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General: The third installment to the series adds a ton of new characters (32 in all), and throws in walls and ceilings for new combo possibilities, a welcomed update to the gameplay. Fights are 1 round, with no time limit; certainly a unique layout for a fighting game, but is it enough to save this series from it's downward spiral? If you're looking for a one word answer... Nope.
Yeah... The gameplay is the same old clunky 3D engine that you might expect. You've got your super moves, specials, counters, strings, even some cool taunts, but Toshinden's system certainly can't hold up to the current top 3D weapon based fighter, a little game called Soul Edge. Toshiden offered somewhat more exciting and off the wall super / special moves however, which look pretty cool the first 2 or 3 times... But the thing is, they're also very easy to pull off, so you'll be seeing them a lot. Toshinden 3 obviously wasn't as technical as other 3D fighters of the time... and already, that's a bad recipe for a 3D fighting game. And true fighting game fans are going to look elsewhere. They might even become afraid of 3D after playing Toshinden 3, and embrace their favorite 2D fighting games with open arms.
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Toshinden 3 also came with a laughable graphics selection mode. The game is 30 frames per second by default, which makes the blocky backgrounds and characters look kinda-halfway-decent, if that... But the gameplay is noticeably much more sluggish on that setting and the animation suffers. However, you can make the game look even worse, and switch to 60 frames per second, so you can play the game at it's regular speed... "Sluggish." Instead of... "Sss..luggggg....ish." In either case, graphically, the original Toshinden actually looks better. How is that possible? Takara made it possible.
Manufacturer: Takara
Platforms: Playstation
Release: March
1997
Characters: Abel,
Adam, Atahua,
Balga, Bay Hou,
Chaos,
Cuiling, David,
Duke, Eiji,
Ellis, Gaia,
Judgement, Kayin,
Leon, Miss
Til, Mondo, Nagisa,
Naru Amoh, Rachael, Rungo,
Schultz, Sizuku
Fuji, Sho, Sofia,
Tau, Ten
Count, Toujin, Tracy,
Veil, Vermillion, Zola
Related Games:
Battle
Arena Toshinden, Battle Arena
Toshinden 2, Battle Arena Toshinden
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Closing Comment:
Third times a charm? Nope... 3 strikes you're out!!! Lots of characters,
yes, but most of which are quite uninspiring... You can tell when someone
(or a team) takes time to design the characters for a game, or in this
case, when they design the characters in about 10 minutes... Because I
think it took them about that long. Some of the gun totting characters
were kinda cool and fun to play. Ohh, and there's even a Micheal Jackson
impersonator thrown into the mix... WTF? 
~F.Yagami,
Webmaster
of TFG