SNK Playmore recently revealed the full cast of fighting characters in The King of Fighters XII on their official website. In the above picture, you’ll notice that the cast is bunch of semi-happy looking dudes and dudettes. How these characters muster up the will to fight each other is beyond my understanding.
It’s slated for a Japanese arcade release in April this year, with Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions shortly thereafter. The U.S. and European releases are being handled by Ignition Entertainment and are slated to hit at some point this year as well.
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to learn how to play a fighting game. I haven’t enlisted a sensei yet (I hear that Gerstmann fellow is pretty good) but I’m currently making progress in Super Street Fighter Turbo Remix HD Really Long Name II. I still haven’t gotten past the fourth fight on the Easy tier, but I did defeat Cammy the other night. That screwdriver thing she does is ridiculous.
[via GiantBomb]
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7:00 PM on 01.01.2009
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and no more Duo Lon, PLEASE! dude is broken no matter what game he is in.
Also, I'll teach you how to play fighting games if you want Brad, but only if you don't beat me up in real life.
My team of Terry, Joe and Iori are all there so I'm in. This game looks amazing and, if it's as good as XI, will play superbly.
The damage isnt that bad though, I see Kensou, Athena, and Leona are there so that will be my new team. Cant wait to play this!
I was thinking the same thing. I can't imagine why someone with no knowledge or much interest would cover a certain topic.
And what's with the disco outfits? Iori and Ash have some explaining to do.
We spent friday night at my friend's house repeatedly yelling/singing
"I'M GONNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE!"
as we played MVC2 until about 3 in the morning.
KoF series is cool, but I feel over saturation with yearly updates has destroyed its mystique. After many years its very easy to ignore it for many other games.
My advice to SNK is to give this series a break after this game, and come back with something new. It does seem a lot of the time that SNK seem fit to play second fiddle to Capcom. This is a real shame, because they are very talented and I know they can give us something more.
I'll look forward to the 360 version, but come on SNK, please try something new for us. Perhaps this game proves the point, that some japanese developers are having trouble with getting to grips with 3D (only one PS2 KoF game was previously 3D). With 360 and PS3, why is KoFXII not in full 3D? Maybe I'm being fickle gamer, as its also nice to have KoF, in an age where 3D rules the industry.
And what the hell happened to Athena?
I'll be getting it anyway. I see Ralf, Terry, Iori, Leona and all the other cool guys. Seems lack of females...fo reals.
KOF = instant win.
@Cowboy TTop
Unless you're lobbing in the Maximum Impact series with the regular KOF series, I'd hardly call them yearly updates. Capcom just repackages an Alpha, III, or SF2 game every so often(not that I'm complaining). SNK brings out genuinely new characters with varying playstyles. They put alot more effort into their fighting games instead of using the same sprites over and over. As for 2d, it's a style. Maybe someday SNK will have the Maximum Impact series on the same level as Street Fighter 4 but until then they can have highly detailed drawn characters that rival Guilty Gear and BlazBlue.
hot.
if they can make that annoying bitch athena look hot then mai...oh she would get it so hord!
Yuri being gone is unforgivable, though. I mean, how the shit did Raiden make the cut but not Yuri? If they wanted to bring back an old character so badly, why not somebody actually cool, like Jhun? Disappointing, but I'll probably buy the game anyway.
As a KOF, this looks awful.
First of all, the artwork, for reasons unknown, DON'T look like it belongs in the KOF franchise. I mean, they all have really square faces and the bodies are alot bigger than in previous games. IE: Look at Ralph, he look's twice as big as he usually does. Also, both he and Clark suddenly look like....they got a really really bad tan? Or maybe SNK decided to make them African American all of a sudden. And Athena looks like a little girl now with FATASS thighs. Not Chun-Li SFIV man thighs, just fat thighs.
Second of all, small, I mean REALLY small roster. This is smaller than 94/96. Both were siginificantly small. But this is ludicrous small. 20 characters is NOT KOF material. It's something Street Fighter could get away with, not this.
Thirdly, they got rid of alot of classic characters. IE: Mai, King, Shingo, Yuri, Takuma, CHANG AND CHO. But then again, who's counting?
Fourth, they added Raiden. RAIDEN! Need I say more?
Fifth, they made Kensou look like a....woman? To be honest, when I first saw the picture of the roster I thot kensou was Yuri. Yeah.
Sixth, the "teams" don't really make sense. I mean sure, you have some classic teams like Terry, Andy and Joe. Or Kyo, Benimaru, and Daemon. But what about Iori? Where does he go? Or Kim? Is Raiden the replacement for Chang? And okay, you have Robert and Kyo, who's the third member? Doesn't make a lick of sense.
However, even though there are only twenty characters, I'm still having trouble deciding on which three I'm going to pick for my team. I've gotta have Kim-- Kim is my anchor. But then there's also Terry, Andy, Raiden, Ralf, Clark, Leona, Kensou, Daimon, Shen... God damn, they're all too good. Finding my perfect team in '98 Ultimate Match took me damn well forever.
Speaking of Andy, why on his profile pic his head his HUUUUUUGE!!! I mean, really guys... that shit is big.
But yeah, as long as SNK can keep with the epic storylines and making each character feel like they got "the hero of this game" potential like they've done 90% of the time thus far, I'll excuse the small roster.
Really, this is my fav fighting game above all else out even today because they have storylines that can each be their own RPG.
Oh well. Still gonna get it.