Tekken 8 Review

A new aggressive fighting system and a healthy cast of characters make Tekken 8 pack a powerful punch.

Tekken 8's greatest challenge is building on a fighting game experience that has been refined to close to perfection over the course of eight-plus years, without feeling like it retreading old ground or needlessly upending the foundation laid by its predecessor. Thankfully, it's a challenge that developer Bandai Namco meets by introducing an improved fighting system focused on aggression, an impressive roster of 32 fighters, and one of the most rock-solid online experiences I've ever seen in a fighting game.

[ELLEGGEE]

When I was a kid I told everyone at my school that Michael Jackson would be a playable character in tekken 3. It made me feel so important 😂

[Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Heihachi in Tekken 7: Grizzled Old Man
Heihachi in Tekken 8: 18 Year Old Purple Haired Girl

[KiwiinSpace]

I'm thinking of giving this game a shot even though I havn't played any of the other Tekken games. Is this a good entry point?

[NotChillin]

Character endings is not a half baked after thought. It’s legacy story ending cut scenes for each individual character.

[CH-vrdl]

imagine EVO with a king player pulling out a RKO in the main stage.

[PraetorRykard]

Tekken has always been my favorite fighting game. I was really disappointed with 7 but it sounds like this is a slam dunk

[crawfordcritiquecontentmar]

Solid game play. I’m ranked as a “strategist” lol. If they figure a way to covert it to tag it’ll be a solid 10

[jasonsmith]

At 5:00 rapid King onslaught from out of nowhere!

[chocobanana]

I'm actually surprised they launched the game with both cross-play and rollback together. Some fighting games launched either have only one or the other or add them post launch months after but not both. MK1 doesn't even have both and it's fairly new although there was news that it will add cross-play this year. I'm glad SF6 and Tekken8 launched with both of these. Hopefully this will become a sort of a standard for upcoming new fighting games.

[isimikehinde]

the review sounded like a 9 or 10 if i am being honest. Good review though, and Tekken 8 is looking really good.

[mooncloud]

I loved the demo. Will download and play Tekken 8 today : ]

[SuperVegitoSSJ]

Can you replay Arcade Quest? What can you do in Arcade Quest after completing it?

[andreasrutledge]

Awesome review, definitely a must buy for fans of the franchise including myself.

[davidwhatsthatabout]

Here is my Tekken 8 review. This is game is basically a remake of Tekken 3 with the music of Tekken 6. The “hit confirm / red mist” is also blood red like in tekken 3

[rickydiamond]

Had a huge smile on my face yesterday when I was fighting against King in arcade mode and he hit me with the RKO

[hussam]

This is absolutely phenomenal, I don’t know how some can compare this masterpiece franchise with street fighter. Not saying it’s bad but man tekken name is in separated world

[NirodimosNeedAKing]

Best tekken ever and they give it an 8 lol what a joke

[marcvanderkruis]

Score 8/10 (If you don't have time or the energy to watch the whole video)

[Unknown-owxy]

Why nobody talking about how they destroyed Cat-Alike looks of Bruce Lee?

[officialtjtrev]

Havent played since tekken 4 when i was 9 years old. Just got tekken 8 yesterday the demo was so good