Tekken 8 (The Lightning Python)

Tekken 8 is a modern 3D fighting game that was developed and published by Bandai Namco games in 2023. It is a sequel to Tekken 7 released in 2017.

An arcade port was released for the game in 2023, along with a beta version of the game on global services. The console and digital versions of the game would eventually be released globally in 2024.

Description
Get Ready for the Next Battle! The King of Iron Fist Tournament continues in the 8th installment of this story. With lots of familiar characters and a few new contenders enter the ring, in this all out brawl. Fight in various modes and experience the story of the Devil Within.

Story Mode
Experience the full saga of Tekken 8 by playable through two seperate story modes.

Devil Gene Saga
The main story mode of the game. The game will combine aspects from Tekken 7's Mishima Saga and Tekken 6's Scenario Campaign, with an HD story telling, and Tekken Force like gameplay.

The game will take place 1 year after the events of Tekken 7, having 2 seperate protagonists: Jin and Shiro, and an explosive battle between the 2 seperate antagonists: Kazuya and Kazuto.

Major characters such as: Jun, Asuka, Lars, Alisa, Lee, Nina, Claudio, Xiaoyu, Steve, Raven, Zafina and Lidia will play roles in the story, but will have involvent with the minor characters such as: Paul, Law, King, Hwoarang, Lei, Julia, Fahkumram, Lili, Bruce, Anna, Miguel, Yoshimitsu, Leo, Eddy, Cristie, Kuma and Dragunov.

Character Story Battle
A story mode for every specific characters. Unlike Tekken 7, characters will go through 9 seperate fights against opponents depended on each character, and the 9th fight would be against Kazuto and Devil Kazuto in seperate rounds. Clearing the story battle will unlock an ending for the character.

Arcade Mode
A simple arcade run against random opponents in 9 stages. 1 through 7 stages are against random opponents, the 8th stage will be either against these characters: Kazuya or Jin, and the 9th round is against Kazuto and Devil Kazuto in seperate rounds.

Score Attack Mode
Similar to Arcade Mode, but you go through all 9 stages and try to get the highest score depending on how much you perform. The 9th round is against Kazuto and Devil Kazuto in seperate rounds.

Time Attack Mode
Similar to Arcade Mode, but you go through all 9 stages in order to complete it with the shortest time possible. The 9th round is against Kazuto and Devil Kazuto in seperate rounds.

Online Battle
Enter the online mode of this game were you can search for a match with someone all over the world and engage in a fight. Includes Ranked Battle and Local Battle.

Versus Mode
The player can engage in a fight with their chosen character against another player or the CPU. You can also choose to watch the CPU fight each other.

Ghost Battle
Fight against random amount of characters controlled by the CPU in order to unlock extra stuff in Customize and Gallery. Your Offline rank will also be increased depending on how many fights you engage.

Team Battle
Form a team of 1-8 characters as you fight a wave of opposing characters in this mode. The amount of characters for this mode can be chosen for the player and the CPU.

Survival
Fight through a gauntlet of opponents as you try to last as long as possible in this mode. The maximum amount of opponents in this mode is 99.

Practice
Learn the basics of the game and master the moves of your chosen character in this training mode.

Tekken Bowl
A returning mode from the previous games. Chose a character in this bonus mode were you play a classic game of bowling. Multiplayer is added to this mode.

Customize
Choose the character of your choice in order to purchase items with fight money and change your characters appearance, and accessories and effects along with changing their panels.

Each character will be given 12 slots, 1 for their primary costume, 2 for their alternate costume and the other 10 slots will be for the customizable costumes. Certain amount of characters will have an extra slot with a special costume.

Gallery
This mode allows you to view movies from the game, view artwork for the characters and more. You can also unlock extra stuff with fight money in this mode.

Options
Change the settings of the game with how you see fit in this mode. Includes, Gameplay, Sound, Graphics and Difficulty.

Returning Playable Characters (Including DLC)

 * Anna Williams
 * Alisa Boschonovitch
 * Armor King
 * Asuka Kazama
 * Bruce Irvin
 * Bryan Fury
 * Christie Monteiro
 * Claudio Serafino
 * Craig Marduk
 * Devil Jin
 * Eddy Gordo
 * Eliza
 * Emilie "Lili" De Rochefort
 * Fahkumram
 * Feng Wei
 * Ganryu (DLC)
 * Hehaichi Mishima
 * Hwoarang
 * Jin Kazama
 * Jun Kazama
 * Julia Chang
 * Kazumi Mishima (DLC)
 * Kazuya Mishima (w/Devil Transformation)
 * King
 * Kuma (Panda shares a slot)
 * Kunimitsu (DLC)
 * Lars Alexandersson
 * Lee Chaloan (w/Violet as an alternate costume)
 * Lei Wulong
 * Leo Kliesen
 * Leroy Smith
 * Lidia Sobieska
 * Ling Xiaoyu
 * Marshall Law
 * Miguel Caballero Rojo
 * Mokujin (DLC)
 * Nina Williams
 * Ogre (DLC)
 * Panda (Kuma shares a slot)
 * Paul Phoenix
 * Raven
 * Robert "Bob" Richards
 * Sergei Dragunov
 * Steve Fox
 * Violet (w/Lee as an primary costume)
 * Yoshimitsu
 * Zafina

New Playable Characters (Including DLC)

 * Shiro A young man who became an amnesiac after being caught in an explosion of G Corporation. After be saved from the ruble, he goes on a journey to find his origin. As he is caught between the war of G Corportation of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he resolves to help those involved and rise up for himself, but will soon realise the truth of his origin as he is connected to a certain people.


