The king of fighters XIII steam edition is something that us, the pcgamers playing emulators since 1997 were waiting for
with this steam edition you have everything you hope for a fighting game, arcade mode, history mode (anime style cutscenes) amazing characters I specially love Iori Yagami, and they interact with each other in unique ways, they all have something to say in every single battle, and this help you to expand in the lore of the game.
but the most important part of this game is the gameplay, is hard to master, really hard, just trying to make the combos on the mision mode, will give you a small idea of how complex and amazing the fighting system is, with all the cancel moves, the desesperation moves, the EX moves, everything feels balanced and powerful at the same time, but forget about hitting the buttons randomly to win... you willl requiere a lot of practice and skill to pull it out the longest and more amazing combos in the game, but once you do it, the satisfaction is indescriptible.
you can customize all the colours of your favourite characters thats a nice touch, you can play the history mode that will unlock cutscenes, you need to play it several times with diferent teams to unlock all the history, when you dont have a background knowledge about the last kof games history, is hard to understand what is happening, so I recommend you to do a little research if you are interested in the lore of the game.
The "semifinal boss" is stupidly hard to beat, but is a nice challenge, because you will need to pull out your best combos to defeat him.
at the end of the day the best part of this experience is the online play, that is pretty smooth, and thats a very welcome feature for this kind of game that require a lot of timing and perfect sincronization to execute the combos, the netcode for the game was improve by snk playmore and you can notice their work.
bottom line The King of Figthers Steam Edition, is the definitive fighting game for the fance of the genre in our beloved platform. The beutiful handdrawing characters and stages, the fast paced gameplay, the complex and deep fighting system, the spectacular combos, the amazing lore and characters, the pretty well executed online play, all make KOF XIII steam edition a must have for any fighting game lover out there. JUST **** BUY IT!