Like Tekken? Have an iPhone? Then you might just want to check out Tekken Mobile, a new worldwide release of the iOS fighting game that soft-launched this past summer.
Unlike it’s console big brother, however, this isn’t a direct port of Tekken in the style of, say, Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition. Instead, it’s a simpler card-based “swipe fighter” game reminiscent of a title like the mobile version of Injustice 2. Check out a couple of videos below.
A card-based fighter
As noted, Tekken Mobile isn’t a straightforward port of its console older sibling, albeit with virtual controls in place of physical ones. If that’s what you’re looking for, I would thoroughly recommend the excellent Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition instead.
However, if the idea of a game in which you collect and battle using special move cards, which you can string together in different combinations to vary things up, this is well worth checking out. It also introduces a new Tekken character in the form of Rodeo.
Yes, there are the usual in-app purchases which annoy, but this looks like a lot of fun as far as I’ve got with it. Check out this weekend’s “Awesome Apps” roundup to see if it makes the list. You can download Tekken Mobile from the App Store here.
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
