At EVO 2014, Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada pulled the lid off Tekken 7, the first new mainline installment in Bandai Namco's premier fighting franchise since Tekken 6 was released in Japanese arcades in 2007. The latest Tekken will take a page out of the Guilty Gear playbook — just as Guilty Gear Xrd was built on Unreal Engine 3, Tekken 7 will be built on Unreal Engine 4. In a statement to IGN, Harada said:
With Unreal Engine 4, we could rapidly achieve visual quality expected on next-gen platform and go beyond it. Not only is Unreal Engine 4 powerful and easy to use, but it allows us to immediately bring Tekken 7 to any platform we desire.
No official platform confimation has been made, but since neither PS3 nor Xbox 360 can run Unreal Engine 4, it's likely that Tekken 7 will come to both PS4 and Xbox One after a short arcade run in Japan. Maybe PCs are in the cards as well! Wii U… probably not.
In the trailer above, we see a woman who is implied to be Kazumi, Kazuya's mother and Heihachi's wife, and who posseses the same Devil Gene powers that Kazuya and her grandson Jin Kazama do. The trailer then suggests that this game is to be "The Final Battle" — whether that means the end of the Tekken mainline series or the end of the feud between Kazuya and Heihachi is up for debate.
This trailer is but a teaser, with Harada promising to air the full trailer at San Diego Comic-Con, specifically at the Bandai Namco Fighting Games Panel to be held on Friday, July 25, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM.
