Namco Bandai released the arcade version of "Tekken 7" early this year in Japan. Players around the world are eagerly awaiting its release on next generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One.

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Bandai released the first "Tekken" installment in 1994.The game has since become one of the most played martial fighting games along with "Mortal Kombat."

While the game is titled Tekken 7, this is actually the ninth installment of this martial arts series. The Xbox One and PS4 versions will utilize the graphic capabilities of the Unreal engine 4.  Aside from the regular cast, a new character will be introduced -- Catalina or Katarina. She's of Arabic roots and will join the combat matches.

Katsuhiro Harada, Tekken's producer, boasts the Unreal engine 4 is "powerful and easy to use." He adds the engine allows them to put the latest installment of Tekken into any gaming platform they want.

Bandai's Tekken 7 preview has finally revealed the final boss' players turn out to be Kazuya's mother and Heihachis's wife -- Kazumi Mishima.

Players will fight her for two standard rounds and she takes the form of normal person or as a flying demon.  Gamers will fight her as a human in the first round. In the second round, players will fight her in her demon form. Fighting her in the latter form will be difficult since she'll have enormous strength and frightening powers like lasers.

In preparation for the upcoming Tekken 7 release for next gen consoles, Bandai has also released the names of 20 characters that will fight in the game. Most are Tekken veterans like Kazuya, Heihachi, Hwoarang and Bryan.

No definite release date for the next gen consoles has been set but it's definite gamers will have their hands on them this year.

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