Tekken 7

Tekken 7
Cover art featuring Heihachi (left) and Kazuya Mishima (right)
Developer(s)Bandai Namco Studios
Arika (as of 2023)
Publisher(s)Bandai Namco Entertainment
Director(s)
Producer(s)
  • Motohiro Okubo
  • Michael Murray[2]
Designer(s)Yasuki Nakabayashi
Programmer(s)Kei Kudo
Artist(s)Tomoko Odashima
Composer(s)
SeriesTekken
EngineUnreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
ReleaseArcade
  • WW: March 18, 2015
  • WW: July 5, 2016 (FR)
  • JP: February 12, 2019 (FR:Round2)[1]
PS4, Windows, Xbox One
  • WW: June 2, 2017
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNamco System ES3

Tekken 7 (Japanese: 鉄拳7) is a fighting game developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the seventh main and ninth overall installment in the Tekken series, and is the first in that series to be released for PC. Tekken 7 was released to arcades in March 2015. An updated arcade version, Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, was released in July 2016, and features expanded content including new stages, costumes, items and characters.[3] The home versions released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in June 2017 were based on Fated Retribution.[4]

Set shortly after the events of Tekken 6, the plot focuses on the events leading up to the final battle between martial artist Heihachi Mishima and his son, Kazuya. Tekken 7 introduces several new elements to the fighting system, such as Rage Arts and the Power Crush mechanic, making the game more beginner friendly than previous iterations in the series. Tekken 7 was a critical and commercial success, selling 11.8 million copies as of February 2024. A sequel, Tekken 8, was released on January 26, 2024.

  1. ^ "Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Round 2 Launches into Arcades on February 13 - News - Avoiding the Puddle". Archived from the original on February 3, 2022. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  2. ^ @mykeryu (May 9, 2019). "Woke up this morning and reached 10,000 followers! Also, officially from April I am the main producer on the Tekken franchise (including Japan, merchandising, everything related to the IP) so I look forward to further interactions with you all :)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ Parlock, Joe (December 12, 2015). "Tekken 7: Fated Retribution announced, the first new character is Street Fighter's Akuma". Destructoid. Archived from the original on December 13, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  4. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley. "Tekken 7 delayed to June". Eurogamer.net. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2015.

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