It's so nuanced and intricate, in fact, that I found myself transported back to the days when I needed a spiral notebook and pen beside me to keep notes on certain moves, or to remind myself which combos fed into others. The online match-ups are totally smooth (offline had sporadic freezes), each character has a ridiculous amount of special moves and combos, and the depth to playing with skill easily rivals the best the field has to offer, despite a continued reliance on hateful juggle combos. Tag Tournament 2 is an impressively accomplished technical machine. So enough of all the bullet points, how's the fighting? Good question. There's even an insanely detailed World Tekken Federation online mode (browser required-have a laptop handy) that provides the most comprehensive information and stats that I've ever seen in any fighter, ever. In order to prevent my word count from ballooning to a monstrous degree, it's best summed up by saying that Tag Tournament 2 offers nearly every sort of mode that a fighting game fan could hope to ask for, including the option to play solo or as a team, learning the basics in the Combot Fight Lab tutorial, and tweaking a massive amount of things from the appearance and clothing of combatants to minute behavior details in the training mode. There are so many features to the game that to list them with any detail would take up the rest of this review. While the name is fairly self-explanatory, those unfamiliar with the King of Iron Fist only need know that Tag Tournament 2 takes the majority of characters from Namco's flagship title (49 at time of release, four more available for pre-orders, and at least four more as future DLC) and puts them all together for a massive amount of non-canon brawling that can easily rival anything else out there. With Tag Tournament 2, Namco has pulled out all the stops and delivered one of the finest installments of Tekken to date. Thankfully, the wait was (mostly) worth it.

That's a long time to wait for a sequel to something that was well-received at the time, and remains near the top of favorite lists today. Although there have been several installments in the 'normal' series, the last time players were treated to a tagfest was on the PlayStation 2, way back in 2000-a full 12 years ago. WTF Who approved the Easy difficulty level?įor fans of the Tekken fighting game franchise, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 has been a long time coming. LOW Losing to the final boss over and over and over again. HIGH Finally starting to master characters and kick some ass.

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