Sentoki 3

戦闘機 Sentoki 3 (戦闘機; fighter) is a 3D fighting game developed by Orange Soft and published by ACS Softworks. It is the sequel to Sentoki 2 and the third part of the Sentoki series. Released in 2003 for Arcades (ACS System 201) PlayStation 2, XBox and Nintendo Gamecube.

In 2013, the game was re-released for the  Samsung Zeo  as a downloadable title for its LIVEPLAY Store.

Gameplay
The game features a new Defense meter, located below the life bar, which decreases as the player blocks attacks, When the defense meter is depleted, the player cannot block until the Defense meter is full. The Defense meter slowly refills as time passes, but one can boost it up by performing successful parries and catches.

Another new feature is the addition of character customization, where one can unlock various costumes and items in gameplay and equip them to their character. Customization items can be bought with in-game currency, called Battle Points or BP, which are earned during battles.

With the inclusion of customization mode, the costume slot system has also been revamped, with the first two slots used for the character's default costumes, while the latter two now serve as slots for players' custom-made outfits.

The game also adds new stage hazards such as breakable floors and ledges, as well as new defensive techniques such as Counter-Reversal, which allows the player to reverse an opponents reversal with proper timing.

Story
Near the end of the second tournament, Kei Ikushima, after defeating Regulus, discovers that the underground laboratory's self-destruct mechanism has been activated. As she was about to escape, she encounters Eileen Shore once again.

Kei tried to take Eileen out of the lab with her, but she hesitated. Eileen instead told Kei the answer that she was looking for all along: Kei was actually the daughter of none other than the CEO of Orion Corporation, Ranzou Kihara.

Eileen then gives Kei a letter and then tells Kei to go on without her and escape the lab now "before he gets you". Kei hesitates at first but then escapes as the lab explodes, leaving Eileen behind. It is unknown what happened to Eileen after the explosion.

Three years after the explosion at the Orion labs, Kei finds out more of her past from the letter Eileen gave her before the incident. She also found out that her DNA was taken for use in several mass-produced clones, which were then infused with Orion's fight data to create the "perfect fighter". It was also said in the letter that come her 20th birthday, Orion will unleash the so-called "perfect fighter" to the masses.

As Kei reaches her 20th birthday, Orion announces the third Sentoki: Global Martial Arts tournament. Kei joins the tournament in order to search for Eileen and discover the "perfect fighter" that she was referring to.

Returning

 * Shin Ikushima

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan

Fighting Style: Karate

Voice Actors: Tomokazu Seki (JP),  Mark Atherlay (EN)


 * Ralph Rollins

Birthplace: 🇺🇸 USA

Fighting Style: Street Fighting

Voice Actors: Keiji Fujiwara (JP),  Doug Boyd (EN)


 * Huang Long

Birthplace: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Fighting Style: Jeet Kune Do

Voice Actors: Nobutoshi Canna (JP),  Scott Reyns (EN)


 * Joanna Spencer

Birthplace: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales

Fighting Style: Assassination arts based on Koppo-jutsu and Wing Chun

Voice Actresses: Yuko Mizutani (JP),  Renee Hewitt (EN)


 * Bru Bronson

Birthplace: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England

Fighting Style: Pro Wrestling

Voice Actors: Tetsu Inada (JP),  J.S Gilbert (EN)

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan
 * Akechi

Fighting Style: Sumo

Voice Actors: Ryuzaburo Otomo (JP),  Peter Kepler (EN)


 * Douglas Freeman

Birthplace: 🇺🇸 USA

Fighting Style: Boxing

Voice Actors: Hisao Egawa (JP),  Paul Jennnings (EN)


 * Sonchai Khun

Birthplace: 🇹🇭 Thailand

Fighting Style: Muay Thai

Voice Actors: Kosuke Toriumi (JP),  Casey Robertson (EN)


 * Punchy

Birthplace: 🇦🇺 Australia

Fighting Style: "Animal Boxing"

Voice Actors: None (Kangaroo noises)


 * Chen Zhixin

Birthplace: 🇨🇳 China

Fighting Style: Drunken Fist

Voice Actors: Takeshi Aono (JP),  Michael Bennett (EN)


 * M.A.C.

