Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 96.3% |
| Metacritic | 96 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| GamePro | 5 out of 5 |
| GameSpot | 9.9 out of 10 |
| IGN | 9.3 out of 10 |
According to Metacritic, Tekken 3 has a score of 96 out of 100, indicating universal acclaim and is ranked number 2 on their list of greatest PlayStation games. Tekken 3 became the first game in three years to receive a 10 from a reviewer from Electronic Gaming Monthly, with three of the four reviewers giving it the highest possible score (Tekken 3 was the first game to score a 10 under EGM's revised review scale in that a game no longer needed to be "perfect" to receive a 10; the last game to receive a 10 from the magazine was Sonic & Knuckles). The only holdout was the magazine's enigmatic fighting-game review guru, Sushi-X, who said that "no game that rewards newbies for button-mashing will ever be tops in my book", giving the game 9 out of 10. As of April 2011, the game is listed as the eighth-highest-rated game of all time on the review compiling site GameRankings with an average ratio of 96.3%.
In December 2006, Tekken 3 was ranked tenth on GameSpot's top ten list. In September 2004 it ranked #10 on PSM's "Final PlayStation Top 10" and #177 on Game Informer's Top 200 games of all time. In 2011, Complex ranked it as the fourth best fighting game of all time. As of September 2012, Tekken 3 still remains as the highest rated Tekken game in the series.
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