So, I was rather shocked to see a new KoF game in my local arcade (Tilt, Olympia, WA). At first I figured it must be Neo Wave, but the lack of a fifth button said otherwise. The manager said it was a bootleg version KoF '05, but he's a fool when it comes to KoF. Playing one game told me that the game was just another dumb Korean knockoff. It's title was "KoF Aniversary Collection", or something like that. They ripped the KoF 10th year aniversary picture that we've been seeing in KoF games and on the website, and used it for the title screen.
The game has more characters than any before it. Nearly every KoF character imaginable and of course plenty of duplicates. The Terry I chose to play with had his old and new moves. I only played one game, but it seems KoF 2k3 was the only game shafted. Backgrounds have been lifted from everywhere, and according to the manager even from SVC Chaos. Rugal is the mid boss and final boss. I couldn't beat him as the mid boss.
The shame is of course that the manager doesn't know enough about KoF to realize Playmore didn't make this game. He even wrote an angry but polite letter to playmore telling them to stop making such unbalanced crumby games. I was able to explain to him that Playmore had nothing to do with this game, but the fact that I needed to is a sad realization that crappy bootleg knock-offs are doing more than just hurting sales; they are defacing the KoF name!
The game has more characters than any before it. Nearly every KoF character imaginable and of course plenty of duplicates. The Terry I chose to play with had his old and new moves. I only played one game, but it seems KoF 2k3 was the only game shafted. Backgrounds have been lifted from everywhere, and according to the manager even from SVC Chaos. Rugal is the mid boss and final boss. I couldn't beat him as the mid boss.
The shame is of course that the manager doesn't know enough about KoF to realize Playmore didn't make this game. He even wrote an angry but polite letter to playmore telling them to stop making such unbalanced crumby games. I was able to explain to him that Playmore had nothing to do with this game, but the fact that I needed to is a sad realization that crappy bootleg knock-offs are doing more than just hurting sales; they are defacing the KoF name!