Final Fight 3

The player has a choice between four characters: Guy and Haggar from the original Final Fight return, along with new heroes Lucia and Dean. As in the previous Final Fight games, each character has their own set of moves, techniques and abilities unique to their character. Like in Final Fight 2, the game can be played alone or with a second player, along with an additional game mode that allows a single player be accompanied by a CPU-controlled partner.

The player has many new abilities which were not available in the previous Final Fight games. The player can now dash and perform dashing attacks or dashing jump attacks like in the previous Capcom beat-em-up Captain Commando. The player can also grab enemies from behind and perform holding and throwing attacks, as well as move while keeping the direction the player is facing locked.

Following the annihilation of the Mad Gear Gang, a new criminal group named the Skull Cross Gang emerges as the new dominant criminal organization in Metro City. When Guy returns to Metro City from his martial arts training and reunites with his old friend Mike Haggar, the Mayor of Metro City, the two are suddenly alerted that the Skull Cross Gang has started a riot in the downtown area of the city. Joined by Lucia, a detective in the Metro City Police's Special Crimes Unit, and Dean, a street fighter whose family was murdered by the Skull Cross Gang, Guy and Haggar must once again save Metro City from its newest menace.

Final Fight 3 received a 21.2/30 score in a readers' poll conducted by Super Famicom Magazine. The game also received average reviews from critics.

GamePro's The Axe Grinder approved the addition of Lucia, but felt that Dean's movement was slow and the bosses were little more than large, standard enemies. He praised the graphics and branching stages, but felt the repetitive gameplay outweighed these. Next Generation similarly felt that the new features were not enough to make the game a significant step up from the original Final Fight, stating that "It's not dull, but it's not all that exciting either". Electronic Gaming Monthly's four editors felt too that despite the improved graphics and new features, the game felt like simply "more of the same" with overly repetitive gameplay.

The first stage's background music, "For Metro City", is used for the Hyper Street Fighter Alpha secret game featured in Street Fighter Alpha Anthology as Guy's theme music in Classic Mode. Lucia later appeared as a playable character in Street Fighter V.