Two Major Game Series by two companies that rival with each other since the days of Street Fighter II and Fatal Fury. I'm talking of course about Capcom and SNK.

I get tons of questions asking me this. What game would I perfer for 2009 "Street Fighter IV" or "King of Fighters XII?"

Thinking about it I decided to look at the trailers and of course gameplay. Click the links to see

[link] (SFIV)
[link] [link] (KOFXII)

My thoughts: Well Street Fighter IV is of course going to be in 3D simillar to it's EX series but retaining it's familar gameplay. My only problem is while it looks almost realistic the graphics seem a bit drab. Also that the new characters don't impress me as much then again some Street Fighter fans were disapointed with SF3 and seriously English dubbed voices?!. But as long it keeps it's trademark gameplay intact without any changes than it might do better than Soul Calibur IV or even Tekken 6?

KOF XII? HOLY ASS MONKEY!!? The graphics while cartoony are beautiful, thought it's in it's Bata mode, sure the gameplay is slower than a Capcom game but looking at it The Character models and effects on the moves are pure awesomness. Also unlike Street Fighter the Supermoves are activated in real time as oppose to have a slow start up time. SNK of course is known to be critized by it's use of using the same graphics and sprites for every game that they make and after a long haul of KOF games they decided to change that and make the characters more detailed to stand out more. Since KOF 96 they haved used the same graphics and decided in 2009 they need to start fresh.

There are two things that I find disapointing with KOF XII
1.There amount of characters is very small. About 20 to be exact. The lowest in all KOF games.
2.This of course is a dream match having nothing to do with the Ash Sega. So after this the story will continue in KOF XIII. Some fans were shocked to discover that. The fans are pondering if Ash will complete his goal?

So while we wait for this games. Capcom and SNK of course are in middle of doing other projects. Capcom has just released Super "Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix"(A remake of SFF2T) "Tsukonoko VS Capcom" (A Cross over Tag Fighting game simillar to "Marvel VS Cacpom" but featuring various characters from the Tsukonoko anime company) and of course Resident Evil 5
(But I'm talking about Fighting games)

SNK (OR SNK PLAYMORE as they're known) is in the works of "Samurai Shodown:Edge of Destiny" and releasing a remake of KOF 98 Ultimate Match and KOF 2002 Unlimited Match.

My Verdict: I say that I like KOF XII more because like many fans they weren't happy with the graphics of Street Fighter IV some said that the Graphics of KOF XII should have what Street Fighter IV been. Of course there are debates between Hardcore Capcom and SNK fans. So we may never know. Though KOF XII won't be out until maybe late 2009.