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The last entry in the Tekken series to appear on the PlayStation 2, Tekken 5 continues the ongoing saga of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament.

Overview

Tekken 5 was developed and published by Namco and released on February 24, 2005. It was released in the arcades in December of 2004. It is the sixth game in the Tekken series. The game also features the three original Tekken games for the PlayStation, as well as one of Namco's earlier arcade games, StarBlade.

Story
Jin Kazama after he wakes up in the carnage he created
Jin Kazama after he wakes up in the carnage he created

After the conclusion of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, we see feathers floating down from when Devil Jin flew off into the night. However, the silence was soon be interrupted with the roar of an approaching aircraft. Almost immediately, a group of Jack-4 robots crashed through the ceiling. Although Heihachi suspected that Kazuya was responsible for the intrusion, he soon realized he was wrong, with Kazuya equally as bewildered by the sudden attack. "Why are you here?" yells Heihachi as the wave of Jack robots approaches. Heihachi and Kazuya destroy scores of Jacks, but reinforcements appear almost as quickly as the duo of father and son can destroy them. Heihachi begins to lose his breath, and Kazuya takes advantage of this, betraying Heihachi, he throws him int the middle of the army of Jacks, and then escapes while the Jack robots are busy with Heihachi. While several Jack robots pile on top of Heihachi, holding him down, one lands in front of Heihachi and self destructs. The Hon-Maru is then devastated with a massive explosion.

Close by, all this is being watched by a man in black ( Raven). He raises his hand, presses a button on the radio in his ear and says "Heihachi Mishima...is dead...". At that moment, a Jack robot attacks the man from behind, but he evades the attack and cuts the Jack robot in half, disappearing an instant later. The Hon-Maru is completely destroyed and has been replaced with a raging inferno. The next day, news of Heihachi Mishima's death spread rapidly across the globe, with most people believing that Heihachi Mishima's death would bring the end to the Mishima Zaibatsu. However, behind the scenes, someone has taken his place, and business went on as usual. A month later, it was announced that the Mishima Zaibatsu will hold The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5.

Gameplay

The fighting is the same as always and for the first time, Namco has introduced a new feature in which you can customize your characters. As you fight in the Main mode, you earn money for every time you defeat someone. Then you can use it at the Customization mode and buy several sorts of items to personalize you character.

As per tradition in Tekken games, Namco have introduced several new characters in Tekken 5. Although Jack-5 and Rodger Jr. and almost identical to Jack-4 and Rodger respectively, and Asuka Kazama and Devil Jin bear similarities to Jun Kazama and Jin Kazama (in Tekken 3) respective move-sets, both Feng Wei and Raven are brand new characters. The new characters bring the overall amount of playable characters to 33.

Character Roster
Jinpachi Mishima
Jinpachi Mishima

New Characters
Returning Characters

Game Modes

Story Mode

In story mode, you choose a character then play through eight AI controlled opponents before the final battle with the tournament sponsor Jinpachi Mishima. As well as prologue, epilogue and an ending CG scene, each character gets "sub-boss" cut-scenes, where two characters will interact before and after their fight (for example, Kazuya Mishima's sub-boss is Raven, who calls Kazuya a "coward" for fleeing from the Hon-Maru).

Arcade Mode

In arcade mode, the player faces an unlimited amount of AI controlled characters, presenting the player with a chance to win gold in order to customize their character and also to raise the character's rank (each character starts out as a beginner and ends as a Tekken Lord).

VS Battle

In VS Battle, two players can battle each other, with a counter keeping score of how many wins each player has.

Team Battle

In team battle, two players select a team of 2-8 characters, and engage in a series of one round bouts, until all the members of one players team are eliminated. Team Battle can also be played alone, with the player selecting 2-8 characters, fighting a random team of AI controlled opponents (the AI controlled team size will be the same size as your own).

Survival Mode

In survival mode, the player selects a character and plays an unlimited amount of AI controlled opponents in one round bouts. The basis off Survival mode is to see how many wins you can amount off one life bar, although after the end of each battle the player regains a small amount of health.

Time Attack

In Time Attack mode, the game records how quickly you can progress through Story Mode, although when playing Time Attack, the player is not presented with any epilogues, prologues, sub-boss cut-scenes or ending cinematic videos.


Arcade History

A mode that contains arcade versions of Tekken, Tekken 2, Tekken 3 and also "Starblade", another Namco developed arcade game. Each Tekken game already has all time release characters unlocked automatically.

