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Street Fighter perfection; well almost

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After delay, and delay, and delay, I really wasn't looking forward to the GBA conversion of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and I was dreading to see how it would play, but I was pleasently surprised. Nearly every aspect of it's arcade, PS1, and Dreamcast counterpart is here with a few minor tweaks, and fighting game fans who own a GBA will find something to love with this game. The characters are a bit smaller but are still fluidly animated and look surprisingly good on the small GBA screen while the soundbits are good as well. The game's biggest flaw is the control scheme (as expected) and it will take quite a bit of time for Street Fighter veterans to get used to the GBA's button layout. Special moves are a bit harder to pull off, while the super moves require even more patience to learn due to the control layout, but once they are learned they will get easier and easier to pull off. All in all, with the lineup of fighting games on the GBA, Street Fighter Alpha 3 only pales in comparison to Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival, but Street Fighter fans who own a GBA should definitely give this a try.

Sluggish controls. Wrong game for Game Boy Advance.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am a 12-year Street Fighter veteran who's played over a dozen permutations of this series on seven, eight different consoles, mostly pad-based. The prospect of any SF game working well on the Game Boy Advance looked slim, and sure enough,
the game just doesn't translate.

My main concern, adapting to the four-button layout, turned out to be minor compared to the poor response. Every attack takes half a beat to be executed, requiring the player to "pre-execute" moves before their time, thus making the delicate, complex Street Fighter fighting system impossible. The graphics are impressively close to the old PlayStation version that I played, and they managed to keep all the characters, but this is no compensation for the fact that the control pad is too unresponsive to handle Street Fighter-style combos, super moves, and charge moves. Where I used to be able to pull off a 10-hit combo with Karin, now I struggle to pull off even a two-in-one fireball, and my left hand was cramped after two or three fights.

I can't blame the game developers all the way; the game and the console were simply not a compatible match. Nevertheless, most of my Gameboy Advance games (excluding the incredibly poor 007 Nightfire) are far more responsive than this. I can't help but think if they had sacrificed some graphics and scaled down the character roster a little, they would have had a much more playable game.

This is an amazing fighting game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Street Fighter Alpha 3 saw delay after delay. After awhile, I got tired of waiting and tried other games. When I saw this game at the store, I got it for myself as a Christmas present. This game is worth the wait. All the famous Street Fighter characters are here, with their signature moves, like hadoken and shoryuken. The characters are full of animation, surprising for such many characters. The game's only downside is that some combos like Akuma's Messatsu Gao Hado are very difficult to pull off. Other than that, this is a great fighting game. GBA owners with a taste for fighting should definitely try out Street Fighter Alpha 3.

Fun, but pointless

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Despite the beautiful graphics and multiple characters to choose from (including several from Final Fight) I just can't see any REAL difference between this and the endless other 1-on-1 beat-em-ups out there.

I never really mastered all of the special moves but there weren't needed as fighting with simple punches and kicks was good enough. It's fun for a while but in no way a game I would spend ages playing and finishing as every last character. I'm not that sad and I've got better things to do with my time.

Graphics A
Sound B
Gameplay B
Lasting Appeal B-

Handheld fighting perfection... almost.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The graphics, amount of characters and special moves, amount of fighting options, and sheer quality of this fighting game is borderline crazy. You get so much for a portable game thats two inches square.

Having Street Fighter with over 30 characters for on the go is awesome. You cant ask for anything more... well you kind of could.

The only thing that stinks in this game, and its a big stinker, is the control. On a console controller or in the arcade i could bust out 50 fireballs in a row without a sweat. This game is a different story. The small size of the GBA/DS makes performing these special moves extremely tough. After 10 minutes of this game i feel like i need Bengay or some cream from the arthritis that this game is giving my fingers and hands. ;)

All in all this is a terrific title for short periods of time even though the control of some of the moves are painful to pull off.

The goods and bads of street fighter alpha 3.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Street Fighter Alpha is a very well rounded game with great graphics, good sound, and overall fun. There is only one minor dissapointment to the game, It is very very hard. I am at the easiest selection of the game and I still can't get very far. the special combo moves that you are supposed to do take too long because there are so many buttons you have to press in order to do the special trick your guy does. And you can never finish pressing all the buttons because your opponett gets to you before your done. You have to study the manual over and over just to remember on trick. But other than that minor problem it is a really enjoyable game and I would give it a five plus star rating if it didn't have that problem. And since it's very hard to understand and has a teen rating, I would not recomend it for people under the age of ten or eleven. I hope vthis review is very helpful to you!

Good translation ruined by controls

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll keep this brief: If you want Street Fighter on the GBA, buy Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival. That game handles the fact that the GBA only has 4 buttons by letting you assign punches and kicks to brief-vs-long button presses. It's not ideal, but it works. Alpha 3 doesn't even give you this option, instead it forces you to assign them to combinations of the triggers and the A&B buttons. Try throwing a fireball with L+B. It just doesn't work. I partially blame Nintendo for refusing to give a portable more than 2 face buttons, but I mainly blame Capcom for not giving you the brief-vs-long button assignment options.

Good but could have been better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The GBA's SSF2:TR was practically identical to the arcade original (and that's not a bad thing). Still I wasn't expecting the handheld port of the advanced SFA3 to be nearly as faithful to the coin-op version. This game looks an awful lot like it did back in the arcades. Even the smooth character animations hold up. Aside from the pretty graphics, the gameplay is also topnotch. All the special moves (even though some are [difficult] to pull off) and combos are in there waiting to be pulled off, of course you might have some trouble executing those moves on the GBA's small directional pad. Moves that require circular motions are especially tough to pull off (even though I tried). Slightly busted control aside, this is an exceptional port. They even added some new characters that are exclusive to this version only. All in all, SFA3 is well worth your time.

A Great Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has a ton of stuff packed on the disk. There is also a lot of stuff to unlock and will make players who like to do this do a lot of work. If you are just a casual player, then you will be pleased to know this game has codes to unlock everything. Besides the characters, the unlocks are very unique and neat. Also, the different modes are cool. The dramatic mode pairs you up with another person and you fight two against one. The training mode lets you practice and you can set up the opponent to do different things, like jump. The survival mode overlaps the other modes a little as you can chose different other modes like Dramatic, but instead see how many character you can beat without losing. Also, you can chose your partner.
Some negatives are in the game as well. On a sunset level, it is really hard to see the life meter gauge for the characters. Also for an older gamer, it is hard to use L and R buttons since the GBA is small. Another problem is it is hard to do some moves, like teleporting.
Besides this, Street Fighter Alpha 3 is a sweet game!

Awesome game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

IÕve been a SF fan for a long time. After purchasing my GBA earlier this year, I discovered that SF alpha for GB color does not play too well on the GBA. Well in response to the GBAÕs screen glitch I purchased this version of the popular Capcom title, and I chose a winner! This game has more pack and punch than any SF game I have ever played! It just simply rocks! Some recommendations as to the choice of fighters that are poweful are: Choose Fei-Long, heÕs a Bruce Lee imitator and almost fights like him. HeÕs my favorite character in this version, and typically pounds most of his opponents! Guy was extremely powerful in the GB color version, but in this version he cannot drop throw as easily like he could before. Purchase this game and have fun!

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