Sentoki 3

Template:Infobox VG**Sentoki 3** (戦闘機; fighter) is a 3D fighting game developed and published by ACS. It is the sequel to Sentoki 2 and the third part of the Sentoki series. Released in 2003 for Arcades (ACS NOVA-II System), PlayStation 2, Xbox and Nintendo Gamecube.

The game later received an update in 2004 in the form of **Sentoki 3: EVO**, which added new characters and stages, as well as rebalanced some characters and included new customization items. Released for Arcades (ACS NOVA-II System), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable (under the name **Sentoki 3: EVO SP**).

A final update named **Sentoki 3: Final Tuned** was released exclusively for Arcades (ACS NOVA-II System) in 2006, which added a balanced version of final boss K-001, as well as including new customization items.

## Gameplay

Gameplay remains the same as previous installments, but with a few new changes. Stage interaction has been vastly expanded from the previous title. While uneven stage terrain, a prominent feature of the previous game, has been removed due to balance concerns, in its place are several new types of stage hazards such as breakable floors.

New gameplay mechanics have been added, such as wall throws, which, as their name suggests, are throws that can be used against opponents that are cornered by the stage walls, as well as Sabaki reversals, which are auto-counters built into specific moves that automatically parry certain attacks briefly during their startup. Sabaki reversals are typically designed to counter specific types of attacks, such as high kicks, low punches, etc.

The biggest addition to the game is the ranking system, where each player can level up their characters to a certain rank, from Novice (lowest) to Lord of Sentoki (highest). A character's rank denotes their player's current skill level. Character ranks can be used in modes such as Arcade and the newly-added Circuit mode. In the arcade version, one must use a specialized Amaze.net data card to access character ranks and customization.

The game also features 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 Gold Points (GP), which are earned during battles. Players are also able to buy extra costumes for the characters via GP through the shop, but they cannot be customized.

### Ranks

* Novice
* 10th kyu
* 9th kyu
* 8th kyu
* 7th kyu
* 6th kyu
* 5th kyu
* 4th kyu
* 3rd kyu
* 2nd kyu
* 1st kyu
* 1st dan
* 2nd dan
* 3rd dan
* 4th dan
* 5th dan
* 6th dan
* 7th dan
* 8th dan
* 9th dan
* 10th dan
* Contender
* Hero
* Master
* Champion
* Legend
* Warrior
* Dominator
* Ruler
* Sage
* Overlord
* Lord of Sentoki

## Story

Near the end of the second tournament, Kei Ikushima, after defeating Regulus in the finals, discovers that the underground laboratory's self-destruct mechanism has been activated. As she was about to make her escape, she would encounter Eileen A. once again.

Kei tried to escape the lab with Eileen, but she hesitated, instead telling Kei the answer she was looking: Kei was actually the daughter of none other than the CEO of Orion Corporation, Ranzou Kihara. She then gives Kei a letter before telling her to go on and. Kei hesitates at first but soon obliges as the lab explodes, leaving Eileen behind, her fate unknown.

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 Orion's Perfect Fighter Project, the very same project that orphaned her adoptive father Shin and ruined many others' lives.

Fast forward to several weeks before Kei’s 20th birthday, several attacks on various martial artists have been reported. All done by people who look remarkably like Kei. Thus, Kei has been blamed for all the attacks, despite having no hand on them. Kei then began to suspect that it had something to do with the Perfect Fighter Project that Eileen had mentioned.

Then, on the day of Kei’s 20th birthday, Orion announces the third Sentoki: Global Martial Arts tournament. Kei joins the tournament in order to cleanse her name and find out the truth about the mysterious attacks.

