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The dream has tarnished, and the King should consider abdicating whatever seat he holds. Although King of Fighters: Dream Match '99 offers arcade-perfect graphics, this means very little on the Sega Dreamcast, which can certainly outperform most coin-op games. The fighting engine, while certainly competent, does little to set the game apart from the rapid-fire, hyper-intense battles of Marvel vs. Capcom or even the strategy-laden knucklefests found in Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle. If King were a math equation, it would confound even the most skilled mathematician -- the whole adding up to less than the sum of its parts. Or something.
King of Fighters should be lauded for offering a choice of 38 grapplers, some of whom are remarkably fun to play or, at bare minimum, intriguing to ogle. The creepy Choi Bounge, a hunchback midget, seems a dead ringer for Freddy Krueger, the slasher who tore up the Nightmare on Elm Street films. Chin Gensai, a drunkard, stumbles about in fine comic fashion, and the hulking Chang Koehan, who totes around a huge wrecking ball, summons up vague notions of a goon plucked from the pages of a Marvel Comics funnybook. There's even a nice tip of the hat to the Street Fighter series in the form of the Ken lookalike Ryo Sakazaki.
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Publisher - SNK
Developer - SNK
Genre - Fighting
Origin - Japan
Release - 2000 (TBA)
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