Tekken Revolution (F2P Tekken)

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As far as I'm aware this is only on PS3, which might be because it's a free to play game, I'm not sure if XBLA has any and is set up to do it.

Basically it's Tekken, whatever the last one was probably. It looks really nice, seems to play fairly well (if you like Tekken) and has quite a few characters. The free to play model for it comes from the play modes, to play the arcade mode you need a red 'Arcade' coin, to play online you need a blue 'Battle' coin, you get a set amount to start with but spend one every time you play one of those modes. If you use an Arcade coin it's an hour before it refills (with a maximum of 2 being able to be stored), battle coins (for both player and ranked online matchers) refill one every 30 minutes, and a maximum of 5 can be stored

There's also Premium Tickets which used in either mode, I'm not entirely sure how you get these back other than to win when you spend one, perhaps the game rewards you with them or they're gifted at some point. Finally there's Premium Coins, they're essentially the same as Premium Tickets, only they are bought with real money from PSN (£0.79 for 4 coins, £1.59 for 10 and £3.99 for 30)

There's 8 characters available from the off but there's at least one hidden in a gift box that needs gift points to unlock, currently I don't have enough to do this but you earn more by fighting. You also level up characters through fighting, this requires skill points (earned when you reach a new level) and gold, which you earn through fighting. If you're focussing on a single character then you probably won't have less cold than skill points, but if you want to level every one up then you're going to need to fight a lot

The online matches I had worked fine, there's limits on the player matches though, you can't just have a 1vs1 best of 3, instead you're setting up a lobby with a number of players waiting to fight, with the lowest win rate being best of 5. It's not necessarily how I'd play a fighter online, but then I don't often, and at least the extra rounds mean you're not burning through coins quite so fast