One is a moonlit wheat field, with seemingly acres of brush lilting in the wind. The environments in Tekken 5 really impress. Yep, no more fighting in dingy swamps and empty airport runways. The characters appear beefy and strong, and the backgrounds are beautiful again. The answer? While it looks like some small amount of detail has been lost (I was lucky enough to try the arcade version in September), at this stage I'd say the game looks remarkably good. That being the case, I was keen to see just how well the game ran on the home system.

Unlike the older Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken 5 runs on an arcade board more powerful than the PS2 - System 258. Recently, Namco held a press event where it debuted the PlayStation 2 version of Tekken 5. The result is a game that feels more like Tekken 3 than Tekken 4, and that's enough to get me interested in the series once more. So, Namco went back to the drawing board, nipping a few features from Virtua Fighter 4 and returning to a more classical Tekken feel. As you might recall, Tekken 4 met a rather weak reception, and many people consider it the worst of the series.

Tekken 5 is just getting around to hitting arcades, and - praise Namco! - the word is good.

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