This weekend has been the EVO. If you don’t know it, it is the biggest competitive event in the world of fighting games. Here the best players from all over the globe come together to find out who is the best, every year, in all kinds of games. Generally, the most popular and well-known games are the ones that receive the most attention, but this is a true celebration of video games. That’s why there are also lots of smaller tournaments and exhibitions of lesser-known games.
That means there are a lot of people at EVO. And every fighting game fan looks in its direction. That’s why it’s also the great weekend for video game companies to make genre-related announcements. Something we haven’t exactly been lacking. Even if it’s not difficult to highlight one above the others.
Bandai Namco has taken the opportunity to introduce the new character that will be added to Tekken 8, the third since the game was released earlier this year. This new character will be Heihachi Mishima, one of the most important characters in the Tekken franchise. Confirming in its new trailer that it will also come with an extension of the base game’s story, which will expand with a new chapter that will tell Heihachi’s story, it seems that Tekken 8 still has a lot to say.
And the surprise has been remarkable because, in theory, Heihachi was dead. Although it is not the first or second time he was considered dead, this time it seemed that, after being thrown into a volcano instead of a cliff, they had managed to finish him off. Big mistake. Mishima is still alive and now, among the playable characters, he has another daughter, Reina, who seems to be among his possible allies. Although we still have to find out what his plans are for the future.
How long will we have to wait to know more? Until next autumn. It is then when the release of Heihachi is confirmed. So far, two new characters have already been released, Eddy Gordo and Lidia Sobieska, and with the addition of Heihachi Mishima, there is only one more character left to be revealed to complete the year 1 season pass. So we will have to be attentive to the surprises that Bandai Namco has in store for us.
