Task 3 - Video Game Documentary

Introduction script

Hello my name is Ramil Garceniego  and today I’m going to be showcasing the results of the  4 major research types that I conducted to use for my documentary about the Tekken franchise. Those 4 major research types are Primary, Secondary, Qualitative and Quantitative. In my documentary you will see images of the questionnaire that I made using survey monkey and also print screens of the results that I acquired in the form of bar charts and pie charts, this is one of the primary research techniques that I used to find out about peoples point of view on tekken even though they have never played it before, the second primary research technique that I used was to do an interview with one of my friends which you will be seeing in my documentary later, in the interview I ask her about what she thought of the game like the graphics and how it has changed over the past decade. The whole of the research would probably count as secondary research.

Documentary
So start off my documentary I will be showing you clips of tekken starting with the oldest to the latest, as the video proceeds you’d probably notice how im only showing nina for each of the clips this is because I wanted to show you how the graphics have dramatically improved over the years and how they have added new systems and modes so that the game won’t get too boring with just the usual traditional fighting modes like ghost battle and arcade.
Throughout tekken 1.
The first clip will obviously be tekken 1 which was released at arcades on December 9 and 11 on 1994 and was released a year later from March 31 to November 7 and 8 on PlayStation which by then the second tekken came out.
In this clip you will see nina versus yoshimitsu. As you can see there are only eight characters you can choose from and you can also see that they all look a little bit retarded especially nina because she looks quite grumpy, probably because she has a banana hanging from her head, but don’t worry they will gradually get a lot better through out the series of clips I will be showing.
Here you can see nina fighting yoshimitsu with her unusually disproportionate limbs but this will also change within the next 6 clips I will be showing you.
So next is tekken 2
Throughout tekken 2.
It’s not hard to notice but you can see they have slightly changed the layout of the character select and the background music, they’ve also added effects on the character portrait.
you can see the change in the character design and the graphics of the gameplay
And here you can also see that slightly changed her winning pose.
Throughout tekken 3.
Here they’ve changed the player select screen a little bit and they’ve also added 9 new characters but removed Michelle and replaced her image with her daughters so they’ve completely changed the character but the moves are still the same just with a different character doing them.
 Before showing clips of tekken 6.
Before I show you the clip of tekken 6 let me tell you about the new systems they have added into the game and new customization’s,
As for the new mode it is a beat’em up type of mode called scenario campaign mode which is very similar to tekken force and devil within that were also featured modes from previous instalments, this mode allows the player to move freely in an invironment which is similar to that of a thirperson roleplaying game. Cool part is that while playing the plaer can also pick up weapons like poles and gatling guns they can also pick up other things like gold and and clothes you can use to customize your characters, you can get these by breaking crates that are basically all over the place, not that the clothes that you find in the mode can boost your strength within that mode, also from the start you will be given a companion that will fight with you who is a playable character in the game.
Next is the customization, im only going to talk about a couple of stuff here so first are the interactive items, these interactive items can be used to damage your opponent of just make your character do some stupid stuff like a disco ball will illogically appear out of nowhere and your character will start dancing which is pretty stupid considering that your fighting though some of them will make your character kick a football at your opponent, note that when you activate this it will leave your character open for attacks, each character has their own individual interactive item where only that certain character can use it, another thing is that you have to wear certain types of clothes or items to make it work and you will also have to use a button combo like everything else. Last thing is the aura or ki and rage system colour which I talked about earlier, these effect are quite expensive auras and ki’s being 500,000 gold. And I think the rage colours are around a million.
Another new thing is that they have now made interactive environments where you can fall through if your character or the opponent is smashed on that particular area, though there is only 4 of these 1 being a wall you can smash your opponents through.
Before showing the interview video and print screens of questionnaire.
Before i get to talking about the other game instalments and how they have adapted the games into movies and anime I will be showing you print screens of the questions from the questionnaire I made using survey monkey along with the results that I acquired from it.
the next thing I will showing you is a video of me interviewing one of my friends asking them about tekken like which graphics they preferred between the two different tekken instalments specifically between 1 and 6. Ok so her it is.
Before showing tag tournament series
Ok so now that that’s over I will be showing you the tekken tag tournament series and how it has improved. Ok so the first tekken tag tournament came out on july 1997, it has the same fighting mechanics as tekken 3  but you can battle in teams of two characters so when your playing in any point of the match you can hit a tag button which will swap your character with your other character and this allows the resting fighter to recover some health. You can use the tag in many ways like between doing a combo or while utilising special throws. Unlike other tag games like Capcom’s Vs. series the player will lose even if only one of the characters lose their all their health.
Now for tekken tag 2 released at arcades on September 14, 2011 just like the first one, the player is required to choose to different characters to fight with. not too much has changed with the mechanics except now you can a combined throw which if time properly can be escaped from. the only that has dramatically changed is the graphics and you can see how much different it is from the old one.
While showing a side by side video of tekken tag 1 and 2.
Here is a side by side comparison on the graphics of the two instalments.
Now for tekken revolution, im going to go through this quickly just because I still have other things to talk about the adaptations.
Ok so tekken revolution is the in the tekken franchise to made free to play in this manner. It was released exclusively playstation 3 in the playstation store on june 11 2013.
Tekken revolution
 In tekken revolution they have introduced a new system that you use to basically upgrade an individual character, so the first one is POWER, if you level up this stat it will increase your characters strength, so they do more damage per hit, the next thing is VIGOR, when you level up this stat it will increase you chance of hitting a critical hit which deals more damage than a normal hit, the next stat is Endurance now this stat when upgraded will increase your characters health and will show up on the life bar as grey health.
Tekken 7
Now onto tekken 7, tekken 7  had limited arcade release in japan on February 18 2015 and was followed by another unfinished release on march 18 2015, an update on the arcade title tekken 7 fated retribution was announced on December  12 2015, it will be featuring an expanded content including new stages, costumes, characters and items, do note that the game is still on beta stage.
now in tekken 7 they have added two new mechanisms known as rage arts, unlockable moves that deal 30% damage, the second one is power crush, this allows the player to continue an attack even while being hit, do note that even though you can’t be interrupted, your opponents moves will still deal damage to you, it also only works  for high and mid attacks.
Another one is the screw attack, the screw attack is basically like the bound system that was in tekken 6, this move will make your opponent spin sideways when hit while airborne which will allow you to do more moves but unlike the bound system you won’t be able to extend your combos.
You will see what I mean with the clips I will showing you.

