If we pretend tekken 1 doesn't exist, the odd numbered tekken games really are the most refined ones. The PS3 port of tekken dark resurrection probably has the most refined fighting, and biggest roster out of all the versions of tekken 5 out there. It's incredibly fun with friends. However, me being the lonely fighting gamer out there, I do wish it had the modes that were in vanilla tekken 5 as this version of the game is pretty much arcade and versus and that's it. Pretty darn jarring for a tekken game when the previous games usually have some wacky fun sidemodes to also sink your teeth into. If you have friends around to play this with, this game owns. If not, you might want to downgrade to vanilla.

probably a 5 but...

- no training mode or dojo
- wheres the history/campaign ??
- confused ass costumizer

so yeah, its a 4.5

Yeah, this is 10 times better than vanilla Tekken 5. And it's still my favourite Tekken game.

The new characters are cool. (Especially my boy, Dragunov!) The new palettes for characters are a nice change and customization has more to it which I like.

Jinpachi is actually more of a cakewalk now which I'm so happy they nerfed. Though, Devil Jin is still a pain to fight lol.

Tekken Dojo is a fun concept with ranking up. It gets harder as you go on which is fair even with the AI still being dodgy at times. (Usually against Law Ghosts. Grrr!)

Story Mode is just as fun as vanilla though I am sad it's not on the PS3 version.

Overall, this is Tekken 5 but way better. And it's my favourite Tekken game. The PSP version has more to it with Tekken Dojo and Story Mode so if you wanna play full on Dark Resurrection, then get that version if you got a PSP.

The PS3 version is good and you even get to play as Jinpachi! (Laughs in Devil Gene...) Too bad he's not as strong as when you fight him.

But yeah, Dark Resurrection is the GOAT.