Almost thirty years later, he’s still here helping Tekken stay top of the class. Harada’s manager asked him, ‘how many years do you need to catch up and beat Virtua Fighter?’, to which Harada replied they’d need about a decade. When Harada first started in the early 1990s, he tells us via Murray, his immediate boss said Tekken’s biggest rival was Virtua Fighter, the preeminent 3D fighting game at the time. Related: Tekken 8 Preview: Thrilling Fists Of Fury Tekken might have Guinness World Records for longest running 3D fighting game series and longest running video game storyline, but Harada knows the humble beginnings from which it sprang. TheGamer sat down with Harada and producer (and interview translator) Michael Murray, for an interview at Bandai Namco’s European HQ, where we got a day’s hands-on with the new game. Armed with a bigger budget than for the previous entry, the series has come a long way, and its executive producer Katsuhiro Harada has been a part of it since the PS1 days. Bandai Namco is pulling out the stops for Tekken 8.
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