In the year of its 15th anniversary, the King of Fighters series makes its debut on Xbox 360 and PS3. From Japan-based, beat-em up veterans, SNK Playmore, King of Fighters XII is an old-skool, arcade-style brawler that has a long history as a Neo-Geo MVS arcade game, before it made the transition to console in 2004.
GameDynamo - "Fighting games have enjoyed a period of spectacular growth after being a nearly nonexistent genre for so many years prior. Because of this sudden growth, we're seeing a lot of companies taking different approaches to the traditional fighting game formula that has stood since Street Fighter II first came onto the scene."
The Start Screen reviews King Of Fighters XII for the PS3. They cover how far fighting games have come and with the showing that SNK Playmore's KOF XII, how far we need to go. The game was seemingly released incomplete with an time trial for an Arcade Mode and a seemingly broken online mode. Did the 772 MB patch help?
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King of Fighters is an old boat to the fighting series that competed with Capcom's Street Fighter series for many years now. With some twelve SNK Playmore takes a different approach than Capcom, and remains in the two-dimensional plane. The result is aesthetically pleasing, but the content of oh so limited.
