Summary
Fans were just surprised with two excitingTekken 8trailers, one revealing the game’s opening cinematic and another showing off the returning character Lee Chaolan. The next chapter of Bandai Namco’s blistering 3D fighting franchise is now over a week away, and much ofTekken 8’s roster and premise have already been shown to the eager gaming public. Many fan-favoritecharacters from past entries are returning inTekken 8, with one of the most recent ones highlighted being the warrior tombkeeper Zafina.
Tekken 8’s story will also pick up where previous games left off, with Jin Kazama challenging his father Kazuya Mishima once again as the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Having destroyed Heihachi Mishima once and for allat the end ofTekken 7, Kazuya has set his sights on dominating the entire globe with the help of his G Corporation army. As the only remaining bearer of the Devil Gene, Jin is the only person powerful enough to stop him, setting the stage for one final confrontation with the rest ofTekken 8’s playable combatants caught in the middle.
This battle is the primary focus ofTekken 8’s opening cutscene, which was recently shared on the official Bandai Namco Entertainment America YouTube channel. It begins with Jin and Kazuya fighting in the war-torn Urban Square before switching to a montage of the otherTekken 8fighters preparing for the coming battle. This leads to an all-out brawl between Jin’s allies and G-Corp along a grassy battlefield, before Jin and Kazuya trade blows once again in the rain as theTekken 8logo appears.
The pulse-poundingTekken 8opening movie wasn’t the only new footage recently shared on the Bandai Namco Entertainment America YouTube channel, which posted a gameplay trailer featuring returning fighter Lee Chaolan. The “Silver-Haired Demon” demonstrates his powerful martial arts skills in two separate bouts againstTekken 8’s Nina Williamsand Lars Alexandersson, the former taking place in a mansion stage with destructible walls and windows. While fighting Lars, Lee demonstrates his Special Move, which sees him launch his opponent into the air with a series of kicks before eliminating them with a grenade that explodes in the shape of a rose.
The smug and arrogant Lee Chaolan was introduced in the originalTekken, and has appeared inevery subsequentTekkenentrysave forTekken 3. Raised by Heihachi Mishima following the death of his parents, Lee served as a rival to Kazuya in the first game before eventually rebelling against his adoptive father and creating his own robotics company called Violet Systems – itself named after the Violet alter-ego Lee took up inTekken 4and the non-canonTekken Tag Tournament 2.
Now Lee Chaolan is returning to aid in the battle againstKazuya Mishima and the G CorporationinTekken 8, which marks the start of a new era in the long-running fighting game franchise. With January 26 fast approaching, it won’t be long before players can dive into the action as Lee and a host of other returningTekken 8characters in one final battle to determine the future of not only the feuding Mishima bloodline, but the world itself.
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Tekken 8 brings the fight to the latest generation of consoles, powered by Unreal Engine 5. Feel the power of every hit in Tekken 8, the latest entry in the legendary fighting game franchise from Bandai Namco. Utilising the power and realism of Unreal Engine 5, Tekken 8 pushes the envelope for fighting games by taking full advantage of the power of the latest generation of consoles. Ground-breaking new features, breathtakingly detailed character models and dramatic environments make this one of the most visually stunning and immersive titles in the genre yet. Tekken 8 picks up after the gruesome battle that ended in Heihachi Mishima’s defeat in Tekken 7, focusing on a new rivalry, pitting father against son as Jin Kazama stands in defiance against Kazuya Mishima in a city-shattering face-to-face showdown.
