be the same. With an assortment of attacks and combos to learn, along with good controls, graphics, and sound, Tekken 3 was much more polished and smooth than its predecessors." Tekken 3 has also been listed among the best video games of all time by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 1997, Game Informer in 1999, Computer and Video Games in 2000, GameFAQs in 2005, and Edge in 2007. ArcadeSushi ranked Tekken 3 as the "20th Best Playstation Game", with comments "Tekken 3 changed everything. Friends became bitter rivals. Bitter rivals became even more bitter rivals. Tekken 3 was the game you played with friends you didn't want to be your friends anymore." The same site also ranked it as the "17th best fighting game", commenting, "Tekken 3 was easily one of the best Tekken games ever created. Before the series became obsessed with wall splats and ground bounds, it simply had huge open 3D arenas with massive casts that may or may not have included boxing raptors." In 2015, GamesRadar ranked Tekken 3 as the 59th "best game ever", as "it possesses one of the finest fighting systems ever, the series' well-known juggle formula percolated into a perfect storm of throws, strikes, and suplexes." Retrospective In 2022 the website Pixel Bandits looked back at Tekken 3, providing a retrospective review score of 9/10 overall. The review both praised the gameplay, and the fluid and diverse combat system. The reviewer said that while the visuals suffer from clipping, it remains one of the ultimate beat-em-up experiences. Notes References Further reading External links (archived) (archived) 1997 video games Arcade video games Dinosaurs in video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Namco arcade games Namco beat 'em ups Production I.G PlayStation (console) games Tekken games Video game sequels Video games set in Japan Video games set in Russia Video games set in China Video games set in Korea Video games set in the United States Video games set in Brazil Video games set in Mexico Video games set in Hong Kong Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Keiichi Okabe Video games scored by Nobuyoshi Sano Video games scored by Yuu Miyake