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[jinkojirodragonmiyamoto]

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/107/1079837p1.html <---- This link right here will take you to the King of Fighters XIII Article.

After reading it, tell me your thoughts people.

Personally, I just hope it's better than the last one.

[Sun And Steel]

We have the return of the Female Team ( Mai, King and Yuri ), and there's another 6 slots left on top of that, 3 making a full team and the other three to round off previously unfinished teams:
 - one for the Iori team ( Vice most likely ).
 - one for the Kyokugenryu team ( Takuma probably )
 - and one for a second Garou team alongside Kim and Raiden ( Blue Mary? Tizoc? Duck King? B. Jenet? There's a few possibilities for this one ).

For the other team I'd wager it would be the K' team, indeed I hope it will be K', Maxima and one of his other partners, preferably Lin! But one of the guys at KW made a good suggestion that it could well be the '97 Special team of Mary, Yamazaki and Billy Kane since SNK seem to have very much gone for the nostalgia factor.

Also, it will be at Tougeki ( SBO ) this year. Sweet.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/249/249154/img.html - Character select screen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjBn-JzatBY&feature=player_embedded
- Match footage posted by Jonathan Joestar at KW.

[jinkojirodragonmiyamoto]

Very nice Sun And Steel. I like your detailed way.

Those are some good potential people that would round out character additions. As I said, I just hope it's far better than the last one because I was really disappointed.

Edit: http://www.gametab.com/news/3296985/ <---- This link provides even more information and details regarding King of Fighters XIII. Enjoy!

[Sun And Steel]

Official site:

http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xiii/character/

WOAH! There's actually different tunes depending which team you pick. Team themes to return? YAS!

I'm liking Elisabeth and the Japan team's tunes.

Some character tweaks:

Elisabeth seems to have gotten a couple of moves, looks like her old sliding uppercut and the super version.

Ralf's got his Air Dive back ( from jumps at east, not the charge version ).

Clark's got his Gatling attack.

Raiden's got a 2nd super.

Kim can do his Ho-oh Kyaku in the air, and has his "upper-kick" super back by the looks.

Promising so far.

[MightyZhaoYun]

I have played every kof game ever! Last year I was so steamed. It sucked. I saw the screens that Jin provided and it's hard to tell if they actually use clean lines this time. KOF XII was fugly even on an hdmi display. So far I like what I hear but I gotta see it in action before I even think of getting hyped. I like Iori's change of clothes, but I hope they bring back KOFXI Kyo. That was the best kyo ever!!! The only thing I can say I like is the story. Can't wait for Ash to burn!

[Sun And Steel]

Sadly Kyo still seems to be stuck in his pre-'96 shoto style, rather than the lovely chain-combo specials we had from then on. He was a much more interesting main character with them, shame.

I couldn't tell you about the lines or filters they're using. I haven't played it through HDMI but through a component cable I thought it looked excellent, but then I'm a sucker for sprites done the old way.

[MightyZhaoYun]

Me too until I saw how good they did Blazblue. Then KOF started looking gross. I'm not feeling the news about the old kyo. I miss the high kick into an uppercut then a super cancel into a serpent wave in the corner. I hate that stupid fireball and no MAX specials.......I'm not really hyped this time.

[Sun And Steel]

Well, it's finally out in the arcades!

The bosses ( yes, we have bosses and endings once more! ) are Saiki and Dark Ash, Saiki is like a power version of Ash wereas Dark Ash is....well, Ash but chepaer with multiple fireballs on screen and really quick charge times ( basically he seems to have his LDM in effect the whole time ).

SNK Playmore have some great videos showing the EX move properties and NeoMax moves in motion: http://www.youtube.com/user/snkplaymoreGame

I'll post some of the EX explanations once I get back later tonight. All in all, from the admitedly limited feedback so far, it seems to be a fair bit better than XII, and with NGBC supposedly having the best netcode for any SNK game we might even see a decent online scene for XIII! Good times.