If you aren't one of the few lucky people who got Tekken Tag Tournament 2
early before its official release next week or one of the many lousy
guys who snatched the torrent of the Xbox360 version, this might still
be news to you. Nina finally got the Hollywood action movie type ending
cinematic she deserves. Not that I don't like the more quiet (Tekken 2)
or personal (Tekken 3) endings, or those with a humorous touch (Tekken
1, 5, 6), but I've always wondered why the Tekken games so rarely depict
her in action heavy scenes. You know, the obvious standard assassin
stuff: sniper guns, melee combat, acrobatics, stealth, an actual
assassination for once... Well, we get all of that in her Tag 2 ending
movie. I say it's been long overdue. It's an action packed look at the
job that pays her bills and with a running time of 1:47 it's one of the
longer endings in the game.
What's also interesting is that Namco
seems to have used a high-poly version of her in-game model for the
scene and not the Blood Vengeance model used in the game's intro movie.
So I guess the character ending FMV's were created and rendered in-house
at Namco, unlike the intro which has been created by Digital Frontier,
the studio behind Tekken Blood Vengeance. Probably to cut costs. The
in-game model works very well with the setting, though.
Get spoiled after the jump...
