Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory



Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory (餓狼伝説3 遥かなる闘い, Garō Densetsu Surī Harukanaru Tatakai, "Legend of the Hungry Wolf 3: The Distant Battle") was released by SNK in 1995, and arrived on the Neo Geo Systems (MVS,AES and CD), Sega Saturn and PC Windows.

Instead of the traditional 2 lane system seen in all of the Fatal Fury games until then, Fatal Fury 3 brings a 3 lane system, allowing the players to take different strategies during the fight, but in this new system, the characters are not allowed to jump, or to launch special attacks while in the 2 non-center lanes, also, in this game, when a character loses a fight by  being hit by an attack that would knock it to another lane, the character could even be launched to the background (if hit by an attack that knocks to the upper lane), or on the screen (if hit by an attack that knocks to the bottom lane).

Fatal Fury 3 was the first graphic "evolution" to the fatal fury series, with all new sprites, stages and artworks (some of the sprites were used in Real Bout Fatal Fury)... The soundtrack also was improved, with cd-quality tracks in the Neo Geo CD, Sega Saturn and PC Windows version. The Sega Saturn version was only released in japan, and despite the other snk games on the system, Fatal Fury 3 don't require a 1MB RAM cart.

Story
Fatal Fury 3 takes place in Southtown, like the other Fatal Fury games, and 3 years after the fall of Geese Howard in Fatal Fury, but the old menace that threatened Southtown was nothing compared to the evil that was to unveil soon...

At the opening of the Pao Pao Cafe 2, by Richard Meyer, 2 kids with asian costumes (Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei), and an unbelieaveable power, revealed to have the legendary scrolls of immortality, the legacy of the Jin Family...

Southtown was in great danger. All of a sudden, all kinds of figures were in southtown after the scroll, it was a big mess, from the co-manager of Pao Pao Cafe 2 Bob Wilson, to the hong kong cop Hon Fu...

With all that mess, Southtown was turned into a battlefield, everyone was wanting to put the hands on that scroll. Then, after a bit of fighting, the secret agent Blue Mary informed Terry about the Jin's whereabouts. It was time for an action, or Southtown would drown in darkness again... But it wasn't intended to be easy, was it?

As the "lone wolves" and Blue Mary arrived in the informed place, a sinister figure appears. It was tall, maniac and vicious. The psycopath introduces himself as Ryuji Yamazaki, as it condemns the four to a painful death. At that moment, Terry guessed it was just some ordinary bandit, but when the fight started, Yamazaki showed to be nothing ordinary, and was giving the lone wolves a beating to remember, when suddenly appears an unexpected help. It was Hon Fu, who was chasing Yamazaki for a long time. When the two started to fight, the lone wolves moved forward - as Hon Fu asked them to do, to take on the Jins...

Inside the shrine, the twins were already awaiting their arrival. Terry put all the effort he could into that fight, but the evil power of the Jins coming from the scrolls had surpassed Terry's willpower. As the twins attacked Terry, one after another, again and again, he was starting to think about giving up. But then the power of the twins started to vanish, little by little. As they had lost the scroll's power, Terry quickly defeated them, but the twins said that something could have happened to the scroll, that's why they lost their power. After that, Terry rushed to the scroll chamber, but someone was already there...

The gaze of such a figure took away Terry's breath. Was him, the man that he managed to defeat 3 years ago. Geese Howard was alive, and face to face with him. Geese laughed and showed the scar on his back, that he obtained from the fall of the building 3 years ago. Geese then says he now have the ultimate power, power enough to make any fighter bow to him, and now he wants to be, again, the man behind the King of Fighters tournament. With an energy blast, Geese managed to escape, and then, the situation was worst than ever.

Geese was on the loose, so was Yamazaki, that wasn't captured by Hon Fu, and there's that mysterious energy about the King of Fighters tournament and the man behind him... The real battle is just about to begin...

Characters
Fatal Fury 3 had a character roster mostly composed by new characters. The characters are:

Old Characters:

 * Terry Bogard
 * Andy Bogard
 * Mai Shiranui
 * Joe Higashi
 * Geese Howard

New Characters:

 * Bob Wilson
 * Franco Bash
 * Hon Fu
 * Sokaku Mochizuki
 * Ryuji Yamazaki
 * Blue Mary
 * Jin Chonshu
 * Jin Chonrei