
While the first two games are important in their own ways, if you go back and play them, you will find that they don’t have much in common with Tekken as we know it these days. Tekken 3 is where the real Tekken begins.

And while we wait, why not look back at Tekken’s history and pick out five of the best games in the whole franchise.įor this list, we want to consider not just the raw gameplay and popularity of the games but also what kind of impact they had on the series, the community, and other things. Now, almost exactly 28 years later, after seven mainline titles and even more spin-offs, we are anxiously waiting for the new entry. Namco initially conceived it as a little tech project with the goal of testing out the 3D animations and texture mapping, since the gaming industry was swiftly transitioning to the three dimensions.

In September of 1994, the original Tekken was released.
