Product Description

Tekken: Dark Resurrection arrives on the PSP, bringing one of the most explosive fighting games to the handheld platform. New characters Lili and Dragunov join the classic cast such as Jin, Heihachi, Paul and Law in the battle to be crowned King of the Iron Fist Tournament. An all-new intro movie lets you dive into the midst of the world of Tekken, this time with ad-hoc multiplayer mode to fight against friends as well as more items to customize your favorite characters. Now you can fight anytime, anywhere. Are you ready?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2073 in Video Games
• Brand: Namco
• Model: 15019
• Published on: 2006-07
• Released on: 2006-07-25
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Sony PSP
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .60" h x 6.98" w x 6.30" l, .25 pounds

Features

• Fight against friends in ad-hoc multiplayer mode via Wi-Fi connectivity
• Compete to be King of the Iron Fist Tournament in this explosive fighting game
• Destructible objects pump up the action on 19 stages; stunning graphics
• New characters join the classic cast with all-new fight styles and moves
• Play as 1 of 30+ characters; customizable characters; bonus mini-games

From the Manufacturer
Tekken: Dark Resurrection arrives on the PSP, bringing one of the most explosive fighting games to the handheld platform. New characters Lili and Dragunov join the classic cast such as Jin, Heihachi, Paul, and Law in the battle to be crowned King of the Iron Fist Tournament. An all-new intro movie lets you dive into the midst of the world of Tekken, this time with ad-hoc multiplayer mode to fight against friends as well as more items to customize your favorite characters. Now you can fight anytime, anywhere--are you ready?

Features:

• Stunning graphics: The beauty of Tekken is re-created on the handheld console, delivering one of the most realistic graphics on a handheld platform. A variety of destructible objects pump up the action on 19 stages!
• Variety of characters: Play as 1 of over 30 characters, including classics Jin, Heihachi, Paul, Law, and more. New characters Lili and Dragunov join the classic cast with all-new fight styles and moves. Collecting victories to lead your character to become king rewards you with ending movies for each character!
• Customizable characters: use your fight money to customize your characters--with more than double the items seen in Tekken 5, the sky's the limit on the unique look your character will have!
• Ad-hoc multiplayer battles! Using Wi-Fi connectivity of the PSP platform, you can battle against your friends--take your customized, original character against theirs and let the battle unfold!
• Bonus mini-games: mini-games provide a little breather from heart-pumping fighting action for more fun against friends!

Customer Reviews

holly cow! mobile tekken 5!!
wow, it feels like playing PS2 Tekken 5 on the PSP with same type of graphics and loadtime. Personally the only reason you would want this game is to play Tekken anywhere you go, other than that its almost identical to the PS2 Tekken 5, all the ending are the same all the moves are the same. you do get 2 new characters. To sum it up: I love it, its gotta be the best fighting game on the psp and the best port from ps2 to psp! now if only they can port god of war to the psp with this kind of quality!

PORTABLE PERFECTION
This game is one of the best reasons to own a PSP. Period. The graphics are the best I've seen and the gameplay matches it perfectly. The load times-an issue with alot of PSP games-are minimal. The game is very polished and has a ton of features. This and Street Fighter Alpha 3 are the very best fighting games you will find on the PSP or any portable system for that matter. Just accept the game for what it is- a version of Tekken that looks and plays the absolute best it can under the limitations of a portable system. Thank you very, very much, Namco.

Tekken on the PSP will not disappoint anyone patient enough to get used to the PSP's D-Pad
Tekken has been a long time coming in good form to the handheld scene, and here it finally is, for all to partake in the goodness. Tekken exemplifies how to fit so much into such a little disc, and also illustrates for future developers what needs to be sacrificed when bringing their IPs to the PSP (hint: very little).

Tekken: Dark Resurrection's story is the same as last year's Tekken 5 for the PS2, discounting the three new (and returning) characters introduced in this version, and each story path comes complete with their own hand-drawn story introductions, in-game-engine cut scenes, and CG endings, but that is not where the meat of the game is.

The meat of the game, is, of course, the fighting engine. Tekken 5.2 (as it is oft called) boasts newly-enhanced balancing of all of its characters, as well as new tweaks to the engine that improve the wake-up game considerably, allowing more attacks to hit grounded opponents, but still giving the groundee the opportunity to defend.

The main point, however, of all fighting games is to play multiplayer with other people, and Namco excels at this. They include ad-hoc mode to great effect, with little lag between two PSP systems. They even allow for both multi-disc and download play! What more could Tekkeners on the go ask for?

Well, how about an enhanced single-player experience, with a smarter (albeit still, at times, annoying) AI system that learns from players all around the world, and, when they connect to Namco's network to update their time attack and other scores, they put their 'ghosts' onto Namco's network for the whole world to download? Yes, that'll do nicely. The ghosts are intelligent enough to mimic each player's combos, pulling off some far more interesting combos than I've ever seen from any AI in a Tekken game previously. It even uses some setups that the player uses, but is still prone to being a little stupid at times (10-string FTW).

You can also customize your characters in this game, adding bits of jewelry, jackets, different pants, or just changing the colors of their clothing to suit your personal style. It costs a lot to get the more interesting items (900,000G for a neat mask for King), but it's worth it to add your own flair to your character's appearance.

Now, for the problems, which, while small and mostly cosmetic, are a bit numerous. First thing's first, many people are wondering why the victory poses are done in 30fps as opposed to the fighting portion's 60fps. The reason is that Namco pulled a bait and switch, offering higher-polygon models for the close-ups, with full lip-synching, while the fighting part's character models have fewer polygons, and absolutely no lip-synching or facial expression changes, even when punched. While not too obvious, once you notice it, it bothers you, if only a bit.

Secondly, ad-hoc mode has random bouts of unexplainable latency in the controls, but it is very infrequent, so that's not too big an issue there.

Thirdly, the controls take some getting used to, not because of the game's programming of them (which is exemplary), but because of the PSP's d-pad, which is the only way to perform movement (the analog nub goes unused in combat). If you pre-ordered at an EB Games or GameStop, you may have gotten a PSP D-Pad attachment that increased the height of the D-Pad considerably, which helps in the short run to break in the PSP D-Pad. The adhesive for the mod will loosen pretty quickly, though, but by that time it should be much looser and more playable for fighters.

All in all, if you own a PSP, you owe it to yourself to get this game.