The most vital question that a Tekken player always wants to know is: which DLC character will be next? Well, you’ll find out at the end of the week, because the studio plans to reveal the information during Geoff Keighley’s winter festival of high-priced advertising, the Game Awards. However, there may already be some clues in the trailer they just released that suggest a sister slap is to be expected. The trailer also promises modern moves for all characters in the Season 2 update next spring, as well as some diminutive gifts in the winter update, which is expected to arrive earlier. But yes, come and see for yourself.
See the helicopter chasing Nina Williams at 2:12? There is a lipstick kiss mark on the bullet, a nod to Anna Williams’s mischievous sister, the red bodyguard of Nina’s purple boxer. This puts Anna in danger of being exposed, but who knows? This could all be a scarlet red herring. The developers plan to reveal everything on Thursday evening (early Friday morning in the UK).
More specifically, the trailer promises modern moves for each character, just in case the average character’s hundred attacks aren’t enough (I see my favorite coffee baroness Azucena doing a freshly brewed sweep kick). There will also be a “major balance update”, which for Tekken often means multiple changes to frame data for various attacks on all characters. Finally, the trailer hypes up the Tekken World Tour – the annual brotherly fist fights that are often entertaining, but my fondest memory is Panda’s coronation as the world’s best bare-knuckle brawler.
But that’s all for Season 2. Players will receive the Winter Update earlier and it will be slightly less dramatic. For example, it will offer additional photo mode features. This will allow you to add “moisture” and “dirt” to the players’ faces (that’s what I always wanted!). You’ll soon also be able to search for other online players by username. The developers say that additional slots for custom characters will be added early next year.
The latest installment of the Iron Fist Tournament is quite good, as I rated in our Tekken 8 review. But it’s also missing the characters I love the most (Lei, Miguel, Josie), which is ultimately why Tekken 7 is the brute that made it to our best games list, i.e. RPS 100. Anna, she’s frigid and everything. But can she pretend to be drunk and roll on the ground to scare her opponent? NO.
