
In the Sound FX there is the announcer voice for Jun Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and Sake meaning these characters could have been in the game but weren't added to the final version. The Lei Wulong music theme was certainly inspired by East 17's song: Steam (1994). Most of the characters like Jin, Law, Julia are the children of the characters from the first Tekken games. The word Tournament on the 'You are the Champion!' background is mis-spelled in the Japanese version as 'Tounament'. After Tekken 3, its followers like Tekken Tag, Tekken 4 and Tekken 5 got more and more depth, life-like impression, and the element of giving more fun (and addictiveness to its players). Namco's production team motion captured each and every move to create such an in depth game, that was also one of the most higly anticipated fighting game for the last few years. And for Hwoarang's Taekwondo style of fight they got the services of Hwang Su-Il of 'Japan International Taekon-do Federation, and several other martial arts institutes. They also used some of the very famous and active personalities of different martial arts styles from all over the world, like, for Eddy Gordo's Capoeira style of fight they got the services of Master Marcelo Pereira of 'Capoeira Mandinga'. Namco's Tekken 3 production team used one of the most advanced motion capture apparatus and facilities at its time for the highly life-like movements, moves, actions and reactions of the 3-D characters. This is the first Tekken game which has 3-D backgrounds. The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Iron Fist 3'. TECHNICAL Namco System 12 hardware Game ID: TET Main CPU: PSX 16.9344 Mhz), H8/3002 14.7456 Mhz) Sound Chips: C352 14.7456 Mhz) Players: 2 Control: 8-way joystick Buttons: 6 TRIVIA Tekken 3 was released in March 1997 (even if the title screen says 1996). A fully 3-D game with one on one concept of fighting. Every character has his own ambition of winning the tournament.


The world's 19 toughest fighters enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, in order to defeat Heihachi, and Ogre, who has taken the souls of many of the world's greatest fighters to adopt its own fighting style. Arcade Video game published 25 years ago: Tekken 3 © 1997 Namco.
