From the PlanetXbox360.com feature review:
"Coupled with the new hard-drawn art style and the endorsement of "Ultimate 2D Fighting Game," SNK's made the public wild with anticipation for the new King of Fighters. Full of compromise, KoFXII is indeed easy on the eyes, while gameplay/feature decisions keep it from being over the top amazing: story mode is absent, but the promise of DLC on the horizon; Fights remain 3v3, but players no longer switch between fighters haphazardly; and while super moves are limited to singles in most cases, mechanics like Critical Counter and Guard Attack add much-needed spice to the pot. If you're a fan of the KoF series, you've known all of this for a couple months. So the shock of only six stages and twenty-two characters (no Mai!), some with radically different playstyles from previous games, may be a deal-breaker."
GameDynamo - "Fighting games have enjoyed a period of spectacular growth after being a nearly nonexistent genre for so many years prior. Because of this sudden growth, we're seeing a lot of companies taking different approaches to the traditional fighting game formula that has stood since Street Fighter II first came onto the scene."
Star Trek Online developer Cryptic has ruled out the possibility of it releasing a sequel to the game in future years - telling CVG it would rather constantly update its existing MMO.
I'm glad they aren't going to make a sequel. The current game is unfinished and flawed, they need to fix that first.
A sequel is the last thing people are thinking about right now, it's an online game! You don't need a sequel, you can just keep building the game and change the story arc for as long as you want.
The Start Screen reviews King Of Fighters XII for the PS3. They cover how far fighting games have come and with the showing that SNK Playmore's KOF XII, how far we need to go. The game was seemingly released incomplete with an time trial for an Arcade Mode and a seemingly broken online mode. Did the 772 MB patch help?
Going to pick this up at GameStop after work, I have heard so-so things about it but after loving BlazBlue I just knew I was going to get KoFXII, nice review guys!