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RSS FeedsTekken 7 Producer Says Making Crossover Characters Is Harder Than They Imagined
(GameSpot PS2)

 
 

28 november 2017 17:14:47

 
Tekken 7 Producer Says Making Crossover Characters Is Harder Than They Imagined
(GameSpot PS2)
 


Tekken 7 solidified itself in the fighting game community with its PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC release earlier this year, having sold well over two million copies to date. Along with that success, developer Bandai-Namco is continuing to support the game with new content and the tradition of worldwide tournaments. One of the things to get excited about is the implementation of crossover characters from other franchises. The game launched with Street Fighter`s Akuma, but Geese Howard from the Fatal Fury series will join the roster by the end of the year, and Noctis from Final Fantasy XV is jumping in next year.Tekken producer and director Katsuhiro Harada along with designer and translator Michael Murray visited our office here at GameSpot with a hands-on demo of the next crossover character, Geese Howard. But we also took this opportunity to speak with them about the process of incorporating characters outside of the Tekken universe, why the the Tekken World Tour tournament had its finals in the US, and if there`s a Nintendo Switch version down the road.This interview was conducted prior to the announcement of Noctis coming to Tekken 7.GameSpot: Now that you`re bring in a new character, how does, if at all, Geese Howard change the balance within the game and where would you say he falls into the character tiers in the competitive space?Harada / Murray: One of the things we face with Geese, and this is kind of similar with Akuma, is that we didn`t receive any assets from SNK or Capcom. We created the character from scratch, so all the character modeling, the animations, everything we did on our own. And also, when taking new characters and putting them into our game, obviously, the Tekken characters have a lot of techniques, a hundred or so on average per character. The 2D fighters, they have their very famous techniques that we implement first, but then we have to also fill out the rest of their technique list with moves to mesh them well with the Tekken. Eve ...


 
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