Seriously, SNK.... 
 
What the hell? 
 
 
I start off by popping in my brand new copy of King Of Fighters to my 360 expecting a wonderful gaming experience.  My friend who hates fighting games (and is terrible at them) was sitting beside me and I decided to play single player first since he didn't want to play yet anyway.  First off I noticed something.  The roster.  Here's some fighters I immediately noticed were missing that in my opinion shouldn't have been:   
 
Duck King, King, Yuri, Mai, Rock, Shingo, Kula, Maxima, and MOTHERFRIGGIN' K'!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That's just a few, there were others I was dissappointed were missing but I can't think of them right now.   I think for my first team I picked Shen Woo, Iori, and Andy 
 
The first thing I noticed is that Andy sucks major balls compared to previous iterations, I mean they nerfed the hell out of him.  He went from being one of my favorite characters to just straight ball suck.  They took away his better moves and he feels like KOF '95 Andy Bogard now.  He also only has his kick super which wasn't great to begin with but now it arcs too high making it impossible to connect with an opponant. 
 
Shen Woo was fine, although he also felt somewhat nerfed. 
 
Then around the third or fourth match I got to Iori.

I know that in the KOF 'story' (if you can call it that) Ash takes Iori's powers, but dammit, you do not change a character's entire moveset and fighting style in a fighting game series.  They did this to Iori.  He has no ranged attacks now, the demon scorcher is gone also, both replaced by a completely useless anti-air that doesn't even hit in front like the demon scorcher did.  His three hit qcb combo is gone replaced by a pimp slap (which is sort of useful in his now all-close-range combos). 
 
Seriously SNK?  Seriously?   I mean....................... seriously?  SNK?  For real?  ......................................Seriously? 
 
Suck my nuts. 
 
 
 
And then, after enduring the horrible voice acting, and complete lack of attempt at a story (oh hey guys were having a tournament and people are fighting in it, durrrrrr..)  I am treated to the end of the game.  Guess what.  It just ends.  There's no boss.  No boss at all.  No Orochi, no Magaki, no Geese, no Rugal, no nobody.  I would've been happy even with a 2D Duke happily spamming away his infinite special bar.  But no.  Nothing.  The game ends.  That's it.  Then it's back to a character select that features Mature and NOT EVEN VICE!  Why have Mature and not Vice?  They've always been a package deal!  WHY EVEN HAVE MATURE TO BEGIN WITH, SHE'S A STUPID CHARACTER!?  They could've had so many better characters that they left out.  Raiden is in this for crying out loud, who needs Raiden?  Where the hell is K'?  Kula? Gato?  Those are some of my favorite characters and they're just gone in favor of the B TEAM.   
 
I'd rather play '98 any day.  I'm pissed.  They spent all their time on new sprites and animated backgrounds, now their roster and gameplay sucks because of it. 
Blow me SNK.  You used to be awesome, how about you try to make a good game next time?  XI was awesome, how about you just remake that for the 360.  Just port it, I don't give a shit.  Or maybe I'll just buy a PS2 and steal back my friend's copy of XI.  Anything's better than fucking XII.