I am the King of the Iron Fist Tournament Five
No doubt, this game belongs to the 3 best looking games for the Playstation 2, along with metal gear Solid 3 and God of War. High resolution textures, good polygone models, great special effects, 60 fps "smooth", progressive scan and the european version has got even 16:9 support. And don't forget the super quality cgi opening movie, which blows away any Final Fantasy cgi.
Sound
Yeah the good old school techno beat but this time slightly different with more emotions, and a Choir (in some levels). makes a great atmosphere.
Design
This time it's not about being stylish but being fully loaded to the max,for example the completely new Jack is now more like a fully equipped and charged war machine instead of a human like cyborg.
Every single character, more then enough of course, are reworked or even new designed to be "brutal", "dangerous" and "mysterious", all in one!!
Gameplay
many people and namco them self are saying that T5 tries to be faster then T4, but in my opinion many characters have lost speed compared to T4 while others have gained speed. All in all it's a mixture of Tekken3 a ultra fast action packed beat em up and Tekken4, the "hyper styled" slow down version.
The new arcade mode, similar to the one for Virtua Fighter 4, is not fully developed, to easy to gain new ranks and only a few costumization objects for each character. Not enough to be excellent
The Jin extra game mode is... let's say it this way... boring but you have to play it if you want to have the great devil jin as a playable character, sorry.
All in all
from a technical standpoint and looking at the design, both characters and levels, Tekken 5 is not just a game that returnes to it's roots, Tekken3, no, it goes far bejond this and brings Tekken to a new level of action packed epic beat 'em up, or better say "saga".
But if we are looking closer we will see that the gameplay still needs some more strategic touch if namco doesn't want to loose the race against Sega and their ultra realistic Virtua Fighter 4