Before talking about other adaptations.
Now that I have covered most of the game instalments I will be showing you clips of the movies and anime adaptations they have made.
First adaptation.
Starting off with the anime adaptation. The anime adaptation was called tekken: the motion picture, it was initially released on DVD on January 26, 1999, the story is basically showing how Kazuya, one of the main characters in the game gathered so much hatred for his father Heihachi mishima, I mean c’mon who wouldn’t so angry with their dad if he throws you down a cliff to see if your strong enough to survive, well anyway here are some clips from the movie,
Ok so next is a live action film adaptation of the game and it’s called Tekken, Just tekken.  It was released on march 20 2010 in japan having the budget of 30 million dollars which I really don’t get why they need so much money just filming hitting each other and flipping around doing stunts, anyway the story is about a teen ager named jin also a main character in the game, kazuya’s son to jun who was a character in tekken 2 and tekken tag 2 as a boss when she transforms into a monster called unknown, ok carrying on from jin, jin was taught martial arts by his mother and he usually co-operates with resistance groups to earn money to buy food as some food like chocolate have become expensive and rare commodities in the year they lived in, (I’d hate to live a world with no chocolate) but one night jin was targeted by the jackhammers, an elite specs group that patrols the place he lives in to ensure the safety of tekken city, he was targeted because he was co-operating with the resitance but when he we went home he finds his mother dead, thinking that the heihachi was the one responsible for her death jin swears to revenge the heihachi by entering the iron fist tournament.
Here are clips from the movie.
Next adaptation.
The Next movie adaptation is called tekken: blood vengeance, The movie was produced by Digital Frontier and distributed by Asmik Ace Entertainment in association with Bandai Entertainment.
The film premiered in North America by Bandai entertainment on july 26 2011, the film was released on blue ray disc on November 22 2011 for usa and December 1 for japan.
Next adaptation
I don’t want to go into too much detail because this documentary is probably dragging but the plot takes place in an alternate story line between tekken 5 and 6 so the movie includes some characters from the two games, main characters like jin kazama and kazuya mishima will obviously be there but it also includes one of the new characters from tekken 6 named alisa bosconovitch who is a humanoid and is being used by jin kazama to search for their target who is a boy named shin kamiya, anyway the movie is action packed with quite a lot of fighting scenes in so yeah, here are some clips from the movie
Last adaptation.
The latest movie in the series is called tekken: kazuyas revenge and it’s a prequel of the other live action film, the film is a live action version of the anime adaptation.
Note that I’ve only watched tekken: blood vengeance so I don’t really know what im talking about with the other ones but they’re all based on research.


