The next Tekken game. No, not just Tekken 6....

So we don't have Tekken 6 yet. In fact, Namco has hardly said anything about the game in a long while. My guess? Namco is trying to figure out how to squeeze in Transformers, Matrix, or Lord of the Rings cameos. Tekken 6 has been out for nearly a year in Japanese arcades, and the game just recently got updated.

Tekken 6:Bloodline Rebellion is the new arcade update to Tekken 6 with two new characters thus far confirmed. Lars and Alisa are the new fighters, but I'm hoping there will be one or two returning old characters. Kunimitsu and Ogre will be mine again someday (seriously, the return of a maskless Kuni has been a literal dream of mine). I am interested in Alisa's last name though. Boskonovich has to be tied to the infamous (and spineless?) Dr. Boskonovich from Tekken 3. This character has been a part of the Tekken lore for many iterations, but in Tekken 3 you were able to take control of this mad man. He had by FAR the craziest fighting style I've seen in the series, so I really hope she Alisa has some of these same moves.

In regards to the two new additions visually -- my guess is Namco took two randomly generated Create-A-Soul rejects from Soul Calibur 4 and gave them story lines. These are easily some of the most poorly designed characters I have ever seen in the series. I'm having a hard time deciding who is uglier. Horrible clothes. Horrible hair. Just horrible.

But honestly, who gives a crap. Their moves looks amazing from what I can tell, and I especially like how over the top Lars' move animations are. As long as they don't play like a Mishima, a Williams sister, or Jack, I'll be interested in trying both of these characters out. But seriously.... why do they look so stupid...

...wait. Hold on. WTF IS SHE AN ANDROID? WHAT THE FUCK IS COMING OUT OF HER BACK? ZO MAH GOD. She totally reminds me of KOS-MOS now. This IS Namco after all. And since they did it for Soul Calibur 4, could they possibly put KOS-MOS items in for this new character? OMFG PLEASE AND THANK YOU - THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.

Seriously though, we better get this version for home consoles. The most important thing this update is bringing to Tekken 6 is character and system balancing. There have been many complaints about the original version of this game from the serious Tekken community, and I hope these issues will got ironed out in the update. They made us wait this long for the console edition -- might as well give us the best version available.

Here is some location footage (4min starts quality Lars stuff):


Let me know what you think,

Brad