I do like how Alex squares up to the Andre the Giant-inspired character Hugo though whenever they clash with one another in an image that pays homage to the famous visual of Hulk Hogan staring down Andre at WrestleMania III.Īs the name might suggest, 3rd Strike was actually the third version of Street Fighter III to be released, and it represents the peak of that particular game in the series. People rejected him, and he hasn’t been back since, which kind of makes sense as he was basically just American Zangief when all was said and done. The only thing I don’t like is the announcer, who sounds like he’s trapped under an echoey bridge sometimes.Ī lot of criticism tends to go the way of Alex as well, whom Capcom tried to instill as the game’s main protagonist instead of classic characters, like Ryu, Ken or Guile. The gameplay is smooth, the graphics look excellent and retain a timeless quality to them in a way that a lot of classic 2D games do, and the soundtrack is great as well.
Use of the parry system and Super Arts (the in-game name for Special Moves), along with quick wits and even quicker fingers, are essential if you’re going to survive. Everything in the game works perfectly from a technical perspective, you just need to be skilled and talented enough to be able to keep up with the computer. In the training modes, I can do a semi-decent job of parrying (which is done by pressing forward or down at just the right time when an opponent tries to hit you high or low, respectively), but put me in an actual fighting situation and my fingers have all the speed and agility of an aged tortoise with three legs going up a hill.Īnd I’m not blaming 3rd Strike for this either. The special move bar at the bottom of the screen in 3rd Strike almost taunts me as it fills up because it knows that when battle commences, I’m going to be so worked up and panicky that I’ll never be able to stick the combinations in that I need to pull off the moves. Don’t get me wrong, I could pull off all the special moves, I just needed the computer to put its feet up and patiently wait for me whilst I input the combinations first.
Such an outcome did not happen with 3rd Strike, however. For whatever reason, the messages can get down from my brain to my fingers quickly enough for me to stand a chance.
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Virtua Fighter is probably the lone series of difficult fighting games that I can kind of hold my own in, even though I’m not exactly sure why. I love fighting games, make no mistake about that, and it was my love of Street Fighter II that coaxed me into an arcade for the very first time, but goodness me, did 3rd Strike just break me in a way few fighting games have done over the years. It’s at times when I play difficult fighting games like 3rd Strike that it really rams home just how rubbish I am at this particular genre sometimes. If you’re so good at this game that you can hammer the CPU on the toughest difficulty, then you deserve to crow and pound your chest all you want because this game is the chuffing DEVIL!
Normally, I’d be annoyed by such behaviour (you’re good at a video game for frig’s sake, you’re not curing cancer here, have some perspective), but in this case I’m actually prepared to make an exception. Even on the easiest difficulty with Ken (the character most useless newcomers and weak-willed fighters like myself are encouraged to pick), I still found myself getting whupped as early as the second fight on some occasions.ģrd Strike is seen to attract a certain sort of self-satisfied elite fighting game player, and this brand of player revels in the fact that they can conquer such a tough game. When it comes to fighting games, Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike- Fight for the Future (how about that for a mouthful, by the way?) is one of the toughest bastards that has ever bastarding bastarded! I may have used one or more words there that don’t even exist, but I have done so to stress just how much of a bastard this game is.
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