Platform: Arcade PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable
Release date: Arcade
JPN December 2005
NA February 2006
Playstation Portable
JPN July 6, 2006
NA July 25, 2006
AUS September 14, 2006
EUR September 15, 2006
Playstation 3
JPN December 12, 2006
NA March 01, 2006
AUS March 23, 2007
EUR March 23, 2007
Genre: Fighting
Mode: Single-player, multiplayer, online
Arcade system: Namco System 256
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is an update to Tekken 5 and the seventh game in the Tekken series. The game was first released in the arcade in Japan in 2005 and in North America in 2006, and was ported to the PSP (Playstation Portable) later that year. The game was also released as downloadable content on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network online service in 2007.
Following the conclusion of the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, Heihachi Mishima defeated his son Kazuya Mishima and led him to Honmaru Temple, planning to let both Kazuya and his grandson, Jin Kazama, battle and steal their respective "Devil Genes". However, Jin defeats both of his predecessors and flies away, leaving the latter two unconscious. Shortly after, several Jack-4 robots invade the compound, programmed to take Heihachi's life. Initially, Kazuya and Heihachi fight the Jack-4s as a team, but eventually Kazuya throws Heihachi across the room as soon as he notices that Heihachi is getting tired. Then, Kazuya turns into Devil Kazuya and escapes, leaving Heihachi to deal with the Jack-4s by himself. They quickly overwhelm him and self-destruct, leaving Heihachi seemingly dead. The explosion however, revives Heihachi's father Jinpachi Mishima from his 50 year slumber chained up beneath the Temple, and proceeds to reclaim the Mishima Zaibatsu. A few months later, the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 is announced. It turns out that Heihachi in fact survived the explosion, and now pledges to find out and "break the neck of the one who started this ridiculous tournament!"
The game follows exactly the same storyline as Tekken 5, only with the additions of two new characters, Lili Rochefort (who seeks to destroy the Mishima Zaibatsu and end her father's financial problem), Sergei Dragunov (a member of Spetsnaz who has been sent to capture Jin) and Armor King (who was thought to have been killed before the events of Tekken 4 and whose identity and goals remain a mystery to the player).
Along with the many additions to the PlayStation 2 port, the Arcade Battle has been upgraded by adding twelve more ranking titles and removing one: Conqueror. Tekken Lord is no longer the highest ranking like it was in Tekken 5. Dark Lord is one ranking above Tekken Lord and the highest ranking is Divine Fist.
Divine Fist is only achieved by successfully completing all of the league matches, survival tournaments and ranking tournaments in Tekken Dojo mode. The opportunity is offered once a promotion chance is offered sometime in the Heaven Dojo, the sixth stage in Tekken Dojo mode. Obviously it is only offered when the player is ranked as a Dark Lord. In the European PSP version, the player's current character will be promoted from Dark Lord to Divine Fist, once they have completed all dojos, including the challenges, and then win the Heaven Dojo ranking tournament once again.
Another addition to Arcade Battle is that it now keeps track of the player's statistics. Each character has a clean slate once they begin playing Arcade Battle. During selecting a character, loading a match and battling an opponent, the player can see their alias, ranking, what region they hail from, their wins, losses and percentage.
Dark Resurrection also provided more tools for the players to customize their characters. Also the default colors for most of the characters were different from the original version of the game, despite the characters being shown in most of the FMVs and artwork of the PSP version in their original colors. For example Paul's red dojo uniform became white, Kuma's brown fur became white making him look like a polar bear, and Jinpachi Mishima was now appeared to be bursting in flames. None of these changes were absolute, since the player could anytime customized the characters back to their original colors, as long as he/she remembered how they looked, with the exception of Jinpachi who isn't playable in the PSP version.
Dark Resurrection also appeared to have many new stages. These stages were actually modified versions of the originals, that contained different textures, details, and music that make most of them unrecognizable. For example, the flaming temple of the original game now appeared a normal temple in daylight and the church of the original appeared as a snowy castle.
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