The King Of Fighters XIII Global Match Launches On Switch This November

One of the best and most energetic games in the series, and one that makes me deeply miss SNK's former dedication to sprite art.

One of SNK’s finest fighting games right here. I’m definitely not the best at this game but I had so much fun playing this game back on the 360. A huge improvement over the disappointment that was KOF12.

Day one buy indeed. Will get this along with Persona 5 Tactica, and Super Mario RPG in the same month.

Pardon me while I have a seizure.

I can't wait for this.

Wait, seriously? This game got rollback netcode support on Switch, while other SNK games don't. Well... That's weird.

Awesome this finally has a release date two days after my birthday lol. Got really excited when this finally showed up as I was watching EVO (which everyone should be checking out btw)

Day 1! Fighting game fans eating good this week.

Tbh my favorite in the 2D series.

I hope the Switch can get the updated versions of 98 and 2002 as well. The Arcade Archives versions are great but lack online multiplayer and the added characters.

Oehhh nice!!
Love these games.

Looks Cool. I hope it's it's around 40 euros or cheaper.

@Vyacheslav333
I assume it's probably because it's less resource hungry than something like Samsho. Therefore it's easier to implement rollback without potentially screwing the game up in other aspects.

@steely_pete Well, who knows, who knows...

I'm old and can't remember, is this the one with fixed teams?

Ah the last good looking KoF game before the ugly stick that was XIV and the marginal improving, but still far from glory days XV.

@GrailUK Yes. It's a normal mainline game, and the last one in the Tales of Ash saga. I think that the SNK don't want to remember KOF XII's existence. At least, players pretend like this game haven't and do not talk about this one. KOF XII is the worst The King of Fighters mainline game. Also, even KOF 94's roster was bigger than the KOF XII's one. And the most annoying thing is – that the KOF XII is an official Tales of Ash Dream Match game. It is the only one bad SNK dream match title. And SNK haven't released a proper Tales of Ash saga dream match title(or KOF XII Ultimate Edition, if you prefer) since KOF XIII... And that probably don't gonna happen, much to everyone's sadness.

This is a great game but I think I didn’t play it much back on ps3 cos it doesn’t include an arcade mode online only which is not great if you plan on playing whilst travelling or whatever

@Gs69 I have this game on PS3. It has Arcade mode, Story mode, Training mode, and local Versus mode that can all be played offline.

@CharlieGirl it must be xiv or xv on ps4 one of them is pretty slim on single player modes

@CharlieGirl I really can’t remember which one it was but I’m sure arcade was added as an update long after the game was released which I think is pretty poor for an arcade game

@Gs69 Nope. XIV (14) and XV (15) are both fully playable offline, with arcade, story, and versus.
Are you thinking of KoF 12?

More than content to double (triple?) dip for this one on the go. One of the best entries in the series

@CharlieGirl really don’t know I remember buying a steel book special edition not sure which one but I was so underwhelmed by what was on offer for a single player I don’t think I touched it for a few months by which time there had been an update that added arcade mode but to be honest I always returned to older versions like dream match and evolution as the single player options were much better

@Vyacheslav333 Most (if not all) recent SNK games have rollback now. KOF XV shipped with it, and they've added it retroactively to SamSho, KOF 2002 UM and KOF 98 UM. Now they're doing the same to KOF XIII.

@sinndec I was talking about SNK games on Switch specifically.

@Gs69 You are talking about abysmal KOF XII.

Let's have some more SNK classics return. We had the awesome Andros Dunos 2. What about those other amazing shmups on the Neo.

@shonenjump86 i actually was a big fan of Kof 12, contrary to popular opinion i loved it

One of my favorite KOF games. I still have the PS3 version.

It’s truly deep and rewarding, but difficult to execute. Granted the balance of the game is wonky (Team DLC owns everything; only base character that’s really worth running is Kim.)

I want XI and 98 UM but yes, I will buy that.

physical please!

@Liam_Doolan Stuck at work for a few more hours. I'm hopeful the CE will still be available until then.

Aw but why did the physical version had to be limited? These Pix'n Love guys took forever to delivery their games. I still had not received my copy of Souldiers from them yet which I pre-ordered two years ago. You did it good with the Samurai Shodown: NeoGeo Collection and the Samurai Shodown reboot physical versions so why go this route SNK?

@Serpenterror Probably should send them a support ticket. I got my Souldiers Collector's Edition a while back.

Extreme limited release for even the standard copy and just Europe? Lol this is gonna get exploited hard.

That is really cool but I will be getting digitally.

Yeah I'm gonna join in singing the praises for this one, one of the best fighting games I've ever played, and probably the nicest looking one ever. If you've got a buddy to play with it and you like figting games, get it.

It's also the only game where my main man Hwa Jai is playable.

A very good game is coming to the Nintendo Switch. Finally a release date. This game is good.

There's a standard Japanese release listed on Play Asia.

There are Pix'N'Love games that are sold on most retail sites (Windjammers 2, Vengeful Guardian) that were given a general release and are still widely available. I thought there would be quite the appetite for this physically, so if this is just the 3000 releases that seems really shortsighted or lacking in confidence.

Hopefully it's just the 'first edition' that is limited and there's plans for a standard, general sale. Note that Vengeful Guardian's listing on their site says 'first edition' and 'limited to 3000 copies' but as of now, that game is available on most UK retail sites. Same thing for Souldiers. Hope it's the same for KOF.

I don't have the patience to play games without rollback netcode these days. Practically every online multiplayer action game should have it unless it's trying to be different and unusual thematically.