They consist of throws (for up close battle), punches and jabs, and kicks (both aerial and on the ground). Their story is represented by various intro and ending cinematic sequences.Īs in the previous Tekken titles, each character has an abundance of moves he or she can perform. At first, you have 10 fighters to choose from but as you complete the individual story/arcade modes, you will unlock that person's counterpart. Each of the 20-plus characters features a different style (Kung Fu, Capoeira), some of which must be mastered before using adequately. Tekken 3's fighting styles range from street fighting to beautiful ancient oriental fighting styles. The trick was to pull off a conversion to fit with the console's architecture and technology, and they did just that. It is a step better than Namco's System 11 board, which is nearly identical to the PlayStation. Converted from the arcade to the PlayStation, Tekken 3 ran on the technology called the System 12 board. No problem, just keep in mind that it will run a bit slower on low and mid-ranged computers.Tekken 3 is the third installment of Namco's premier 3D fighting game franchise. Voicing and soundscape too, though emulation isn’t one hundred percent ok here, and sometimes you’ll hear an unpleasant screeching sound, that’s when the sound engine freezes and a piece of audio loops a hundred times over and over until it ‘unfreezes’ again.Īll and all, it’s probably better to play PS version of Tekken 3 in PS1 emulator, but if you are a proper retro-gaming enthusiast, go for it and try the arcade version too. Moreover 3D graphics also means lower framerates in emulation, but that is nothing for which the game could be accounted, in the end, it was meant to be ran on an arcade hardware.Īnimations are neat. Whether it’s for better or worse, though, I’ll leave that up to you (but if you’d ask me, I’d say Capcom’s 3D foreground and 2D background solution looks much better, but hey, that is just my biased opinion right?). And in Tekken 3 (released in 1996, that is the same year as SF EX2), even the background imagery is all done in 3D.

Graphics-wise-unlike Capcom’s Street Fighter and others-first Tekken started out with 3D-graphics straight away.

The core of the fight system, however, lies a bit somewhere else: in stringing together combinations of the basic actions (the buttons and joystick) in order to perform a variety of combat moves, unique to each and every character.Įach character has basically a 30+ items long list of moves it can perform, and if you want to really master the game you have to remember at least like a half of them. Controls consist of an 8-way joystick and four buttons (now, unless you have a fighting-stick, I’d strongly recommend you to map those to your numpad). There are ten playable characters at the beginning, and twelve more can be unlocked in-game later (mostly by playing the whole game again and again with different available characters). To win, you have to fight through several rounds and beat all the oponnents the game presents you with. Tekken 3 is a head-on 3D fighting game and the third installment of Namco’s franchise revolving around the Mishima Zaibatsu Corporation, a company that regularly hosts a fighting tournament, whose winner becomes the company’s leader for the upcoming term. Mame142 !!!Now if you ever thougth Street Figther was hard, then you obviously never have played Tekken. This game working only with newest emulator

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