Notes:
Say how you will start off with showing clips of the games starting with oldest, obviously.
Talk about when they were released
Having Nina as an example for the changes in the graphics.
Talk about the bound system, the rage system and how you can customize aura onto your character. Scenario mode in tekken 6 similar to tekken force which was playable in tekken 4.
Show images of the questionnaire you made and the interview.
Talk about how the franchise evolved and were adapted as movies and anime.
Talk about tekken revolution and tekken 7.
Two new mechanisms, Rage arts, unblockable moves that deal about 30% damage. Second, power crush lets the player continue attacks even while being hit, they would receive damage but the moves won’t be interrupted, it also works only for absorbing high or mid attacks.
The bound system that was in tekken 6 is replaced by screw attack which instead makes the enemy spin sideways when they are hit while airborne, this allows the player to inflict additional hits before they hit the ground. While the bound system allows you to do call combos screw attack doesn’t.
Characters movements are now much more fluid and also the character art are much smoother and detailed so it looks more realistic.

Task 1 - Types of research

Primary: 
Primary research is a type of research that uses original data meaning that when you have to find and gather

information on something but you have to do it yourself, an example of a good primary research technique would be surveys like creating a questionnaire and getting answers from people from the questions you've generated but using questionnaires can also be a mix of secondary and primary research because even though you've created the questionnaire yourself the information you get from the answers people have put in can be classed as secondary because your getting that information from a different source.

Because primary research only uses original data means that getting information from the internet like Wikipedia or any other sites will not  be primary research anymore as you are taking information from a source someone has already done. Using books will also classed as secondary research because your using something that someone else has wrote. Other primary research techniques you could use are focus groups because while your in a focus group you have the freedom of asking people and write down notes that you can expand later on, another good example of primary research are Phone interviews because when you're interviewing someone you ask them questions. All primary research must be for a specific purpose like any other research. 

This is an example of a questionnaire that I have created with survey monkey and as you can see its very random.  In a questionnaire you can have a question that is either opened or closed. Closed questions are questions that you can only choose one answer that's already been provided be it yes or no or like the first question that is shown in the example questionnaire below now an open questionnaire is the opposite instead of having to only choose from multiple answers that's already been written for you, and open question gives you the freedom to answer whatever you like but of course it has to be related to the question otherwise it wouldn't make any sense. You can see an open question below on the example questionnaire. 

A questionnaire isn't the only option for primary research you can do either the questionnaire which is the easiest option for primary research, there is also the focus group option which you will have to gather people then sit around a table and ask them questions so sort of like a group interview and this is good because while you only get one sided answers in a questionnaire in a focus group you can get a lot more information while taking notes because you get to talk to them in person and while you only ask a single question and get a single answer in a questionnaire, while doing a focus group you can expand on them and you can also clarify answers you don't understand to the person it came from. The other one is a phone interview which I have mentioned before.  

Advantages of primary research is that it's one of the easiest way of doing research also you get the answers that your want from the people you give your questionnaire to this means that you can trust the results that come back because its yours, also if any of the results come back wrong no body else is to be blamed except for you as you did create the questionnaire yourself. 