Devil Within

Devil Within is a side game similar to the Tekken Force games found in Tekken 3 and Tekken 4. It is a 3D beat-em'-up game where the player plays as Jin as he attempts to find a way to rid himself of the Devil Gene.

Customization Mode

In customization mode, you can customize your character with items and accessories such as sun-glasses, swords and variants of their existing clothes (or hairstyles), including being able to change the color of their clothing.

Re-releases
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online's official logo
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Online's official logo

Tekken 5.1 came out only in arcades in Summer 2005 that changed the health bar to green and red while altering some characters' moves while introducing some new ones as well.

The game was later re-released under the subtitle "Dark Resurrection" for the arcades and for the PSP and the PS3. The PSP version runs at full 60 FPS during matches. Other modes include Tekken Dojo, where the player fight ghosts of other players that can be uploaded and downloaded online. They can also download official ghost packs from arcades all over the world. In Gold Rush mode, the player fights for in-game cash. New versions of Tekken Bowl and Command Attack; bonus games from Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken 4, are also included.

PS3 Version

It was re-released on March 1, 2007 for $19.99, which runs at 60 frames per second and supports full 1080p HD resolution. A first for the series. The game features the same modes as the Arcade version, including ghost battles and a gallery mode, Practice mode and Survival mode. The game also features Jinpachi Mishima is playable character for the first time. However, unlike its PSP counterpart, the PS3 version lacks Story mode and Bonus mode. A patch was released on the on the North American Store on August 30, 2007 and contains an Online Versus mode and Online rankings as well as a practice mode.
 

Soundtrack

 
 
Track 1      I'm Here Now (Remix)      1:57
Track 2     Sparkling     1:51
Track 3     Mode Select (Tekken 5)     2:33
Track 4     Who's Afraid Of...     1:45
Track 5     Dragon's Nest     2:42
Track 6     Red Hot Fist     1:40
Track 7     Formless Like Water     2:00
Track 8     Unforgiven     2:06
Track 9     Crimson Sunset     2:40
Track 10     Moonlit Wilderness     1:57
Track 11     Gold Rush     1:34
Track 12     Massive Stunner     1:57
Track 13     Antares     2:34
Track 14     Streets     1:19
Track 15     Street Wise (Asura Mix)     1:34
Track 16     Frozen Paradise     1:41
Track 17     Ka-En-No-Mai     2:03
Track 18     Orbital Move     1:56
Track 19     Poolside     2:31
Track 20     Ground Zero Funk     2:28
Track 21     The Finalizer     2:01
Track 22     Give Me Your Name     1:41
Track 23     One More     1:08
Track 24     Neonatal     1:02
Track 25     Raven's Ending     0:46
Track 26     Feng's Ending     0:35
Track 27     Asuka's Ending     0:21
Track 28     Heihachi's Ending     1:10
Track 29     Kazuya's Ending     0:32
Track 30     Jin's Ending     0:41
Track 31     Lee's Ending     0:59
Track 32     Steve's Ending     0:55
Track 33     Lei's Ending     0:41
Track 34     Nina & Anna's Ending Part 1     0:32
Track 35     Nina & Anna's Ending Part 2     0:15
Track 36     Paul's Ending     0:30
Track 37     Law's Ending     0:53
Track 38     Hwoarang's Ending     0:41
Track 39     Baek's Ending     0:29
Track 40     Christie's Ending     0:30
Track 41     Marduk's Ending     1:01
Track 42     King's Ending     0:50
Track 43     Julia's Ending     0:47
Track 44     Ganryu's Ending     1:08
Track 45     Bryan's Ending     0:48
Track 46     Yoshimitsu's Ending     0:32
Track 47     Bruce's Ending     1:13
Track 48     Jack-5's Ending     1:01
Track 49     Panda & Kuma's Ending     1:05
Track 50     Wang's Ending     1:15
Track 51     Jinpachi's Ending     0:36
Track 52     Devil Jin's Ending     0:42
Track 53     Roger Jr.'s Ending Part 1     0:34
Track 54     Roger Jr.'s Ending Part 2     0:21
Track 55     Mokujin's Ending     0:27
Track 56     Xiaoyu's Ending Part 1     0:21
Track 57     Xiaoyu's Ending Part 2     0:28
Track 58     After All     0:42
Track 59     Marital Symphony Opus 5     3:24

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