Tekken 6

[Dyne]

Seriously? Nobody's playing this or Brutal Legend? Am I off the beaten path or something?

Tekken 6 is fantastic, especially with Motion Blur off.

It relieves the terrible sting of Street Fighter 4. I gladly paid full price for this but I wouldn't pay $20 for SFIV again after selling it.

I still think Soul Calibur 4 is better, but Tekken truly excels at what it's great at - single player or cooperative campaign, customization, and party gameplay with multiple people.

But when I say customization, it's just that - SCIV was amazing because you could make any character into a whole new character. Tekken's is more customization - each of the 42 fighters has their own several dozen customizations specific to them. For example, Head, Upper Body, Lower body, about 20 categories like this. In each, there's usually 6 or more of the same thing, in about 6 colours. It doesn't really make sense saying it, but that's how it is. In the end, it's MORE customization than SCIV, but the system sucks because it's not creation like SCIV.

And as for the gameplay - so awesome.

I'm still a Virtua Fighter guy myself (4: Evolution inparticular) but Tekken has true merits that are worth looking into.