30 Best Video Games Of All Time

24. Tekken 3

Before the position-switching and attempted technicality of dash-cancels, damage absorbs and low health finishers from later sequels, Tekken 3 stands tall as the pinnacle of the fighting genre, as it was back in 1997.

Of course, if you've a penchant for animation frame-watching and analysing hitboxes, perhaps something more like Street Fighter V would be your cup of tea, but if we're talking about a base one-on-one fighting game with an immaculately balanced roster, great sense of spectacle and enough story to keep you invested in why fists are meeting face, it's Tekken 3 every time.

Again, even Namco have struggled to reassert Tekken at the top of a genre they helped shape, but it's precisely because once you've perfected a mix of special attacks, dashes, grapples and combos, where can you go?

Tekken 3 was pivotal in getting the PlayStation established as a genuinely incredible console - and this remains the most essential of all in the series to experience if you haven't sunk a few hundred hours into it already.