Review

I rented The latest edition of Tekken last Friday from blockbuster. Always rent games before you buy them, unless you have it on very good authority that it kicks arse (thats a tip kids, write it down). The trouble with renting games is that because you know you don't have the game for long, you use every precious minute you don't use for eating, sleeping and peeing to play the game (and even some of the minutes you do use for those things). The trouble with this intense concentrated period of gaming is that if the game is short enough, you complete it, or at least come close enough that there's no point in buying it or renting it again. This is what happened with Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time I completed the whole game (thoroughly too, none of this skipping rooms, or not destroying every crate business) In the two days I had it. AND it was only an hour late back to the store. (By the way, Prince of Persia: a great game, but it has practically no lifespan. Rent it; or, if you must, nick it; but don't buy it. The sequel is longer though.
BUT Tekken 5 was not one of those games. (Partly because the boss is a bitch to defeat and I got fed-up of even trying, and because I only got about 8 hours play in). But there is certainly many an hour of button-mashing to be had in this game. With extra characters and movie clips to unlock; a new Character editor where you can use cash earned by fighting to change the costumes of the fighters (and no, you cant make them go naked, I tried [damn that Christie is hot]). Also included is a Minigame called The Devil Within or something like that. A 3D Platformer/Beat 'em up where you play as Jin and Run around beating stuff up. good clean fun. But wait. There's more. Namco also included the arcade versions of Tekken 1, 2b, and 3 incase you're feeling nostalgic or a bit retro (I hate Retro). There's also the usual range of play modes: Story Mode, Team Battle, Survival Mode, Time Attack, Versus, etc. The trouble is all the modes are fundamentally the same, simply mash the buttons and hope you get some in the right order to unleash a nifty combo and make your opponent's health bar turn completely red before yours does. After a while it can get a bit old. Especially if you have to keep retrying to kill that Bastard boss who cheats by shooting fireballs out of his stomach. Also as with most games of the genre you tend to lose a lot of skin from your thumbs which doesn't help matters any.

Final Verdict for Tekken 5 Lots of stuff to keep you entertained, a challenging (pah) story mode, with stories as cliched and often as ridiculous as the characters (look out for Roger Jr. a baby kangaroo who fights in his mother's pouch to find and avenge his father, I mean Come on, they've even got little boxing gloves, they didn't even put any real kangaroo fighting moves in. Everyone knows kangaroos have laser eyes). Worth buying if you're after a good Beat 'em up, just as long as you don't get bored of it, or if you don't feel you can live without your thumbs for a week or so. 6-7 Kangaroo boxing gloves out of 10.

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