The King of Fighters Neowave

The King Of Fighters Neowave is a game in the popular KOF franchise, it is notable for being the first in using a new arcade board in this case the Atomiswave, however it still disappointed many fans.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) It's basically a rehash of KOF 2002, the roster is pretty similar, the movesets are the same, the three systems were originally one system in KOF 2002 and the game modes are the same in less words is basically a tech demo.
 * 2) No new characters with the exception of young Geese Howard (whose sprite was taken from Art Of Fighting 2)
 * 3) It doesn't play nearly as good as other titles in the series, it has some bugs and sometimes the characters don't work correctly.
 * 4) also the controls are nowhere near as tight as any other entry in the series, and it can make the execution of special moves stupidly hard
 * 5) In some stages the game lags, screwing the gameplay.
 * 6) Despite running on new hardware, SNK still used the same sprites, only the backgrounds changed.
 * 7) While the backgrounds look good, they lack spectators watching the fight like in previous entries, making them look empty
 * 8) Most of the male characters look awful in the artwork, unlike the females who all look great.
 * 9) Music that ranges from passable to downright awful (Geese Howard theme), also many of it doesn't feel like it belongs on a KOF game (specially the intro).
 * 10) Geese Howard is an awful boss, he is extremely overpowered and deals crazy amounts of damage.
 * 11) * Yet he is susceptible to many exploits, most notable spamming projectiles.
 * 12) * His playable version is dreadful, as it was nerfed to oblivion.
 * 13) The only new addition is the heat mode, which causes the characters to loose health, but increases immensely their damage, however sometimes it glitches only reducing your their health but not giving the increase in damage.
 * 14) The Xbox version has two characters less for no reason
 * 15) Both console versions have loading times in between matches, which ruins the flow of the gameplay
 * 16) Sadly the game overall has less characters than the port of KOF 2002 on the PS2, while that version of KOF 2002 has 49 characters the PS2 version of KOF Neowave has only 45 and the Xbox version has 43.
 * 17) No endings or special artwork, unlike every other home port of the series.

Good Qualities

 * 1) It had a decent online mode.
 * 2) It can still be fun, even it is inferior to the previous games.
 * 3) The female characters look good in artwork.
 * 4) Thanks to this test we later had much better games like NeoGeo Battle Colosseum and KOF XI.