The fighting games worth playing on the PlayStation 3 start with Yakuza 0, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.
A difficult machine with an exceptional first-party run. Sony's studios spent the generation learning to make cinematic games, and by the end of it they were the best in the world at it.
Fighting Games are a solid rather than a defining part of this library — worth knowing, but not the reason anybody owns the machine.
Filtering to fighting means you want a contest with a clear answer — you got it right or you did not. It is the right filter when what you liked was reading an opponent.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
A skill ceiling you can actually see yourself climbing, and the shortest feedback loop in games.
A first few hours that can be discouraging alone. Fighting games are far better with someone at your level than against the internet.
Yakuza 0 is the usual first answer, and there are 4 in the library we cover.
It is a solid rather than a defining part of the library.
Much less than they were. Modern control schemes, rollback netcode and real single-player modes have changed the on-ramp completely in the last few years.
One opponent against one, or one against many. They share ancestry and almost nothing else — the picks below say which each one is.
From the games this site covers on the PlayStation 3, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole PlayStation 3 library.