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The King of Fighters XII
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The twelfth main installment of the tag-team fighting game series features a complete overhaul of the series' 2D graphics, with the first major overhaul of the series' character sprites in 13 years.
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"The core fighting in King of Fighters XII is really sharp, but everything surrounding it is a little disappointing."
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Late Bird Review: KOF XII

After a brief hiatus on the Late Bird Reviews, I return to you with the final review of the fighting games released last year. This will be a shorter review as the game does not give much to talk abou… Read more

Pretender to the throne

Since 1994, the King of Fighters series has been SNK’s marquee franchise – a massive crossover fighting game using characters from many of its older series such as Fatal Fury , Art of Fighting , Ikari… Read more

Some very powerful hair

Call the King of Fighters a precursor to emo culture if you will. A bunch of pale, teenage, sometimes-effeminate male fighters (and masculine-female fighters that are at least a bit more gender-obviou… Read more

Late to the Party Review: King of Fighters XII by Binge Gamer

Late to the Party: King of Fighters XII By James Walker We here at Binge Gamer are only mortal. Between living our lives, being swamped with work, delivery problems and having writers constantly crack… Read more

GED SIRRIOUS!

It's a strange thing to be talking about 2-D fighting games again with any sort of relevance, but with Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue, and now the 12th (official) iteration of the King of Fighters series… Read more

The King of Fighters "Rebirth" leaves much to be desired

Title: The King of Fighters XII Release: July 24, 2009 Genre: Fighting Developer: SNK Playmore Publisher: Ignition Platform: Xbox360 Rating: T (Teen) Product Link: http://www.amazon.com/King-Fighters-… Read more

No Frills, But It's Got Heart.

If you're mocking th score I gave this game already, I completely understand. Hear me out, though will you? I believe I have an advantage when it comes to reviewing this game, and it is this: I have n… Read more

A Slightly Disappointing Rebirth...

Please note: Videos consist of tournament-like level gameplay from the arcade version. The PS3 version does look similar to the arcades, but I just wanted to show high level fights of what the game's… Read more

How to do as little as possible and make money.

King of Fighters XII (KOF XII) is an outstanding arcade game, but it takes more than a direct no-frills port to make a fighter console-ready. The console version seems as if the core arcade game was g… Read more

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