The massive character roster is accessible enough for casual players to understand but deep enough for more serious fighters to get their teeth into, too, and in balancing those two sides of the game, Tekken 7 has done what the likes of Street Fighter V failed to do: appeal to an audience that might not typically be interested in fighting games. Every kick, every punch, every headbutt and every grapple feels perfectly weighted and satisfying to pull off.įor casual fans that remember Tekken 3 back on the original PlayStation and want some light beat-'em-up action, this game won't let you down. Considering the game has been alive in Japanese arcades now for over two years now, the core balance of the title feels perfect on console release. Tekken 7 does an exemplary job of bringing the 3D fighter kicking and screaming into 2017. Tekken 7 manages to balance a decades-old fighting system with some fancy new mechanics that charge the game up with enough violent energy to make it a worthwhile release in a console generation that's already brimming with fighters. (Pocket-lint) - Fighting games more than any other often get stick for not innovating, for not changing up the core gameplay they're built on.

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