Man where would I even begin with this kind of game? I love old school games like this, and as many of you know Street Fighter 3rd Strike is a very well known game in the Street Fighter community. The cast of characters in this game is very vast, each character coming from a different part of the world such as China or Japan. The cast of characters all feel very unique, everyone has something different to them that will effect the way you play them. For example, there is a character by the name of Elena who uses the fighting style that involves only her feet which changes your punch buttons to a higher kick. The game follows the "six button" layout which means that there are three punches (light, medium, and fierce) and three kicks.

Each of the character's stories are a bit on the vaguer side of things, there's not really much story to the game...just fight. There are some interesting tidbits when you win matches from the characters, but those hardly have anything to do with the story. 

The graphics to Street Fighter 3rd Strike I would like to say were very good in their time. Each attack looked like it fluently came out and the effects on certain moves (such as Ryu's hadouken) would have the smaller details that people like me really enjoy to see in fighting games. The stages were pretty well thought out for each character and where the originate from. The people at Capcom really took the time to think these stages through for each individual area in the world where the two combatants could duke it out.

The music in Street Fighter 3rd Strike is very well thought out, the soundtrack fits in well with each character and their individual stages. Some songs were very fun to listen to while simultaneously beating your opponent to a pulp like "Beats in my head" from Elena's stage. Some stages however, are a bit more forgettable I will admit. But, that's not to say that it doesn't fit in with the stage. Some of the music on stages can be a bit more quiet than others. In the heat of battle, there's really not much time to stop and smell the roses (get it?) which brings me to my next section: the difficulty.

The difficulty in 3rd strike is hard when you have no idea what your character may be capable of. When you're first starting off, it's very hard to tell what's happening being that you are only just beginning to play. Just take some time to get used to the way your character controls, find your own distinctive way of playing your character and I can assure you that you'll find a way to absolutely annihilate this game. How ever, the parry will be your greatest ally in this game, so make sure you learn how to use it. There are some enemies you'll face that will do a insane amount of chip damage to your character so you have to be ready to parry or do whatever you can to best evade the incoming attack.

All and all, I have to say Street Fighter 3rd Strike is a definite must play for Street fighter fans! Seriously, it's very fun to play with its vast cast of playable character and multitude of stages for you to duke it out in. I'd definitely recommend Street Fighter 3rd Strike to all of my fighting game friends and hope all of you will at least give it a shot.  

You gave a good overview of the game to entice people to play it. However, from what I know about Street Fighter, you seem to be missing a lot of details. Since the game revolves around each individual fighters, you could have given a short description of each of them (or at least, the ones that seemed the most interesting like Elena). You could have also compared THIS SF with past ones to show what changed (you talk about Ryu's hadouken; are there other classical moves that come back?)