King of Fighters 2002/2003

by SNK

Product Details

• ASIN: B00009YXDA
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,112 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old Style Arcade Bashing - Lots of Game for the Money, February 20, 2005

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: King of Fighters 2002/2003 (CD-ROM)

If you're a fan of fighting games, it's a great deal to get the combo pack of The King of Fighters 2002 and 2003. There are tons of characters, tons of stages, and quite interesting fighting action.

First, the gameplay. This is traditional 2D fighting where you move left and right across the screen, bashing your opponent down to zero health. Different characters have different moves and techniques. You can choose three characters to tag-team between, using each character's advantages as appropriate.

The graphics aren't of course as great as modern releases. The characters are cartooney and rather jagged on the edges. The backgrounds are mostly static, with random little movements to add some life. There are an interesting variety of them, but they are not nearly as fantastically detailed as modern games are.

The sounds are very simple. Bash. Slash. A repetitive musical score plays along with you. It has a very arcadey feel to it.

But really, you don't get this game to have a cutting edge experience. You get it for the fun history of this series, and for the down and dirty arcade fun of button mashing. You don't even really notice what the background is when you are setting up for a tag-team in for the ultimate kill.

They have a nice mix of male and female characters, something I always appreciate. I do have to say that the females seem to fall into two categories - precocious girl or big-breasted bouncy babe. I suppose sometimes progress comes slowly.

Also, the pacing is a bit uneven. You can go through several matches without any problem at all - and then slam into an enemy that seems completely unbeatable. It would be nicer for younger players especially if they ramped up the difficulty at a consistent level.

Still, this is a great combo pack to really appreciate what The King of Fighters is all about. You can probably pick it up at a discount, so grab a copy, have fun playing for hours and hours with your friends, and get to know the characters before the next version comes out!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars King of fighters 2002, For the PS2!, December 14, 2003

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Brandon (Olathe, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King of Fighters 2002/2003 (CD-ROM)

This is truly what a dream match should be like.
From Neo-Geo and better to the PS2!
This game has some of the greatest KOF characters ever to be found in the KOF game and also some Console extra's.
It also has revived 3 on 3 battle but no striker system and 3D polygon backrounds that add more detail and animation to the fighting areas( But might not fit well with 2D people :-/. )
Although this game has no storyline, I will guarantee you it will be as great like the others ;-). Sure the graphics arn't a Matrimelee game or a guilty gear game but they have improved since that Funny show in the year 2001 ^_^.
This also has more characters exclusively for the PS2!
Of course this is the year 2004 and this game is titled
"King of fighters 2002, Be the fighter!"
It takes time and effort to create a game for the PS2.
This game has 3 fighters from KOF 96 through KOF 2001
and some official team names.
This game has over 41 characters to play as, Now this is what a real Dream match is!

5.0 out of 5 stars SNK Rocks!, June 3, 2005

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Kuroda Taiki "Taiki" - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: King of Fighters 2002/2003 (CD-ROM)

This is a great game for those sick of capcom, but wanting something of similar taste. When I say similar, King of Fighters really is the king of 2D on an "old-school" note. Evasion, desperation supers, supers, combos. The problem with capcom is that they constantly add new characters. In KoF, it tends to already have a major cast of characters, which only decides on which people to put in, and should there be any changes to these characters?
This game takes it to what it is: beat the crap out of your opponent, using special projectiles/counters, combos, supers, and "normal" attacks. SNK has its own following, capcom does too. SNK just feels more original, even though they both hash out almost every year like they were sports games.