Street Fighter Alpha 3
by Capcom
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Video Game Reviews of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Customer Review: Good translation ruined by controls
Summary: 3 Stars
I'll keep this brief: If you want Street Fighter on the GBA, buy Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo Revival. That game handles the fact that the GBA only has 4 buttons by letting you assign punches and kicks to brief-vs-long button presses. It's not ideal, but it works. Alpha 3 doesn't even give you this option, instead it forces you to assign them to combinations of the triggers and the A&B buttons. Try throwing a fireball with L+B. It just doesn't work. I partially blame Nintendo for refusing to give a portable more than 2 face buttons, but I mainly blame Capcom for not giving you the brief-vs-long button assignment options.Customer Review: near perfect
Summary: 4 Stars
the games translates very well from console to handheld. all moves come over intact and graphics aren't too noticably scaled down. the only think i've noticed is that it is hared at times to do a combo correctly when the directional pad is smaller. that isn't a problem with the game though, just the gameboy. you may find it easier to use an older gameboy instead of an sp though.Customer Review: Street Fighter In The Palm Of Your Hands
Summary: 3 Stars
Street Fighter Alpha 3 is one of the best in the series but this port lacks its full potential because of its difficult controls. If only the game boy advance had 6 buttons instead of 4 this would be true to the arcade. It may take awhile before I can get use to these controls but so far its a great game.Customer Review: Awesome game!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I?ve been a SF fan for a long time. After purchasing my GBA earlier this year, I discovered that SF alpha for GB color does not play too well on the GBA. Well in response to the GBA?s screen glitch I purchased this version of the popular Capcom title, and I chose a winner! This game has more pack and punch than any SF game I have ever played! It just simply rocks! Some recommendations as to the choice of fighters that are poweful are: Choose Fei-Long, he?s a Bruce Lee imitator and almost fights like him. He?s my favorite character in this version, and typically pounds most of his opponents! Guy was extremely powerful in the GB color version, but in this version he cannot drop throw as easily like he could before. Purchase this game and have fun!Customer Review: Sluggish controls. Wrong game for Game Boy Advance.
Summary: 2 Stars
I am a 12-year Street Fighter veteran who's played over a dozen permutations of this series on seven, eight different consoles, mostly pad-based. The prospect of any SF game working well on the Game Boy Advance looked slim, and sure enough, the game just doesn't translate.
My main concern, adapting to the four-button layout, turned out to be minor compared to the poor response. Every attack takes half a beat to be executed, requiring the player to "pre-execute" moves before their time, thus making the delicate, complex Street Fighter fighting system impossible. The graphics are impressively close to the old PlayStation version that I played, and they managed to keep all the characters, but this is no compensation for the fact that the control pad is too unresponsive to handle Street Fighter-style combos, super moves, and charge moves. Where I used to be able to pull off a 10-hit combo with Karin, now I struggle to pull off even a two-in-one fireball, and my left hand was cramped after two or three fights.
I can't blame the game developers all the way; the game and the console were simply not a compatible match. Nevertheless, most of my Gameboy Advance games (excluding the incredibly poor 007 Nightfire) are far more responsive than this. I can't help but think if they had sacrificed some graphics and scaled down the character roster a little, they would have had a much more playable game.