Reviews from

in the past


Passing from SF II and Alpha 1 to this never felt so satisfying.

Muita beleza, pouca técnica

Sempre pensei que esse fosse um dos piores Street Fighter pelas críticas que faziam, muitas delas pelo motivo dele não trazer nenhum dos personagens originais além do Ryu e do Ken, mas esse jogo é incrível.

A pretty divisive SF game, but for good reason.

To start with the good the sprite work for this game is pretty damn good and gameplay wise I do like it, but in terms of the roster it suffers quite a bit.

Judging from the title it sounds like they were maybe thinking of going down the succession route which coming off one of the most most iconic fighting games of all time is in my opinion a bad move, which even then they didn't fill commit to and some characters feel like older characters redone.

I played as Elena.


New Generation gets all the praise I gave 2nd Impact for leading up to a better game but none of the praise I gave it on its own merits. New Generation is baaaad. At least the sprites are pretty.

Was very surprised by how small the roster was for this one initially. I know its a staple for SF games to build up the roster through ports but somehow I wasn't expecting it to be this tiny. It's nice to see how they build up from here.

Also fuck Gil.

I cannot emphasize how good the 2d art looks. It still looks better than most 2D projects coming out today. Couple that with an awesome fighting engine and you got something good.

i've forced to play with Alex so now I can handle being a grappler better

Muito difícil de ganhar do Gill do Vigor

This game is pretty basic to be honest, it has scenarios that look unfinished and etc, but the OST is cool, and if the cast in this game wasn't mediocre, I'd give it a higher rating, and besides, there's no real reason to play that version when there's 3rd Strike.

i like it but it's hard to call it anything above good when third strike exists

I played with only Dudley - love a boxing character in a street fighter, the range, the pace - it all just feels good. Dudley is a blast to play with. The game as a whole, also good.

this is going to get me my fighting game license revoked but I don't really vibe with SF3 all too much. While I respect the decision to make a full roster refresh, the new characters don't really vibe with me the same way that like the sf alpha gang did. I will say the fighting engine is CLEAN though. The final boss fight also sucks ass because the mfer can revive himself if he has meter and dies which is ass. Maybe the later revisions of SF3 are better but I wasn't really feelin it with this.

This is a true story: I was 9 when this came out, and was at one of the first arcades down here that got it. I finally got up to the cabinet and was about to play as Ryu when someone a coin on the cabinet. I did not know that meant they had the next game. I hear behind me, an adult man of african-amercian descent yell "YO MAN, DID YOU JUST TAKE MY NICKEL?" I panicked and said sorry and that they could play and ran out of the arcade and on my way home thought to myself "Oh, is this how people become racist?"

The way people talk down on this game on here like it went out of its way to ruin their experience is nuts, unless you're complaining about the unrefined mechanics introduced here most complaints are nitpicks considering this is only the first rendition of SF3

Only Street Fighter game that doesn't get a 4 or 5 star rating from me and I don't even remember this being popular when it came out, I mean yeah new characters are a good thing but not the whole roster with only 2 returning characters 3rd strike brought some more back but still not very many.

Kind of insane how we went from this to Third Strike. Love the sprite work, but this is probably the worst iteration of SFIII.

How did they make the greatest fighting game ever out of THIS 😭

Solid Game, definetly interesting to see how Street Fighter 3 began

Yeah its fine. Nothing worth looking back at but its cool to see SF3 at an early stage. The music is good, and the stages look great too. Presentation only gets better from here, but the game is fine. Unfinished.

Alex fucking sucks in this game WTF!!!!!!

SUBESTIMADO, OFUSCADO PELO 3RD STRIKE. A transição de lutas com aquelas artes dos oponentes todos sabugados na porrada, os cenários que mudam a cada round, cenários esses que são EXUBERANTES. E o Gill... rapaz, tomei um sacode sinistro

The parry system still has a long way to go to become as fleshed-out and skillful as in 3rd Strike and the roster is pretty small, but it's still a fun game to come back to and see the evolution of SFIII


Fun game, bit of a bland character pool in comparison to other titles though. Generally was okay when playing through the arcade run

Main - Ken

thats WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT BRING BACK TWELVE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAPCOM

the aesthetics for this one in menus have a sweet spot in my heart, and I think i like literally every iteration of SF3 a lot compared to the previous numbered header entries
not that I think theyre not worth playing but I think every SF3 [insert subtitle here] is way more consistent than it's contemporaries

Dudley so fanny

no real reason to re-visit this game these days aside from the exclusive stage themes + slightly different background art from 2nd Impact.

i do have fond memories of being a kid and bouncing between this and X-Men vs. Street Fighter in arcades, but i can see why this game didn't do well. luckily Capcom was able to salvage the SFIII series with the future iterations.