While other next-generation fighters are shooting for sexy, busty new character designs, it looks like the team behind Tekken is shooting for the chubby chaser crowd.
Namco Bandai's other fighter may have just added a bit more "up top" as well as a touch more junk in the trunk on characters like Ivy and Taki, but in Tekken 6 they piled all the pounds on one new character, brilliantly named Bob. If you're one of those gamers that always picks the cool-looking character, well... let's just say that you'll never use Bob. He looks like the cross between an overweight Ken Masters from Street Fighter and Dr. Eggman from Sonic the Hedgehog. I fully expect to see "Face Sit" as a special move.
Digital Battle has a scan of the semi-Mario outfitted porker himself. The magazine says that Bob used to be a good-looking martial arts pro, but he could never take down the big guys. Discouraged, he left for some time and came back bigger than ever, ready to take the Iron Fist Tournament #6 by storm.
GuitarAtomik's Destructoid community blog post "Tekken 6's Bob!!...In Full Butterlust Action!!" has scans from more pages of the Arcadia Magazine (Japanese) spread this news came from. You may be suprised to see that the big guy can kick some ass. Note the fancy digs Bob's sporting from the Big and Tall Store in the lower left corner of the picture. Classy.
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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4:39 PM on 08.30.2007
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I'm a HUGE fighting platform fan. My girlfriend LOVES DoA and I love Tekken so it's sort of akward but we both like Guilty Gear. Anyways I am more and more just looking into the PS3, I can't WAIT to see what sort of horrorsurvival games they can cough up.
because bob is going to fucking own town.
I wonder if he's smooth.
That's what Kotaku said
I wonder what's next, an anoerexic girl?
re: annorexic girl
that character has already been announced as "Leo" lol
Some would say Bob is Super Bad!
They welded the idea around in their heads for awhile about the anorexia girl, but they were unable to come up with a successful Toy-Dog in Purse & Daddy's Credit Card attack.
His style is obviously Hamburger style, or possibly Philly Cheese-steak...I dunno, which ever is more fattening.
I hope they get extremely detailed with the sound, like wheezing and breathing heavy while moving around. I don't see him taking much damage, but if he doesn't make jolly sounds and gas noises when he is hit, I'm not buying it.
Damn...now I'm hungry for a Philly cheese-steak.
that dude just got dtoid robbed.
*crickets chirping*
Also fat people.
Yet Japan also loves sumo wrestling.