Street Fighter Alpha 3 Official Strategy Guide [Paperback]

Kevin Melloy (Author), Ken Schmidt (Author), Games Brady (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 1999

This guide includes complete moves lists and combos for every character, and all the secrets and hidden characters, from Capcom.

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BradyGAMES-Street Fighter: Alpha 3 Official Strategy Guide Features. Move Lists for every character. Devasting Combos for each fighter -- plus, tips on how to make your own. Bonus Coverage of new World Tour Mode from Sega Dreamcast! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: BRADY GAMES; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566868866
• ISBN-13: 978-1566868860
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,316,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book sucked...bigtime!!, November 10, 2004

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This review is from: Street Fighter Alpha 3 Official Strategy Guide for Dreamcast (Official Guide) (Paperback)

I love Street Fighter and all things Street Fighter but this book was the pits! This is my 3rd Street Fighter guide (I owned the guide for SF2; Turbo and SSF2: The New Challengers) and its the LEAST informative.

The 2 previos SF guides had a complete moves list (as this guide does) but has extra stuff (this guided does not). The detail of my former SF guides was impressive as they showed you pics for every punch, kick, throw etc for every character. It also included REAL combos, strategies for fighting others and tips on the game engine. The SFA3 guide bearly scratched the surface of anything.

The guide can be summarised as follows (1) Character bio, (2) Character moves list (3) 3 or 4 sample character combos (some of which DON'T actually work, trust me just look at them!) (4) Character moves list translation (to whom it applies). THATS IT!!

Unless you like to collect this stuff like me I recommend that you AVOID this guide!! There are moves lists in the game for petes sake and the character bios are lame if accurate at all.

I gave it 2 stars cause it had nice colour pics (as SMALL as they are). That leads me to another point, the pages have ALOT of dead space. With all that dead space they could have made the pics bigger.

Bad guide, BAD!!

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book For Learning More About Street Fighter, May 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Street Fighter Alpha 3 Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I'm starting to think that Capcom just pulls Mega Man and Street Fighter games out of nowhere whenever they get bored and run out of original ideas. I bought the guide to this game so that I could keep up to date with the Street Fighter series. Well, there were other reasons too... Anyway, this turned out to be a great book, and it fully explains the whole confusing X-ism, Y-ism, A-ism thing. Plus, it gives a lot of information about the characters' backgrounds. I had to dock the book one star because--since it gives full move lists and paragraph-long biographies for 32 characters--it cut back on a lot of things that the past Alpha Official Strategy Guides had. Examples include endings and damage percentages for each attack.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Street Fighter Alpha 3...my waste of money., July 6, 1999

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This review is from: Street Fighter Alpha 3 Official Strategy Guide (Paperback)

I bought this book because i had the game.I wanted to see all the fighter's moves.I was mistaken it didn't have any of them,all it gave me was a summary of the fighter's life.It was not worth my hard earned money