I expected more fluid animation, higher amount of in between frames. I think the high rez 2d sprites are beautiful, but nothing that couldn’t be rendered in full 3d.
With that said, the animation is choppy, Andy doesn’t breath in the gameplay, when characters fall or get up there are only 3-4 frames and the time and budget it took to draw all the sprites makes me wonder if it was worth the trouble, rather than going 3d.
The gameplay is king and I love hand drawn sprites it adds a lot of zest to the style. In motion the game looks 3d and I’m sure a lot of noobs won’t even know it’s 2d but again the choppy sprites make the game look a little undeveloped. I am starting to wonder if it’s worth it to stay in the 2d realm, now that 3d technology is so advanced. If this game came out on the ps2, i’d be really impressed but not so much on the ps3.
Well, if the game sells maybe the next game will have more frames rather than more characters or maybe both that would be awesome.
There already is one dude, it’s called KoF:MI. I only played the first one but it seemed pretty decent albeit horribly broken. Pretty evident they didn’t even try and balance it as they just put a 10 hit cap on combos so you couldn’t do one of the many infinites.
Look at the comments on that link, some real dumbasses that do not understand the process and hardwork it takes to create such a fighter like KOF12. Its really sad.
like what? look at TvC it plays just as you would expect MvC to play. And they are cell shaded 3d models.
@ guy above
what do you mean I don’t know what I’m talking about? Do you think this game won’t be $20 within a couple of months? Within a month it will be $39 at target. This game will go almost straight to the bargain bin… unfortunately. The hand drawn sprites are beautiful and it does look like way more fun than SFIV. That is my opinion, deal.
TvC feels completely 2d even though it uses all 3d elements. SFIV feels like a 3d game like VF except it’s locked into a 2d plane. I am not an expert but these are the impressions I get playing the games and watching the videos.
Imagine if they made a MvC3, it will probably be in 3d. But it will probably handle exactly like MvC2. That’s my point, they could have made KOF XII fully 3d true to KOF gameplay style and I wanted to get a consensus if hardcore SNK fans feel it would hinder or improve gameplay if done correctly (unlike crappy MI.)
What’s that about, dude?