Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Comes With Free Membership In The WTF
Yes, just by buying
Tekken Tag Tournament 2, you'll gain free access to the World Tekken Federation.
So what is the WTF?
It's essentially an online service where you can link your console account. It collects stats and achievements, updating them in real time; allows you to join, create, and manage teams; and strategize with those teams.
There may also be other goodies involved, but Namco is keeping those quiet for now. This seems largely designed for the fighting game community to get more involved with the game and to help arrange tournaments both online and off.
Our Take: Along with Call of Duty Elite, ResidentEvil.Net, Battlefield 3 Premium and a whole bunch we're probably missing, we're not really sure gamers need
yet another social network tied to one specific game. It's good for the hardcore player but it seems like anybody who just wants to get in some fights and
listen to Snoop Dogg's track will be a bit baffled over what to do with this.
That said, we will give them credit for what's got to be a deliberate choice of acronym. That made us laugh a little harder than it should have.
Press Release:
NAMCO BANDAI Games America today announced that World Tekken Federation, the premium online service for TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2, will be available free of charge when the game is released worldwide the week of September 10, 2012 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
The World Tekken Federation service gives TEKKEN players the chance to interact in a social community platform in order to track personal statistics against the world, create and manage teams with friends, compete in online events and discuss intricate strategies with a level of unparalleled detail in the fighting game genre.
“With TEKKEN TAG TOURNAMENT 2, the team is committed to providing an unparalleled fighting game experience and are proving our dedication to this effort by offering World Tekken Federation free of charge to everyone who buys a copy of the game,” said Carlson Choi, Vice President of Marketing for NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. “Bringing together TEKKEN fans from around the globe in such a robust online community is a first for the fighting game genre and will give veterans and beginners a chance to develop their fighting skills in an exciting new way.”