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Tekken 6 (鉄拳6 Tekken Shikkusu?, lit. Iron Fist 6) is a fighting game developed and published by Namco. It is the sixth main installment in the Tekken franchise and the first multi-platform title. It was released in Japanese arcades on November 26, 2007 as the first game running on the PlayStation 3-based System 357 arcade board. The game received an update, subtitled Bloodline Rebellion, a year later. A home version based on the update was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable in late 2009. Compared to Tekken 5, notable changes in Tekken 6 were improved physics, the new Bound and Rage systems, and the Scenario Campaign mode (on PS3 and Xbox 360 only). It was followed by Tekken 7 for Japanese arcades released in 2015, and for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2017.

Story[]

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Following his victory in the previous tournament, Jin Kazama has taken charge of the Mishima Zaibatsu and now appears to possess tyrannical ambitions. Using the organisation’s resources, he severs the Mishima Zaibatsu's national ties, declare independence, and openly wages war against all nations. These actions send the world into a chaotic spiral, with huge-scale wars erupting around the globe and even amidst the space colonies orbiting the planet.[1] Jin’s father, Kazuya Mishima, is aware of this and finds Jin's interference in his own plans for global domination to be a nuisance. Now in charge of G Corporation, having usurped and taken over the company following its previous leaders' failed attempt to have him killed, Kazuya is seen as the only force who could oppose Jin. He places a bounty on Jin's head for anyone who can capture him.[2] Jin's response is to announce The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 in order to battle Kazuya and crush G Corporation.[1]

Meanwhile, among the ranks of the Tekken Force, a soldier named Lars Alexandersson has begun a rebellion. He leads a faction of Tekken Force in a coup against the Mishima Zaibatsu and establishes the rebel army Yggdrasil with the intention of putting an end to the Zaibatsu’s wars. During a raid of a Mishima Zaibatsy laboratory, Lars comes across an android resembling a young woman. The android identifies herself as Alisa Bosconovitch. A battlion of G Corporation’s Jack robots arrive and attack. One of them detonates, causes an explosion that kills everyone present except for Lars, who is afflicted with amnesia as a result of the blast, and Alisa. Lars escapes the crumbing facility with Alisa and the two begin a journey to discover their origins. Jin, along with his top subordinates, Nina Williams and Eddy Gordo, are made aware of Lars' intentions and issue a manhunt for him.

During his journey, Lars reunites with his lieutenant, Tougou, though Lars does not entirely remember him. Tougou tells Lars to look for Heihachi Mishima, as Lars had previously mentioned ‘needing to meet with him’. Additionally, Tougou provides Lars with the means to contact him when he is ready to resume command of his forces.

Elsewhere, Jin and Nina travel to a large temple in a desert location. There, they meet a woman called Zafina. She tells Jin that the ‘magic binding this place’ was broken six months earlier. Jin surprises her by suggesting that an entity linked to the temple has already begun to stir. Zafina asks Jin how he can possibly know that, but he refuses to answer. Before leaving, he tells her that events are already in motion, and nobody has the power to stop what is coming except him.

Eventually, Lars and Alisa get a lead on Heihachi Mishima. After fighting through the Secret Service guarding Heihachi’s resisdence, Lars is able to engage Heihachi in a fight. Lars defeats Heihachi, and his memory returns to him, leading him to recall that he is Heihachi’s illegitimate son. He aims a gun at Heihachi and, after a fraught discussion, pulls the trigger. Heihachi catches the bullet with his teeth. Before Lars can do anything else, he receives a call from Tougou regarding an operation. Lars relents and decides to leave.

Later, Lars comes into contact with Lee Chaolan, who has intel regarding both the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corporation. Lee offers to join forces with Lars, but Lars declines. Before they part ways, Lee receives a call from Julia Chang, who has been spying on G Corporation for him. On the call, he hears her being apprehended by G Corporation. Lee asks Lars and Alisa to rescue Julia Chang, which they do.

