In a desperate attempt to lure Kazuya and Jin out, Heihachi announces the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 4 believing both his son and grandson will come to him for their own reasons. At the same time, Jin is unable to be located which leaves Heihachi with no way to complete his research (unknown to Heihachi, he has gone into a self-imposed training exile in Brisbane, Australia where he is mastering a new martial arts form, a sign of contempt towards his bloodline). Heihachi sends his Tekken Forces to raid G Corporation and retrieve Kazuya’s remains, but the mission fails when the Force is wiped out by none other than Kazuya himself, who has been revived by G Corporation and is now stronger than ever before.
Not willing to give up, Heihachi searches for his grandson, Jin Kazama, who does possess the Devil Gene, with Heihachi learning that the body of his son, Kazuya (who also has the Devil Gene and died twenty years ago) is stored in the labs of the Mishima Zaibatsu’s main business rival, G Corporation. The experiment fails, since Heihachi lacks the necessary Devil Gene. Heihachi and his scientists have captured samples of Ogre’s blood and tissue to splice with Heihachi’s genome and make him immortal. Tekken 4 picks up two years after Tekken 3. In the minigame it is discovered that the Tekken Force possesses different ranks in the organization, evident in different amounts of stamina, strength and skill. The player can pick up health and power-ups while they fight waves of enemies. Similar to the previous minigame found in Tekken 3, it presents the player with an over-the-shoulder perspective as they fight wave upon wave of Heihachi’s Tekken Force through four stages, eventually facing Heihachi himself. Tekken 4 includes a beat ’em up minigame available from the outset called Tekken Force. Finally, the game introduced a brand new graphics system, that featured increased lighting, dynamic physics, and smoother surfaces.įour characters have their own boss characters: Kazuya and Hwoarang face Jin, Lee faces Combot, and Heihachi faces Kazuya. Also, the game engine had been tweaked to be more focused on the environment, causing the characters to move more slowly and fluidly than in Tekken Tag Tournament.
These “environmental hazards” in turn allowed players to juggle opponents for consecutive combos and allowed the designers to implement a “switch maneuver”, which let players escape from cornering and throw the tide in their favor. For the first time, it allowed players to maneuver around an arena interacting with walls and other obstacles for extra damage.
Tekken 4 introduced significant new gameplay changes from the previous games in the series.