Why play Tekken 3?
Rollback :)
What kind of game is Tekken 3, and what about it is different from Tekken 7?
Tekken 3 is a ground-based 3D fighter that heavily emphasises movement as a way to secure hits, perhaps more than any other game in the series. This game features many highly damaging launchers that are safe on block due to pushback, requiring sharp movement in order to make them whiff, allowing you to punish and in conjunction, has some of the fastest movement in the series, with massive backdashes and sidesteps.
Damage is high but combos are short, and the game features very few stances or true 50/50’s which might be expected of Tekken, if you’re coming from 7. This leads to a very fast, tense but easy to learn offensive game, with still a lot of room for mastery.
Tekken 3 was also much earlier in the franchise, and as such, many characters have much smaller novelists and much less refined gameplans than in more modern titles. Sometimes this can lead to characters that feel unfocused (Bryan and Anna feel like shells of what they are nowadays), but most times these characters have fleshed out ideas with minimal fluff and retain much of their modern gameplan, leading to a lot of transferable skills between Tekken 7 and 3.
Finally, here’s a list of some of the mechanics Tekken 3 does not have in comparison to Tekken 7:
- No Rage
- No sidewalk
- No universal low parry
- No Bound/Screw
- No walls
What is the tier list for this game?
Pre-revamp wiki tier list:
- S Tier: (True)Ogre
- A Tier: Jin, Xiaoyu, Heihachi, Law
- B Tier: Lei, Nina, Julia, Yoshimitsu, Anna, Mokujin
- C Tier: Eddy, Paul, King, Hwoarang, Gun Jack
- D Tier: Bryan, Kuma/Panda
- E Tier: Dr. B, Gon
What is Mokujin?
Mokujin has no fighting style of its own. Instead, Mokujin chooses the fighting style of another playable character. Mokujin changes fighting styles after every round, although it will occasionally use the same fighting style two rounds in a row. The chosen fighting style is selected at random.