Lars arranges to regroup with Tougou and assume his leadership position in the rebel army. They meet at the boundary of a significant Mishima Zaibatsu base and begin their infiltration. Lars and Alisa confront and defeat Eddy Gordo. They progress to attacking G Corporation’s main headquarters, Millenium Tower. At the main entrance to the building, they are confronted by Anna Williams and a squad of G Corporation soldiers. Tougou and his men arrive to provide back-up, though Tougou is visibly wounded. With the soldiers engaged by the rebel army, Lars and Alisa are able to pursue and defeat Anna Williams. Kazuya emerges, but Lars and Alisa fail to apprehend him.

Lars and Alisa leave the tower. At the entrance, several members of Lars’ rebel army have been killed, and Tougou is mortally wounded. He dies shortly after Lars reaches him. Lars is devastated by the loss. Unbeknownst to Lars and Alisa, they are being watched covertly by Raven.

Lars and Alisa hijack a Zaibatsu subway train to get to the Mishima Zaibatsu's Central Tower. They are ambushed along the way by Nina and a squadron of Tekken Force. Despite the odds, Lars defeats the soldiers and kicks Nina off the train. Nina later reappears, having survived the fall, but is again defeated by Lars.

Lars and Alisa reach the tower and are confronted by the robotic weapon NANCY-MI847J. Raven suddenly appears and holds NANCY-MI847J off. He does not introduce himself, instead urging Lars and Alisa to go and confront Jin.

Nina appears to stop try and stop them once again, but she fails. Jin appears, and he and Lars fight, though neither one of them defeats the other. Nina approaches and says something to Jin. As he makes to leave, he instructs Alisa to ‘disable Safe Mode and then reboot’. Alisa becomes hostile towards Lars and appears to have no memories of their time together. Jin reveals that Alisa was built to serve him and that he has been using her to monitor Lars's actions this whole time. Jin clarifies that, although it has been advantageous to him, he had not originally planned to use Alisa as a spy in this way, as he could not have known that Lars would lose his memory. Jin gives the order for Alisa to kill Lars and then leaves with Nina.

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Lars is forced to fight Alisa and manages to defeat her. She flees the tower. Raven reappears, and tells Lars he knows where Jin is heading next. Lars agrees to go with him.

Lars and Raven locate an abandoned temple in the middle of the desert, said to be the home of the demon known as Azazel, or the Rectifier. Inside the temple, Lars and Raven find and confront Kazuya once again. At close of their fight, Kazuya learns that Lars is his half-brother, and leaves the temple shortly after.

Progressing to the heart of the temple, Lars and Raven locate Azazel. Lars fights him, and appears to succeed in exhausting Azazel. Azazel tells Lars that it is time for him to to make them atone humanity atone for their collective sins – however, he then appears to self-destruct in a sustained burst of blinding light.

Lars and Raven flee the temple as it collapses. Once outside, they are confronted by Jin once again. Lars goes to strike him, but pulls his punch in the last moment when Alisa descends to defend Jin. Lars and Raven are forced to fight Alisa. Upon being defeated, she reverts to her old self. Before shutting down, she expresses that it was nice to be treated like a ‘real person’ by Lars. Jin mocks Lars’ emotional response to Alisa and derides her as ‘a worthless piece of junk’. Furious, Lars engages Jin in another fight.

Lars wins the fight, and Jin finally reveals his true motivations. He discloses that Azazel, awoken by the conflict between Jin and his father, has been communicating with him telepathically. Azazel told Jin that he would only achieve physical form if the world was ‘filled with negative energy’. Jin also implies that the world was beyond salvation in the state it was in even before the wars began. He believes that destroying Azazel in an act of mutually assured destruction will ultimately save the world.

