Tekken 6

Problems (Obvious): Laggy Online
Problems (Nitpicky but I care more):

- No ability to set vs mode to automatically go back to character select, and as a subset, only p1 can choose whether to rematch or reselect characters.
- Online VS, when it dumps you back to the character select screen forgets the character you were playing as and resets to hovering over Lars.
- Music is so-so
- Backgrounds are limited and lacking much of the whimsy and magic that Tekken 5 had. Some are great (Tomato Stage, Temple) but there's too few and too many duds.
- The glow is aaaawwwwful. Try playing Lili on the tree stage to see what I'm talking about. She's a white blob. I can shut off Motion Blur, why not Glow?

Things I like:

- It's Tekken
- Character models and designs are stellar. No seriously. This game does such a better job than every other fighter out there with their character design it's obscene. There's not much new on the default costume front (everyone's in their Tekken 5 gear, which is admittedly lame), but the customizations are excellent. Between making Nina a flight attendant and Bob a fat Power Ranger, there's lots of amazing looking options.
- Scenario mode may be a mediocre Final Fight clone, but it's a much nicer way to earn custom items and money than playing against the computer for days on end. It would have been even better had they done something like Virtua Fighter 4 Evo's quest mode, or Soul Calibur's for that matter; keeping the core gameplay while sending you on an interesting adventure (where you win lots of clothes).

So yeah, do I think they could have done better? Yup. Will it be my favorite fighting game for the next two or three years? Yup.

3 stars