GameTap Thursday: Street Fighter III: Third Strike's out

by Alexander Sliwinski { Dec 20th 2007 at 3:00AM }

This week GameTap hadoukens the Dreamcast version of Street Fighter III: Third Strike onto the service. The game considered by many hardcore gamers as the last great 2D fighter is accessible for both PC and Mac users. The new GameTap titles this week (other than SFIII) are the remains of the year.

Metal Combat (PC) - Just say no. Check out Mr. Robot.
Mr. Robot (PC) - A little-known independent action RPG from a couple years ago that was well received. Check it out for something a little different.
Putter Golf (Genesis) - Hardcore mini-golf.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Covert Ops Essential (PC) - Plan out the mission and repeat it a billion times 'til you don't get your whole squad killed. Classic Rainbow Six game.
Sub Hunt (Intellivision) - A submarine game from 1981. Seriously.
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (Dreamcast) - We've gone over this.

After the break we have GameTap's list of free games. The new free game this week is Texas Hold 'em and is bolded for easy reference. There will be no GameTap update next week due to the holiday, with the next update on Jan. 3rd.

1. Psychonauts
2. Rogue Trooper
3. Thief: Deadly Shadows
4. Hitman 2: Silent Assasin
5. Sam and Max: Ep. 4 (Abe Lincoln)
6. King of Fighters 95
7. Tomb Raider: Legend
8. Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
9. Mega Man: The Power Battle
10. Samurai Shodown
11. Jaws Unleashed
12. Second Sight
13. Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2
14. Bust a Move
15. Texas Hold 'em
16. Myst Online: Uru Live
17. Restaurant Empire
18. Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
19. Captain Commando
20. Ghosts 'N Goblins
21. Nemesis of the Roman Empire
22. Metal Slug
23. Neo Turf Masters
24. Hitman: Codename 47
25. Rampage
26. Root Beer Tapper
27. Bubble Bobble
28. Cannon Fodder
29. Shock Troopers
30. King of the Monsters
31. The Last Blade
32. Twinkle Star Sprites
33. Ghouls 'N Ghosts
34. Ikari Warriors
35. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
36. DJ Puffs Volcanic Capers
37. Colin McRae Rally 2005
38. CJ in the USA
39. Vampire Savior
40. Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
41. Mutation Nation
42. Zoo Empire
43. Elevator Action
44. The New Zealand Story
45. Zoo Keeper
46. Rainbow Islands
47. Space Invaders
48. Buku Sudoku
49. Sensible Soccer 2006
50. Bloodrayne
51. realMYST 3D
52. John Romero's Daikatana
53. Fast Lanes Bowling
54. 1941
55. Defender
56. Final Fight
57. Joust
58. Mercs
59. Baseball Stars 2
60. Motocross
61. Pro Boxing Simulator
62. Bee 52
63. Miami Chase
64. Tilt
65. Mean Machine
66. Grand Prix Simulator
67. Kamikaze
68. Pro Skateboard Simulator
69. Rally Cross Simulator
70. CJ in the USA
71. Stuntman Seymour

Tags: gametap, gametapthursday, sf3thirdstrike, sfiii, sFIIIthirdstrike, street-fighter-3, street-fighter-3-third-strike, street-fighter-iii, streetfighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kaioh @ Dec 20th 2007 9:05AM

Last great 2D fighter?

No, I think not. That award, for now, resides with Guilty Gear X2.

Marcus Albers @ Dec 20th 2007 9:50AM

I think most fighting fans would consider Guilty Gear to be more of a button-masher than a true fighter compared to SFIII. Personally, I don't think the two can compare. Street Fighter III is deeper than anything in the Guilty Gear series could hope to be, but that's just my opinion.

shintaboo @ Dec 20th 2007 9:57AM

Metal Combat - the most underrated and hated game of all time that f#%*n kills

WiNG @ Dec 20th 2007 10:04AM

NEWS: According to the NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams website, the ORIGINAL NiGHTS is coming to Gametap soon!

Norm @ Dec 20th 2007 10:06AM

Wow, the absolute worst version of Third strike, the DC version. Why couldn't they just run the Arcade-perfect DC version of Marvel vs Capcom 2? Oh don't answer that. I know why.

I don't really think Guilty Gear is a button masher, but it is a hell of a lot more complicated. Both games have a pretty big following, and a lot of people in the FGC play both. I don't really think it makes sense to argue over which one is 'better' because they are so different.

Ghaleon @ Dec 20th 2007 10:52AM

You prob want to pass on this 3s (based on the DC) and get either the Playstation 2 one or just emulate it.

Ghaleon @ Dec 20th 2007 10:59AM

Arcana Heart is also cool btw in terms of new 2-D.

oh my God, there's no reason to say retarded crap like "most tourney players think GG is a button masher." GG is crazy intense, it's MvC2 but 1-on-1.

Scrubs think 3s is perfect and soo balanced, when it's not at all at tournament level. 3s is my main tourney game, and it's really easy to see why people who play multiple games don't enjoy 3s that much -- go watch some high-level (start with Evo Chun vs. Chun or Yun vs. anyone and see how balanced this dumb game is. I can't wait for SFIV :P

RabidOyster @ Dec 20th 2007 12:46PM

Hey, it's nice how you added that meta-critic link for mr. robot. It would be sweet if you did that for every title. Even if it wasn't metacritic, but game rankings or moby games or something to give a slightly better perspective than what the gametap page offers.