Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

If there’s a fighting game that provides a better balance towards victory between strategy and execution than “Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike”, I haven’t played it. The combo-heavy rushdown characters (Dudley, Yun) might come across as the clear favorites at first, but time and patience reveal the strengths of slower characters like Hugo and Q. It’s the rare fighting game in which two players can play fifty matches in a row with the same two characters and have completely different encounters every time. One of the least accessible fighting games Capcom has ever made, but it is also their best.

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