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Times have changed though, and even though Third Strike's mechanics are just as flawlessly implemented and impossibly well designed as they ever were, the arcade world the game was designed for has all but dried up. The latest Mortal Kombat, for instance, uses a super meter system almost identical to the one found in Street Fighter 4, which is an evolution of Third Strike's "Super Art" mechanics. Its pioneering ideas and mechanics, namely the Parry system and EX Moves, form the foundation for many titles in the genre, even today. Like a fine wine, Third Strike has only improved with age.%Gallery-125795% Third Strike's eternal relevance to the genre is firmly rooted in the fact that it was (and still is) a technical masterpiece which has influenced dozens of fighters since its launch. Vipers and Cyclopses still need Third Strike? Yes, as it turns out, it can and it does. Going into Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition, the question wasn't "Will it be any good?" so much as "Will it still be any good?" See, a lot has happened in the twelve years that've passed since Third Strike hit Japanese arcades in 1999: The fighting game scene has died and been reborn anew, and our conventional understanding of the genre has seen its own phoenix-like regeneration.Ĭan a game that was considered nearly perfect at the peak of its relevancy still be considered as such years later? Does our crazy, modern world of Reptiles, C.