King of Fighters XII is rubbish

Not tested and released, a total empty and devoid of any challenge "game" by SNK Playmore, this video demonstrates a 1 on 1 match against the CPU on HARD difficulty. I never move my character, I just stand still and hit hard punch and kick randomly to defeat the CPU. I never once touch the stick. It proves that there is no challenge or A.I. programmed into this game at all, unless dance-fight is a new technique? I have no idea what the hell the CPU is doing. And if anyone knows exactly what is loading between Rounds 1 and 2, please enlighten me. For reference it is the PS3 version. When the online component doesn't work, just what else is there to play with in this game? Nothing! I would laugh at it, had it not cost me nearly £40!! And to think charge-for DLC is a possibility!! If it is patched to include at least an offline challenge and maybe another mode of play, it might be worth picking up. As it is, STAY WELL AWAY!!

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[Squallido]

they really did it bad with this game... and i'm an snk fan myself

[zztopis]

look at the bright side.

you are the 1st to ever not move your character,just stand still and hit hard punch and kick randomly to defeat the CPU while on hardest difficulty. now either they removed SNK Syndrome

or your one bad ass player, next time try to do it

with out even using a controller. be all telekinesis

[Kamek20XX]

I woudn't say it's terrible. The music is ok, the gameplay is alright, and the graphics aren't bad.....that's it. :(

[JasonWhiplash]

I don't necessarily agree with this game being garbage, per se. They spent an incredibly long time working on the characters, animation and the backgrounds, but not much else is included in this game. It seems like a situation where they tried to get it to completion as much as possible, but at some point, you have to release the game so you can begin to earn a little bit of the development costs back.

This is a decent reboot start, and hopefully the next one is the real version, y'know?

[zztopis]

unused / removed characters in the games code: Vice, Hwa, Takuma, a boss, Dark/Orochi(?) Ash, Mai, King, Yuri, Classic Iori, and Billy were all planned and not included. There are 7 more empty spots with no character at all. Thats a total of 17 characters gone from the final version, 10 that had made it to planning and 7 that never even made it to the data. KoF XII was originally planned to be the end of the Ash saga.

[mellowman1978]

This game = grade A fuckin' garbage. Forget it existed after about a week of purchase.

[zyvilinebane]

the game has not sold well at all, it didn't even make it to 100,00 and that's worldwide for the ps3, even less for the 360. Snk has been making this game for years and needed to recover some money so they rushed it out and hoped for the best, bad move and now they will probably have to cancel some titles and try to recover by making another witch groping game. That is if they don't go bankrupt again. This could easily have been a PSN/LIVE arcade game release for a more reasonable price.

[THELSUCCESSOR]

& u think i don't know that mr sonicsnake9

i already know that ASH CRIMSON THE GAY!!! stole IORI's powers....but that's not fear...that's not an excuse...how can they do that?,,,,IORI YAGAMI USED TO BE BRUTAL,& AWESOME with his purple flame moves.... of curse u remember DUSHHTAAA!!!!

[sonicsnake9]

NOt in test phase its a test game. A test game is a game that is put out there to see if it will work . Sonic unleashed was a test game to see how the hedgehog engine would run. Now that SEGA sees it works. PROJECT NEEDLEMOUSE will use it. The Fact that both of these games got horrible reviews was expected by both companies to an extent because they new these games would be the first of their kind. The main reason these games contained so little is because if the engines worked sequels will come

[bleedman01]

So this is still in test phase?

Makes sense. But shelling out 60 bucks for it , what fan wouldn't be pissed.

[sonicsnake9]

He cant use his powers because in the story line ash crimson has used the yamata mirror and stolen them. Dude u dont even know the story how can u knock something u know absolutely NOTHING about.

[sonicsnake9]

This game wasnt rushed apparently noone that played it knows the definition of a TEST GAME. This game was used to see what they could do with the new hardware on the next gen systems. This game was used to see how the fans would respond and apparently since this game has sold VERY well they will probably stick with this style. The next game will have all the stuff fans are used to characters and movesets. So knock a game just because they didnt go all out in the first venture. Its still good.