Battle Arena Toshinden 3

"Awesome!"

After hours of playing Tekken 3 I decided to retire and get a new fighting game. I saw Toshinden 3 for 20 bucks so I tried it. Here's my review.

Gameplay 10: characters. Awesome combos, caged arenas, and the most blinding specials I've seen in any fighting game! My favorite feature that you can smash people into the walls creating mean combos, just like on Dead or Alive 2. Once I got a 32 combo! The game contains 32 characters in which 18 of them are secret characters and six modes. Here are the modes.
Arcade- You play as a character vs. the computer in 14-15 matches. Once you beat it you unlock a secret characters, hidden costumes and more!
Survival-Play as a character and see how far you can get. If you lose in a match you cannot continue. You gain a little health each match.
Human vs. computer- Duke it out with the computer you choose to fight!
Human vs. human- Beat the pants off one of your friends.(This mode is really fun when you have all the characters!)
Options- In the options you can change the level of difficulty, rounds, graphics levels, controller buttons, and time limit.
Ranking-records your records
Save and Load- saves your game( I don't consider this a mode)
Graphics 10: Okay backgrounds, but what really stands out are the special moves. All the flashes and fast movement will make you blind if your sitting to close. The characters looks are swell. Even the intro movie was nice! The weapons looks are beautiful.

Sound 7: This game got some of the worst ratings for this, but really it isn't all that bad. If you don't like the music, you can turn it off! All characters talk and do taunts while fighting. The sound of the weapons are excellent. Even the chain saws sound realistic. All characters have clear grunts and screams when hit.

Replay 10: You got 18 characters to unlock, new costumes, and new special moves too get, and no codes to get them either!

Rent or Buy: I would buy, but many people have different opinions. The only thing I found wrong with it is it is extremely easy, but when you unlock everything it gets harder. Of course this game is not as good as Tekken 3, but its worth the money! So go out and get it!

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 08/11/02, Updated 08/11/02