As promised, Bandai Namco released a new gameplay trailer for Tekken 8 during The Game Awards, showing off plenty of story, snippets of gameplay, and some truly wild set piece cutscenes.
This new trailer follows on from the EVO teaser and announcement in August, and more impressively from a PlayStation State of Play reveal trailer that features a truly bombastic battle to a spectacular dynamic backdrop. Here we’ve got cities being blown up like it’s a Marvel or DC super hero film. It also confirms a bunch of characters. There’s Kazuya, Jin, Paul, King, Law, Lars, Jack-8 and the return of Jun Kazama.
It’s been seven years since the release of Tekken 7 in arcades and five since the launch on console, and while it’s received plenty of updates and new characters that included Negan from The Walking Dead and… the in-universe Polish Prime Minister. While we’re now seeing fighting games last for an entire console generation, supported by seasons of content, significant overhauls with updates and character additions, that’s still a long time. It’s definitely time for Bandai Namco to look to release Tekken 8 to make the most of the new generation.
Looking back on Tekken 7 at launch, we awarded it a mighty 9/10 in out review, saying: “Tekken 7 is a phenomenal fighting game experience and one I’d highly recommend. It’s by no means perfect, as the game is not without a few technical issues online, some long loading times, and minor continuity errors, yet as far as most people will be concerned, it delivers a stunning, up-to-date fighting game experience from one of the masters of arcade fighting games. A solid return to form.”
