Part 3's

So whats the News on the 3's you ask? Well I'm talking about Street Fighter 3, Tekken 3, Virtua Fighter 3, Darkstalkers 3...you get the picture. Well here's what I know.

Street Fighter III: New Generation TM Click for More Info
Sources at Capcom say that SF3 as well as DarkStalkers 3 Will run in the Arcade on the CPSIII board and will run off of a CD-ROM drive. And DarkStalkers and Street Fighter MAY be translated to DD64/Cart. Which can easly handle the Frames of animation. Saturn is also rumored to use CD/Cart combo for SFIII.
Check out Official Press Release for SFIII


Street Fighter Alpha 3:
According to sources, SFA3 may skip the arcades and go directly to the N64, but thats highly doubtful. SFA3 will be out this summer/fall and will mark the retun of: Strider. Also Street Fighter Heroes is in developement. Street Fighter Heroes is hoped for release in the Fall of 97. It is coming to Saturn and PS. Only 3 out of five arcade SFII series will be on the disc. With a possible 2nd CD release with the other 2. Maybe it will include the original Street Fighter, once only available on Turbo Duo CD under the name Fighting Streets.
DARKSTALKERS 3 Click for More Info

Capcom Reveals Details On New DarkStalkers Game

Capcom has officially announced the next game in the DarkStalkers series, to be known in Japan as Vampire Savior. The new game runs on Capcom's old 16-bit CPSII hardware, and uses several frames from the first two Vampire games, but has all-new backgrounds. There are also reported to be four new playable characters, including Anita (!), Morrigan's sister, who may be called "Genevieve," a new insectoid female character, and one unknown. The game has debuted at Japan's AOU show. It IS a CPS 2 Board. But the Board can still pack a punch.

Darkstalkers 3 will hit the arcades right next to Street Fighter 3. Based on Capcom's new CPSIII arcade board. Darkstalkers is packing smooth animation and the high resolution character designs. Little information has been released, but it is known that a majority of the characters from the previous Darkstalkers will return with a few new characters rearing their frightning heads.

The balance has been further refined for this version, and several new fetures will be implemeted in order to seperate it from SFIII. Look for Darkstalkers to hit the arcades later this year.



Virtua Fighter 3:
Sega Japan anounced that they would release total official word of this game sometime in March. As to what this word is is unknown.

Saturn Conversion: Saturn conversion may be with an optional Model 3 type upgrade for Saturn. Nothing has come up yet. Maybe E3 they will anounce Saturn VF3. Until then, play it in the Arcades.


Tekken 3: Click for More information
Based upon the System 12 board, Tekken 3 is an improvement graphically over its predecessors. Its built upon the System 11 board. The system 12 board has considerably more RAM than the 11 board allowing for higher resolution textures and more detailed backgrounds. Not too much is known about Tekken 3. But as to Namco it will be available at the End of Febuary.

Jin vs Paul
Paul vs Law



Mortal Kombat 4
Not a Part 3 game. But I have to mention it somewhere. In developement and expected for a release later this year. Characters to be in it so far are, Sub-Zero, Sonya, Raiden, Liu Kang, and Scorpion. I'll have to look around and contact a few people.



Toshinden 3

Battle Arena Toshinden 3 in the US will be released on May 12. It is available in Japan. I don't know too much about it in terms of story or anything, but I guess i'll have to get it...check back if you're REALLY interested..i know i'm not to intrested.
Here are pictures from the american version
Battle Arena Toshinden Pic 2


Thats it for now...Stay tuned for further developement as I get it in here.

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