From 2D to Ultimate 3D!
- JP release: 11th December 2003
- EU release: N/A
- NA release: N/A
- Developer: Ganbarion
- Publisher: Bandai
- NGC Magazine Score: N/A
- Mods Used: Widescreen Hack
A Power Stone-style arena battle featuring characters from One Piece. The first game in this series did get a European release, and was the first One Piece game released outside of Japan. The first two games were exclusive to PlayStation, while this one made it to PS2 and GameCube.
It’s a fairly standard arena fighter, not that many maps, very few moves and not many modes. The CPU just seems to run around randomly and doesn’t try attacking you most of the time. There’s a tiny bit of story in the main mode, but that’s about it. For fans of the show, it’s a functional game, so they’ll probably have a blast in multilayer, but it doesn’t do anything to stand apart from many of the other licensed arena fighters.
Fine
One Piece Grand Battle 3 plays like Grand Battle 2, but now you are able to move in 3-d. The game’s plot is based mostly on the arabasta and skypiea saga. There are 16 characters in the game each with their own unique fighting style. You are able to use items to your advantage and for strategy. The only problem i had with this game was there should have been more characters and stages and possibly more special moves for the characters. Otherwise it’s still a great game overall.
AfroNinja1, GameSpot
Remake or remaster?
A collection of One Piece games would be fun.
Official Ways to get the game
There is no official way to get One Piece: Grand Battle! 3
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