I pity the hapless fighters who got stuck on that side of the draw. I’ve never quite liked the stages as much as I did in Tekken 4, but some of them are very visually arresting, such as the arenas set in a burning village, a field lit under the moonlight and one that appears to be some sort of space base, which strikes me as a needlessly complicated place to hold a solitary fight in a fighting tournament. Graphically, the game looks fantastic, with the fighters animated smoothly and brimming full of character. There are some very odd ones, with Anna and Lee’s in particular having a very saucy conclusion should Anna be the one to come out on top. This always made me eager to play through every fighter’s story so that I could see which other characters they would interact with. So during the story mode in Tekken 5, the two men meet again, with the story playing out in different directions depending on who has their hand raised in victory. For instance, after King found out that it was Marduk who had killed his mentor back in Tekken 4, he left him beaten and destroyed by the time his story concluded. As in Tekken 4, every character has their own storyline to playthrough in story mode but with an added bonus of an extra cutscene where they fight someone of story significance. Tekken 5 was a game that I was eager to play once I heard it was due to be released, mainly because I’d gotten really invested in the story during Tekken 4 and wanted to see where things were going. It’s certainly a very stirring opening that continues a tradition of Tekken opening cinematics being pretty darn awesome, and it sets the tone for another round of bone breaking brutality from the Tekken gang. We cut to the Wesley Snipes inspired new character Raven, who declares that Heihachi is dead, and the video comes to an end. With Heihachi pinned down by the JACKs WrestleFest-style, one of the machines detonates a bomb, seemingly destroying everyone in the dojo. After an excellently choreographed fight scene (so good that they made it a playable part of Tekken 7’s story mode), Kazuya betrays Heichachi and leaves him to fight on his own because… However, before they have time to catch their bearings, the dojo is swarmed by an army of JACK robots, who have been programmed to destroy the father and son tandem. Picking up at the conclusion of the climactic battle of Tekken 4, Heichachi and Kazuya Mishima are shown dragging themselves to their feet in the Hon-Maru dojo after taking an almighty battering from Jin Kazama. The opening video of Tekken 5 is an absolute feast for the eyes.
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