Over and above the one-and two-player games are several modes: Training, where you practice special moves and combos: World Tour, where you battle around the globe and earn special attacks with each win: Team Battle, which lets you choose four characters and fight four opponents consecutively Final Battle, where you fight only the boss characters and Dramatic Battle, where two players control two fighters at once and take on a single opponent.Ĭapcom counts to three with another 2D fighting-game series. More ModesĪlpha 3 brings home features in addition to those found in the arcade version. As with other Alpha games on the PlayStation, the controls hold up beautifully, making the various special attacks and techniques a breeze to execute. Each "-ism" is a different set of special moves you can select before each fight Other new features include new throws, Alpha Counters, and midair recoveries.
The most striking new, ingredient is the addition of three fighting styles, called "-isms," for each character. Street Fighter Alpha 3 has all the fun ele ments of its predecessors, but adds a few wrinkles to the tried-and-true gameplay. The PlayStation version is loaded with features and extra fighters not found in its arcade parent.
The Street Fighter series counts to "three" for a second time with Street Fighter Alpha 3. Unlike the dismal Street Fighter III, this Alpha makes counting to "three" a pleasure. Longtime Alpha and Street Fighter fens will find Alpha 3 a welcome addition to their gaming libraries. The only ear-sore is the game-show announcer, who spouts such teeth-grinding phrases as "Beat 'em up, guy!" and "Triumph or die!" Fortunately, the powerful music perfectly suits every fight and keeps the action going. Sonically, all the smacks and yelps are clearly audible. And even when the screen becomes crammed with splashy super and special moves, the graphics never crap out into a choppy mess. The graphics retain most of the sprite frames from its arcade big brother with only a few minuscule visual W trims. The home version of Alpha 3 faithfully translates the majority of the arcade version's key elements. The most noteworthy are the World Tour mode, in which you travel the globe and gain new abilities with each defeated foe, and the Dramatic Batde mode, in which you share the screen with a buddy for a two-on-one gang-up-against-your-computer-opponent fest In addition, 31 fighters fill the regular lineup-the most fighters of any game in the SF series, Alpha or otherwise-including three PlayStation-exclusive battlers: Fei Long, T Hawk, and Dee Jay. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Alpha 3 truly excels with its plethora of extra play-modes. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.