Tekken

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Tekken
Tekken-logo.png
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Original title 鉄 拳
transcription Tekken
developer JapanJapan Namco
Publisher JapanJapan Namco Bandai Games
First title Tekken (1995)
Last title Tekken 7 (2015 (Arcade), 2017 (Worldwide))
Platform (s) Arcade , PS1 , Wonderswan , PS2 , GBA , PS3 , PS4 , PSP , N3DS , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Wii U , Steam , iOS , PC , Android , PSV , PSN , Mobile , GCN
Genre (s) Fighting Game

Tekken ( Japanese: 鉄 拳 , German: 'iron fist', also a name for the Tekkan-Zu hit ring ) is a fighting game series by the manufacturer Namco and Namco Bandai Games . Each offshoot (except for Tekken Tag Tournament ) revolves around a fighting tournament known as The King of Iron Fist Tournament . Tekken was one of the first games on the PlayStation and, in addition to the Battle Arena Toshinden game, introduced the 3D fighting game genre on this console.

To date, over 27 million units of the series have been sold.

chronology

Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection

The games with a star behind them did not appear in Germany / Europe.

Main series & spin-offs

  • Tekken - Arcade (1994) *, PlayStation (1995), PlayStation Network (2011)
  • Tekken 2 - Arcade (1995) *, PlayStation (1996), PlayStation Network (2010)
  • Tekken 3 - Arcade (1997) *, PlayStation (1998)
  • Tekken Card Challenge - Wonderswan (1999) *
  • Tekken Tag Tournament - Arcade (1999) *, PlayStation 2 (2000)
  • Tekken Advance - Game Boy Advance (March 2002)
  • Tekken 4 - Arcade (2001) *, PlayStation 2 (2002)
  • Death by Degrees - PS2 (April 2005)
  • Tekken 5 - Arcade (2004) *, PlayStation 2 (June 29, 2005)
  • Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection - Arcade (2005) *, PSP (2006)
  • Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online - PlayStation 3 - Download (2007)
  • Tekken 6 - Arcade (November 26, 2007) *, (PS3, Xbox 360 (October 29, 2009), PSP (December 4, 2009))
  • Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion - Arcade (2008) *
  • Tekken Resolute - Mobile (Java) (2010) *
  • Tekken Bowling - iOS (July 2011) *
  • Tekken Hybrid - PS3 (December 2011)
  • Tekken 3D: Prime Edition - 3DS (February 2012)
  • Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - Arcade (September 14, 2011) *,: Unlimited - Arcade (February 16, 2012) *, PS3, Xbox 360 (September 14, 2012),: Wii U Edition - Wii U (November 30, 2012)
  • Tekken Card Tournament - iOS, Android (April 2013) *
  • Tekken Revolution - PlayStation Network (June 12, 2013)
  • Tekken Arena - iOS, Android (October 2013) *
  • Tekken 7 - Arcade (March 18, 2015) *, PS4, Xbox One, Steam (June 2, 2017)
  • Tekken 7: Fated Retribution - Arcade (2016) *
  • Tekken (Mobile) - iOS, Android (March 1, 2018)

X-Series

  • Namco x Capcom - PS2 (2005)
  • Street Fighter X Tekken - PS3, Xbox 360, PSV, PC (2012)
  • Project X Zone - Nintendo 3DS (2013)

Crossovers

  • Anna Kournikova's Smash Court Tennis - PS1 (1998)
  • Pac-Man Fever - PS2, Nintendo GameCube (2002)
  • Smash Cout Tennis Pro Tournament 2 - (2004)
  • Urban Reign - PS2 (September 2005)
  • Point Blank 3 - Arcade (1994), PS1 (1998), Nintendo DS (2006)
  • Galaga: TEKKEN Edition - iOS, Android (2015)
  • Full Bokko Heroes X - iOS, Android (March 30, 2015)
  • Pokémon Tekken - Nintendo Wii U (July 16, 2015) and Nintendo Switch (September 22, 2017)
  • Project X Zone 2 - Nintendo 3DS (2016)

background

Tekken 3 (arcade machine)

In Tekken, almost every character has its own story. Many of these backstories are linked.

The main storyline of Tekken revolves around the financial zaibatsu Mishima Zaibatsu .

Heihachi Mishima, a powerful industrialist and owner of the Mishima Zaibatsu company , is hosting the first The King of Iron Fist Tournament (name of the game: Tekken). Heihachi's son, Kazuya Mishima, also takes part in this first tournament. Kazuya seeks revenge on his father for being thrown into a ravine by him when he was a child . Heihachi wanted to test his son's strength with it. Kazuya finally succeeds in defeating Heihachi and thus winning the tournament. He then throws his father into the same ditch and takes over the Mishima Empire.