Disadvantages of primary research is that if you make a questionnaire and want to print them out it could be quite expensive depending on how much answers you want to back your data up, also primary research like interviewing someone or doing a focus group can be very time consuming for you and the people that you talk to or want as they might have things to do. Also not all results that come back are reliable as you would think because people have the choice to lie in your questionnaire.

   
Secondary: 
Unlike primary research secondary research is the complete opposite as it uses information from other sources. There are many ways that you can do secondary research like for example using the internet to get information from sites like the popular Wikipedia but it isn't the only one out there, the internet has thousands of other sites that can give you the information you want depending on what you want to find out. Another option would be going to library and finding a book or magazine then use it to find specific information on what you want to find out a newspaper is also a good option.

You can use either of these options but each of them have different purposes like for example if you wanted to find out about whats been recently happening in a celebrities life a goo choice would be to go on the internet because it basically has everything, you can also use a magazine because they are always updated. Even though the internet is easier because there are thousands of sites that have information on what you need you can't always rely on it because it could be down one day so the only options you'll have would be to use books, magazines and newspapers to find your information.

An example of secondary research are the images shown above. I acquired this this grid of information from a site called BARD which is short for Broadcasters Audience Research Board, this site displays the TV ratings and the  number of figures a TV channel has. The first image above shows the top ten programmes in the TV channel ITV and the second image shows how many viewers that programme has by the thousands. This is classed as secondary research because your gathering information from a source the someone has gathered themselves. 

The advantages of secondary research is that if you need information the internet is only a click away meaning its easier and you don't consume other peoples time with questionnaires and interviews, also your local newspaper gets dropped by your house everyday without having to pay for it something similar to the newspaper are books and magazines although you have to pay for them some can be cheaper than others also each book holds different specific information and libraries have them categorized in shelves so you won't have too much of a hard time looking for the right book. This takes less time than making a questionnaire because after you've finished making the questionnaire you have to find people who will do them for you but after that you also have to evaluate and put together the information you've gathered from it, so gathering information from books is not as time consuming as doing a questionnaire and it also saves paper. 

The disadvantages of secondary research is that you don't know if the information that you gathered is reliable or not and the source your getting it from might be giving you false information also even though the internet has a vast source of information that you can gather your information from you don't know how old the source might be so always for the date to when it was last updated. Not everyone has internet in their homes as it is quite expensive. If you don't have internet in your house you can always go to your local library but if you don't have one you might have to take a bus to get to it or you can just walk but it would be a hassle to do so and taking the bus will just cost you money.

Quantitative:
Quantitative research is the type of research you use to get numeric based results. For example in a questionnaire if you use closed questions it will give you number based results, closed questions in a questionnaire usually already have answers provided for you so all you have to do is to pick from those already given options which means that questions like these give you no freedom answer in your own word. Example of methods you can use to acquire quantitative data is by doing questionnaires or surveys.

The image above can be used as an example of audience research because it shows how many video game playing audience there is, also it states the range of age people play video games along with the percentage of males and females that play video games in the UK and also the social group they are placed in. Though this page is not up to date anymore so it's unreliable because over the course of 4 years there could've been drastic changes in the percentage of the gender that play video games and also the number of video game playing audience a good example of this is shown on the image below. This page was published on Thursday 18 September 2014, which means that over the course of three years the percentage of women that played video games increased by 4% as the page states. 

Quantitative research is important for both the media and games industry because to create a new product they would have to find out what people want first because they can't just produce a product with taking taking what their target audience wants into account but they do this in a more statistically and numerical way which is what quantitative research is all about. They acquire quantitative data by doing surveys because by doing this it determines the numbers and percentages of what they are trying to achieve for their target audiences. 

Qualitative:
Qualitative research will most likely be used by market researchers, qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research because if quantitative focuses on people's view numerically and statistically qualitative research focuses on people's views and opinions and how they react to a certain type of product or a topic which could be about anything like a game, a movie or a book. This can be done in many ways, the easiest option would be doing a questionnaire but the questions will have to be open questions where people can freely put their opinion in their own words, with this you can get unique and individual responses as a result. This type of research is definitely helpful in the games industry, let's say a games company released a new game or a prototype of the game they would want to hear feedback from people like what they think about the game and how to improve it. There are professionals that do this for a living called Game QA testers QA stands for Quality Assurance. Game companies also acquire results by creating forums that is solely based on that certain game. Forums can be about anything as well, forums and reviews are two types of qualitative research.
Like for example, the first image below shows a forum which has been set up for the purpose of discussing the PC requirements between two games.

