Had a lot fun playing this. A friend recommended this game to me when i asked which Tekken game should i start with and you might be wondering if other people should start Tekken with this one like i did well honestly it depends. If you're just dipping your toes into the world of Tekken and don't want to commit to buying a new game or upgrading your hardware just yet, then Dark Resurrection is a solid choice.
It offers enough content to keep you entertained for hours on end, and the gameplay is as solid as ever.

What sets apart this game from it's predecessor Tekken 5 is the content. Dark Resurrection adds in a bunch of new characters, stages, and modes that weren't originally in the base game like the Tekken Dojo mode and also adds in like an RPG element to it allowing players to level up characters and unlock things as they progress.

The graphics in this game while not a drastic overhaul, features some improvements in graphics and visual effects compared to Tekken 5, particularly in its PSP iteration.

Another cool thing is the customization in this game offering more customization options for characters, allowing players to personalize the characters to a greater extent though to unlock the customization that you want to buy is by earning points that you get from playing the game

A good fighting game but a poor Tekken console experience.

Unfortunately Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is mostly just a very straightforward port of the Arcade version on PS3, it lacks a story mode, most side game mode, Devil Within (for the better or worse), and the whole unlockable extravaganza that Tekken is known for. Having all characters unlocked from the get go is fairly handy but then you really just get this “Pick up and play” Tekken game which on its own is good for a fighting game but it’s just unfortunate to see that everything Tekken 5 on console built was completely forgotten.

While I gave it a pretty low score, it’s a good game don’t get me wrong I just don’t think it’s a very good “Update” to Tekken 5 if it just mostly removes a chunk of content just to add like 3 characters. The fact that the online was a standalone release/DLC is really weird, would you imagine paying 10€ to play the online of Tekken 8? (And I don’t mean PSN…)

But as someone who’s been on a journey to play all Tekken games in order, I can officially tell you that if I had to come back to a Tekken game it would be this one due to the polished gameplay, sleek updated PS3 graphics, and hypocritically enough the pick up and play aspect.