
Earlier this week, Bandai Namco announced a free playable demo for the upcoming fighting game, Tekken 8. Said demo is now available to download and install on PS5.
Weighing in at 23.7GB, it's pretty beefy for a demo, so what does it contain exactly? Well, you'll be able to play as Jin, Kazuya, Nina, and Paul, will feature tasters of various modes in the full game. These include Story Mode — where you can play the first chapter — Arcade Quest, offline Versus, and Gallery. That'll be plenty to keep fans busy until Tekken 8 launches on 26th January.
If you're still hungry for more, we recently went hands on with a near-final build, and came away very impressed.
Are you eager to start playing the Tekken 8 demo on PS5? Get ready for the comments section below.
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Excited to jump in with my boy, Paul!
Edit: despite his AWFUL new costume 🫤
Downloading right now. Looking forward to playing it this evening!
I was hoping to see a few more characters, my mains Jack or Yoshimitsu to be more specific, but I’ll still give it a go. It won’t go well! 😅
GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE!
TEKKEN 8!
NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW CHALLENGER!
This better be in the game, it gets me hyped.
What I remember about tekken it was ***** characters but tekknical. I’ll check it out
I'll wait for the Steam demo, since my Arcade stick doesn't work on PS5 (except with PS4 games).
@Terra_Custodes It's free, and doesn't have any paid DLC. Hope this helps 👍
Excellent. Free demos are usually a good sign that the devs have faith in what they have made!
Everything is pointing to this being a great game, and I look forward to trying it later.
I will give this a go. Loved Tekken since the PS1 days. Is it timed?
So ready for this. Not a massive fighting game guy but I’m always going to check out a new Tekken
I think Tekken is my favorite fighting game series. Due to insane modern practices with fighting games and DLC, I'll wait until a year or two down the line when all the fighters are in a discounted bundle.
@FinneasGH
It's not timed.
Eh, not much of a point for me if I can't practise Asuka nor try out Reina. Hope others will enjoy the demo.
It's really good imo that they're including a slice of the story. It shows that they recognise that plenty of people (myself included) really enjoy the wacky Tekken world. Hopefully this means that we also get better arcade endings than the post Tekken 5 games
I definitely have to try it out over the weekend.
@KoopaTheGamer Same here, so I bought the Mayflash Magic S Ultimate to use my Arcade Stick with PS5 games and it works great
@Quintumply "It's free, and doesn't have any paid DLC"
You mean any paid dlc yet right? Tekken 7 had many season passes and this will be no different although the demo is indeed free!
After playing the demo i can defenately say Tekken isnt for me. Not played one since 3 and i always struggled back then. Complicate move sets breaks it for me. Its unfortunate as it looks and runs great. I got batteted on anything above easy.
Looks nice , tekken was great back in the ps1 days , but I think mortal kombat will always be my favourite, but yeah tekken looks beautiful
@Tecinthebrain I wouldn't even play this demo for free to be quite honest and out of principle 🤢🤢 namco's "practices" are really the worst
You know, I played a good chunk of the demo last night. My wife and I kept playing vs and we had such an incredible time with it. We both agreed that it’s just a lot of fun, could be the fighting game that has the best feel from the demos of the big three. Of course, time will tell. Not sure how I feel about Arcade Quest, but the plain VS combat is absolutely amazing.
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