Tekken 4

Tekken 4 is a fighting game released in arcades in July 2001, and on the PlayStation 2 in 2002. It's the fifth game in the series and the fourth game chronologically.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Amazing graphics for its time, with the artstyle having more realistic approach.
 * 2) Adding to the game realism, the stage was also set on believeable, realistic location. instead of fantasy theme stages like the other games in series.
 * 3) Characters such as Kazuya Mishima and Lee Chaolan (who in this game goes by the name Violet) are returned after being absent on the previous main game.
 * 4) Several new gameplay mechanic were introduce, such as pushing opponent onto the wall or other objects for extra damage and sidewalk.
 * 5) Introducing story mode, which plays exactly like arcade mode but with cutscenes and dialogues with a focus on story.
 * 6) Introducing some new characters such as Christie Monteiro (who is palette swap of Eddy), Craig Marduk, Steve Fox and a hidden character.
 * 7) The tone is completely diffrent from any other Tekken games, which now have more darker and edgier approach, which was dropped on the next game.
 * 8) The OST have a pretty unique ambient approach. With the Honmaru and Rooftop stages being the finest example.
 * 9) Tekken Force (beat 'em up mode) from Tekken 3  returns, but now with an over-the-shoulder perspective camera and a much better controls.
 * 10) The character endings are also affected by the tone changes.
 * 11) *The Mishimas endings had some cool moments like Jin's nightmare sequence, Kazuya's evil laugh, Heihachi's last laugh, and Jin's Ending which lead up to the Tekken 5 opening.
 * 12) *King's ending, which leading him to the hospital after defeating Marduk. With the intention to avenge his master after Marduk killed him in between of Tekken 3 and Tekken 4, but suddenly decides to spare him after King saw the picture of Marduk and his grand parents.
 * 13) *Paul story overall is pretty dark from start to finish which starts with him become arrogant after beating Ogre on the previous tournament, but no one taking that seriously because he didn't won the previous tournament. (Well technically he defeat Ogre but not True Ogre)  And got his dojo bankrupt due to lack of students. and even after he won the tournament, he was busy fullfiling his hedonistic lifestyle, and let Dr. Abel take his job. Eventually he grew tired of that, and after he saw his picture on Marshall dojo's he decide to dropped his position as the Chairman of the Mishima Zaibatsu in favour to become the Strongest in the Universe, and on the last few second of the ending, Paul remove his sunglasses and says "Ain't my style" before riding onto the light.
 * 14) **Funnily enough, alot of Tekken fan theorized this as "The Death of the Real Paul" saying that he's riding into the afterlife, and the Paul we got from Tekken 5-onwards (who's now has been reduced into a comic relief) was on purgatory.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some famous characters are absent in this game, such as Anna and Jack.
 * 2) *Though the latter was excuseable due to GQ #1.
 * 3) Except several endings mentioned on GQ #10, every other endings were pretty much forgettable, at least when compared to previous games like Tekken 3.
 * 4) * Despite this, Hwoarang's ending is rather interesting in which both him and Jin speak English (which was the one and only time they did)
 * 5) Almost all characters from the previous game have mediocre to downright ugly new costume and design.
 * 6) *The worst of the most one is Heihachi where his alternate costume was DIAPERS
 * 7) Less characters when compared to Tekken Tag Tournament, as this game only has 21 playable characters.
 * 8) The combo in this game was completely dumbed down making the game having the weakest combo system of the entire series.
 * 9) The movement was changed, where instead of play on a 2.5D plane like in the previous game, this game have full 3D movement (Something akin to Virtua Fighter and Soul Calibur) while sounds like a good idea on paper, it fails the in the execution due to following reasons:
 * 10) *Sidestep was nerfed in favor of sidewalk and that's very weird considering that you don't sidewalk that much in a Tekken game.
 * 11) *The controls were also weird because you're no longer be able to jump and crouch on neutral or retreat while crouching, this is due to neutral u/d now serves as the sidestep/sidewalk button, db and ub does side backstep. And you have to press uf and df to jump and crouch respectively.
 * 12) The game also introduce some poorly executed mechanics, such as wall tech, pillars, and uneven ground.
 * 13) The game has been criticized due to the game focuses strictly on poking. Due to this, juggle damage was nerfed.
 * 14) *This resulting the characthers who have good juggle (Violet and Jin) to have an unfair advantage against other characters.
 * 15) *Steve was also broken, due to him having the fastest jab of the entire roster.
 * 16) Combine all problems above with the broken stage design and you got this.
 * 17) Kazuya's EWGF now only launch on counter hit. Making it harder to launch opponent, and combine that with the nerf juggle damage, making it almost completely useless.
 * 18) *Though it's been balanced by the unique "Stun Link" property on his "Demon God Fist". (ws2)

Reception
Tekken 4 received "favorable" reviews by critics. With the aggregate-review website Metacritic giving it 79% out of 100.