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The 360 Marketplace had thousands of assets. Want to put a watermelon on Yoshimitsu's head? A pirate hat on King? A toilet plunger on Paul's back? That was the real DLC. For a community that loved "Tekken Ball" and stupid costumes, this was heaven. The Xbox 360 Marketplace is officially closed for business via the console, but here is the good news for collectors:
But for those of us playing on Microsoft’s black monolith, the conversation always circled back to the DLC. Did we get the full experience? Where are the guests? And why was the file size so small? Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Dlc Characters Xbox 360
The DLC characters (Angel and Slim Bob) are not tournament viable. They are novelties. The real reason to revisit TTT2 on Xbox 360 today is the . It remains one of the smoothest 60fps fighters on the platform.
Since Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is on Xbox One and Series X|S, the DLC is still available for purchase via the modern Microsoft Store web interface. Posted by: Arcade Revival | Reading Time: 4
If you were an Xbox 360 owner back in 2012, you lived through a golden, albeit slightly confusing, era of fighting games. While Street Fighter IV was dominating the EVO stage, Namco Bandai dropped what many consider the peak of the "tag era": .
Stay tuned for more deep dives into retro fighting game DLC. A toilet plunger on Paul's back
Let’s fire up the backwards compatibility and break down the Tekken Tag Tournament 2 DLC situation for the Xbox 360. First, a quick history lesson. When TTT2 launched, Sony had a marketing deal. The PS3 version got exclusive access to some retro arcade classics (the original Tekken and Tekken 2 ) on the disc. Xbox 360 players, however, had to look to the Xbox Live Marketplace for their fix.
Just don't go looking for Link. Nintendo kept him locked in the Mushroom Kingdom.
If you didn't buy the DLC, you could still fight against people using Slim Bob or Angel online. This prevented the "walled garden" issue that killed other fighting games. Furthermore, the real DLC value was in the .