Bandai Namco Entertainment has more slots to fill in the "Tekken 7" roster. The developer has been bringing both familiar and new faces in the recent months, but the company is nowhere near done.
Bandai Namco Games America brand manager Mark Religioso teased in an interview with The Koalition at the NYC Summer Showcase that fans can expect "a whole ton of new characters."
He also revealed that the "Tekken 7" roster as it is right now is not final. It is expected that the game's roster will expand even further as the weeks go by. However, Bandai Namco is keeping things on a lid for now as to which characters they are bringing along.
There are still a lot of fighters in the "Tekken" universe that could be brought in. Many fans are waiting for the likes of Lee Chaolan and Anna Williams, who are expected to be part of the "Tekken 7" roster.
Just recently, Bob was added to the "Tekken 7" roster as well as a new character named Master Raven, who is the boss or the "higher officer" of "Tekken" staple Raven, as per game director Katsuhiro Harada.
But apart from bulking up the ensemble, Bandai Namco is also focused on enriching the experience of fans in "Tekken 7" through a story mode, which Religioso detailed to Dual Shockers.
"What we're kinda seeing now with the trends in fighting games, is that fans want more than the core fighting experience, they also want a full fleshed-out single player experience, which is why we're pursuing story mode so hard in this game," he revealed.
"We're really integrating it in a special way where it goes from in-game cinematics to actual gameplay with a lot of dialogue between characters, so you can really experience and feel that story," Religioso went on to say.
"Tekken 7" will be released to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC sometime next year.
