[quote name='st0neface']How does 3rd strike stack up agianst the rest? I've played at least one in every other variation, and am rather curious.[/quote]
Against the previous SFIII iterations or against the rest of the SF series?
In either case it's brilliant, though it's sort of the Virtua Fighter of the series, in that it requires the most technical proficiency to be really good at it. The fighters are somewhat wackier than previous SF games (more like Guilty Gear, IMO) but they seem to have a lot more, for lack of a better word, "soul," than previous games.