Tekken 3 (1997)
Tekken 3 is a 1997 fighting video game made by Namco.
Nineteen years after the second King of Iron Fist Tournament, a new threat emerges: Ogre, an ancient fighting god, is hunting down and consuming the souls of the world's greatest martial artists. Jin Kazama, the son of Kazuya Mishima, trains under his grandfather Heihachi and enters the third tournament to confront it. Tekken 3 was a generational leap: fifteen new fighters, fluid three-dimensional movement, and animations that made it the technical standard for 3D fighting games well into the next console era.
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What is Tekken 3 about?
Nineteen years after the second King of Iron Fist Tournament, a new threat emerges: Ogre, an ancient fighting god, is hunting down and consuming the souls of the world's greatest martial artists. Jin Kazama, the son of Kazuya Mishima, trains under his grandfather Heihachi and enters the third tournament to confront it. Tekken 3 was a generational leap: fifteen new fighters, fluid three-dimensional movement, and animations that made it the technical standard for 3D fighting games well into the next console era.
When was Tekken 3 released?
Tekken 3 was released on 20 March 1997.
Who made Tekken 3?
Tekken 3 was made by Namco.
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The Mishima saga has its own film adaptations that capture different corners of the mythology. TEKKEN: The Motion Picture covers the original tournament, while TEKKEN: Blood Vengeance is a later CG film set in the same continuity.
Tournament fighters and martial-arts rivalries across anime and film
Tekken 3 sends Jin Kazama into a tournament haunted by an ancient fighting god and his own family's violent history, and these picks share that same tournament-arena energy. Two official Tekken anime films, a rival fighting-game franchise's own screen adaptation, a superhero school's elimination tournament, and a rivalry-fueled martial-arts comedy all turn one-on-one combat into the whole story.