## Characters

### Returning

* **Shin Ikushima**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Japan

**Fighting Style:** Karate

**Voice Actors:** Tomokazu Seki (JP), Jeff Manning (EN)

* **Ralph Rollins**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon USA

**Fighting Style:** Martial Arts

**Voice Actors:** Ryo Horikawa (JP), Eric Kelso (EN)

* **Huang Long**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Hong Kong

**Fighting Style:** Jeet Kune Do

**Voice Actors:** Nobutoshi Canna (JP), Dario Toda (EN)

* **Joanna Spencer**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Wales

**Fighting Style:** Kuk Sool Won

**Voice Actresses:** Rica Fukami (JP), Lisle Wilkerson (EN)

* **Bru Bronson**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon England

**Fighting Style:** Pro Wrestling

**Voice Actors:** Daisuke Gori (JP), Barry Gjerde (EN)

* **Kagero**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Japan

**Fighting Style:** Ninjutsu

**Voice Actors:** Takumi Yamazaki (JP), Jack Merluzzi (EN)

* **Ruslanovich**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Russia

**Fighting Style:** Command Sambo

Voice Actors: Fumihiko Tachiki (JP), Ryan Drees (EN)

* **Sonchai Damrongsak**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Thailand

**Fighting Style:** Muay Thai

**Voice Actors:** Mitsuaki Madono (JP), Jeff Gedert (EN)

* **Chen Su**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon China

**Fighting Style:** Drunken Fist

**Voice Actors:** Takeshi Aono (JP), Dennis Falt (EN)

* **Kei Ikushima**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Japan

**Fighting Style:** Karate

**Voice Actresses:** Ryoka Yuzuki (JP), Rumiko Varnes (EN)

* **Kwon Eun-Soo**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon South Korea

**Fighting Style:** Taekwondo

**Voice Actors:** Nozomu Sasaki (JP), Peter von Gomm (EN)

* **Shannon Meltzer**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Canada

**Fighting Style:** Catch Wrestling

**Voice Actresses:** Akiko Hiramatsu (JP), Donna Burke (EN)

* **Douglas Freeman**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon USA

**Fighting Style:** Boxing

**Voice Actors:** Hisao Egawa (JP), Michael Naishtut (EN)

* **Liang Meilin**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon China

**Fighting Style:** Baguazhang

**Voice Actresses:** Motoko Kumai (JP), Terry Osada (EN)

### New

* **Brandon Donovan**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Ireland

**Fighting Style:** Vale Tudo

**Voice Actors:** Kazuya Nakai (JP), Guy Perryman (EN)

Brandon Donovan is a vale tudo fighter from Dublin, Ireland. One of the most well-known fighters of his generation, Brandon cares less about his formidable ground-and-pounding skill and more about his popularity amongst fans, and the thrill of a fight. Looking for a brand new challenge, Brandon decides to enter the Sentoki tournament to boost his popularity.

* **Fiona Andrade**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Brazil

**Fighting Style:** Capoeira

**Voice Actresses:** Kotono Mitsuishi (JP), Bianca Allen (EN)

Fiona Andrade is an actress and capoeira fighter from Sao Paolo, Brazil. Aside from her work as an actress, Fiona also takes care of her younger brother, who was also taught capoeira by their late grandfather, until one day, her brother was attacked by an unknown entity. As she learns that the attacker will be entering the Sentoki tournament, Fiona flies to Japan to participate in the tournament to avenge him.

* **Yao Shuren**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon China

**Fighting Style:** Xingyiquan

**Voice Actors:** Hidekatsu Shibata (JP), Michael Rhys (EN)

Yao Shuren is a veteran assassin and xing yi quan master from China. Having spent most of the 66 years of his life as an assassin, Shuren is revered and feared as one of the most formidable men within his profession, with a long list of kills to his name. Having done dirty work for Orion in the past few years, Shuren enters the Sentoki tournament with another task in his hand: to eliminate the Ikushimas.

* **Inori Kinomiya**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Japan

**Fighting Style:** Aikido

**Voice Actresses:** Miyu Matsuki (JP), Lynn Harris (EN)

Inori Kinomiya is a shrine maiden and from Kyoto, Japan. Inori was trained by her father Genichiro Kinomiya up until he was put in comatose by a mysterious entity who also went on to destroy her family's shrine and steal some of the clan's heirlooms. After hearing rumors that the entity was joining the Sentoki tournament, Inori decides to enter the tournament in order to seek revenge for her father and retrieve the stolen heirlooms.