Lars tells Jin that he has already destroyed Azazel – however, Azazel bursts from the ground moments later in a golden form. Jin tells Lars that Azazel can only be destroyed by someone who carries the Devil Gene. Jin approaches Azazel, who warns Jin that he will be destroyed as well if he attacks. Undeterred, Jin calls upon the influence of his Devil Gene and rushes Azazel, striking through the demon’s chest with a single punch. They both fall through the ground into the depths of the temple. Lars sees a shaft of light burst out from where they fell. After several seconds, the light fades out.

Nina appears and tells Lars she was aware of Jin’s plans. She says it is not her place to judge whether Jin was right or wrong to pursue this end the way he did, then leaves the scene by helicopter.

Later, Lars and Raven are driving through the desert, discussing what will happen next. Raven speculates as to whether Jin really wanted things to end the way they did. They take Alisa to Violet Systems, where Lee promises to fix her up. After a brief parting talk with Raven, Lars receives a call and tells the person on the other end of the phone that he’ll ‘be right there’.

A post-credits scene shows that Raven and his colleagues at the UN have found Jin's half-buried body in the desert. Jin's mark is still visible on his left arm, indicating that Azazel's demise has not freed Jin from the Devil Gene.[3]

Gameplay[]

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Gameplay on PlayStation 3 (Zafina vs Miguel)

A new gameplay feature in Tekken 6 called the "rage" system has been added, giving characters more damage per hit when their health is below a certain point. Once activated, a reddish energy aura appears around the character, and their health bar starts to flicker in red. The rage aura can be customized with different colors and effects to appear like fire, electricity, and ice, among others.

Another gameplay feature added is the "bound" system. Every character has several moves that, when used on an opponent that is currently midair in a juggle combo, will cause the opponent to be smashed hard into the ground, bouncing them off the floor in a stunned state and leaving them vulnerable to another combo or additional attack. As of the Bloodline Rebellion update, successfully parrying a low attack will also put a character into a bound state.

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Character select screen

Tekken 6 features bigger stages with more interactivity than its predecessors, such as featuring a new set of Stage Gimmicks where walls or floors can be broken to reveal extended fighting areas. It also has a large number of stages, almost four times more than Tekken 5 and more than double that of Tekken 2 that had the most before. The character customization feature has been enhanced, and certain items have implications in some aspects of gameplay.

The Online Modes are made up of Ranked Matches and Player Matches, a basis that has stayed on for TTT2 and Tekken 7. Ranked Matches is an online versus mode, where the player can promote their character to a higher ranking. Player Matches mode is also a versus mode, however the matches are not ranked and the player is free to play against an online opponent of choice.

In terms of gameplay changes, the damage calculations have also changed. Attacks on standing targets will now deal an additional 20% of damage and attacks on grounded targets will still deal a full 100%. The wall stun was also tweaked for this game, with wallspalts now causing characters to collapse on their back instead of falling forward like in previous games. Additionally, the combo scaling and distance would no longer reset if a character were to hit a wall before being resplatted unlike in Tekken 5.

Scenario Campaign[]

Main article: Scenario Campaign

The console versions (excluding the PSP version) also include an extra mode entitled "Scenario Campaign" which bears similarity to the "Tekken Force" and "Devil Within" modes from previous installments. In this mode, the player can move freely in an environment similar to that of a third-person role-playing game. Players can also pick up weapons such as poles and Gatling guns, along with lootable items, money, and power-ups which can be found inside crates that are scattered all throughout the playing environment. Players can move freely between fights, but when a group of enemies are encountered, the gameplay switches to the traditional, two-dimensional Tekken style. This mode originally only had single player offline. Namco released a patch on January 18, 2010, that allows online Co-op mode for Scenario Campaign. Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game include an online versus multiplayer mode over PlayStation Network and Xbox Live respectively.

Moves[]

List of moves by character that can be performed.

See: Tekken 6 Move Lists

Characters[]

Returning characters[]

New characters[]

Cameos[]

Stages[]

Music[]

The Tekken 6 Soundtrack was released on December 9, 2009, including both arcade and console music.

