You know they say that 2009 is the year of the beat-em-up, well the year of the beat-em-up AND Modern Warfare 2 but that's not the point. The point is that there has been a marked resurgence in the fighting game genre thanks to the popularity of two great fighting games, Street Fighter IV and Blazblue. SNK Playmore hope to cash in on this by releasing King of the Fighters XII which according to the Japanese developer is the re-birth of the series so will this brand now instalment of SNK's most popular franchise put them back on the map or will it be just be another 'also ran'? 6/10