This follows Jin Kazama as he goes through 5 stages to save his mother and rid himself of the devil gene. A masterpiece of padding and boring waste of time to unlock a few things. It's a fun game, but Tekken has never really been my thing.īut Devil Within is a masterpiece. You fight through the enemies as they get harder and harder, and you pull of combos to win, or you're like me and you spam the same moves over and over to win against the CPU. But as I've said, I've never been a person to be playing fighting games in general, (minus a few) but Tekken plays as it did in 4 on the PS2. It can get boring, but the ending is neat. It's a game where you fly through space, and it's a game best played with a light gun, hence you dragging a cursor to shoot. I enjoyed playing through it, but it was kind of boring.
It's the game that you play when the game is first loading, and it's pretty fun. It also includes an unlockable game, that being Starblade. They play identical to the original arcade, but again, I must stress, I recommend an arcade joystick for this game. The game also includes the Arcade versions of Tekken 1-3, and that might be the reason as to why it's not Progressive Scan. The gameplay is standard Tekken gameplay. The controls in this game are good, but I highly recommend using an arcade stick for this game. You can also map button combos to different buttons on the controller, which is nice. I personally have never been good at pulling off combos, and that might be why I've never really been a fighting game person, or at least, I don't play them as often as I play other games. The control is pretty good, and you can remap controls to buttons, and pull of combos.
The audio quality is good, but not perfect. There aren't too many that I just like listening to, even if there are a few that stand out to me. I just didn't find that much in the way of good music, and I have searched the BGM of the game. There are a few that I enjoy, but the music is lacking in this game.
The music is good, but not many of the tunes are very memorable. The sound department is ok, but I don't have much to say. In some stages, it looks very nice, with individual blades of grass flowing in the wind, and it's visually impressive, especially since the graphics engine was completely rebuilt for this game.
It isn't very rough at all graphically, and that looks good, since after all, this is a 2004 PS2 release, and none of the 7th gen consoles had been released yet (HOME consoles), but it does still have some of that PS2 texturing, which makes some things look kind of ugly and flat, but that's mostly doing with some of the backgrounds. The textures look good, and none of the character models look very flat. While it doesn't support Progressive Scan, it does look good anyways. I found that I had to play through Devil Within to unlock it, and I thought, "This should be a fun experience." I looked for Starblade, but found that it was an unlockable. I come back to it a while later, thinking that I'd have more fun, and so I found the Devil Within mode (Will be elaborated in a later portion of the review, trust me, it WILL be elaborated on), and the arcade games. I got it home, and tried it with a friend and thought "This isn't very much fun." after playing a few rounds and so I took it out and played another game. I also noticed that it had 4 extra arcade games, and so I picked up Tekken 5 to kill five birds with one stone (joke intended). I thought that finally playing Tekken 5 would be a fun experience, since I'd seen it in action and it looked cool. I knew reviews were good, and the price was right, so I picked it up. When it came time to give Tekken a try, I saw Tekken 5 for cheap. I'd never played 1 on 1 fighting games when I first got Soulcalibur II & III, and I enjoyed them.
If nothing else, it's an archive and a filler review, hence the lack of many screenshots. This is an old review from the original OG that I'm posting because I want to keep a weekly schedule. Please keep in mind that this is not a new review.