We at Orochinagi have been biting our tongues for the last 24 hours, trying to not leak this news. It was so tempting to taunt Iphone users or start trolling but anyway, let’s see how it goes as the Android KOF XIII has now been released. For some, it’ll be the first purchase on Android Market!
The worrying factor is of course not all android phones are created equal. Did you get it? Let us know how it is! Our own video will go up later today – but wait, can’t film an android phone when your camera is on the android phone in the first place! Argh! It’ll be sorted out soon enough…
Here’s the press release:
Mar 22, 2012 – SNK PLAYMORE USA CORPORATION (Corporate HQ: Suita-city, Osaka, Japan, Company President: Ryo Mizufune) is proud to announce the worldwide release of THE KING OF FIGHTERS Android for the Android devices through the Android™ Game Platform G-Gee.
Game features
Enjoy the complete KOF experience on your Android devices!
From art direction to gameplay, THE KING OF FIGHTERS Android brings the complete KOF experience to the Android platforms. The gorgeous graphics of the world-famous fighting series have been faithfully recreated, taking full advantage of the latest Android hardware. The use of the Virtual Pad/Joystick perfectly reproduces KOF’s controls, creating asimple, user-friendly play-style to easily perform special moves and combinations.
Five modes of gameplay!
“THE KING OF FIGHTERS Android” features five game modes: “Team Battle” for classic KOF 3-on-3 battles, “Single Battle” for 1-on-1 fights, “Endless” mode for an endurance challenge with just one life, “Challenge” mode where players needs to complete a variety of character-specific tasks, and “Training” mode where players can practice the Virtual Pad-based controls and learn combos.
20 legendary fighters battle for glory!
The formidable roster of “THE KING OF FIGHTERS Android” features 20 classic characters, including Kyo Kusanagi, K’, Ash Crimson, and Billy Kane!
Unlock trading cards, illustrations and other bonus content!
Various bonus content can be unlocked during gameplay and viewed within the game’s “Gallery” mode. Here players will find premium trading cards based on original SNK PLAYMORE illustrations, various art and rough sketches of KOF characters, KOF Team novel stories from the THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII and many more hidden treasures that fans can’t afford to miss!
The game can be downloaded through the Android™ Game Platform G-Gee at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ggee.vividruntime.gg_1403
TITLE DETAILS
Title：THE KING OF FIGHTERS Android
Release Date：Mar 22, 2012
Genre： Action
Compatible Systems：GalaxyS2, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Xperia acro, Xperia play
* If the device is not listed here, it might not have been tested
Qualifying Age：12+
Price：$4.99
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
© SNK PLAYMORE
* “THE KING OF FIGHTERS” is a registered trademark of SNK PLAYMORE CORPORATION.
* All other company and product names used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
About G-Gee
Headquartered in Tokyo, and member of leading Japanese Internet services consortium, GMO Internet Group, GMO GameCenter, Inc. is the operator of Android game platform, G-Gee.
G-Gee distributes high quality games to Android users, always pre-screening content to ensure it works properly and is safe. For game developers, GMO GameCenter, Inc. offers cross platform development tools and secure, simplified distribution.
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Using Xperia Arc, need to try it more but it is quite hard to control and distinguishing between hard and light is difficult. I can move around and play okay though. Will give the easy commands a go later.
400mb download though…
NOOO not support my acer D:
It’s as I feared, it don’t work on my HTC Desire. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Going to Test on my G2x then report back
doesn’t work. SNK needs to get this working on ALL possible devices if they want sales to be good
retarded. says i need 2.1 and up. i’m running 2.3
[email protected]
The developers tech support e-mail address. we should get on their asses about the poor compatibility
2.1? I have 4.0 on all my Android gear and I still couldn’t get it working…
They pulled it from the Play Shop on the Galaxy Nexus, so now GNex users can’t buy it, but it also means that I can’t ever update it until they put it back.
Can’t get a refund through the Play Shop, can’t play or update the game, nice…
Got it on my Galaxy S2, works beautifully, it’s actually a lot more playable than I thought it would be. A lot less frames in the animation sadly but I can look pass it.
Took the APK from my phone and put it on my Transformer, works on there. Funnily enough my phone and tablet are running exactly the same rom. Must be a hardware thing then.
the entry from the Google Play/store has been removed