Both of the images above are types of qualitative research the first image shows a forum while the second shows a review, the difference between the two is that the review is more detailed and focuses on analysing and stating the important elements of a game which in the case is a game called 'Tales of Zestiria' both of these methods are very helpful and effective to the gaming industry because forum method takes into account what people want to see in the product, what they want to happen this helps the games company to change the game based on what their target audience are asking for while the review method helps them to know what to improve technically.  

Links
https://srp-uk.org/news/article/89/bss-questionnaire 
http://www.peerresources.org/curriculum/interviews/  
http://www.exchangemarketresearchgroupnationwide.com/about   
http://opusmusic.org/?p=888 
http://forcechange.com/44742/urge-magazine-to-change-healthy-definition/ 
http://38pitches.com/top-100-books-you-should-read-before-you-die/ 
http://www.bytscomputers.com/services/refurbished-computers/ 
http://www.iabuk.net/blog/10-uk-video-game-audience-stats
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/18/52-percent-people-playing-games-women-industry-doesnt-know
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/tales-of-zestiria-review/1900-6416292/
http://www.gamespot.com/forums/games-discussion-1000000/fallout-4-vs-witcher-3-pc-requirements-32685760/#10 

Task 2 - Report on a game franchise

Tekken Franchise

The game franchise that i have chosen to do for this task is the Tekken  series, and i will be doing major research types, including audience research, market research and production research.

For the major research type the first thing i did out of the our types which are primary, secondary, qualitative and quantitative i decided to do primary research first as it is one of the quickest and easiest way to do research, so for this research i decided to make a questionnaire to see if there are people my age that know or have heard of about a game called Tekken which is quite old but the latest game they have released or will be is Tekken 7. The image below is a questionnaire i made in Survey Monkey

A total of four people did my questionnaire and when it came back i analyzed the results and three out of the four people that answered my questionnaire three of them were females and one a male. for the second question which i asked how old they were the results came back with three being between the age 14 and 19 with the one person being between the ages of 19 and 23. For the third question i asked if they've heard of Tekken and it was a half half result two said yes and two said yes. 

Because my survey is done digitally for my fourth question i left it to the viewers to decide what they think the target audience of the game was based on the link that i put in showing a gameplay of the game, when i got the results back two of them said 12 but with different reasons, one reason was that the viewer played it at that age but the other said that there would me more male players than females because there was violence and the female characters weren't dressed appropriately. For the other two results one of them said the target audience was for players who liked "beat em up" games but the other said it was for 15 - 20 year old males. 

The fifth question was to see what people thought the age rating for the game was the results came with another half half, two chose 11-13 and the other chose 14-16. For my last question i asked if they think that the game would sell well to it's target audience and why, one said that it would because it seemed like a game a teenage boy would love because of the fighting factor and the action involved one said yes because "they" liked games like that without specifying who "they" are, one said that its a good beat em up game and the other said yes because kids nowadays are spoilt. I think that no matter how old a game is people will still recognized it because of how they've carried on making their franchise till present day.  

These are the visual results i got from the questionnaire i made to find out about what people knew and what they thought of the game.  

The first Tekken was released on 9th of December, 1994 with the age rating being only Teen so the games age rating was for people over the age of twelve its the same for the other games but i think as the graphics and playability of the game becomes more detailed and advanced the age rating also goes up this is because while Tekken 1 to tekken 5 and other versions of the game like tag tournament may have had violence and pixelated blood particles their latest released game which is Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and Tekken 6 is much more detailed and colorful and it's because of the details that separate them from the others because while the older ones had mild nudity the later games are more detailed and it allowed players to see things like the characters underwear especially the ones wearing short skirts but this was only possible if they were fighting and then they fall over.

