Tekken 8 gameplay shows off Kazuya, Jin, Paul, King, Law, Lars, Jack-8, and... Jun

At The Game Awards, Katsuhiro Harada and Bandai Namco showed america what's adjacent for the Tekken series.

Tonight, astatine The Game Awards, we got different look astatine Tekken 8: the highly-anticipated 3D warring crippled from Bandai Namco. In the run-up to the reveal, the look of Tekken – shaper Katsuhiro Harada – had been teasing thing was coming... we conscionable didn't expect this.

A cinematic trailer showed disconnected immoderate returning characters and immoderate faces we haven't seen before. We saw Law, King, Alisa, Devil Kazuya, Devil Jin, Jack 8 (assumedly) and Jun Kazama – though we each assumed her dead.

We saw immoderate existent honest-to-god gameplay successful there, too, showing disconnected immoderate shiny caller graphics and a caller motor (that honestly enactment maine much successful caput of SoulCalibur, astatine the start).

"Father. Son. Mother. This household reunion is going to beryllium explosive," says the blurb for the trailer. "TEKKEN8 is bringing backmost aged grudges to the caller procreation – Kazuya, Jin, Paul, King, Law, Lars, Jack-8 and…the instrumentality of Jun Kazama!"

The caller crippled volition regenerate Tekken 7 arsenic the existent rubric successful the bid – and Tekken 8 got mighty large shoes to fill. Tekken 7 has raked successful implicit 9 cardinal income aft 5 years of support, introducing a slew of DLC characters and re-establishing the 3D warring crippled arsenic 1 of the champion retired determination successful the world.

The crippled was first revealed successful a 'blink and you'll miss it' teaser during EVO 2022 successful August. Previously, Tekken 8 was 1 of the games featured successful the Nvidia Geforce Now datamine, suggesting that a caller rubric successful the bid has been planned for rather a portion now.

The newest introduction successful the communicative of the humor feud betwixt Kazuya, Heihachi and Jin is definite to beryllium an epic one.

You tin besides work wherefore we deliberation Tekken 8 needs to larn from Mortal Kombat if it wants caller players (don't worry, we're not talking astir the warring mechanics, chill out).

Fighting crippled fans are eating good astatine the moment; betwixt this and the June merchandise day for Street Fighter 6, the new-gen warring behemoths are truly starting to land.