In addition to this, the game featured new moves, as well as modifications to some older moves, in order to balance out the characters more, new customization items, new stages, and new pre-fight and win animations, as well as some camera angle modifications to some older ones. Eddy Gordo also received his own character box, rather than just sharing a character box with Christie Monteiro. It added two new characters, Emily 'Lili' Rochefort and Sergei Dragunov, and it also added a returning older character, Armor King. Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection is an upgraded version of Tekken 5. Various tech catches (for example, Wang Jinrei's WS+4, d+3, 4 on an opponent that quick recovers) were removed. The character health bars for this game sported a different colour compared to the health bars on the original Tekken 5. It also tweaked the damage properties for ground moves, instead of ground moves doing 100% damage, they now only inflicted 70% damage. It contained various balance changes to characters of the original game. Tekken 5.1 was a minor upgrade patch of the original Tekken 5 that was not released on consoles and instead, was only on arcades.

The game features 32 playable characters, the fourth largest amount of playable characters in a Tekken game, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection has 35 characters, the third largest amount, Tekken Tag Tournament has 39 characters, the second largest amount and Tekken 6 has 40 characters, the largest amount (42 in Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion, which will also be in place of Tekken 6 for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3) The game is credited for taking the series back to its roots. It was released for Arcades in North America in December 2004, and was released on the PlayStation 2 on Febru(United States), Ma(Japan), and J(European Union).

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