(Breathless rant: this game, even so more than Street Fighter IV, shows how terrible the standard Xbox 360 controller is for fighting games.

The frame rate, at least offline, never misses a beat, so people who play fighting games to the extent that they calculate frame data shouldn’t be too concerned. (I actually just received an e-mail that says that Namco has already shipped some 2.5 million copies of the game since its release.) It uses the same control scheme as its predecessors, with each face button controlling a limb, and leaving you to juggle your friend in the air until he punches you in the face in real life. Tekken veterans will feel right at home, even if the last game you played was Tekken 3, which I have a feeling is going to be the case for many of you. Sorry.) Tekken 6 tries to right many wrongs it mostly succeeds, but it’s asking a lot to dethrone Street Fighter IV as this year’s best fighter. It’s safe to say that Soulcalibur is now the premier Namco fighter, and it was Sega’s Virtua Fighter, once its ideological rival, that first showed us, three years ago, what a next-gen (well, you know what I mean) fighter should be. The other unusual thing is how other fighters have passed Tekken by over the years.

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