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Details on SNK Playmore's upcoming Atomiswave title NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, have been revealed in the latest issue of Arcadia magazine. The game will be a 2D fighting game featuring historical SNK characters in King Of Fighters styled sprites. The Game's details goes as follows.
Characters
Characters announced thus far are-
Marco (Metal Slug, newly drawn graphics)
Nakoruru (Samurai Spirits, newly drawn graphics)
Washizuka (Last Blade, Graphics looks similar to LB, but redrawn)
K' (KOF 99~ Graphics)
Geese Howard (KOF96 graphics)
Terry Bogard
(KOF2003's MOTW style graphics)
Mai Shiranui (similar to KOF sprites, but Redrawn)
The main character of the game will be two original characters, one male, one female. The silhouettes of the two characters released by SNK Playmore look as though the male is tying a small scarf to his neck, while the female looks like she wears a hat and a short skirt.
Characters seen in the background, thus most likely will not be playable in the game are-
Ralf,
Leona, Clark (KOF, Ikari Team)
Brian Battler (KOF, USA Team)
Eiji (Art Of Fighting 2)
Cain,
Grant,
Freeman (Garou -Mark Of The Wolves)
Kuroko (Samurai Spirits)
Bob Wilson (Fatal Fury 3)
Carol (Savage Reign)
Rocky (Robo Army)
Cathy (Top Hunter)
Amp & Yusa as background objects (Cool Cool Toon)
Game System
SNK Playmore has not revealed much about the game system yet, although it is known that the game will play with a 2-on-2 tag battle system. Meters on the screen appear to be orthodox, with two life meters on the top and a power bar than can be stocked up to three meters at the bottom. But on the site of the credit indicator for both players is a text that reads "0/0", although it is uncertain at the current time if they will be used in the games or if they are only there for debug purposes.
Stage background graphics in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum are drawn with high-resolution graphics, which appears to be too detailed to be rendered in polygons. Stages revealed thus far are; a metallic platform in front of a gigantic satellite, the interior of a Japanese building with shouji paper walls and a castle seen in the background, a planetarium called "SNK/Planet", a Greek looking structure built from white stones, an amusement park looking area called Cool Cool Town, and an area that looks like the mech maintenance room for Top Hunter.
Additional characters in NeoGeoBattle Coliseum will be revealed In the upcoming JAMMA/AM Show on 9/2-4, and the Tokyo Game Show on 9/24-26. Different characters in the game will be revealed during the two Shows.
Short Comment: The characters are drawn in KOF resolution, but the game looks way better than CVS Chaos, perhaps because of the really well detailed background graphics that seem to have depth to them. Terry's win pose seems to be redrawn, so I wouldn't be surprised if the KOF characters have new graphics or moves added on to them. The sillouettes of the two main characters look.. erm, 1960-70's ish'. Kind of wonder who could be doing the character designs. -Henry A. Moriarty
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