KOF12 is the first well balance fighting I played since SF3 and Tekken Tag
Well for one its great to see KOF revised with a new art style, since 10 or more years its been the same. This game is very well balance, you can play with anyone out of the 20 players on here and give someone an run for there money. What i mean by this, think about Tekken 6 and SF4. When you get knocked in the air on tekken 6, your up there for an half an hour(just to die w/o ever touching the ground). Also on Tekken 6 you now have these new characters that are one button combo mashers. Now on SF4 its just an cat and mouse and grab fights. People will play with characters that has very strong grabs, that can take up almost half of your heath bar or One person will sit in the corner and throw fireballs intill you jump(weak and unskilled fighting way to go out). Now on KOF12 its neither one of them type of ways to win cheap going on in this game. If someone try that cat and mouse crap, you can just roll past and get right in there face(that is a real head to head fight). As for grabs you have to be right up on someone to pull that off. KOF has parrys,dodges and a little extra new for you.This games plays very smooth.
The Bad things about it
The big down falls for me on this game was the Online fighting. When this game first came out the online was truly BAD!!!! Now they have fixed some of the choppy issues on online, but there is still a button command lag. As for the roster it is very small compared to their old ones, 40 or so characters to 20 characters. Now the special moves are very low, Its really not that many for some of the characters. As for the finishing moves are down to one and only a few have two.