Battle Arena Toshinden 3

By repeatedly pressing certain buttons, you can make your character perform combination attacks. By pressing different combinations of buttons, you can make your Reversal Attacks more effective.

This technique allows you to move behind an opponent who is in a defensive pose, to render their defence useless so that you can attack.

Using this technique, when your opponent attacks, you can return their Attack and inflict twice the damage on your opponent that they inflicted on you.

This attack is limited and can be used only twice in a 1 set match, four times in a 2 set match, and five times in a 3 set match.

When your character is thrown against a wall by their opponent, this technique allows you to use that energy to kick off the wall and Counter-Reversal Attack, or to regain a fighting position.

You can provoke your opponent by pressing the SELECT button. However, some of the characters will not provoke their opponents.

Each character has their own SPECIAL ATTACKS.

These are Special Attacks which can only be used when the OVERDRIVE GAUGE is flashing.

These are Special Attacks which can only be used when the LIFE GAUGE is flashing red. These techniques cannot be used repeatedly.

Some SPECIAL ATTACKS, ULTIMATE TECHNIQUES, SECRET SPECIAL ATTACKS, etc, can be performed by hitting just one button rather than punching out a complicated button combination. The initial settings for these techniques are the R1 and R2 buttons.

The fight winner will be decided according to the rules below: 1. When your opponent's life gauge has been reduced to zero and they can no longer stand up, you win by knockout and you get the point for the bout. 2. In bouts in which there is a time limit, if there is no winner within the time limit, the point for the bout goes to the character with the most life left on their life gauge at the end of the match. 3. If the life gauge of both characters falls to zero at the same time (double knockout), or if both characters have the same level in their life gauge at the end of the time limit, the bout will be judged a draw. 4. The player who gets the number of points necessary to win the match goes on to meet the next fighter in the next round.

Realizing that the purpose of his life is not merely to imitate his brother SHO, EIJI is now in search of his own identity. The Vermilion Organization wants him dead, and he has decided to challenge them himself.

KAYIN rescued NARU from the secret Association and adopted him. He is searching for his own adoptive father, AMOH, to find out the truth and must become embroiled in a new battle.

He learned his technique from watching HOU, who was training in the Conron Mountains. BAY HOU doesn't understand why he is fighting against the Organisation, but it seems to be related to the old temple which is his home.

RUNGO has promised to take part in the tournament in response to GAIA's request. Now GAIA's past seems to be catching up with him again, so RUNGO has also decided to join the fight against the Organisation.

MONDO is a TOSHIN tournament participant, albeit against orders. Having witnessed the Organisation's brutality, his pride as a soldier leads him to challenge them and do what he wants at last.

Although DUKE put a stop to the conspiracy within the TOSHIN tournament, he lost the woman he loved and has yet to settle his differences with EIJI. He aims to uphold the honour of his family name against the Organisation.

The fight against the secret Association now over, ELLIS was looking forward to a little peace, but she has learned that her father, GAIA, is preparing to fight again. She has decided to confront the Organisation herself in order to protect the ones she loves.

SOFIA has wounds which will not heal, having been brainwashed and left wandering around Russia searching for memories of her past. While working as a private investigator, she discovered the Organisation, whose purpose of re-birth using magic strikes a chord in her heart.

Tracy was involved in the destruction of the secret Association, but she remains a troubled cop. She has been ordered to Japan to investigate a new crime syndicate, unaware of the difficult boss awaiting her.

CHAOS has been released from the magic spell of the secret Association, making his mission to kill GAIA meaningless. He senses a new fight approaching and strange emotions stirring within him, as DISASTER flashes before his eyes.

GAIA was branded a traitor, but succeeded in thwarting the Association's efforts, fulfilling a long-cherished ambition. The TOSHIN tournament, organized by GAIA himself, has now become the ideal target for the Organisation, and he has decided to fight in it himself.

NAGISA has a terrible complex about his name and becomes enraged when anyone uses it. He is a detective in the Japanese police force and a member of Interpol, and despite not getting along with TRACY initially, they start to work together.

David was raised in a happy family environment until a fire on his 6th birthday caused him to lose everything and a veil was drawn over his mind. He was taken to an orphanage run by the Organisation, where he was offered "new life" under their magic spell, but on his 15th birthday, something exploded within him, leaving him injured with a blood-dripping chainsaw.

Shizuku is an accomplished gambler and kind-hearted individual who helps those who cannot defend themselves. She decided to protect David after her brother found him wounded with a bloody chainsaw, which marked the beginning of her involvement in the fight against the mysterious Organisation.