Announcing Tekken 8. The King of Iron Fist Tournament Returns

Bandai Namco has confirmed the return of one of the most successful fighting sagas. Tekken 8 surprises with an amazing gameplay trailer.

After a long wait, we have finally been able to witness the return of the legendary saga of the fighting genre. tekken 8 was the first ad opened last night State of playconference which opens the Tokyo Game Fair of this 2022. We already knew in advance that Katsuhiro Harada and his team were behind the development of a new opus, but we did not know its final name. Finally, it seems that the eighth The King of Iron Fist Tournament

will celebrate and their fights are going to be more intense than ever.

The announcement was accompanied by a gameplay trailer in which Kazuya Mishima there Jin Kazama they face death in a desolate scene hit by a storm. In the video we can see howCutscene phases alternate with real-time combat with no type of charge in between. Another thing that also attracts a lot of attention is the powerful graphic leap who gave the game away. Harada himself pointed this out:

In the trailer, you can see this level of quality in the new playable character models created, which are completely different from those in Tekken 7, and in small details like the raindrops that slide over the characters’ skin. These are not images created just for the trailer, but real-time reproductions of what is happening on the game screen

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also claimed that the trailer is a gameplay extracted directly from the console. This means that all character models, backgrounds and effects are the same as those found in the game. which ensures the 60 fps. Finally, Harada also praised the quality of the scenarios, in which all sorts of disasters occur that will increase the drama of combat.

So that you can see all this with your own eyes, we leave you with this appetizer of what Tekken 8 will be. It should be noted that this excerpt from the game is taken from the story mode that the work will have and that it will revolve around the fight between Kazuya and Kazama, father and son. As for its release date, nothing is known at the moment, but it has been confirmed that it will be released in Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC.