It's kind of a shame so many people only played this at 50Hz.
The only official global 60Hz releases of Tekken 3 were the arcade version and the port of the arcade version that's included in Tekken 5. The home version of Tekken 3 still hasn't officially gotten a 60Hz version in Europe (and most of the rest of the world). Really hope it gets a Classic re-release, or just any kind of re-release. I played Tekken 3 for years, not just on PlayStation but the arcade version that sat in my college's games room where it was the only modern fighting game until they replaced it with Tekken 4. It just did so much right, achieving just about a perfect balance between simplicity and complexity, and between focus and content, and between performance and aesthetic.
#TEKKEN 3 PLAY SERIES#
It's not my favourite game in the series any more, but I think it's still right up there, not just as one of the best Tekken games, but as one of the best fighting games ever. Tekken 2 was already a really good game (and such an enormously huge improvement on Tekken 1) that I wasn't sure if Tekken 3 was going to be better, but it absolutely was, and considerably so. (Start at 0:09 if the video doesn't take you there) For many, the gold standard of modes is found in Tekken 3, and I can understand why. While it's not one-to-one visually, it does its best to match the arcade version's scope and adds plenty of content to make up for it.
And the quality of the port itself is impressive. It almost makes me wish we got a fourth canonical title on the PS1 just to see how much further Namco could squeeze the hardware. Just compare the promotional renders and FMV cutscenes of this title to the ones of the original Tekken or even Tekken 2. When companies could shove multiple entries of a series into a single console generation and consumers could see the technological progress year-on-year. Tekken 3 represents reinvention and refinement, as it was the beneficiary of Namco fine-tuning its three-dimensional combat to lucrative results. Just a shame that such a successful time skip was accompanied by the loss of virtually all of the female veterans because Namco sucks. Meanwhile, this game puts Kazuya and Jun's son on the front of the case and tells you to like him. The late 90's are littered with the husks of other fighters that tried dumping their casts and getting burned for it. Rarely do "new generation" sequels not only avoid failure but actively expand the franchise's consumer base. It's perhaps taken for granted just how much Tekken 3 did for the brand. There would possibly be no Scrappy-Fan92 doing late-night posting sessions about the differences in Jin Kazama's gloves without this game.
It's one of the formative experiences that made me even slightly interested in fighting games, alongside Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance and the original Smash Brothers. Aside from Tekken 6 and the original Tag, it's the title in the series I've spent the most time with because every motherhugger had this game. Did you know there were actually two whole Tekken games before this one?Īgain, don't let the snark fool you. Yoshimitsu's battle grunts are ingrained into the minds of an entire generation despite them likely being recycled audio from the prior two games. And many other people's imaginations it seems. The colors, the industrial music, the mystery of Ogre, it was all there to capture my imagination. This is one of the very first video games I laid my eyes upon.
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