

If you haven’t got the offline version of the game and fancy some Tekken action now you can play it online, the full game will set you back £14.99, which to us is perfectly reasonable. At £3.49 though it’s perhaps not too much of an inconvenience. Of course, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection should have come with online play enabled already. Once you get a game on, it’s standard online fare – with battle points up for grabs and ranked leaderboards to climb. If you can’t be bothered with that you can select opti match so the game automatically searches for an appropriate room for us. You’ve got various options, including searching for a game room or creating one for you and your friends only. When it is your turn, it’s set up just like any multiplayer game. Once you’ve connected to a game room you’ll have to wait your turn, like putting 50p down on the cabinet, and watch the other matches in a spectator mode.

Your skill level determines the skill level of the room and your opponents, so you won’t be pummelled by players miles better than you. The online play works like this – you connect to a game room filled with up to eight players – like winner stays on in an arcade (remember those?).
