The game also required you to have a high level of technical proficiency to master it and introduced some mechanics and concepts that were new to the genre at the time. Street Fighter III ditched the majority of the characters that players had grown to love, replacing them with an eclectic group of newcomers who, for the most part, looked and played little like the Street Fighter II and Alpha series alumni. It's easy to see why Street Fighter III never reached the stratospheric heights of Street Fighter II. This Online Edition is a practically flawless port of the arcade game, bringing with it all the nuance, complexity, and sheer fun of the original, as well as its various character balance issues.
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Street Fighter III: Third Strike was the last arcade update of the game, and it now makes its way onto current-gen consoles. Deeply technical and complex, SFIII was, for the most part, underappreciated when it was first released in the late '90s, but it nonetheless found a place as a favorite amongst tournament-level players. Street Fighter III has long been a favorite of the hardcore crowd, but it's a game that never managed to match the wild mainstream popularity of its predecessor.