With veins bulging and biceps glistening, here comes Tekken 8
Tekken 8 was revealed during Sony's State of Play stream on Tuesday. The first trailer, embedded above, arrives over seven years after the arcade release of Tekken 7 in 2015.
The existence of Tekken 8 was teased last month at fighting game tournament EVO, and it's also one of the titles that appeared on a list of games that leaked from an Nvidia database last year. Nvidia said at the time that the list was «only for internal tracking and testing,» but many titles on the list have turned out to be real projects, and here's another.
(I won't go so far as to say that «Half-Life 2 Remastered,» which also appears on the list, is definitely real at this point, but it would be a funny way for Valve to continue rejecting the number three.)
The Tekken 8 trailer is ripe with muscles, but not with details about the fighting game. We know it'll release on PlayStation 5, and a PC release feels very likely, given that Tekken 7 is on PC. The fine print in the trailer at least confirms that we're seeing real-time footage running on a PS5, not a pre-rendered scene.
In a blog post(opens in new tab), Tekken 8 director Katsuhiro Harada says that the clip comes from the story mode, and that «all the character models, backgrounds, and effects are the same ones that are used in-game.» For instance, he points out that the rain drops streaming down the characters' skin comes from «actual real-time rendering» of a game scene, and isn't an effect created for the trailer.
It's all a work-in-progress, Harada says.
Another interesting claim he makes is that «the Tekken series holds the record of being the longest-running story in a videogame.» Sure enough, it turns out that in 2017, Guinness certified the Tekken series(opens in new tab) as the
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