Seems as though a lot of people are complaining that the game looks horrible, but to the rest of the board who has probably been playing this game in the arcade -- they think it's absolutely fine.
Both of you are right in your own respects. Depending on what you're looking for, the complaints of graphics may not even apply to you! But they do exist even on a Tekken standard.
Anyone who has the game early has noticed something that the arcade players can't notice as of yet -- and that's the Story Mode (or Scenario Campaign as called in game). In story mode, we are treated to an awesome array of graphic downgrades in order to keep speeds up... The following has been changed in Story Mode:
- No motion blur.
- Low resolution textures on all non-player characters in Story Mode (Only their helmets look good, the rest is blotchy in cutscenes. Fine in gameplay).
- No AA
- Lower Polycount Player characters.
- Lack of HDR or Bloom.
We go from basically an arcade perfect translation vs. mode to a dumbed down story mode. Gameplay is fine, but the cutscenes are long and drawn out, and it is like playing Mass Effect with texture pop-up problems... only there's no textures that we are waiting to load, it just looks that bad all the time.
This doesn't make or break the game, because Story Mode is horrible gameplay wise anyways and the only reason behind playing it is to amass gold for character customization. Hopefully this eases the tension between the graphics enthusiasts and those that just want to play the game for what it's for.
TL;DR:
+ Arcade Players need not worry about graphics as they are Arcade Perfect.
- Tekken casuals may want to rent because Story Mode efforts are lackluster.
Background:
I have an early copy of Tekken 6, and have been playing Tekken 6 in arcades very sparingly since the release of Bloodline Rebellion, so maybe about 6-7 months ago? Currently almost done with Scenario Campaign.
