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The gameplay and combo systems are the most obvious beneficiaries of the overhaul. For starters, fights only last one round, and there is no time limit. Each player's life bar has been extended though, so battles last roughly the same amount of time as most fighting games, although here most of that time is spent fighting. Aside from each player's special moves, players can also call upon a super-move (an overdrive or soul bomb) that will rock their opponent with multi-hit combinations (which look cool despite their simple execution).
The graphics have also been touched-up nicely. Each player looks good and moves well, and the arena backgrounds are also impressive. In this version, fights take place in the same type of arenas as the previous games, but they're completely enclosed, allowing you to slam enemies into walls as well as blasting them into the ceiling. Toshinden 3 also offers a choice of graphics mode. The game's default mode is 30 frames per second, which looks great but moves a bit sluggishly. Gameplay fiends will want to sacrifice a bit of the graphical shine (and the associated texture mapping) for speed and control by switching over to 60 frames per second.
Toshinden 3 continues the trend started by Tekken 2 with characters that unlock as you progress through the game. While only fourteen characters can be selected when the game starts, players can unlock hidden characters and bosses by finishing the game with different characters (until all 32 characters are available). All the characters from the previous Toshinden games are included, except for a conspicuously missing Fo Fai. Replacing Fo is Bayhou, a crazy monkey with the same fighting style. In another parallel to Tekken 2, Battle Arena Toshinden 3 also allows players to try out new combos and see how much damage they do in a practice mode.
Toshinden 3 provides all of the upgrades that the series needed to get back on its feet. It adds plenty of intriguing new features, without losing the better aspects of the previous games. If you were one of the many who thought Toshinden was neat, but far too dull, this game may have what it takes to turn your viewpoint around. --Jeff Gerstmann
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Greatest of the three,
By Tim A. Dulac (IL, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (Video Game)
This is among the greatest fighting games the PS ever had, and by far the best of the toshinden series. The characters are great, especially Vermilion, David, and that monkey I forget the name of. Seriously, the gameplay absolutely lasts forever. I played this one continuously for 4 or 5 months after it first came out. Definitely worth the money.
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best fighters ever but underapreciated.,
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This review is from: Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (Video Game)
This is one of the best fighting games made. It is very balanced and has a lot of interesting elements to make fights unique and hectic. The game will feel a little slow as it is out of date but believe me, as you get the hang of it you will have some of the most epic battle ever!
5.0 out of 5 stars
The BEST Toshinden Game Ever for PSX !,
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This review is from: Battle Arena Toshinden 3 (Video Game)
Now, granted, the Battle Arena Toshinden series of games didn't initially strike me as being the best fighting game series for the original PlayStation, what with their rudimentary graphics and repetitive, unbalanced gameplay. Still, after having bought the first two BAT's, I figured that completing my collection with the third game in the series wouldn't exactly kill me--especially considering that Toshinden 2 was indeed better than the first, even if only by a slight margin. I must say, too, that after having played Toshinden 3, I was quite impressed with the evolution in the series.
To begin with, every character Toshinden fans have come to know and love--save for, of course, Fo Fai the assassin, Uranus the archer, and the psychic Master--has returned to the arena to dish out just a little more damage with the utilization of their signature weapons, trademark combat maneuvers, a number of impressive combos, and three to four spectacular special moves (Secret Moves, Desperation Moves, Overdrives, and the newly introduced Spirit Bombs). Additionally, there are twenty new faces to the scene, each with their own unique weapons and moves as well as a large number of enclosed arenas that may prevent fighters from falling prey to those pesky ring-outs from BAT's 1 and 2, but in give them the ability to trap their opponents in a corner and juggle them with their best combos. I also liked the training mode, which allows players to try characters out before sending them out onto the front, and the idea of being able to unlock secret characters and save them to a memory card as opposed to having to insert a thumb-wracking code every single time I turn on the PS on with the game inserted. In my opinion, Takara should have included these features with the first two Toshinden games, but seeing as they had finally learned from that mistake with BAT 3, I shouldn't complain. An important point of originality includes the game's story, which pits the BAT veterans up against the unarmed cultist Abel and his demon-worshipping Organization rather than simply chucking them all together into one big tournament and forcing them to duke it out with one another. Likewise, I liked some of the weapons that certain characters had in their arsenal, such as David and Judgment with their chainsaws, Nagisa Iwashiro and Vermillion with their guns, Atahua and Tau with their blowguns, and Adam the cyborg with his bionic club. Of course, a frame-by-frame animation rate of sixty frames per second is nothing to sneeze at for a fighting game made back in 1997--especially considering that such is the exact same animation rate of the 1999 favorite Bloody Roar 2 by Hudson Soft. If none of these facets tickles your fancy, maybe the idea of thirty-two playable characters will. That's right, thirty-two--which make for a far more complete roster than in the grand majority of fighting games that might otherwise be out there for any other PlayStation system. Oh, and did I mention Bayhou the monkey, who replaces Fo on this roster? Honestly, who can resist a game where you can play as an animal and wreak havok on some poor human sap's posterior? All in all, Battle Arena Toshinden 3 may not be the best fighting games ever, but it's a far from being the worst, and it's certainly an improvement over the previous two Toshindens. It's just too bad that games for the original PlayStation are becoming increasingly difficult to come across these days, though, because there are still so many gamers who have not been fortunate enough to play this nifty little title. Therefore, I say that if you're a fighting-game fan who owns a PSX and you still haven't so much as rented BAT 3, you better hurry and snag this baby while you still can before the opportunity slips out of your fingers.
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