The best fighting games like Tekken Tag Tournament 2 are Tekken 8, Tekken 3 and Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown. Below are 10, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to fighting costs you.
Filtering to fighting means you want a contest with a clear answer — you got it right or you did not. It is the right filter when what you liked was reading an opponent.
What you get: A skill ceiling you can actually see yourself climbing, and the shortest feedback loop in games.
What made Tekken Tag Tournament 2 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the fighting part of that answer, and only the fighting part.
The current entry, and the single-player content is generous again.
Where the series became itself, and still the most beloved.
The purest 3D fighter, and the most technically respected.
3D fighting with weapons and a proper story mode.
Tag fighting taken to its most chaotic extreme.
Faster 3D fighting built around counters.
The best on-ramp any fighting game has built, if you are starting out.
Capcom's team-based 3D fighter with a full story mode.
If the chaos rather than the frame data was the appeal.
Kameo assists are the modern version of the tag idea.
A first few hours that can be discouraging alone. Fighting games are far better with someone at your level than against the internet.
The full list is on games like Tekken Tag Tournament 2 — 10 picks, no genre filter.
Tekken 8. The current entry, and the single-player content is generous again.
No. Tekken Tag Tournament 2 released on the PlayStation 3, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
Much less than they were. Modern control schemes, rollback netcode and real single-player modes have changed the on-ramp completely in the last few years.
One opponent against one, or one against many. They share ancestry and almost nothing else — the picks below say which each one is.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Tekken Tag Tournament 2 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is fighting — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the fighting guide for where to start in the genre generally.