Holy shit, that is a badass logo. If I was a SNK-Fan-Nerd I would tattoo it on myself, alas... I am not.
So, does anyone think this will be more of the same or are they really going to buckle down and really add in some nice features? My guess is the former entirely! Kind of sad.
Well it depends on what you mean of 'more of the same'. They would be stupid to not use as much as possible from the last game (Sprites, characters etc) since animating all that took some serious effort.
KOFXII was a good base, but thats reall all it was. The game felt like they rushed it out the door to cut their losses, so that they could keep going to make what they really wanted to do with the new engine. I would expect XIII to have the missing characters mentioned on the XII disc (King, Yuri, Takuma, Billy, Iori 98, Hwa, Vice etc), a boss Character and a story mode (KOFXII seemed to orginally have a story, but was changed to a 'dream match' game, probably a result of 'oh shit we got no money left!'. That would explain Iori's flames, Mature's new costume etc).
So basically, with more moves, more characters, more backgrounds and some static artwork, they could make a quite good KOF out of this. And don't forget the trend of 'Bad game - Good game' is a staple of KOF too.
97 was weak, but 98 was fantastic.
2001 was bad, 2002 is a classic.
2003 was poo, XI is loved.
