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Classic Tekken...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Tekken 3 was the best of the Tekken series until 5, so I'd say this game is basic classic Tekken greatness... Pick it up if you love great oldschool fighting.

awsome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Okay this game is cool and has more moves and characters. It is cool becuase it has a diffrent background for each person and the graphics aren't bad either.

4 Stars Is All Its Gonna Get

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sorry Tekken fans, good graphics, cool characters, but lacking personality. Yes, I know it's stupid to take off one star for personalities, but hey, I paid for this game!!! If you liked Tekken 2 without the personalities too, I recommend buying this with Tekken 2.

Good arcade Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fun arcade game, Good to play with friends. graphics are typical psx, don't expect too much. takes a couple hours per character to learn their special moves. Fun. over all 4 stars.

TEKKEN 5

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

iT HAS ALL CHARACTERS THAT HAVE MANY VARIATIONS OF EACH, THE GRAPHICS ARE REALISTIC, TEKKEN 4 WAS A TOTAL LET DOWN COMPARED TO THIS.

Very fun game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

With 23 charaters,8 modes for a ps1 game it easily ranks up there with the best the system has to offer.The graphics are smooth frame rate is 60-better than most ps1 games.So in short, I suggest you get this game.

"I wish I had this game"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love Tekken 3. I play it every time I go to my cousins house in Florida. It is really fun and good for two player too.

I'm in complete shock

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You know, sitting behind a computer screen, I'm glad no one can see the look of disappointment that appeared on my very face the minute I began playing Tekken 3. I am incredibly disappointed that after reading so many positive reviews claiming Tekken 3 to not only be a significant improvement over the previous two Tekken games, but also tagged "the ultimate tournament fighter" that the actual game would turn out to be *so* underwhelming.

Tekken 3 really surprised me. But don't take that as a compliment. I went into Tekken 3 with hardly any experience with fighting games whatsoever. I took a break for 10 years with tournament fighters after all those lousy 2D Mortal Kombat games brought me to tears. Back then I figured "okay, either I don't like fighting games or maybe I just don't like the Mortal Kombat series". This was when Mortal Kombat 2 and 3 were popular on the Super NES and Genesis.

A lot can change with a human being in 10 years. We grow older, we decide we want to learn about life and wonder where we came from, and we develop an apprecation for the things we have and the people who are in our lives. To put it simply, we're thankful to be alive and feel good. But in some situations, things can remain EXACTLY the same. All those extreme feelings of hatred returned to me immediately after only 5 minutes with Tekken 3. It was the exact same feeling of hopelessness I encountered with the Mortal Kombat series.

I really have no idea what went wrong. No, not with the game, I mean, what went wrong with ME. Seeing as how I love watching people fight and kick butt on TV shows and movies, I figured it was only natural that the fighting style in the world of video games would appeal to me. Appeal to me a LOT. That was my assumption. But apparently it STILL hasn't happened. Tekken 3 was supposed to help me wash away all the bad memories of playing old Mortal Kombat games and give me a fresh start and hopefully help me develop an appreciation for the ever-popular genre of games known as "tournament fighters". Nope. It's really disappointing to me to find out that Tekken 3 is just as bad as the rest of the fighters I've played, and basically the same thing but with improved graphics, for that matter. All fighting games feel the same to me. It doesn't even matter if they are 2D or 3D fighters.

Tekken 3, despite all the positive reviews, does NOT appeal to me whatsoever. The fighting is really clunky, and it seems each fighter delivers very basic and boring moves to each other. It's not interesting or inspiring at ALL to me. It's boring to watch, and even more boring to play. Why is it so much fun when they fight this way in movies but *not* interesting when it's time to do the same thing in a video game? I have no idea. If you want to pull off the really impressive looking moves in Tekken 3, you have to press a bunch of buttons on the controller in a really complicated way in order to complete a move that COULD have been made *much* easier with a very simple and quick sequence of buttons. Strong emphasis on the word "simple". Many moves actually require you to press the Circle button, and then jump over to the Square button. How is someone supposed to easily master this? Going from Circle to Square is NOT easy.

You see, for each of the ten characters in the game, they have major power moves that are very important to master because these are the moves that are supposed to cause the most damage to an opponent. However, many of these moves are incredibly difficult and sophisticated to pull off, and this is a *really* bad thing because the company responsible for this game apparently doesn't understand the importance of making a fighting game easy to master for everyone, of all ages. That way, young and old people alike can appreciate the Tekken style.

It really bothers me how ALL of the developers who release fighting games assume the player is automatically completely aware how to play the game. They assume this *every single time* they release a fighting game. Developers assume everyone who plays these kind of games will be able to understand them instantly. We're supposed to be gifted players when it comes to understanding how to successfully pull off any number of lengthy and devestating combos to our opponents. We're supposed to have enough time to press really awkward button combinations on the Playstation controller during a fast-paced and intense fighting match. Not just combos either- regular moves too. We're supposed to have enough patience to continue trying the same fight over and over as we die a million times and the frustration factor increases significantly, and we realize just how IMPOSSIBLE these kind of games are.

Well, I have news for every developer out there: many of us have a really difficult time with games like this. Not everyone who plays fighting games should automatically be expected to be a skilled player. Not all of us hang out at local arcades wasting tons of quarters as we try and perfect our skills. Some of us are, you know, average "normal" gamers who just like to have fun. The developers of tournament fighters NEVER could understand this, and years later, they still can't understand what it's like to have fun. We shouldn't have to be a genius to play a fighting game. Not all of us can press the EXACT moves at the EXACT moment and win fights. Maybe one day a tournament fighter will be invented for a gaming console that will be specifically designed to be playable for people who struggle with them. Maybe one day...