* **K-001**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Unknown

**Fighting Style:** Composite

**Voice Actresses:** Ryoka Yuzuki (JP), Rumiko Varnes (EN)

K-001 is a clone of Kei Ikushima created by Orion. K-001 is actually the first of several clones created using Kei's DNA during her time in cryo-sleep for the purpose of discovering the "perfect fighter", having been infused with fight data, mass-produced and sent out to orchestrate several attacks on martial artists worldwide. As all the other K-clones wreak havoc, K-001 is left inside Orion's lab until the third Sentoki tournament, where she is planned to be unveiled by Orion come the finals.

#### EVO Additions

* **Akechi**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Japan

**Fighting Style:** Sumo

Voice Actor: Ryuzaburo Otomo (JP), Chris Wells (EN)

Tohru Togashi, better known by his shikona Akechi, is a sumo wrestler from Osaka, Japan. Once a promising rikishi, Akechi's career came to a halt when he was involved in a rigging controversy, which caused his career and reputation to crash and burn until the CEO of Orion Corporation hired him as his henchman. As the CEO's henchman, Akechi joins the Sentoki tournament to please the CEO and hopefully give him some of his riches.

* **Mira**

**Birthplace:** Template:Flagicon Unknown

**Fighting Style:** Kalaripayattu

**Voice Actors:** Satsuki Yukino (JP), Lenne Hardt (EN)

Mira is a genetically-enhanced assasin who currently serves for Orion. Once a skilled martial artist who didn’t want anything to do with Orion, Mira was kidnapped by Orion and subject through various horrible experiments, which continually deteriorated her mind, turning her into what she is now: a bloodthirsty assasin prone to violent tantrums. Under orders from Orion, Mira enters the Sentoki tournament with the intent to kill all the others.

## Stages

* Warrior’s Shrine
* Sakura Fields
* Underground Pit
* Garden of Roses
* Wolves' Den
* H.K. Boulevard
* Szechwan Highlands
* Natural Reserve
* All-Out Gym
* Military Armory
* Parking Lot
* Cathedral
* Rio Resort
* Deep Caverns
* Nature's Spring
* Unknown Location

### EVO Additions

* Sumotori Dohyo
* Boiler Room
* Neo Colosseum

## Game Modes

* Arcade
* Story
* Quick Match
* Circuit
* Versus
* Team Versus
* Tournament
* Survival
* Practice
* Customize
* Gallery
* Options

## Sequel

A sequel to the game, Sentoki 4, was released in 2009 for the Arcade (System 202: ENDYMION), PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It featured new characters as well as new gameplay mechanics and stages.

## Trivia

* This is the first ACS arcade game to support their propietary Amaze.net online service. Amaze.net users can use their access card to not just save progress and access internet rankings, but also to access several other Amaze.net exclusive customization items.
	+ Amaze.net was only available in Japan and other Asian countries like China and South Korea. To remedy this, international releases of Sentoki 3 instead utilized an IC card system similar to those used in Sega's Initial D series and, later, Namco's Tekken 5.
* This is the first title in the Sentoki series to be fully dubbed in English. These voices were provided by Japan-based English-speaking voice talent. This dub came with the North American and European console release of the original Sentoki 3 by default, but the EVO console ports featured an option to toggle between the Japanese and English voices.
* Due to the unfortunate circumstances of the death of Kaneto Shiozawa in 2000, shortly after finishing his voice work for Sentoki 2, his role as Kagero was recast to Takumi Yamazaki from this game onwards.
* Sentoki 3 was the first game released for ACS’ NOVA-II System arcade board, which is based on heavily modified PlayStation 2 hardware. Ironically, Sentoki 3 Final Tuned would end up becoming the last first-party game released for the NOVA-II, in 2006.
* Sentoki 3: EVO is the only game to serve as a launch title for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Both ports featured enhanced graphics compared to the arcade original, as well as support for 720p, making it the first game in the entire series to support HD.