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So, you wanna know about Tekken 3?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay, then let's get down to business. I COULD tell you every single thing about Tekken 3, I COULD go on for ages and bore the socks off you. and guess, what I will. How good is Tekken 3? The short answer is fantastic. The slightly longer answer is the most incredible thing since chocolate. Face the facts. No other game, except the two prequels can touch it. The graphics are so far advenced that they just blow you away. It's incredible. Everyone thought the intro sequence on Resident Evil 2 was mind-blowing; well HELLO get a loada this! The game combines the complicated ( and many) combos that game masters have fun with alongside the simple gameplay any idiot can play with. Also finally, you can sidestep. Truely a cause for celebration. I think the total character count is about 23 or something including secret ones. My personal favourite being Dr.B who is a playable character for the first time in the Tekken series. Saying that, the character count is the one thing I'm disappointed with. I don't see Armor King anywhere. Now I could be wrong. I'd like to know how to get Armor King. Moving on, probably the best thing about Tekken 3 is the awe-inspiring secret modes. For years, we put up with same rubbish from games like Soul Blade and indeed Tekken and Tekken 2 ( which are all good games by the way) where they gave us Survival and Force Modes which were exactly the same. Now finally Tekken 3 keeps Survival Mode, gives an incredible new Theatre Mode, which even displays sequences from Tekken 1 & 2! (Wow!) A hilarious Ball Mode and fun packed Force Mode where you battle through four levels of bird brains to rescue Dr.B. OK, you know the drill, bye bye now!

Those with turbo controllers-easy wins!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I myself never thought that I would ever get into video games. I obviously found myself to be wrong. Even though I'd enjoyed the original Nintendo and SNES, I thought that the Playstation would be a big disappointment. I knew everything was supposed to be better, but I loved the fighting games and rpg's for those systems of yesteryear. Now that I own Tekken 3 for Playstation, I have only one thing to say; it's great! I'm aware that the backrounds are 2D, and that makes it look like you're fighting someone on a spinning surface, but I didn't mind it all that much. I especially liked the attacks of Eddy. When I had played the arcade version, I had thought that he was a breakdancer. But after seeing an example of that fighting style in real life, I was amazed at how controlled, acurate, and fluid the movements were! When I was fighting in the arcade with Yoshimitsu, I thought that there was some glitch as it wsa jumpy and seemed to be breaking up. I was shocked, because I had seen the great quality of the rest of the game. I then realized that only Yoshimitsu was breaking up, and that it was only an effect of his attack. I feel that the best thing overall is the fact that you don't really have to practice for a long time to get the hang of the game. I just looked at the controlls and took off! It does help, however, if you have a turbo controller. This makes it much easier to perform attacks that requre multiple strikes of the same key. I was rather disappointed at the fact that Tekken Ball is a hidden level. If you don't have a memory card, give up on trying to play it. The Tekken Force is also sort of SNES in quality; poor range of motion, it's hard to see where you're headed, and there are too many utterly annoying groupies attacking you! Overall it's a great game!

[Tekken 3]

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The best of the tekken games. The graphics are the best I've seen in a fighting game for a long time. The characters are amazing and have tons of moves to learn. Even the classic fighters like Nina, Anna and Heihachi have new tricks up their sleves. There are many hidden characters and loads of new ones. To make it more different some characters have hidden costumes, to find them you have to complete from around 10 to 50 times! As well as this, there's a new sub game called Tekken Force. You choose a character and fight the Mishama armies with a boss at the end of the level. When you've completed it you gain a key. When you have three you fight another fight after Heihachi and gain a odd character. I give this game a ten and reccomand it to tekken fans and fighting game lovers.

Best Fighter For The Ps1, Nuff Said!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The Tekken games have always been the most popular fighters for the ps1. Tekken1 was very blocky, bad character details, and did not move very smoothly. However it still had fun game play, and unlike the other tekkens it offered great challenges, and moves that were always fun to learn. Then, Tekken2 came out, and was a vast improvement over the first. It had more moves and combo systems, better graphics, and new characters. Then Tekken3, the best tekken and the best fighter for the ps1. It features many new characters, lots of moves and combo systems. Good, smooth graphics, and nice looking FMV sequences. New modes such as tekken force (a very fun side scrolling game, similar to the old nes game, double dragon). A very addictive and fun minigame called tekken ball mode (play it with some friends, it's a blast). Also, all the normal modes such as survival, arcade, and time trial are all there. As for the difficulty of the game, it of course features three modes, easy, normal, and hard. I was though, very surprised with the challenge of arcade mode. But the boss, ogre was way to easy, and even his second form was easier than his first! My favorite characters are yoshimistu (sp?), Jin Kuzama, and Bryan Fury. As for the replay value... it kept me playing it for a week or two and that's pretty good. I have not yet played TTT (Tekken Tag Tournament) but I will soon. Plus I am very excited about Tekken 4. So if you want a hardcore, action packed fighting game that is very realistic (they even considered gravity so they jump the normal height) then I highly suggest this game to you. It's the best!

