Next up the big piece of news, the official KOFXIII site has been opened, which you can see it here. Next up is a demonstration of Kyo's HyperDrive Combo, note that you can cancel into it ala 2002's BC combo system.Īlso judging by this video, my earlier suspicions of Kyo having his three part fire punch may have been incorrect. On the bright side though, SNKP have uploaded two videos with demonstrations for EX moves and Hyperdrive combo, so it saved me alot of time editing strips of photos together.įirstly is a video of Athena's Psycho Ball and EX Psycho Ball, note the standard version hits once whereas the EX version uses 1x Super bar and hits three times.
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I was supposed to update again with a bit of KOFXIII's system information on Friday or over the weekend but unfortunately couldn't find the time to finish off what i started writing. You can check them out here.Ī new video has been uploaded by Youtube user ReXXXSoprano.Īnd last but not least, Game A-Cho's channe l has been updated with a whole load of 2002UM tournament videos. user thedigitalsin has also made animated gifs ripped from the swf files from the KOFXIII official site. Some more pictures, i'm sure it's easy to guess what these are:Īlso in terms of updates for the actual game, SNKPlaymore US' official site has been updated with a new banner but not much else. Though of course not 100% the same, you can get the idea of the inspiration behind it. Though of course it looks like they've moved Big Ben to the other side of the road instead of it being attached to the Houses of Parliment. If you look at the photo below i am guessing the background is based on that corner/turning in the middle of the image. (Which judging by the fact they stuck Big Ben in there seems to be what it is based on.) I thought it'd be interesting to take a look at the background and make a little comparison to the real UK.Īt first look of the background it's very stereotypical, much like many of the other stages, though upon looking at it a bit more carefully i found it does actually bare quite a resemblance to Parliment Square. They do go a bit overboard at the end of a match.As it may or may not be known now, as part of the new stages added to KOFXIII they have also added a new UK stage. I do worry about every single spectator getting whiplash though. My favourite stages are the ones that have a ton of people cheering you on, from London's unhygienic busses, to fighting among overweight diners in the Champs-Élysées. Not only does it have more detail than it has any right to have, but the settings for each fight are unique. It's particularly apparent in the gorgeous backgrounds. There's also an expansive story mode that gives you a taste for what each character is like.Īs I alluded to earlier, KoF XIII is a looker, especially so in motion. I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the "Legendary Hungry Wolf", but there are a host of different play styles, like Mature and Vice's beast-like swipes or Chin's drunken master style of fighting. It also has a ton of characters, including a lot of the favourites like Terry Bogard. It takes ages to get the timing down on this, which is why KoF games have always been some of the trickiest to master, but it's immensely satisfying once it does click. These allow you to cancel and link moves that would otherwise not be possible. EX moves are now in the game, working in a similar way to Street Fighter games, but KoF XIII also tweaks other ridiculously named returning systems like "Hyper Drive Mode" and "Neo Max Desperation".
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Under the hood, KoF XIII takes some risks by giving players new techniques on top of the already complex 3v3 fighting that the series is known for.
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It's sad, then, that KoF XIII was the last sprite-based game before SNK followed with its own crude 3D models. It made Ken's hair look like a bunch of bananas, and that's a cardinal sin. While I've never been as into SNK's style of fighting as I have Capcom's Street Fighter, the genre's shift away from hand-drawn sprites to 3D models has never appealed to me. It's no secret that I like pretty fighting games like The King Of Fighters XIII. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.