And of course there's lots of fire, flying kicks and swinging people into concrete walls. It certainly does a handsome job thrusting some delicate effects into the maelstrom, whether it's flowers dancing in the moonlight, blossom wafting through the air or simply the sun bathing scaffold in an amber glow. Those three will join the likes of Nina Williams, Christie Monteiro, Yoshimitsu et al in a character roster described as the largest ever, strutting around in a game engine that Namco claims is its most advanced, even "revolutionary" to date. Namco now has its complete E3 Tekken 5 trailer available to stream directly from its website, giving us a chance to see close to four minutes of the firm's latest beat-'em-up and introduce ourselves to new characters Raven, Asuka Kazama and Feng Wei at a leisurely pace. Oh well - perhaps someone else can shed some light on it.
We don't know exactly what it is that Heihachi mumbles a few moments before an aerial shot of a mushroom cloud illustrates his demise, but we're guessing it's "Crap!" is dead." And not just dead! Blown into tiny little pieces by a robotic, self-destructing Jack, whose face pops open just seconds into the Tekken 5 trailer to reveal a bomb timer in an advanced state of countdown.