihaichi's son.
Plot: 4 great storyline
Graphics: 5 amazing
Characters: 5 lots of variety
Sound: 5 yells of pain
Gameplay 5 easy to learn but difficult to master
Overall: 5 Excellent game, buy it now!

The qualities of "Tekken 4"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

What's hot:
-The graphics
-The new looks(Arenas and menus)
-Better controls
-The new fighters(Steve Fox and Craig Marduk)
-Cool story and plot organization

What's not:
-Not enough new characters
-Some things are just so redundant such as the extras

What's strange:
-Don't you wish this was like Soul Calibur?
-Why must they edit the characters(maybe not Jin, but people such as Bryan)?
-Ever wish there was a tag team mode?

Overall:
I think this is a cool game altogether. What really brings it down is it's redundancy with extras. If this had some really new stuff and not just the walls and telephone booths, I would give this a 5.

Tekken needs a makeover

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is just the same old tekken I have been playing since Tekken 3.It doesn't even have the variety of characters that tekken tag tournament has and the new closed enviroments and walls are just lame. The graphics are not that great and not the improvement you would expect from one tag tournament with the reduction of characters and all. Buy Virtua Fighter 4 instead.

For Serious Tekken Players

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've played Tekken for years, been to national tournaments and spent many hours that should have been for studying or work trying to master these games. Both in the arcades and in the home market I have heard people on two ends of the spectrum talking about TEKKEN 4 since it was released. Many people don't like its new system of play, siting it as too complicated and too realistic, but to the serious Tekken fan the new system is everything we ever wanted.

The sidestepping is incredibly fast - the entire fighting system allows complete individuality with a character by allowing you to go a variety of moves directly out of another then into another set from that move and so on - every character updated with some characters now having over 160 moves! - 3 new characters and a redisigned Jin make for lots of new technique to explore - a whole new wall system that adds a great variety to combos and gameplay - and the just frame system that is the "expert only" line of scrimmage

To the novice/medium interest player these additions seem weak, but to those of us who are willing to drive for 5 hours to a Tekken tournament and download scores of combo movies off of fan sites, this is the ultimate fighting game. If you want faster, cheaper entertainment go for Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.

TEKKEN 4 VERY DISSAPOINTING!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am the master at all tekken series hands down. You guys are probably saying yea right. But I dont care I will beat anybody anytime anywhere at any tekken. Especially Tekken 3 and tekken tag. But I am not trying to brag the only reason I am saying this is to let everybody know that I have litteraly put thousands and thousands of hours into the tekken series and can do every combo and throw combo or move that the game has. and can do them with the greatest 0f ease. ...i have even done moves that arent in the strategy guide. but enough about me I bought this game knowing that it was going to be better than tekken tag. but i was wrong, the only thing that is better about this game is that the graphics and backrounds surpase all other tekken games. there are hardly any improvements at all in character gameplay in fact the improvements make some people [worse]. such as Jin one of my personal favorites they took all his combos away wich is what pretty much made jin work and gave him abunch of ... simple moves. it reminds me of virtual fighter 4 the way he plays ,and all my other favorite guys have no new moves or combos whatsoever. plus they cut down on the characters bigtime and put some goofball characters in there such as violet. And is if we needed a girl version of eddy. and what ... is heihachi doing in a ... daiper. what has namco done to one of the best guys.(who has no new moves.)king I thought for sure he would have a new throw combo but he didnt.(at least they didnt change the way he plays.)and also I really hate the new sidestepping deal I thought the old sidestepping was just fine. I dont know maybe I just expected more out of the newest edition of probably the greatest fighter series ever made. But if you dont beleive me go check it out. but i recomend tekken tag. as for tekken 4 they just should have done more.

Could have been better!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The graphics and background stages are cool but every thing else sucks. Dead or Alive3, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and even Dragonball Z: Budokai are better. Dragon ball z's stages are horrible but the moves and the powers are awesome. The only problem with this game is the character moves, stunts, storyline, intro movies and endings. Tekken 2 and 3 are way better. If you are a tekken fan first rent it than buy it.