Too easy...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 21, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are excellent and the game play solid. There's also lots of extras within the game to keep you occupied. I did however find the last two characters on the hardest level the least trouble to beat.

fun but simple not any cheatcodes

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like this game but there are not many cheats and it gets old quick but if you want a thrill buy it.

Good but not the best fighting game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 29, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Actually this game is definitely a classic. However it does not compare to Wu Tang: Shaolin Style in its complexity. I enjoyed a good bout but the worst thing is that the easy level isn't too challenging and that it's difficult to control each character because of the many keys for each move which require too much coordination

The greatest fighting game of all time.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In all my years of video gaming I have not found a game as exciting and fun to play as the Tekken collection. In my opinion it is by far the greatest fighting game of all time.

5 stars isn't enough

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is a classic example of what happens when you make a good thing great. Coming off of Tekken and Tekken 2, Tekken 3 stimulates the mind, body, and spirit. This game is a must for every gamer. Buy it now!

King of Iron Fist Tournament still King of arcade games.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

A follow up to what was probably the best fighting game on the market for the time, Tekken 2, this game doesn't let you down.

The storyline is incidental but for interest, after the last tournament, Heihachi is back having defeated his son Kazuya in Tekken 2. He then throws him into the same ravine that Kazuya threw him in after Tekken

1. However, Jun Kazama (from Tekken 2) and Kazuya have gone on to have a son Jin (don't ask me how) and then Heihachi's company has unearthed some powerful force which goes on to kill Jun. It doesn't really make a great deal of sense but it is an excuse for another tournament.

Some of the characters are sons or daughters of the original 2 Tekken's (ie:they're more or less the same) though Paul is back (and looking older) and for some reason Nina has been in cryogenic stasis for 20 years (which doesn't explain why her sister Anna hasn't aged though). There are some new characters with distinctly new fighting styles, other new characters have similar fighting styles to characters they replaced in Tekken 2.

The graphics are excellent and are very close to the arcade version. There is also the added bonuses of having a number of different game modes and also when you complete the game, this releases an animated movie sequence for that character, as well as a new character you can use.

A few characters are released by different means. Doctor Boskonovich (who rebuilt Yoshimitsu) can be accessed if you complete the Tekken Force option 3 times. It is worth the effort both because Tekken Force is practically a game in its own right, where you fight armies of henchmen and an end stage boss (one of the other characters), all against a fast disappearing time limit. Also, Doctor Boskonovich has a fighting style quite unlike any of the other characters available to use, so he is worth getting. The Tekken Force option definitely helps extend the life of the game with the player instead of if this had just been another Tekken retread.

Also, something you might miss is that after enough characters have been released, pressing the Start button on Eddy will allow you access to the character Tiger (which is more or less still Eddy but has his own animation).

All up I think there are 22 characters. You get Gon when, after releasing enough characters you get and win the Tekken Ball mode.

A few drawbacks, one is that to get most of the hidden characters, you have to just keep playing and winning the game which despite the excellence of the game, does eventually start to get a little boring. Especially since this is what you had to do in Tekken 2 and the games aren't radically different. As a result, I found myself losing interest sooner than with Tekken 2. I think it would be worthwhile for a different approach with the next Tekken where distinctly different things have to be done for accessing each new character than just finishing the game over and over. Also, essentially the game is still 2-D in the sense that the characters still fight in a line, apart from now being able to side-step (which you couldn't do in Tekken 2) which has mixed results in evading attacks. It will be interesting to see if the series will move to true 3-D arena fighting like Ehrgeiz or Tobal for example.

Another small gripe is that the version I've played in Australia, after the Ogre is defeated, the animation showing the transformation into the True Ogre seems to have been edited, it simply shows the Ogre raising Heihachi into the air, the screen going white and then the next fight starts. I'm sure I'm not imagining this, I could swear I remember in the arcade that the Ogre actually goes on to "consume" Heihachi's body and turn into The True Ogre. Why it would be cut at that point is beyond me, it was not a graphic scene at all anyway, more bright lights, electricity and metamorphising than anything else.

However though, Tekken and Tekken 2 were the sole reasons I bought a Playstation in the first place and the only games I have. Tekken 3 hasn't disappointed as a follow up and there's enough new stuff in the options, characters and animations to make it worthwhile, even if you've finished the arcade game.

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