During today’s State of the Game, Bandai Namco kicked off the show with a first look at Tekken 8, the next installment in the long-running fighting game franchise.
The short trailer showed Jin Kazama confronting his father, Kazuya Mishima, on a rainy and rocky cliff. Jin was able to change into his Devil form on the fly, delivering a massive punch after doing so. Massive storms erupt behind the fighters during the battle, with tornadoes erupting in the sea below.
A post on the PlayStation Blog by Tekken executive producer Katsuhiro Harada confirms that all of the images seen in the trailer (the “character models, backgrounds, and effects”) are all assets from the game. The scene is taken from the game’s story mode, but the blog says that what is seen is similar to what players will experience mid-fight.
“Although this was captured from story mode, it’s not a pre-rendered movie made for the trailer, but real-time rendered footage,” Harada writes, “running at 60 frames per second, so similar to how you would experience the game. in battle modes.”
The reveal follows a small tease shown during Evo 2022 in August, where a single image of Kazuya’s face was shown along with the words “Get ready” after Tekken 7’s Grand Finale.
Tekken 8 will be coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and PC via Steam in the future, as no release date or fixed window was revealed with the trailer. No other characters were revealed during the short trailer.
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