Tekken 1 was published and developed by Namco and was first released at arcades in late 1994 but was later released on PlayStation in 1995. The story of the game is that there is a huge worldwide martial arts tournament that's nearing to a close with a large amount of money to whoever can defeat Heihachi Mishima in the final round of the competition. Eight fighters remain from winning the death matches from around the world and these eight players are the characters you get to choose from the start, each of the characters have their own different stories and the ending scene of the game when you've defeated the boss who is Heihachi Mishima depends on which character your playing, this system has carried on with the other Tekken games. 

Kazuya Mishima the biological son of Heihachi enters the tournament for revenge as he was thrown into a ravine when he was younger because his father believed that he was too weak to inherit his conglomerate and that if he were actually strong enough he should be able to survive the fall and climb back up from the bottom of the ravine and this is what put Kazuya into such a vengeful state. Tekken 1 only has eight playable characters from the start but you can unlock ten other characters but can only be played on the console version of the game. When you play you also get to pick what location or setting you want to play in also known as stages in the game and there are a total of  11 stages that you can choose to fight in, some of them are actually based on real world locations. 

The eight playable characters are:

• Jack
• Kazuya Mishima 
• King
• Marshall Law         
• Michelle Chang 
• Nina Williams
• Paul Phoenix 
• Yoshimitsu 

 The unlockable characters are:
(console only)

• Anna Williams 
• Armor King
• Devil (Devil Kazuya)
• Ganryu
• Heihachi Mishima (Final Boss) 
• Kuma 
• Kunimitsu 
• Lee Chaolan 
• Prototype jack 
• Wang Jinrei 

Stages: 

• Acropolis 
• Angkor Wat
• Chicago 
• Fiji
• King George Island 
• Kyoto
• Marine Stadium 
• Monument Valley 
• Szechwan 
• Venezia 
• Windermere 

When Tekken got released a magazine company called Famicon Tsūshin or now known as Famitsu scored the game a 38 out of 40 and an 8 out of 10 on the Reader Cross Review. Another magazine called edge gave it a 9 out of 10 despite not having overall visual allure of another fighting game called Virtua Fighter 2, not only does Tekken match the style and the quality of Sega's (Developers and Publishers of Virtua Fighter 2 ) character animation but it also pushes the rival game to the edge in terms of playability too.

Tekken 6 was released in Japanese arcades on November 26, 2007 and Based on the update was released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 27, 2009 and also for the Portable PlayStation in the same year but on November 24. The game was supposedly only exclusive for PayStation 3 until they announced the Xbox 360 port on October 8, 2008. The game can also be digitally downloaded through the PlayStation store so that you could play it on the PSP(PlayStation Portable) and the PlayStation Vita and this makes it to be the first Tekken game to have included multi-tiered stages and a bound system and to be released on multiplatform. The game has recieved positive reviews, especially for the PSP version of it,GameRankings gave it an 82.60% while Metaritic gave it an 82 out of a hundred.

Tekken 6 unlike it's predecessors features bigger fighting stages that has high interactivity where you can break through walls and floors and go to a different version of that stage, they don't have this on every stage. The character customization has also been enhanced and some of the items or clothing that you put on your character can have certain effects that can implicate to your gameplay like for example there is a certain item that if you use the right combo you can summon penguins to attack your enemy but this move can only be used by a certain character, another example is that you can also use weapons like a lance that you can get from the customization shop and can actually be used as a move if the keys combo is right unlike the item where you can summon penguins only being used by a certain character this item can be used by all of the character if you enter the right key combo correctly. Also you can pick up items from story mode and these items can add to the strength of your character statistically this applies only on scenario campaign mode.

Another new addition to the game is the rage system where when a characters health bar reaches a certain point and will also strengthen the characters attacks per hit. Once it has been activated which will automatically activate when reaching that certain point but as soon as it's been activate a red aura will appear around the character and the rim around the health bar will start to flashing in red. This too can be customized so you can change the color of it and also the visual effect of it meaning that you can make it look like fire or electricity. Another new feature is the bound system with this each character will have a few moves and when used on a target that is midair will be smashed on the ground and will then bounce enabling you to carry your combo on longer, while they have bounced from the ground they will appear in a stunned and vulnerable state meaning that they won't be able to anything until they touch the ground again, targets will only bounce once. When you use a bound move on a target while in an interactive stage it can be used to shatter it.


