Your favorite 3D fighting games?

By 3D I mean you fight on a three dimensional plane, not just the character models and backgrounds are in 3D, but you fight on a 2D plane (i.e. Street Fighter 4). So what are your favorites? Here are mine:

-Virtua Fighter

-Virtua Fighter 2

-Tekken Tag Tournament

-Tobal No. 1

-Street Fighter EX alpha plus

-Virtua Fighter 5 (not legacy, but still amazing)

Tekken 2 and Virtua Fighter 2. One can argue that further editions improved each respective formula, but where I'm from these two were the games that were out at a point when arcades were still very popular.

The original Soul Caliber for Dramcast. I can never put my finger on quite what but there is definitely something special about this game. I like the weapons and combos, characters plus the single player campaign mode or whatever they call it.

Virtua Fighter
Virtua Fighter Remix
Virtua Fighter 2
Last Bronx
Soul Calibur 2 (GCN)
DOA4

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance

Flash Ray MK Deception Ragnagard, MKvs.DC Soul Caliber 2(Xbox), Mortal Wounds.

Tekken 3 and Dead or Alive 1 and 2

• Tekken 3
• Tobal 2
• Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution

Tekken 3 (Arcade, though played on PS2 via T5/PS1) and Tekken 5 (PS2)

Zatch Bell! Mamodo Battles (GameCube)- Yes, I'm putting an anime/manga based game, but I love it SO much.

Soul Calibur II (GameCube and played a bit of the PS2 version with my friends)

Soul Calibur 2 and DoA: Dimensions. :D

Soul Calibur II and III, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3.

Soul Calibur 1,2, and 5

Dark Rift (an obscure 3D fighter for the N64. Not a great one, but one I enjoyed immensely as a kid.)

That's it... I'm a bigger fan of 2D fighters.

mk deadly alliance

blood roar

and that one king of fighters that was 3d think it was xi?

the DOA and VF series are my favourites

Soul Calibur is in the middle

my most dislked being Tekken , although I don't think its bad, just not A+ material like DOA or VF (or even B+ material like SC)

Tekken fan here. I like them all except Tekken 4.

Soul Calibur II (PS2) and Super Smash Bros. (N64)

• Virtua Fighter 2
• Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
• Soul Caliber II

Tekken, SC, and DOA are the best ones to me

Tekken 3 springs to mind. I'm a Virtua Fighter fan however. Never really liked Soul Calibur tho.

totally forgot about DOA2 and Soul Caliber on Dreamcast, thanks guys :p

In the order I played them:

PlayStation:
Tekken 2
Soul Blade
Bloody Roar
Bloody Roar 2
Tekken 3

DreamCast:
Soul Calibur
DOA 2
Virtua Fighter 3tb

PlayStation 2:
DOA 2: Hardcore
Tekken Tag Tournament

Xbox:
DOA 3
Soul Calibur II

PlayStation 2:
Tekken 5
Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution
Soul Calibur III

PlayStation 3:
Soul Calibur IV

Xbox 360:
Tekken 6
DOA 4

Can't forget to mention Soul Calibur, Tekken: Dark Resurrection and Tekken 6 on PSP :)

Tekken 3.

Deep, beautiful and an extreme joy to play :)

Fighting games are not my favourite genre (though paradoxically, I play quite a lot of them) so I can only go on the ones that annoy me the least.

Virtua Fighter 4 - I like the enormous variety of moves and really beautiful moton capture. (the latter is also a strength of the Tekken series, but it doesn't play half as well)

Virtua Fighter 2 - Arguably hasn't dated that well, but was a complete revelation to me when I played it as a child. Nowadays, I still love the outstanding soundtrack, badass taunts/voiceovers and hilariously weird physics.

Dead or Alive 4 - Even the brutal AI in arcade and story mode has caused me a lot of hair loss, I just love how this game feels and plays and I like the factthat reversals are not half so easy to execute as in previous DoA games.

Soul Calibur I/II - I can't choose between these two. Again, a fighter that feels very natural to play and the extras/unlockable are aweseome and great fun. I agree with critics of the series thatthe moves vend to look very stilted and awkward on screen compared to VF and Tekken, butthis doesn't spoil my enjoymenttoo much.

I really must play Bushido Blade.

totally forgot about DOA2 and Soul Caliber on Dreamcast, thanks guys :p

Shenmue_Jehuty

Just remembered another awesome 3D fighting game, Dragon Ball Z Budakai Tenkaichi 3. It is probably the best DBZ fithing game ever, and a very unique experience. If you're a fan you'll probably love it 10 times more.

My top 3? I have all the Tekkens and pretty much have all the other good fighters (3-d and 2-d). While Tekken 3 was the big hit, I believe Tekken 5 is the greatest fighting game of all time.

My other great 3-d fighting games are:

Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution

Def Jam: Fight For NY (so underrated)

Soul Calibur 2 is my favorite fighting game ever. I had hours upon hours of great multi-player fun with that one. I think most people like the first one more, but I had the second one before it.

Just remembered another awesome 3D fighting game, Dragon Ball Z Budakai Tenkaichi 3. It is probably the best DBZ fithing game ever, and a very unique experience. If you're a fan you'll probably love it 10 times more.

Shenmue_Jehuty

I was surprised I was the only one who mentioned it before you.

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Just remembered another awesome 3D fighting game, Dragon Ball Z Budakai Tenkaichi 3. It is probably the best DBZ fithing game ever, and a very unique experience. If you're a fan you'll probably love it 10 times more.

TheBlackKnight3

I was surprised I was the only one who mentioned it before you.

Seriously! I think my favorite thing about this game is the massive character roster and all the different modes.

I always seem to go back to Tekken Tag (PS2), it's Tekken 3 on steroids.

Though I go back and play all the Tekkens occasionally, only one I'm really not to fond of is T6 just didn't get me addicted like its predecessors did.

Soul Calibur series. And I like DBZ Budokai 3 and have enjoyed bits of Tekken 5.

I always thought I just hated fighting games, but after playing some good 2D ones I think I'm just not comfortable with that extra bit of z-axis.