Tekken 2

Tekken 2 is a fighting game developed and published by Namco. The second entry in the Tekken series, it was released for arcades in 1995, and ported to the PlayStation the following year. The arcade version was later released in Tekken 5's Arcade History mode for the PlayStation 2.

Tekken 2
PlayStation cover art
Developer(s)Namco
Publisher(s)
Director(s)
Producer(s)Hajime Nakatani
Designer(s)Seiichi Ishii
Programmer(s)Masanori Yamada
Composer(s)
  • Yoshie Takayanagi
  • Yoshie Arakawa
  • Akira Nishizaki (PS)
SeriesTekken
Platform(s)
Release
  • Arcade
    • JP: June 21, 1995
    • NA: August 24, 1995
    • WW: Late 1995
  • PlayStation
    • JP: March 29, 1996
    • NA: August 27, 1996
    • EU: October 2, 1996
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNamco System 11

There are 25 playable fighters in the game, which includes 17 returning veterans and eight newcomers. The home console version also introduced new, now-staple game modes to the series. Tekken 2 was a critical as well as commercial success, becoming one of the best-selling PlayStation games with about 40,000 arcade units and 5.7 million PlayStation copies sold worldwide. It was followed by a sequel, Tekken 3, in 1997.

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