Trophies & Achievements[]

Main article: Tekken 6/Trophies and Achievements

Videos[]

Trivia[]

  • This Tekken game is notable for having these distinctions:
    • The first main series Tekken game to be released on a non-Sony platform (Microsoft's Xbox 360).
    • There is no narrator for the prologues of the characters.
    • The first and only game in the series where Leo and Miguel speak English, as well as the last Tekken game where Eddy Gordo, Christie Monteiro, and Lili speak English. In the series' following games, characters speak in their native languages.
    • The last game in the series where Eddy Gordo and Christie Monteiro have the same character endings.
    • The last Tekken game where Kuma and Panda share the same character slot.
    • The last mainline Tekken game where a replay screen shown after a battle ends.
    • The last game where the KO'ed character is seen recovering from KO before the next round.
    • The last game where the announcer says "You Win", "You Lose", or "'character's name' Wins" and to feature the word "Draw" before the next round rather than only at the end of a set.
    • The last game where characters need to be unlocked in any game modes (Scenario Campaign and Arena), as in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, all characters are unlocked at the beginning of the game in all modes.
    • The first Tekken game to feature multi-tier stages, where characters transport to another area of a stage by destroying a structure of the starting area with a strong attack.
    • The second game, after Tekken Tag Tournament, where characters are seen moving in the character select. When highlighted on the select screen they are in fighting stance, and when selected, they perform an intro or win animation. This does not occur in the PSP version.
    • The only mainline game which features the 3D models on the versus screen rather than art or render panels. This does not apply to the PSP version.
  • The PlayStation Portable version has several differences from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions:
    • The replay is not present at each end of the fight while it is on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions.
    • Customizations do not work in Arena Mode; characters will always appear with their default outfits.
    • The player cannot select the infinite duration for the fights.
    • The graphics of the PlayStation Portable version are identical to those of Dark Resurrection.
    • Scenario Campaign mode no longer exists and all characters are playable from the start of the game.
      • The PSP version does not feature the Scenario Campaign mode or the automatic replay due to the hardware's limitations.
    • The PSP version only offers Story Mode, which is primarily based off of the console's Arena Mode and the PSP port of Dark Resurrection's Gold Rush Mode.
    • Like in the PSP port of Dark Resurrection, characters that have an aura equipped on them cannot customize any other part of their character's outfit, save for rage color and costume color.
    • The voiceover says "Round (number)" differently on the PSP release than on the console releases.
  • In Scenario Campaign, an epitaph that Heihachi Mishima found in Central America is mentioned several times between Chapter 10 and Chapter 15, even becoming the focus of a search in the middle section of the game - however, the epitaph is never mentioned again after Chapter 15, and this element of the story has no narrative payoff.
  • Marshall Law, Nina Williams, Yoshimitsu, Lee Chaolan, Lei Wulong and Bruce Irvin change their fighting stance from past Tekken games. However, it's possible to see Yoshimitsu, Lee and Lei in their previous fighting stance in this game:
    • If Yoshimitsu sets his sword aside during gameplay, he will briefly perform his previous fighting stance.
    • If Lee or Lei are highlighted in the character select, they can be seen positioned in their previous fighting stance.
  • This game marked Daisuke Gōri's final appearance as Heihachi Mishima's voice actor. He passed away in 2010, less than a year after Tekken 6 was released.
  • In the Netflix Series Cobra Kai Season 1 Episode 6, Anthony LaRusso plays Tekken 6 on PSVita.[4]
  • Gameplay of Tekken 6 on Arcade is featured in the 2015 Filipino film Para Sa Hopeless Romantic, though the gameplay seen appears pixelated. The characters used were Zafina and Alisa Bosconovitch. Said film also features gameplay of Tekken 5 on PS2.[5]
  • Two posters, one of them fully seen while the other seen partially, and a sticker of Tekken 6 can be seen posted on an arcade entrance in episode 6 of the Korean drama series Playful Kiss.[6] [1]

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