Street Fighter Alpha 3
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Pummeling perfection in the palm of your hand.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 storms onto Game Boy Advance with a massive list of fighters and the classic gameplay that has made Capcom's flagship fighter a fave among arcade aficionados.
Character variety is just one component that makes the Street Fighter series so popular and this game comes through with a mix of nimble bantamweights and bulked-up brawlers -- more than 30 fighters in all. Even a few newcomers to the Alpha universe grace the Game Boy Advance screen.
Capcom reaches a new level of intensity with faster game play and more precise control in SFA3, as well as three different fighting "isms" to choose from. The A-ism style is taken from the Street Fighter Alpha series, X-ism is from Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and V-ism is from Street Fighter Alpha 2. Some transition will be necessary for veteran fighters due to the button layout of the Game Boy Advance, but the depth and style of the series shines through.
In Single mode, you face a series of enemies until your final showdown with an end boss. In Survival mode, you face an onslaught of enemies with a limited amount of vitality. Time Attack challenges you to defeat as many enemies as possible within a limited time.
Vs. mode supports multiplayer mayhem for two players. Multiplayer action requires two GBAs, a GBA Game Link cable and two Street Fighter Alpha 3 Game Paks.
The vivid backdrops for each fighting stage are bold and colorful and the seamless character animation fits the energetic gameplay. Top-flight music and sound effects punctuate the nonstop action.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 takes the already-established franchise and tweaks it just enough to make an impressive handheld fighter. The responsive controls will keep up with the fastest fingers and the character animation is fluid. Unlockable modes and characters add replay value when playing solo. Multiplayer support allows you to take on a human opponent.
Source: www.nintendo.com
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- Street Fighter Alpha 3 upper - European Game Boy Advance title - alternate spelling
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Average score: 82% (based on 20 ratings)
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Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 15 ratings with 1 reviews)
Capcom must hate Nintendo's gamers
The Good
The controls are dead-on perfect, and the overall graphics are pretty good. Not to mention the tons of modes you can choose from to keep the play fresh.
The Bad
Ooh, where to start . . . tiny characters, repeating backgrounds, low-res graphical design (noticed only after playing on SP), games gets hard for no reason after three characters (I don't mean the usual Capcom hard, I mean like "stupid" hard, where you don't want to play anymore), music is just as repeating, certain sounds missing. This's not the way to do this, and Crawfish has been known to wonders on Game Boy hardware before (Bust-A-Move 4, Street Fighter Alpha 1), so there's no excuse for giving us the "Genesis" version of Alpha 3 on 32-bit hardware designed for 2-D games. Since this is a cart, it's ROM can be expanded, it could've had special chips put in, etc., etc., seems like Capcom wanted a buck again.
The Bottom Line
With the PSP version in "fat-screen" (when 4:3 screens are ignorantly stretched to 16:9, give a fatso appearance on everything, which annoys me) and this version in low-res, I'm at a loss of which copy I'd want. The version that's on PSP could've easily been done on GBA (ask Square Enix, and even Capcom's own Breath of Fire series), it's a 32-bit machine will all the same RAM as the PlayStation, minus the polygon processor. There's no doubt they had in mind that they'd bias themselves to Sony (and yet, Capcom still can't figure out why their profits are down, look at all of the used copies of their games at a GameCrazy or GameStop just sitting there) and slap the Nintendo faithful who made them who they are in the face with this. If you've never played Alpha 3 in any other form, you'll be impressed, but us Street Fighter Experts know this isn't what could've been. Maybe Capcom and the other NES Legacy Companies should start rewarding us with REALLY good conversions of their games (like Square Enix and Nintendo does) instead of hating us for sticking to the Big N.
Game Boy Advance · by Fake Spam (85) · 2007
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Game added February 23, 2024. Last modified February 23, 2024.