We may not have more fresh moose knuckle for you today, but these videos are still hot in a videogame-y and non-sexy way.
While pictures are nice, seeing this hand-drawn game in action is a true joy. I think that seeing it in motion has the power to draw in gamers and fighting game freaks that were never really King of Fighters fans. And of course, series fans are already salivating.
We've got a few new videos to tease us and hold us over until the July 7th release date on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Joining some previously released characters, we've got combat vids on Mature, Kensou, Chin, and of course, Athena, all after the jump.
It's a pretty good year to be a fighting game fan, isn't it?
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Indeed, it's a wonderful year to be a fighting game fan.
These videos have me completely psyched for the coming release.
Between this, SF4 and BlazBlue I'm going to have quite a bit of practicing to do.
I've always loved the KoF cast more than any other game's cast. The KoF people look more realistic and cool than any other fighter. I'm much more interested in KoF XII than BlazBlue.
Haha KoF has more boring designs than SF? Ook whatever. Maybe more of the costumes are more grounded in reality but thats about it, they still look cool. Ive always preferred KoF more than SF, the teams and the storyline really makes keeping up with all the versions more interesting than SFs anemic... storyline.
I have to admit one of the things I always look forward to in kof is Athena's costume changes because she's the only fighting game character whose basic outfit changes with each and every game, but wth with her redesign, SNK? Oh well as long as the phoenix arrow still works.
I love how Mature is rocking Elle Driver's outfit(with the exception of a white eyepatch instead of black). I really hope Vice is in it so I can make the Yagami team from 96 again, plus she's one of my favorite grappler characters.
Clark and Ralf aren't supposed to be that beefy, are they? I mean, they're supposed to be fairly muscular, but not HUGE. Also, yeah, Athena's got a pretty sailor moon style goin on, dunno why.
This has been the year of the fighting game, and it still continues to be so. I'm gonna be overloaded pretty soon with BlazBlue and KOF coming out within weeks of each other.
@Roager
Yea, those two have been hitting the gym pretty hard.
As for Athena, as you can see from the gif I posted Athena has always had that "magical transformation girl" thing it's only in XII that they "anime-fied" her look, bleh.
There was one KOF that I absolutely loved and I can't remember it, only a scrolling brownish background and like 30-ish characters, and the characters clothes ripped after major finishing blows. Anyone know which one it is?
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These videos have me completely psyched for the coming release.
Between this, SF4 and BlazBlue I'm going to have quite a bit of practicing to do.
Then again, KoF has ALWAYS been even more boring than Street Fighter as far as character design goes.
I love how Mature is rocking Elle Driver's outfit(with the exception of a white eyepatch instead of black). I really hope Vice is in it so I can make the Yagami team from 96 again, plus she's one of my favorite grappler characters.
Yea, those two have been hitting the gym pretty hard.
As for Athena, as you can see from the gif I posted Athena has always had that "magical transformation girl" thing it's only in XII that they "anime-fied" her look, bleh.
There was one KOF that I absolutely loved and I can't remember it, only a scrolling brownish background and like 30-ish characters, and the characters clothes ripped after major finishing blows. Anyone know which one it is?