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panda-venom128's Tekken 3 (PS)
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| [February 8, 2008 04:06:02 AM]
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GAMEPLAY
Aww, yeah! Now that's what I'm talkin' about!
After getting accustomed to the rules of the game, I notice that I'm able to play it much more naturally. Combos come easy, juggling is second nature, one-hit-kills are a piece of cake (we';l get to that later). It's not hard to see why this game caused such a commotion in the late nineties.
There are just so many possibilities, so many factors you need to take into account. To do well at this, you have to devote your life to it. I was forced to play on easy mode, as I wasn't as used to Tekken 3's interface as I was Tekken 5, but even on easy, the computer offered a challenge. On that difficulty setting, getting the timing down isn't as important as the harder difficulties, but the fights are still very intense.
DESIGN
Tekken is the pinnacle of 3-D fighting games for infinite reasons. Here's a few I noticed while playing.
"Hellz yeah!" sense of achievement. It's important to make sure you're picking the right difficulty. Too easy and you'll be bored, too hard and you'll want to throw the controller at your roommate/houshold pet/self. So when you find a challenge that's just right, you're inroduced to a whole new spectrum of awesome. You feel great beating the heck out of someone and achieving the "perfect" victory, and when you're faced with a tough opponent that you can't seem to beat...but then you finally do...THAT's "hellz yeah!" Good developers, way to keep me reeled in.
Heart attack inducing intensity. Punches and kicks fly like bullets and hurt like 'em, too. At times you're caught in a stalemate with your opponent with the two of you blocking and dodging each other's attacks. This leads to heavy anticipation. "Who's gonna land the next hit?!" you ask as you pound your sweat drenched controller, until BOOM! You hit him! WHOO!!! I am the man!.........Then you die with one hit in the next frame.
What? What do you mean? Let's get to those one-hit-kills I was talking about.
Tekken's attack damage was toned way down in later iterations of ther series, so it came to me as a huge surprise when a punch that only took away 10% of my opponent's health bar in Tekken 5 suddenly had my enemy at half strength. "Whoa, WTF?" was all I could say as I, winning with full health and my oppenent an inch away from death, suddenly was brought to the same status as the other guy in one second. LITERALLY...one second...
So, once I realized that the damage was ramped up from what I was used to, I decided to test the strongest attack I'd ever seen in a Tekken game: Paul Phoenix's charge-up punch (Away + LP+RP). "PERFECT" is all I hear as my opponent falls...one hit...less than five seconds...bad developers, now I want to do that every single match...and I almost did.
In conlusion: THIS GAME EFFIN' ROCKS. The characters are colorful and appealing. The gameplay's fast, responsive, addicting, and SUPER-deep. I love it. We're getting married this Spring...
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| [February 7, 2008 11:02:58 PM]
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SUMMARY
Tekken 3 is a one-on-one fighting game. The player progresses through a series of fights by defeating one opponent after another. The game employs a 4-button attack configuration: left punch, right punch, left kick, and right kick, whick, in comination with the 8 D-Pad buttons, can be strung together to attack the opponent.
GAMEPLAY:
Tekken's gameplay was the fastest 3-D fighter on the market when it hit the scene in 1998. It's hailed as the original Playstation's number one fighting game, and it's easy to see why. After almost ten years, Tekken 3 has aged surprisingly well.
This game is FAST. The key to nailing a speedy fighting game is responsive controls, and Tekken has always been known for this. If for any reason, your character doesn't do something the milisecond you hit a button, that fighting game is as good as dirt. As such, Tekken is pure gold.
The game starts out with the player selecting one of about a dozen characters. Each character has varying levels of attack speed and damage. So, naturally, faster characters do less damage, while slow characters make up for their lack of speed with sheer power.
One facet of the Tekken games is that every character has the ability to string attacks together for up to a 10-hit comination attack. It's up to the player to find the right chain of buttons that leads to this kind of attack through trial-and-error.
Another gameplay feature of Tekken and every other fighting game is juggling. Juggling is a technique in which the player launches their opponent into the air, and by attacking correctly, they keep their opponent airborne, leaving the victim defenseless until they land. I found juggling to be a difficult technique to learn, as the timing required to attack your opponent has to be immaculate.
Speaking of timing, all fighting games are based on it, and this game's no exception. The player has to learn a boatload of techniques regarding time, from when and how to attack given the distance between your character and your opponent to what action to take the moment the fight starts. Here's a word of advice: When the annoncer says "FIGHT!", you better have made a decision. "Should I advance? Retreat? Attack? Jumo? Crouch? Do nothing (characters automatically block when standing still)?" All are possible solutions, so you need to do something EXACTLY when the match starts, and not just anything...it has to be perfect, because the computer knows exactly when the match starts, you don't. By the time you make a decision, you're 2-feet deep in fist through your stomach...
Great game. It's awesome. Gonna go play some more.
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panda-venom128's Tekken 3 (PS)
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Current Status: Stopped playing - Something better came along
GameLog started on: Thursday 7 February, 2008
GameLog closed on: Friday 7 March, 2008 |
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