The mode that really helps gamers flip up on their feet, though, is a new training area called Fight Lab. There are a variety of gaming modes on hand-including Arcade, Versus, Team Battle, Time Attack and Survival-that can strengthen your abilities just through repetition. The goal is to either knock out one of your opponents or have the most cumulative life left when the match timer runs down. The fighter outside the ring then regains a little strength while his tag-mate battles. As one basher’s life bar starts taking a few too many hits, he can tag out and let his fresh partner charge in. You choose two fighters you can switch in and out of any given match. To make it all simple enough to actually fit into a review, let me boil down the game action a bit. Just about every look and martial arts style you can imagine is part of the lineup. There are fleet-footed flip-kickers, a heavy-pawed panda, a colossus-like metal man, a giant fire-breathing ogre, a winged angel girl, a bouncing kangaroo and a battling robot. And there are over 40 different Tekken characters you can fight with, each with his or her own set of attacks and defenses-some with over 100 possible moves to learn. To make the moves and combos ever more challenging, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 essentially doubles the number of characters you can use in any one fighting mix. And there are none more robust in those areas than the Tekken games. Nowadays the fighting game is all about complexity and options. They couldn’t even get near the ring with today’s games.

But those old old-school battlers are laughably simple now. It was all a matter of timing and good hand-eye coordination.

You jabbed your thumbs into a controller to throw punches and kicks, and if the game mechanics were slick enough, you could even block when the need arose. Nevertheless, he is among the most popular and well loved Tekken characters.Many, many roundhouse kicks ago in the days of button-mashing yore, fighting games were a much simpler lot. Paul also had a comic relief ending in Tekken 5. This is quite obviously evidenced by the fact that he is rivals with joke characters (Kuma I and II). Also, despite his initial setup in the first game to be a possible rival to Kazuya Mishima, as well as his serious standing in previous games, Paul, story wise, has become something of a joke character more and more. He is very hostile towards the Mishima family and everyone and anything associated with it (most notably the Mishima Zaibatsu and Kazuya) and never hesitates to show this hatred in matches.Īlthough he gets close several times (especially in Tekken 3), he has never won a tournament. Paul has appeared in every Tekken game up to date.

He is a hotheaded, aggressive character, determined more than ever to win the tournament to prove he is the best fighter in the entire universe (he means this literally, according to his ending in Tekken 5). Paul Phoenix is a fictional character who made his debut in the first Tekken game and has appeared in every game so far in the Tekken series.

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