In the console version they have also added a new beat 'em up mode called scenario campaign mode which is similar to the tekken force mode which was playable in tekken 4 and the devil within from tekken 5. This mode allows the player to roam freely in an environment like that of a third-person role-playing game. As if you defeat an enemy carrying a weapon like a metal pole or a Gatling gun you will be able to pick them up along with other items like money and power ups which you get when destroying crates that are scattered throughout the playable area of the environment. You will be able to move around freely in between your fights but if you do encounter a group of enemies will switch the gameplay back to the traditional 2D Tekken style gameplay. This mode was supposed to be originally an offline single player but a patch was released by Namco on January 18, 2010 that allowed players to co-op online.

Along with the new features and system they added nine new characters and two of them as new bosses for you to beat in the game but one of them is a bonus boss round. The seven characters included Zafina, Leo Kliesen, Miguel Cballero Rojo, Robert "Bod" Richards, Jack-6 which is an upgrade from Jack-5, Lars Alexandersson and the two new bosses are Azazel and NANCY-MI847J. With these new additional characters means that Tekken 6 has in total 36 playable characters including the returning characters from the past games.

NANCY-MI847J

          

Azazel 

This image shows the character select screen of tekken 6 showing all the characters that you can play as, most of them are returning characters.

Tekken 6 stages:

• Anger of the Earth + ++ (Arisa)
• Azazel's Temple Courtyard [Jin Kazama's Arena mode only] [Console Version] (Strike Without Warning)
• Azazel's Chamber [Azazel's Final Boss Stage] (Sacred Dark)
• Cemetery + (Cemetery)
• Central Tower [NANCY's Bonus Stage only] (NANCY)
• City After Dark (Death Fight At The Neon)
• Electric Fountain ++ (Karma)
• Fallen Colony + [G/Console Version, G ver. 2/Arcade,BR and PSP version, G ~Blast Ver.~/OST version]
• Fiesta Del Tomate ++ +++ (Tomato Festival)
• Gargoyle's Perch [Jin Kazama's Sub-Boss Stage] (Blowing Up The Enemy)
• Hidden Retreat ++ +++ (Sheep Grassland)
• High Roller's Club + (Splashing Casino)
• Lightning Storm ++ (Midtown Roars)
• Manji Valley (Yuki)
• Mystical Forest (Edge of Spring)
• Noh Theater (Only One Fight)
• Rustic Asia (Rustic Asia)
• Temple Grounds + (Techno Evening)
• Tunnel Disaster ++ (Tunnel Disaster)
• Urban War Zone (Artificial Ruins)

Notes

• + Is a multi-tier stage.
• ++ New to Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion.
• +++ Can only be selected via Random Select.

Total Units

North America: 1.18m 43.0%
+ Europe: 0.97m 35.3%
+ Japan: 0.17m 6.3%
+ Rest of the World: 0.43m 15.5%
= Global 2.75m

I think that the whole of the Tekken franchise have come a long way since 1994 when the first tekken game was released but through the years Namco decided that they would also create other tekken games other than the traditional tekken style so they made or should we say evolved the theme to many other categories like a movie and speaking of movies tekken has made animate ones and live action ones and an anime adaptation. They have also made a digital card game reminiscing that of Pokemon and Yu-gi-oh.  

Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_(video_game) 

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/198899-tekken-2/images/110162

http://game-oldies.com/play-online/tekken-3-sony-playstation  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_4 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_5 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_6 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken_Tag_Tournament_2 

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/tekkentag.html

http://www.fightersgeneration.com/games/tekken.html
http://mayahabee.deviantart.com/art/Tekken-6-New-Characters-Wall-149902324 
http://smashbroslawlorigins.wikia.com/wiki/Azazel
https://helugame.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/tekken-6-nancy/
http://tekken.wikia.com/wiki/File:Lars_Alexandersson_-_Character_Select_Screen_-_Tekken_6_Bloodline_Rebellion.jpg
http://tekken.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Stages