It's not a bad fighting game, but there really is something better out there.
When you start Tekken Advance, you'll have nine characters and several play options. You've got your basic Arcade mode, Survival Mode, Time Attack, and Tag mode. After you beat the game with all 9 characters, you unlock the games boss, Heihachi and the Team Battle mode, and the list of unlockables ends there.
Once you start a game, you'll notice the cut backs made to the game. First of all, you'll see the roster cut. I can understand that they had to leave some characters out, but there are some questionable desisions. For example, Eddy was left out and Gun Jack wsa left in. In the acctual fights, you have your punch and kick buttons, and the R buttons is used for throws.
The next thing you'll probably notice is the grahical changes. Since the GBA can't support polygonal graphics, every thing seems to have a Street Fighter look to it. It all looks pretty good until you use a throw.Then the camera zooms in and the whole thing looks terribly pixelated.
After winning a fight you'l see that there's no ending pose. instead, you see the winning character just stabding there. If it was you that won, then you can continue to fight your knocked-out opponent. That pretty much makes up for the lack of ending.
The final, and probably most disapointing cut is the ending have been cut out. Obviously we wouldn't have the videos from Tekken 3, but some text endings would have been nice.
Suprisingly, the announcer hasn't been cut, but he's been changed. Instead of the good sounding guy from Tekken 3, you have a life-less guy saying "You win." I don't know why they changed it, because there was nothing new to record.
The music is pretty good, but it's turned up so high that you can barely hear the announcer. But, then again, mabey that's a good thing.
Tekken Advance isn't a terrible, but there are several better fighting games for the Game Boy and GBA that will last you longer.