Other things I don't like about Tekken 3. Despite having excellent graphics, the music is a bunch of horrible, repetitive techno sounds that hardly make me feel compelled to continue playing the game. Oh, and by the way, even though the graphics are really a notch above the rest, there's absolutely no reason to jump with joy when looking at them. Since the fighting is just as basic and uninspiring as that of, oh I don't know, Killer Instinct (another terrible game) you quickly stop caring about how the game looks. In fact, I'd say the fighting engine is EXACTLY like that old Super Nintendo game Killer Instinct. Extremely uninteresting. When someone throws a punch, it's so boring to watch that you just don't care about it. That's what Tekken 3 is all about. Having a fighting engine that's so boring you don't even care if you win or lose.

I'm disappointed. That's the only thing I can say at the moment. Maybe one day an easy tournament fighter will hit the market where the main purpose of the game is to have the computer opponents move along at a reasonable pace for all the normal people out there who constantly struggle with fighting games. A game that will give people the much needed time and patience to put a move on their opponent. A game where you aren't expected to hurry up just to deliver a simple move. Somehow, despite hundreds of tournament fighters that will eventually hit stores, I doubt this will ever happen. I will never buy another tournament fighter again. Ever.

The arcade has it made!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OK, I am going to start off by saying, as you might have guessed from the title, I've played this BRILLIANT game in the ARCADE, not on the Playstation. But then again, who cares?! It's the same game and it's equally fun! This is among the best fighting games I've ever played. I love it, I love it, I love it. So many cool characters are in this game, including nearly all of my top 10 favorite heroes and villains, as well as the best(and only)neutral fighter here, Yoshimitsu. Anyway, here it goes. This game is about trying to protect the world from a soul eating ogre. On to the pros and cons.

Pros

The fighters are wonderfully made & if you know how to use them, real ass kickers

My favorite Tekken hero(King, half jaguar, half man, all wrestler)favorite Tekken neutrality(Yoshimitsu, half machine, half man, all warrior)and favorite Tekken villain (Nina Williams, half hottie, half scorned woman, all assassin)are featured here. Yep, you got it. The top 3 coolest fighters(in my opinion)all get a great role in this game

You can see bursts of energy and blood coming out whenever you hit your opponent

The sound effects, music and noises the characters make are damn near perfect

The graphics, while I'd prefer them 3-D not 2-D, are still very good for a game that was made in the 1990s and I would never want them taken away for that reason

There are a lot of other great fighters too, such as Gun Jack(he's really powerful and his only weakness is not being too fast)and there are fighters even better than he, such as Jin Kazama and Paul Phoenix(who by the way are both AMONG my favorites, they rock so much!)and Hwoarang, who's not as good as Gun Jack but still rocks big

The final boss, Ogre/True Ogre(I count him as two villains)looks to be very powerful and very difficult to defeat, but there's a special trick to defeat him as though you were teaching a tired cat to yawn: You just gotta play as King and kick the s*** out of him. Trust me, I've done it twice. You fight Ogre as King, he's got no hope. Period

There is a very cool gold and lightning backround surrounding the red sign that will say "You are the champion" if you win the game. Not to mention the credits will give you a free replay of your victories against your opponents & how you defeated them

Finally, for the last pro, other cool characters than the ones mentioned are here(they are not as cool as King, Yoshimitsu, Nina, Jin, Bryan Fury, who's also here, Paul, Gun Jack, Heihachi Mishima, the second to last boss, Hwoarang, Kazuya Mishima, here without first mention, or Lei Wulong, who also is here without the first mention, but they still really, really rock and I love them all) They include Anna Willaims, a great villain who not only is better than Ogre but also Nina's sister, Julia Chang, a good looking woman and a skilled fighter, but she really has got to do something about her hair, Eddy Gordo, a really cool 50-Cent like hero who dresses in yellow & green, Forest Law, brother of the awesome Marshall Law who he's just as fast & skilled as, Kuma, a cool looking grizzly bear fighter who really knows how to bring down the house(literally)and Panda, her brother is Kuma and she is cute if not a little bit of a softie. Oh well, she's a pretty decent fighter if you know how to use her. Nuff said

Cons

The only con is that so far there is only one Tekken game better than this one-the fabulous Tekken 4. Don't know how I'll judge Tekken 5, but whatever. This game is absolutely flawless and for now only the Tekken 4 coming after it is better. Period

All in all, this is a game you must have if you like Tekken or if you just plain like to play cool beat-em-up games. I recommend this to all people with one or both of those traits. P.S. The only beat-em-up game better than Tekken is Mortal Kombat. My name is Alex K "Catman" (for my love of lions, tigers, jaguars and all other cool animals, cats or otherwise)Have a nice day. And if you got the money, buy the game.

A Sloan Bishop Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tekken delivers again. This time I know the story. 15 years after the 2nd tournament, some of the worlds best fighters are disappearing. Heihachi belives it is because of Ogre, a super-human fighter that feeds off the souls of the warriors he holds. In an attempt to lure him out, Heihachi starts the 3rd tournament with some new fighters.

Pros:
*Many new and a few old charactors, including by favorite male -Hwoarang- and female -Julia Chang- fighters.
*Many fun unlockables
*Has two exclusive charactors for the PS version, Gon and DR. Bostonovitch.
*Beautiful cut scenes.
*Improved graphics.

Cons:
*Still, outdated graphics.
*A monster that feeds on souls.

This game has the first sighting of most of the modern charactors, so it is an awesome way to get into the series. Buy this game please.

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