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan

Fighting Style: Mimicry (switches through other characters' styles per round)

Voice Actors: None


 * Kei Ikushima

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan

Fighting Style: Karate

Voice Actresses: Rica Fukami (JP),  Melissa Hutchison (EN)


 * Kwon Eun-Soo

Birthplace: 🇰🇷 South Korea

Fighting Style: Tae-Kwon-Do

Voice Actors: Akira Ishida (JP),  Jim Singer (EN)


 * Shannon Meltzer

Birthplace: 🇺🇸 USA

Fighting Style: Pro Wrestling

Voice Actresses: Akiko Hiramatsu (JP),  Christiane Crawford (EN)


 * Zakuro

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan

Fighting Style: Ninjutsu

Voice Actors: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP),  Scott Zeck (EN)


 * Liang Meilin

Birthplace: 🇨🇳 China

Fighting Style: Baguazhang

Voice Actresses: Yumi Touma (JP),  Melissa Hutchison (EN)

New

 * Brandon Donovan

Birthplace: 🇮🇪 Ireland

Fighting Style: Mixed martial arts based on Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

Voice Actors:  (JP),  Andrew Chaikin (EN)

Brandon Donovan is an MMA fighter from Dublin, Ireland. One of the most well-known MMA fighters of his generation, Brandon cares less about his skill and more about his popularity amongst fans and the thrill of a fight. Brandon decides to enter the Sentoki tournament to boost his popularity.


 * Ariana Melendez

Birthplace: 🇧🇷 Brazil

Fighting Style: Capoeira

Voice Actresses:  (JP),  Desiree Goyette (EN)

Ariana Melendez is an actress and capoeira fighter from Sao Paolo, Brazil. Aside from her work as an actress, Ariana also takes care of her younger brother, who was also taught capoeira by their late grandfather, until one day, her brother was kidnapped by a group of soldiers. As she learns that Orion was responsible for the kidnapping, Ariana flies to Japan to participate in the Sentoki tournament to rescue him.


 * Ruslanovich

Birthplace: 🇷🇺 Russia

Fighting Style: Combat Sambo

Voice Actors: Takaya Kuroda (JP),  Abie Hadjitarkhani (EN)

Nikolai Ruslanovich is a mercenary from Russia. Originally serving for the military, Ruslanovich found his love of descruction in the battlefield and tore through enemies one by one, not caring about his allies. Growing tired of the same battles, Ruslanovich enters the Sentoki tournament for more prey.


 * Satomi Sumiregawa

Birthplace: 🇯🇵 Japan

Fighting Style: Aikido

Voice Actresses: Kaori Shimizu (JP),  Julissa Aguire (EN)

Satomi Sumiregawa is an aikido expert from Kyoto, Japan. Satomi was trained by her father Yujiro up until he was put in comatose by a mysterious entity who also went on to destroy her father's dojo. After hearing rumors that the entity was joining the Sentoki tournament, Satomi decides to enter the tournament in order to seek revenge for her father.


 * K1

Birthplace:  Unknown

Fighting Style: Combination of all fighter's styles

Voice Actresses: Rica Fukami (JP),  Roberta Kennedy (EN)

K1 is a clone of Kei Ikushima created by Orion. K1 was created using Kei's DNA during her time in cryo-sleep for the purpose of dicscovering the "perfect fighter", having been infused with the fight data collected by Orion. K1 was left inside Orion's labs up until the third tournament, where she is planned to be unveiled by Orion come the finals.

Game Modes

 * Arcade


 * Quick Match


 * Conquest


 * Versus


 * Survival


 * Time Attack


 * Tournament


 * Team Battle


 * Story


 * Practice


 * Online


 * Extras (includes Minigames, Gallery,Awards, and various other unlockables)


 * Options

Minigames

 * Wrecking Street 2 (a sequel to Wrecking Street from 戦闘機 Sentoki 2)


 * Command Challenge (a minigame in which the player has to perform a certain character's move or combo)

Sequel
A sequel to the game,  Sentoki 4, was released in 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360. It featured new characters as well as new gameplay mechanics and stages.

Trivia

 * This is the first ACS game to gain an English dub.
 * It also marks the first and only time that ACS utilized a San Francisco dub cast, as the next ACS game to be dubbed, Code Chronos: Eve of Destruction, utilized a Los Angeles dub cast.