#When will tekken 8 come out series#

“We felt we needed to touch more on Jun and her relationship with Jin and how that affects him in order to more understand Jin’s powers and how that affects the outcome of the battle between him and his father.

#When will tekken 8 come out series#

Jun and Jin may be mother and son, but Harada admits that the series hasn’t really touched on their relationship up to this point. Perhaps this time she’ll start to speak more, and you’ll learn some new things as a result.” “For Tekken Tag Tournament, she starts to speak a little bit more because of the advancement of the technology in the game, but Jun as a character is someone who doesn’t speak a lot until now. “When we’re looking back at Jun’s appearances throughout the series, obviously back in the Tekken 2 era, not just Jun, but most of the characters didn’t have a lot to say in the game, right?” Harada says. Many younger Tekken fans have probably never seen Jun in a Tekken game before, but she does appear in this year’s Tekken Bloodline, which loosely adapts the events of Tekken 3. That might explain why it’s taken us so long to see the return of Jun Kazama, Jin’s mother, who is a “focal point of the story.” While she’s appeared in the non-canonical Tekken Tag Tournament spinoffs, this is the first time she’s appeared in a canonical Tekken game since 1995’s Tekken 2, and her fourth appearance in the series overall. Either way, Harada has admitted that what’s happening in Tekken 8 is “different than what I originally envisioned” because of how long Tekken has taken to get to this point. Could Tekken 8’s story change that? We’ll have to wait to find out. Traditionally, Jin and Devil Jin have been separate characters with very different movesets. Is his own Devil trying to help him out? Interestingly, we also see Jin call upon his Devil powers in some of the gameplay footage, too.

At the beginning of the trailer, a gloved hand reaches out to him from a pool of black smoke as Jin falls. He's not against using his own Devil Gene to do that. The game’s newly-revealed tagline, “Fist Meets Fate,” and the way the “8” in Tekken 8’s logo resembles a broken chain, symbolizes Jin’s struggle against his destiny and his attempt to break the chains that bind them. While the two of them were ultimately motivated by power and revenge, and each viewed the other as the biggest obstacle in his path, Jin’s struggle is against the bloodline he inherited from his father and the Devil Gene itself. Kazuya, fresh off of his win against Heihachi, is destroying cities and encouraging humanity to unleash the dogs of war.Īccording to Harada, Tekken 8 takes place six months after Tekken 7, and while the father/son conflict in Tekken 8 mirrors what happened in Tekken 7, the conflict between Kazuya and Jin is a little different than the one between Heihachi and Kazuya. While that fight resolved itself in what seems like a pretty definitive win for Kazuya – but really, who would be surprised if one of the first (or last) moments of Tekken 8 was Heihachi climbing out of that volcano – the stakes are just as high the showdown between the last two members of the Mishima bloodline (and the last two carriers of the Devil Gene): Jin wants to kill his dad and put an end to the whole thing. It’s no surprise the upcoming showdown between Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima remains front and center, just as the fight between Kazuya and Heihachi Mishima was in Tekken 7.

Luckily, IGN got to sit down with Tekken 8 executive producer Katsuhiro Harada to break everything down. PlayStation players who had access to the first beta weekend on July 21st are able to enjoy the upcoming CNT, too.It's quite a bit to take in. If you have received a code, you will simply need to redeem it on either the PSN store for PlayStation, Microsoft store for Xbox, or Steam for PC. Invites and codes were sent on July 26th, so make sure to check your email and specifically explore your spam/junk. Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to sign up for the CNT. You will only be able to play the Tekken 8 beta if you successfully signed up for the closed network test on either PS5, PC, or Xbox.