 * Kazuto Hachijo A fighter who is revealed to be a part of the Hachijo clan, and is a relative to Kazumi. After Heihachi's death, he acted quickly and ignored her wishes by taking over the Mishima Zaibatsu.He declared war on G Corporation a nd attempted overthrough them no matter how many chaos is caused in the process and gain control, but his true purpose is to destroy the halfbreeds with the Devil Gene (Jin and Kazuya.) as an act of retribution for his family.


 * Devil Kazuto (DLC) An alternate form of Kazuto Hachijo. This is the Devil form of Kazuto, originated from the Hachijo clan that he is a part of. Kazuto has full control of this dreaded form, but he is also more brutal and deadly in this state. He is an unplayable boss in Story Mode, Arcade Mode, Score Attack Mode and Time Attack Mode, but would later be made a playable character as DLC.


 * JACK-8 A staple character of the series and the latest version of the JACK model. His appearence has been upgraded by G Corporation from his previous version into the ultimate fighting unit.


 * Devil Kazumi (DLC) Originally an unplayable boss in Tekken 7, she is now a playable character in Tekken 8.


 * Bo "Rodeo" Montana A character introduced in Tekken mobile, now playable in Tekken 8. Once a quarterback football player in college, He now became a solder to the military service. His story would be different due to Tekken (Mobile) being non-canon.


 * Shade A high-class member of the Tekken Force. His reputation as a deadly assassin tasked with the task of stealth missions and assassinations was noticed by the Mishima Zaibatsu, he became a part of their army as a part of the Tekken Force. He currently serves Kazuto in the Zaibatsu.


 * Hera An android created by the Mishima Zaibatsu to serve Kazuto. Her creation was based off of Alisa's data, meaning she is somewhat similar to her. Though unlike Alisa, she was made only with the sole purpose of serving the Zaibatsu and nothing more. Meaning she lacks emotion, only caring about her mission, like the perfect soldier. Hera plays different than Alisa and is more straight forward. Her weapons are flamethrower hands, beam blade wrists and explosive gun fingers.


 * Shuwawei (DLC) A female Taekwondo martial artist. she was supposed to appear in Tekken (Mobile) as a fighter, but it was cancelled due to the announcement of shutting down the entire game on February 15, 2019. But is now introduced in Tekken 8. Though she uses Taekwondo like Hwoarang and Baek, she would play differently from the two.

Guest Characters

 * Akira Yuki (DLC) A guest character from the Virtua Fighter series. Tekken has collaborated with Virtua Fighter before, as such they decided to have Akira in the game. Akira fights with traditional karate. His costume is his classic black gi and his white gi from the more mordern Virtua Fighter games.


 * Tifa Lockhart (DLC) A guest character from the Final Fantasy series, appearing in Final Fantasy VII. Tifa is a brawler in the game, wielding materia with magic powers. Her costumes will be her Classic VII outfit, her Remake outfit and Advent Children outfit.

DLC Characters

 * Devil Kazuto
 * Kazumi Mishima
 * Devil Kazumi
 * Ganryu
 * Kunimitsu
 * Mokujin
 * Ogre
 * Shuwawei
 * Akira Yuki
 * Tifa Lockhart

Unplayable Characters

 * '''Baek Doo Saen


 * Wang Jinrei


 * Forest Law


 * Roger Jr.


 * Miharu Hirano


 * Shaneen


 * Katalina Alves


 * Josie Rizal


 * Lucky Chloe


 * True Ogre


 * Combot


 * Sebastian


 * Dr. Bosconovitch


 * Dr. Abel


 * Jane



Story Mode enemies

 * Tekken Force
 * Crow
 * Falcon
 * Hawk
 * Owl
 * Eagle


 * G Corporation Soldiers


 * Jack 6s


 * Advanced Jacks


 * Raven Gynoids


 * T-Tanks

Gameplay
The gameplay will play similar to Tekken 7, while mainly retaining some aspects and add new features.
 * The current engine would revamp the graphics from the previous game.
 * Rage Mode would now have a meter, activation for this depends on which bar you use.
 * Parries are added, use guard for split second to activate.

Stages
TBA

Music
TBA

Trivia

 * Credits to the Tekken 8 logo go to boifahadlami.


 * Shiro is a referance of and based off of Shin Kamiya, a character from the Tekken: Blood Vegeance movie.


 * Shade is based off an enemy in Tekken 6's Scenerio Campaign mode, the specific enemy had claws for weapons and appeared from the ground.