Somebody else beat him to it, though: the G Corporation (yeah, another one of those), a genetics firm with its own interest in Kazuya's DNA.Р”Р„ raid by Heihachi's troops on a Corporation test lab met an unexpected obstacle.

So Heihachi shifted gears, assuming that the father's Devil Gene would be as useful as the son, provided you could find a tissue swatch to clone it up from. Heihachi promptly commissioned a search for Jin, but all it turned up was a photograph, showing of all things the winged corpse of Devil Kazuya. Jin and Kazuya do, however - apparently that's what's making them turn into Devils all the time. Apparently, to properly mix genes with Ogre, you have to have the Devil Gene, and Heihachi hasn't got it. Even when he gathered Ogre's tissue samples, his genetic engineers found it impossible to realize his dream of splicing Ogre's DNA with his own. Heihachi Mishima's plans were almost completely thwarted at the end of Tekken 3: he failed to kill or capture Jin, and the living Ogre slipped through his grasp. It's two years since the conclusion of the third King of Iron Fist tournament, won when Jin Kazama defeated True Ogre. Tekken 4 features the kind of graphic improvements you'd expect, but more important, there is a completely new stage system joining other additions to an already complex gameplay heritage. The battle between this generation of 3D fighters is now scattered incomplete across a few different theaters, the arcades and at least two different consoles, but it looks as if Tekken may be poised to gain the greatest success a second time running.

First, Sega unveiled and tested Virtua Fighter 4 then, Team Ninja stole the spotlight by boosting the Xbox with Dead or Alive 3 last of all, but probably not least in the long run, Namco has unveiled Tekken 4 to the world. Now, it looks as if everyone's hat is in the ring.

Tekken 4 gameplay