This game recieved and played for multiple hours on the 24th of July on the PS3 was about the biggest letdown of my personal year. To make this easy i'll make a pros/ cons list for this game.
pros:
20 plus characters
desent online play
new hand drawn character models
fantastic new fighting counter systems
cons:
even though there are 20 plus characters it doesn't seem like it, I was bored in like an hour.
online play servers that probably only started working that day really worked well if you played someone with the same connection strength or it was lag city.
new hand drawn character models are nice, but because of the onscreen size of the figures looks very choppy and pixelated, so the more hi-def your tv is, the more pixelation you'll see (wow, punished for having better stuff...how weird) and because the animators of these hand drawn characters didn't want hand-draw anymore, almost every character has like under 6 special moves and only 1 super move, meaning that many of your favorite characters instead of gaining new moves, lost old ones insted.
I really had no quams about the fighting system its self, other than if you don't pull of the special/super move command perfectly it will not register.
No modes: no modes that could be seen such as a story mode with boss characters, only arcade mode that was really a time trial mode.
No screen back out command button: made a mistake well too bad, pick your characters and on the fight screen and exit to the main menu that's the only way out.
The practice mode from Hell: You have to do way too much to see your move list, clear off your screen, get max power, ect, ect.
The Raping of Iori Yagami: this is a subject close to my heart, sad as it is Mr. Yagami was indeed raped by SNK, put over a arcade machine with his buttcheeks spread open and raped in his @$$. All his original moves gone replaced with...I still don't know what...like air claws...what the @#$% was this. Original outfit gone, replaced by a metrosexual (stomach showing) costume (really looks like something a gay jail inmate would wear).
Well this game that really was nowhere worth paying $60.00 dollars for ($30 maybe $40 tops) was a nightmare showing that SNK cares nothing for it's hardcore fans or money for that matter, because the next game they put out I'll wait to buy it second-hand or bootleg it or something. Thanks for the memories SNK because the future doesn't look to bright for you with trash like this carrying your brand name. |