

The game features some great looking 3D backgrounds with some of the best-looking ground textures that you'll ever see in a videogame. It's just that now with the anti-aliasing in full effect, the game looks a lot smoother and much more polished. A very slight jaggy problem aside, the Japanese version of Tekken Tag already looked fantastic and it was always a very impressive game visually. release of the game, it still looked pretty damn good. Graphics Even before the brilliant coders at Namco redeemed both Tekken Tag Tournament and the PlayStation 2 by implementing anti-aliasing for the U.S. However, it is entirely true that in the hands of average gamer, most battles will turn into nothing but mindless button mashing and mindless fun. In the hands of a skilled player, the game is a thing of beauty. While some may claim that Tekken is nothing more than a button masher, and it is in many ways, it would be wrong to dismiss it as nothing more than that.

But where the game shines is its multiplayer modes that include standard arcade, versus, team and one-on-one versus modes. All of this help make this the deepest console fighting game in the planet in terms of characters, secrets, play modes and bells and whistles.Īs with most of today's fighting games, Tekken Tag Tournament's single player modes aren't really too useful for anything other than practicing moves and opening up the game's secrets. In addition to having new moves added to each of their already robust moves set, the game brings to the fore a tag battle system that allows players to switch between two characters at any time. The game is basically an upgrade over Tekken 3 that features all of the characters that were in the previous Tekken games bringing the game's total fighter list to over 24. Sure, there are plenty of new moves, special moves, tag battle and some new characters, but the general play mechanics of the game is still exactly what you're used to from a Tekken game. Gameplay If you've played any of the Tekken's in the arcade or on PlayStation, you already know what to expect with Tekken Tag Tournament on PlayStation 2.
