Tekken has long been a viable alternative to those who have strayed from the Street Fighter, Soulcalibur, or Mortal Kombat camps. Ever the dark horse of the genre, it’s been around long enough to avoid the typical pitfalls that riddle efforts considered unsuccessful by the community. With the advent of Tekken 6, that lucky streak seems to have been cut short. While the core gameplay is slick and enjoyable brawler, the pithy Scenario mode and overall presentation mire this flashy fighter in a mess of broken gameplay, dated graphics, and disappointing online play. While it may be enjoying great success in the arcades, I can’t quite recommend it as a console port.

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On schedule for its October 27 release for both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, Namco Bandai has announced that Tekken 6 has gone gold. Though offline modes are present, Tekken 6 seems to be bringing the action in the form of online game types. Typical ranked and player matches, as well as leaderboards, will be available on both Xbox Live and Playstation Network. New features, however, will come in the form of Co-op Scenarios and Ghost Data downloads and uploads.

The Co-op Scenario Campaign, available sometime this winter as free dlc, will allow players from all over the world to work together against computer controlled enemies.

Tekken 6 will also allow ghost fighter data upload and download. According to Namco Bandai, “Any player in the world can download your ghost to take on your virtual self in a one-on-one battle even when you’re not online.” Not only this, but you will be able to upload replays of matches to share with friends. Even though I’m sure we’ll see awesome replay action, some people’s file shares will be full of what-not-to-do bloopers. Quit looking at me.

There have been a slew of announcements for upcoming games for the PSP and most of them seem to be big Triple-A titles. So far, we already know that titles like Little Big Planet and Rock Band are coming to the PSP, but yesterday Sony announced two more big titles set to come to the PSP: Soulcalibur along with Tekken 6 will be coming to the PSP sometime in Q3.

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