Tekken 5 demo - First Impressions

[rb]

I got my hands on a copy of the Tekken 5 Demo CD that shipped with Death By Degrees. So heres my take on it.

The game opens with the Arcade FMV sequence, overlayed on this is the message insert coin(s) weird that a PS2 game needs coins.. anyways. There are only 2 characters in the demo , Raven and Asuka. Raven can only be selected by using P1 and Asuka by using P2. Following the Versus Screen you are taken to a 1 round match against your opponent, after this round ends you get the game over screen, there is no versus mode.

The graphics are totally sweet and flow nicely. They say it isnt as crisp as the arcade but since I never saw the arcade version I can't comment on that. The stages are gorgeous, the burning Honmaru stage especially has the heat effect which can play tricks on the eyes.

Musically the game seems to have the normal techno sound. Some sound great while others sound generic.

Gameplay wise I'm not sure if it's just me but the damage on some moves seem to be insane. Raven to me seems very n00b friendly. Most of his combos are pretty simple and do decent damage. The damage I've been able to do from his basic combos so far is nice. I've taken to him rather well. Haven't tried Asuka as much. The ingame demos show some other fighters but nothing too special. I got something that could be a infinite off the wall, but I can't be too sure if it is true. I wouldn't be too surprised though, the walls in Tekken 4 gave characters wall infinites.

Other characters I spotted so far include Kazuya , Jin , Feng Wei , Christie , Marduk , Bryan , Julia , Lee , Lei and King.

So far this has pretty much satisfied me even though its short and all. If you got cheat devices ( which I dont got) you can use codes for infinite round time and health which would make it like a big practice mode.

I give the demo a 3 outta 5 mainly because of the 1 round thing which sucks ass

The release date for Tekken 5 has supposedly been confirmed for the 25th of this month. This game will definately not fail to impress.

Oh and Heihachi is alive... big surprise huh

                     

[Rampage]

i have de demo so long and aint get to play it yet

nice lil review dey rb                    

[Rampage]

whey boy imperial i now watch that video, lixxx idmc, perfects oui
and on another note, boy imperial if you burning a ps2 game you hadda use alcohol and then in data type choose playstation 2                    

[Imperial_X]

Track Format: Data Track Mode 1
Block size(bytes): 29\048
Image header size (bytes): 307200
Image Trailer size:  0
Data was scrambled already: unchecked
Data contains EDC/ECC info sections

Because an unsupported image file is being used, you should manually set the track format, block size and other information.

NOTE: The unsupported image file will be burned/emulated as a ONE track only disc.  If this image contains multi track data, the burned/emulated disc will be recorded the same as the original.


I keep getting that message when I got to the image burning wizard for Alcohol.  I used those settings there and there were some other setting in another tab too.  I left everything on default put the bastard on PS2 and now the ps2 logo comes up when I put in the disc and it doesn't load.  Wow, 3rd disc down, I'm going for a record here.  lmao                    

[Rampage]

boy tell rb to burn it for you yes, and give him a blank and call that george                    

[rb]

heres a simpler solution

1. Get Daemon Tools and mount the image on a virtual drive
2. Use Clone CD and make an ISO from the mounted image
3. Burn Clone CD ISO                    

[Bob]

I agree with rb's review
Raven is a an easy to use power house (Paul has competition in the n00b frienldy department)

Asuka oh my sweet Asuka
She is more of an offensive chararcter than Jun with some sweet mix ups

As far as I see its a definite improvement over 4 with the combat leaning abit more towards T3's style of gameplay.

That would explain why moves pack such a wallop rb T3 wasnt exactly known for having long matches