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Baron Aloha · Feb 22, 2005

I picked up my Tekken artbook today from EBGames.

The paper is very much like that of a Brady Games strategy guides (thick and glossy). The cover feels just like the cover from the old Next Generation magazines. The artbook has over 80 pages of artwork covering every Tekken game.

Is this the best pre-order bonus ever outside of the Zelda bonus? All signs point to YES! Anyone thinking about buying T5 this week should definitey pre-order it at EB!

PS. I took some pictures of the book that I would like to post but I am not sure if it violates the TOS. If a mod says its okay I will gladly post them.

Edit: Here are some pics. I will post a few more if it's okay.

Edit2: Raven & Jin pics for Bish...

radios shipping overview · Feb 22, 2005

Gamestop have the artbook listed on their site as a preorder bonus. I wonder if its store availability is a YMMV thing...I just preordered yesterday.

Wario64 · Feb 22, 2005

Post it up.

Baron Aloha · Feb 22, 2005

Wario64 said:
Post it up.

I will if a mod gives me the okay.

dskillzhtown · Feb 22, 2005

Dammit! I pre-ordered mine yesterday and didn't get a DAMNED THING!!!

Baron Aloha · Feb 22, 2005

dskillzhtown said:
Dammit! I pre-ordered mine yesterday and didn't get a DAMNED THING!!!

They just got them today.

Bob White · Feb 22, 2005

I want my Tekken now! Oh, and the art book sounds money, post it up!

bishoptl · Feb 22, 2005

JC10001 said:
I will if a mod gives me the okay.

Just a few shots, though.

Baron Aloha · Feb 22, 2005

bishoptl said:
Just a few shots, though.

Thanks Bish. I've got 9 pics but two are of the cover. 7 are from the inside. Is that okay?

bishoptl · Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, put up the cover and a few of those inside shots. I'm interested in seeing how Blade and Jin turned out.

edit: Blade :lol I meant Raven. RAVEN *coughbladecough*

Naked Snake · Feb 22, 2005

Holy shit, I don't have the money for this right now

aerofx · Feb 22, 2005

Those drawings are beautiful. Some of the early CG models of Tekken look like turd now.

Mr. Lemming · Feb 22, 2005

Well I guess I'm getting Tekken 5 now

Brandon F · Feb 23, 2005

Awesome! Gamestop.com apparently shipped my Tekken 5 out already, got the shipping numbers.

King of Iron Fist tomorrow! RAWR!

The Take Out Bandit · Feb 23, 2005

Damn.

I wish I could get these things seperately some times.

Can't afford the game at the moment. :/

I hate to be a prick, or more so a TOO-DEE NOT THREE-DEE idiot, but I prefer when the art books have more hand drawn art than crappy CG in them. I know the rendered stuff is production material too, but . . .

If I wanted to see the CG, I'd pop the damn game in!

All of the CG I've seen in most give away art books at this point has been used in promotional or pre-release materials. I want unseen stuff. Concept drawing. The like.

Oh well. Hopefully someone sacrifices their Tekken book for the Bittorrent scan gods.

Lambtron · Feb 23, 2005

I wonder if I go reserve tomorrow if they'll hold my copy of the LE until Tuesday next week. I want the fuckin' book BAD.

FortNinety · Feb 23, 2005

The Take Out Bandit said:
All of the CG I've seen in most give away art books at this point has been used in promotional or pre-release materials. I want unseen stuff. Concept drawing. The like.

And that stuff is clearly visible in the scans.

Naked Snake · Feb 23, 2005

Any way to buy this seperately?

The Take Out Bandit · Feb 23, 2005

I'm guessing you'll be able to find copies on eBay.

Sooner or later, you can eBay most anything.

Baron Aloha · Feb 23, 2005

The Take Out Bandit said:
Damn.

I wish I could get these things seperately some times.

Can't afford the game at the moment. :/

I hate to be a prick, or more so a TOO-DEE NOT THREE-DEE idiot, but I prefer when the art books have more hand drawn art than crappy CG in them. I know the rendered stuff is production material too, but . . .

If I wanted to see the CG, I'd pop the damn game in!

All of the CG I've seen in most give away art books at this point has been used in promotional or pre-release materials. I want unseen stuff. Concept drawing. The like.

Oh well. Hopefully someone sacrifices their Tekken book for the Bittorrent scan gods.

There's actually a good chunk of the book devoted to sketches. I just didn't take that many pics of that section because IMO it's the best part and I wanted to keep it a surprise for people.

The Take Out Bandit · Feb 23, 2005

I just didn't take that many pics of that section because IMO it's the best part and I wanted to keep it a surprise for people.

Yay!

That's good news.

I was afraid from the sampling you posted it would be along the lines of the Soul Calibur 2 artbook.

I'll have to track down a copy later on down the road.

Anybody know if Gamecrazy is offering these as well?

Andrew2 · Feb 23, 2005

If you ask me,the Tekken artbook was a waste. If you want to see any of the concept/pre-production stuff,they're already online at the official Tekken site under the gallery section.

Naked Snake · Feb 23, 2005

Andrew2 said:
If you ask me,the Tekken artbook was a waste. If you want to see any of the concept/pre-production stuff,they're already online at the official Tekken site under the gallery section.

Stop playing with my mind!

SentientStone · Feb 23, 2005

Will the Canadian Electronic Boutiques have this as well? I preordered the Collector's Edition just now and I totally forgot to ask them about this, looks pretty colourful.

Takuan · Feb 23, 2005

The Take Out Bandit said:
Damn.

I wish I could get these things seperately some times.

Can't afford the game at the moment. :/

I hate to be a prick, or more so a TOO-DEE NOT THREE-DEE idiot, but I prefer when the art books have more hand drawn art than crappy CG in them. I know the rendered stuff is production material too, but . . .

If I wanted to see the CG, I'd pop the damn game in!

All of the CG I've seen in most give away art books at this point has been used in promotional or pre-release materials. I want unseen stuff. Concept drawing. The like.

Oh well. Hopefully someone sacrifices their Tekken book for the Bittorrent scan gods.

Agreed, devoting pages to 3D models are stupid. It's all about the concept sketches.

Hawt.

Defensor · Feb 23, 2005

If I preordered Tekken 5 at a EB store like last week and they didn't have the artbook in. Sshould I just drop by tomorrow to see if they have it for pick up?

Dead · Feb 23, 2005

Wow looks the same quality as the Xenosaga and Tales of Symphonia artbooks. I need this!

Can I still preorder this tommorow and get the book?

kiryogi · Feb 23, 2005

preordered it in full today, no artbook ;_; Apparently gamestop stopped accepting artbook with preorder at some point? I hope theres extras or something at launch XD

Takuan · Feb 23, 2005

Who does the sketches for Namco? I've seen his art in Tekken 4, Soul Calibur 2, Soul Calibur, and I think even the original Soul Edge for PSOne. I like his style a lot.

J2 Cool · Feb 23, 2005

I want the MGS3 art book damn it. Though the concept sketches are purty

anotheriori · Feb 23, 2005

Does the sketches include the guest manga artist works? (**Oh Great**)

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