Game entry

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

1999 · Fighting, Arcade · Arcade · Capcom

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is ranked no. 97 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,838 and 82% of duels won.

World rank

no. 97

ELO score

1,838

Wins

82%

Duels played

84

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About Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is the second follow-up to Street Fighter III. The game increased the character roster by adding five new characters and also added further refinements to the previous game's play mechanics and rules. All the returning characters from the previous Street Fighter III games were given new stages, endings, and voice actors for certain characters, continuing the overall storyline from where the first two games left off.

The community says

Melee rewards speed and reads that snowball fast, this rewards patience and a single correct read at the right moment, both demanding but in almost opposite…

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,838 ELO points over the last 123 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

against Tekken 3 100% 2 duels played · 38 points ahead
against Dead or Alive 5 100% 2 duels played · 403 points ahead
against One Finger Death Punch 100% 2 duels played · 411 points ahead
against Injustice 2 100% 2 duels played · 343 points ahead
against Absolver 100% 2 duels played · 279 points ahead

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QuestBard

Melee rewards speed and reads that snowball fast, this rewards patience and a single correct read at the right moment, both demanding but in almost opposite ways
IronKid3

Compared to Smash it rewards precision over chaos, or maybe I mean patience more than precision honestly.
Donato_1990

The parry system rewards precise timing in a way few fighters match, though the input windows punish anyone without arcade-level reflexes. Newcomers bounce off hard.

lloyd09

Same here, clicks or falls apart, no in between really

Puente51

La precisión que mencionás es justo lo que separa a este juego de casi todo lo demás en el género.
Audreanne_1999

Same debates, same defenders, same 82 percent win rate flexed every single thread.

GerhardByte

same 82 percent flex every thread, meanwhile I'm still stuck losing to the same three moves
BossOwl1995

this game deserves way more respect than 107th honestly, the parry system alone puts it above half the roster of newer fighters people rank higher, i still boot it up sometimes just to feel dumb again for an hour

GlitchPilot

Ce respect qu'il inspire est mérité, mais ça reste une barrière énorme pour qui débarque aujourd'hui.

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