Two years have passed since the first The King of Iron Fist Tournament . Mishima Zaibatsu grows stronger under the guidance of Kazuya Mishima and gains more and more influence in the world. However, rumors revolving around Kazuya's supernatural power are getting louder, although he has been retreating more and more recently. Two years after the end of the first tournament, the Mishima Zaibatsu announces the implementation of a second tournament with a considerably higher prize money: The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 (name of the game: Tekken 2). Heihachi Mishima, who survived the fall into the gorge, also takes part in this tournament and even makes it to the final, where he can compete against his son, Kazuya. When Kazuya lies on the ground during the fight, he turns into Devil Kazuya (a devil ) with extreme powers. Nevertheless, Heihachi manages to defeat him. After the fight, Heihachi tosses Kazuya into a volcanic crater in hopes of getting rid of him once and for all, and regains control of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Participant Jun Kazama, who met with Kazuya during the tournament and became pregnant, then retires to raise her and Kazuya's future son Jin Kazama alone.

About 19 years have passed since the last tournament. Jin Kazama is around 19 years old. He is trained by his grandfather Heihachi in Mishima karate style to avenge the death of his mother and to kill the being called Ogre, which Jun has on his conscience. Heihachi then hosts a third tournament: The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3 (name of the game: Tekken 3). Ogre should also take part in this and Jin should be able to avenge his mother. Heihachi has other plans and shoots Jin in the head after the Ogre defeats him towards the end of the tournament, causing Jin to transform into Devil Jin (a devil), an ability he inherited from his father. In this form he manages to escape from the clutches of Heihachi.

Another two years have passed since the last tournament. Heihachi Mishima is holding another tournament to lure his grandson Jin Kazama into a trap: The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 (name of the game: Tekken 4). It also turns out that after being thrown into the volcanic crater (after the 2nd tournament), Kazuya was revived by the G-Corporation (a competitor to Mishima Zaibatsu) and is also taking part in the tournament. At the end of this tournament and after a hard fight with Kazuya and Heihachi in Honmaru (largest temple of the Mishima Zaibatsu), Jin Kazama managed to escape again. Kazuya and Heihachi remain on the floor, dazed. The two of them wake up some time later, woken up by several helicopters moving towards them. Several Jack 4s (combat robots of the G-Corporation) attack them on the orders of an unknown person (presumably the leadership of the G-Corp.) And under the supervision of Raven, one of the G-Corp. alleged contract killer. Kazuya manages to escape before one of the Jacks, including the building and Heihachi, blows himself up.

Only a short time later, Heihachi's father, Jinpachi Mishima, who was imprisoned under Honmaru for years, is called up for another tournament: The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 (name of the game: Tekken 5). Heihachi just survived the Honmaru explosion and is also taking part in this tournament.

Jin wins the 5th tournament and takes over the Mishima Zaibatsu.

A year has passed since the last tournament: The Mishima Zaibatsu is directed by Jin Kazama. Jin has sent the Tekken Force to covertly carry out attacks around the world. He has taken over several companies, including oil companies. Then he declares war on the rest of the world and manages to usurp world domination. As the earth threatens to sink through chaos and destruction, the G-Corporation, which is controlled by Kazuya, positions itself as the antipole of the Mishima Zaibatsu and sets out to fight the Tekken Force. Kazuya is considered a hero around the world. Kazuya then puts a generous bounty on Jin. When Jin notices this, he initiates The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 (name of the game: Tekken 6) to fight his opponents in the tournament.

Film implementation

The fighting game saga was implemented in 1998 as a 60-minute anime under the title Tekken - Die Eiserne Faust .

A live version was released in early 2010 under the title Tekken .

Namco Bandai also announced a computer-animated film at the LEVEL-UP event in Dubai in May 2011, which was released in the summer of 2011 under the title Tekken: Blood Vengeance . The film's backstory sheds light on the lives of the characters from the Tekken series. Yoichi Mori directed the film. The film has now also been released on DVD in Europe.

Furthermore, a bundle was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 , which contains Tekken Blood Vengeance , an HD remake of Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Prologue and is called Tekken Hybrid .

An exclusive film premiere of Blood Vengeance in Japanese with German subtitles took place on August 19, 2011 in the Cinenova cinema in Cologne. Fans were given free film tickets, T-shirts, food and drinks and the opportunity to ask Katsuhiro Harada questions and sign autographs one hour before the start of the film, after a brief speech about the film and a preview of the latest Tekken games and the film bundle to ask.

On August 12, 2014, a prequel of the live version of Tekken with the title Tekken: Revenge of Kazuya (announced as Tekken: A man called X ) was released directly on Blu-Ray and DVD . It was also a live action movie . The German version was announced for January 15, 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ psportable-spiele.de
  2. ↑ "Pokémon Tekken" when and where you want. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ Namco Bandai announces Tekken: Blood Vengeance. In: jpgames.de. May 13, 2011, accessed May 13, 2011 .
  4. ↑ http://www.avoidingthepuddle.com/news/2014/5/27/tekken-revenge-of-kazuya-live-action-film-to-hit-blu-ray-dvd.html