Not to confuse with Tekken Card Challenge.
Tekken Card Tournament(鉄拳カードトーナメント Tekken Kādo Tōnamento)was a free-to-play online mobile game developed by Bandai Namco in which players face each other in turn-based one-on-one battles using a deck of cards. Announced in January 2013[1], the game was available on iOS and Android platforms in April 2013. The game's servers shut down on April 4, 2017.
Description[]
This is a 3D game, with impressive graphics, deep and rewarding turn-based duels with charismatic characters.
Play online and in real time, using strategy and tactics. It won't be easy, your opponents come from all over the world. Can you beat them all? Do duels with the best. Collect the best cards to create the ultimate battle deck, featuring Tekken's most ghastly fighters.
Fast and nervous online play. Fight with combos that combine focus, attack, and parry. On each turn, the fighters choose between drawing a card, attacking or attempting a parry. Think fast, fight faster. Don't just think with your fists in this TCG. Strategy and tactics will be essential with less than 10 seconds to guess and decide what your competition is up to. You will need to show composure, bluff and intuition. Use combos to win global competitions and tournaments.
Beat the best fighters and uncover all the cards! Collect over 190 physical Tekken Card Tournament cards and mix real and virtual with QR codes of real cards to add them to your virtual deck. The characters appearing in it will come to life in front of your eyes thanks to augmented reality. Against the same level of players from all over the world, give their Tekken steel fists something to do anytime, anywhere. It's a real world war mixing baston and TCG![2]
Gameplay[]
The game is turn based, where one character will perform one action at a time. The player has three actions to chose: Focus (to obtain a new card, maximum is 5), Strike (attack with all of owned cards) and Block (blocks two cards if the opponent attacks). It is played in rounds, each player has 10 seconds to decide which action they'll perform. Characters are also given health bars, determining whether or not they would be able to fight.
Cards can come in four rarities. Most cards have three rarities that result in different qualities: Base (copper frame), Elite (silver frame), and Rare (gold frame). As a general rule, Elites are more potent than Bases, and Rares more potent than Elites, of the same name. By spending Gold, three Base cards of the same name can be exchanged/"fused" into one Elite, and likewise with fusing three Elites into one Rare. Super-Rare cards do not have any other rarities.
There are two types of currency in-game, Gold and Credits. Gold is easily acquired by winning matches, but the only way to get Credits quickly is through microtransactions, although a number of Credits are rewarded for each level-up and for participating in a weekly tournament. Gold can be spent on founding a team, fusing Base and Elite cards into Elite and Rare cards, getting a First Pack (three random Base cards, chance of one being an Elite instead), or acquiring specific cards from the Market.
The game is played with a deck of exactly 15 cards. No more than three cards can have the same name, whether or not they are the same rarity. In addition, Unique cards, signified by a circled U on the graphic, are limited to one each in a deck.
Special terms[]
- Tenacity: A card with Tenacity will not be discarded when its user performs Strike.
- Parry: The first qualifying card that would normally hit is instead blocked. This applies even if other effects reduced that card's power to 0.
- Conceal: The card is hidden from the opponent while they choose their next action. Although the Conceal toggles to off, then on again, during the attack portion, it still serves to confuse opponents if they can't memorize what those cards do, and how they interact with their own hands.
- Head-on: Cards are head-on if they're in the same position of their respective players' hands. For instance, if each player has at least two cards, then each second card is considered head-on to the other, but not to the first or third cards. If one player has more cards than the other, then the further cards aren't head-on to anything.
- Focus Break: If a player with at least one card performs Focus, and the other Player performs Strike, then the focusing player discards their first card.
- Won/missed Block: If a player performs Block and the other player performs Strike, then the Block is "won". If the other player performed Focus or Block, then the Block was "missed" or "lost".
Character Customization[]
In version 2.0 of Tekken Card Tournament, a new character viewer and item shop was added to the game. The player can buy several types of customization for a character the player choses. By paying an amount of Credits, the player can change the color of that character's outfit (that forces for every character). In addition, items for a character's head, upper and lower body are able to be purchased.
Characters[]
Starting characters |
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Ling Xiaoyu (cards) |
Paul Phoenix (cards) |
Yoshimitsu (cards) |
Marshall Law (cards) |
Kazuya Mishima (cards) |
Nina Williams (cards) |
Panda (cards) |
Emilie De Rochefort (cards) |
Heihachi Mishima (cards) |
Added characters |
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Jin Kazama (cards) |
Hwoarang (cards) |
Asuka Kazama (cards) |
Stages[]
Stage |
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Anger of the Earth |
High Roller's Club |
Temple Grounds |
City After Dark |
Lightning Storm |
Gallery[]
Tekken Card Tournament/Gallery
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- The game is the second card turn game in the series, the first being Tekken Card Challenge.
- There are two tutorials guided by Kazuya, who explains how the game works.
- It is possible to have a cross-console battle.
- Like in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, there are global rankings online.
- After 4 years in existence, the game shut down with officially published statistics showing 20 million players having participated in 200 million battles, and the top 3 players' countries being Russia, Brazil and India respectively. A user named "BREAKINGBAD" was named as the best player.[3]
References[]
- ^ tweet
- ^ App Store Description.
- ^ https://twitter.com/TEKKEN/status/827532908193804288/photo/1
External links[]
- Official Website (Archived)