"The King of Fighters series has outlasted many of its competitors, racking up fifteen numbered entries and numerous spin-offs. Six years after the last entry, The King of Fighters XV now makes an impressive debut on Xbox (which never got KOF XIV), PlayStation, and PC. Despite the long wait and a lack of earth-shattering innovations, this one’s a whole lot of fun," says Co-Optimus.
The fighting game genre is getting a significant resurgence this year, with the biggest names in the genre punching full force in 2023.
I've been playing a fair bit of SF2 WW lately. Now I remember what a cheap ******* Bison is.
King of Fighters XV Season 2 will come with various refinements to the roster, as well as new DLC characters and a crossplay function.
Andrew writes: "For the second year straight, this was perhaps the hardest list for me to write for our Holiday Guide. While the fighting game genre is an important one in video games, the cadence of quality releases feels like its ground to a halt, with only a few great games releasing each year. I’ve had to include rereleases, something we usually save for their own list, just to come up with five games worth considering.
While we can hope that Street Fighter 6, and maybe even Tekken 8, will lead to a stronger list next year, the good news is that we were ultimately still able to come up with five games worth your time, even if perhaps the genre’s biggest breakout game this year, MultiVersus, is free to play and thus not for sale."
