King of Fighters XII Roster Revealed

Saw over on Arcade Heroes that SNK Playmore has updated its official site with what seems to be the complete, official roster for its upcoming fighting game, The King of Fighters XII. Here is an image of said roster!

Mai's absence is a bit odd.  But I like the roster, even though I haven't played a KoF in over six or seven years.  I'm really looking forward to this one.

Looking forward to this. I kinda wish they did SF4 this way...

look at dat athena man damn

yep, no Mai is a bummer, also were B. Mary, King and most of the female character a gone.

Almost all of the famed Females are missing on this line up. Hopefully they are timed released, and fully playable on the console versions (i heard it's TBD).

Either way I'm really looking forward to the new style, and the game play tweaks. So yea.. can't wait for it!

What?! No K'...?? Are you telling me I can't make my Terry/Kyo/K' team anymore?

....

This is outrageous!

Ive always preferred KOF over SF and I was really happy to hear that they finally where updating the sprites with HD hand drawn ones. SF 4 looks great but I am also one of those people that wished SF4 was made this way.

The absence of Mai and K bugs me but as someone else said it is probably TBD for the console version.

I can't wait to get this game. My team consists of three of the following: Terry, Kim, Robert, Joe, Andy, Kyo, King, and Benimaru.

No Mai, no Mary, nothankyou.jpg

Oh ffs where's Kula?!

They better make her playable down the line.

Should be named: King of Fighters XII: Sausage Party

Mai's probably going to show up as an exclusive in the home version - she wasn't in the arcade roster for KOF XI either - but she was in the PS2 version as an exclusive (along with Tung Fu Rue and EX Kyo).

I can't tell, are there two or three women in the roster?

::looks at Ash...::

King of fighters was supposed to be over the top shit with characters from every game in there. Downsizing makes no sense; its like having another marvel versus capcom but limiting the roster to 15 instead of 50; when it should be 500. Yeah, the smurfs should be in it man.

Only two women? What a sausage fest.

I usually find the SNK women to be way more interesting and fun to play as than the SF girls, so it's sad to not see them here. I'll forgive the fairly disappointing roster because of the gorgeous sprites, but only this time!

your a team wolf guy huh. all i need is rock and its all she wrote. but they dont even have him in this game.

Where is Oswald?

nice, but I'll stick to street fighter 4

What about The Boys then?

K's gone...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

How many women are there? I think I can count six but I'm very unsure. the game has really nice graphics.

No way they leave Mai out of the game.

Wot no Rugal.

Where is K'?? They just fucked up my team!

I’m looking forward to playing this game!

No Khushnood Butt!? He was my fave in Garou. At least I can always count on Terry being in every KOF.

Finally Andy Bogard is back in KOF, its been too long, i dont think hes been in one since kof 2002.

Bah, no King :(

yeah i still wish, despite how amazing the graphics ended up, that street fighter 4 had insane 2d graphics. 

That is cool enough.

No Mai?? My friend is going to be most pissed off at that news.
And from the looks of the reply's, so are a lot of other people.

Can't wait for this one, the artwork being done in each frame is just beautiful.

My only exposure to these characters was Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO for the gamecube and back then Iori and a girl I think called King were my favorites. AT least one of them made it which makes my purchase more likely now.

I found this story on kotaku. I hope that this is true. If so, two of my favourite characters are coming to the home version.