A TEKKEN 4 ARCADE PLAYER

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

YES,I ADMIT THE CHARACTER LIST IS ON THE SHORT SIDE. THE THING THAT SEPERATES THIS FROM VIRTUA FIGHTER 4 AND DOA3 IS THAT SOME LEVELS ONLY HAVE A FEW WALLS. YOU'RE NOT TRAPPED IN A LITTLE BOX!
THE CRATE BUILDING OR CRATE ON THE BEACH...GENIUS! SOME OF THE COSTUMES ARE WEIRD (PAUL,KUMA,HEIHACHI,KING?)THE ACTIVE SCENERY IS VERY WELL DONE.THERE'S ONE THING THEY CAN'T SCREW UP,THE STORYLINE.THE STORYLINE IS A PERFECT ADD-ON TO TEKKEN 3 AND A GREAT START FOR THE NEW CHARACTERS.GRAPHICS ARE GREAT.I NEVER LIKED ARMOR KING,SO LOSING HIM ISN'T A BIG DEAL.MAKING LEE CHAOLAN VIOLET GENIUS...GENIUS!!! WHATEVER HAPPENED TO UNKNOWN? SHE ONLY APPEARED IN TEKKEN TAG.I THINK SHE HAD THE SAME TATTOO AS JIN.MAJOR FLAW NOT PUTTING HERE IN TEKKEN 4.TEKKEN 4 DEFINATLY BEATS TEKKEN TAG.I LIKE TEKKEN 2 GAMEPLAY MORE THAN TEKKEN TAG.PREORDER THIS GAME NOW (I DID)

Tekken at its best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Everyone kneel down because The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 is about to begin. This time around with closed-in stages, characters artwork, voiceovers, awesome graphics and furious gameplay, yeah..this is Tekken 4. Bundle in 3 new characters, a redesigned Tekken Force Mode, a newly Story Mode and hours of FMV and you've got one of the most loved fighting series of all. Tekken 4 is all this in one single DVD package so if you have what it takes to be The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 get this game now. I have.

thanks for sending this quickly!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

great game. great condition. fast service. thanks!

Review from a Casual Player of Martial Arts Games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I first happened upon the Tekken series with Tekken 2 on the original PlayStation, and - despite my familiarity with fighting games - enjoyed it, in large part because I was able to have some measure of success with the game almost immediately. I never tried Tekken 3, but Tekken Tag Tournament was the same - with the added bonus of Tekken Bowl :-)

Tekken 4 continues this line of ease of playability, even for those like myself who are not hardcore enthusiasts of martial arts games. In fact, I specialize in racing and driving games, which require far less coordination and memorization and quick on-the-fly button combinations. Still, while Tekken 4 slightly raises the bar in terms of ease of playability, it is still possible for a newcomer to the series to have some success almost from the beginning.

To that end, Tekken 4 is VERY different from Virtua Fighter 4. Remembering watching a former girlfriend repeatedly demolish all comers with the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 2, I bought Virtua Fighter 4 on release... and was floored at just how difficult it was. Even with Pai (reportedly the easiest character to use in Virtua Fighter 4), that game is certainly NOT for us casual players of martial arts games, even though it is superior to the Tekken series in terms of graphics and fluidity of movement (and a true training mode). Tekken 4 is more like the Dead or Alive series, but with less flesh and extremely little breast-bouncing (although there is some of both in Tekken 4).

One of the fun quests of Tekken 4 is unlocking all the characters. For experts of martial arts games (and the Tekken series in general), this will certainly not require a lot of time; for us casual players, however, this is a fun process which could take up to a week. Once characters are unlocked, the next quest is defeating Story Mode with each character to unlock the ending movies, which are all definitely interesting... and some completely hilarious :-)

While Tekken 4 does not have an equivalent to Tekken Bowl (from Tekken Tag Tournament), Tekken Force is a novel addition to the series, in which the player must infiltrate a military compound using only martial arts techniques; this is certainly inspired at least in part by the opening movie for the game. The standard Arcade Mode and Time Trial Mode are included, along with a customizable Practice Mode. However, Training Mode consists of simply inputting the displayed button combinations as quickly as possible, a downfall of the game compared to the in-depth Training Mode of Virtua Fighter 4. That said, Virtua Fighter 4 would be at least worth a rental for novice players of martial arts games to gain at least the basics of playing fighting games - in much the same way as completing the License Tests in any game of the Gran Turismo series will generally help with virtually ALL games in the racing/driving genre.

Perhaps the best thing about Tekken 4 is the detail afforded to the sound engineering. The ambient sounds are all spot-on for each fighting locale, and the characters' voices even change appropriately. For example, the Mall, Laboratory, and Parking Area fighting venues all feature prominent echoes, yet the echoes are distinctly different in each venue. The sound of water in the Mall, Jungle, and Beach venues distinctly different as well, and the volume of the water sounds also fluctuates depending on where the characters are located within each locale.

Overall, Tekken 4 is definitely a good game, even for novices in the martial arts genre of gaming. For those who take their time in unlocking the various elements of the game, Tekken 4 will definitely have a lengthy replay life.

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