In one of the very first matches of the day, that script was thrown well and truly out of the window. A lot of people were getting tired of it, and people started to play other games-especially as the fighting game community started growing.' So we were looking at a really old game from the day it was released.

'Tekken Tag 2 came out and it was a pretty good game but it was very much based on the Tekken 6 engine and we'd been playing that for 5 years by then, and that had been around in Korea and Japan even before that.

'Honestly, it had a massively negative effect on the scene' says Justin Xavier, tournament organiser of VSFighting, one of the UK’s bigger annual fighting game events. There’s a feeling that the scene is ‘treading water’ right now, and it was clear that Tekken 7's prolonged absence has had an impact. All major fighting game gatherings are running Tekken 7 events, but a good chunk of the fanbase simply can’t practice on the latest game and are instead left to carry on playing Tekken 6 or Tag Tournament 2. Tekken 7 has been out in arcades for around 18 months, but never freely available to be played on these shores. The UK scene is in a weird place at the minute.

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