![]() Hideki Okugawa’s resultant composition gets the right image across with jazzy saxophone work, laid-back grooves, voice samples, and even some opening sound effects of emergency sirens. The development team envisaged hip-hop music and graffiti art for main character Alex’s New York stage and this inspiration was the main reason they decided to take an urban route for the soundtrack. The defining theme of the Street Fighter III series is “Jazzy NYC”. The same was true for its soundtrack, given its composers Hideki Okugawa and Yuki Iwai were still getting to grips with the stylistic approaches and the sound capacity of the Arcade machine was still quite limited. Street Fighter III: New Generation was the first of three editions for the series and, while fairly innovative, it wasn’t as refined as later editions. Nevertheless, a diverse range of music was created to individualise the diverse locations, resulting in a mixture of jazz and world music. As a result, mostly incidental music was created to complement the visuals in contrast to the highly melodic approach of its predecessor. Stage themes were to be crafted based mainly on location rather than character. ![]() To take the sound in a new direction, the creative team rejected the approach to the various themes of the Street Fighter II series. The point of the Street Fighter III series was to be completely different from previous Street Fighter titles. Street Fighter III -New Generation- Original Soundtrack
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