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Community KOF XIII is shaping up to be a winner

By blazemanx — July 12, 2011
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A more in depth look at KOF XIII.

King of Fighters XIII improves upon the KOF XII engine, using the Taito Type X2 arcade board like it's predecessor. There are nine returning KOF veterans in this installment, including: King, Mai, Yuri, Takuma, Vice, Maxima, Hwa Jai, Kula, K' and a console exclusive character, Billy Kane! This makes for a total of 32 characters so far, and they will be grouped into teams (unlike the prequel). There will also be a much greater selection of character colors (10 per character) along with some ultra cool sprite edits & "head swaps" for certain characters. At least 8 new hand-drawn stages will appear in the console version, and returning stages have been given visual updates as well.

Special moves now have "normal" and "EX" versions. The EX specials cost a small amount of the power gauge and can add extra hits, boost attack speed, and/or add an extra frame of invincibility! A new gameplay feature is the "Triple Cancel," which allows players to unlimitedly cancel their character's moves. The Triple Cancel is dependent on the "Hyper Drive Gauge," a three-tier gauge which gradually drains as the fighters cancel their moves. When a fighter is in Hyper Drive Mode and has three power stocks, they can perform a powerful technique known as a "Neo Max Desperation Move". Players can also link a Neo Max technique into a combo, which is dubbed "Max Cancel". The "zoom" effect that was used in King of Fighters XII on counter moves has been removed and the gameplay speed has also been improved greatly.
 

The Story Mode features a scoring system. When fighting against a computer opponent, players are challenged to complete a random objective during stages, or Target Actions. Completing these tasks can award bonus points at the scoring screen. Meeting certain conditions can also reward players the next round by filling up their power gauge or Hyper Drive Gauge. Objectives include goals such as completing a certain amount of hits within one combo, successfully hitting the opponent with a desperation technique (including EX and Neo Max desperation moves or specials), or being asked to perform a certain attack within 10 seconds. Pre-fight dialogue is also featured in game's 1-player mode.
 

There will also be a "mission mode" but there are no details on it yet. I hope it is similar to the MVC3 mission mode or the SSF4 trials, challenging and fun. As far as we know billy kane is the only console exclusive character but i really hope more is added. Oswald from KOF XI would kick tons of ass in this game i really hope he is added. KOF XIII is looking to hang with the big boys in the figthing game world and i think it has all the tools to do so. With improved online features and a improved network code from the previous game KOF XIII should really appeal to fighting game fans. This game drops october 25th for the ps3 and 360 will you take on the king? I know i will and i now i leave you with a look at the current roster and the latest trailer. Let us know what you think and dont be a jimmy.

 

 

   

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[UPDATED] Jul 12, 2011 3:11:56 PM

Jul 12, 2011 by goukijones

Added The King of Fighters XIII to the catalog. Hype it now Jimmys!

http://gouki.com/Catalog/Details/the-king-of-fighters-xiii

Comments

King and Kim were always some of my fave fighting game characters.

That animation of Terry at the end of the trailer looks badass nice.

goukijones rated The King of Fighters XIII Buy it
Jul 12, 2011 by goukijones

king is one of my faves too and yeah that terry combo was sick i cant wait for this game i hope a lot of people pick it up so it can have a similar fan base like street fighter or even mortal kombat........fighting game lovers should not pass this up

blazemanx has not rated The King of Fighters XIII yet.
Jul 12, 2011 by blazemanx

As long as that mission mode is like a trials thing this is going to be really cool. I always thought that those were the best ways to learn the basics in fighting games. Also since it's only going to be 50 bucks instead of the full fledged 60 makes it all the more appealing.

grey walrus has not rated The King of Fighters XIII yet.
Jul 12, 2011 by grey walrus

Been pwnn with king on the iphone vers. Pretty fun, review soon.

BatRastered rated The King of Fighters XIII Rent it
Jul 12, 2011 by BatRastered

Yo training missions make or break games for me. I would have never got into MvC3 if it wasn't for the mission mode hooking me. Is anybody old enough to remember the training more on the original Street Fighter EX? That was quality.

If there is anything like a training mode in this KOF that teaches you railin' ass combos. I'm in.

goukijones rated The King of Fighters XIII Buy it
Jul 12, 2011 by goukijones

nice story bro

kof2012 has not rated The King of Fighters XIII yet.
Jul 14, 2011 by kof2012

King, Kim, Iori and Mature beasting all day <3

iorilamia has not rated The King of Fighters XIII yet.
Jul 14, 2011 by iorilamia

@Goukijones- I never played that game, what was the training like?

And I don't like mission modes for games...dunno. Never use em, just go to training mode and mess around.

iorilamia has not rated The King of Fighters XIII yet.
Jul 14, 2011 by iorilamia

SFEX showed the button sequence on screen and taught you how to keep up with the combos, kinda-kinda similar to MvC3, but everything was on screen. I'm always check the move list with MvC3. And of course, I have no idea of the timing.

goukijones rated The King of Fighters XIII Buy it
Jul 14, 2011 by goukijones

The roster looks pretty good, but I haven't bought a KOF game in forever. But looking at this reminded me of having one of them back on the original Playstation, I had Battle Arena Toshinden, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, Tekken, Guilty Gear, Darkstalkers, Marvel vs Capcom, X-Men vs Street Fighter, and all kinds of other shit. Now you are so limited on your choices and most people only pick up one or two series now. Hopefully stuff like Skullgirls will do well along with Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and we'll see more companies get in on the market again.

dragonkiss83 rated The King of Fighters XIII Rent it
Jul 17, 2011 by dragonkiss83

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