Neogeo Battle Colliseum

[Viewtiful Starman]

Got inspired by the fighting game topic to see if anyone else besides me is looking forwards to the game. :3
For those who don't know, it's a fighting game with a collection of SNK's characters (ranging from popular characters like Terry, Mai and Genjuro to characters they haven't used since forever/never used before in a fighting game, like the Metal Slug lead, the Jin brothers and even a few World Heroes characters).
They're putting quite a lot of effort in to the game with an actual story (not too common for a collection game like this), remade sprites and characters pulled from all sorts of their titles.

Anyhow, for those looking forwards to it/knowing stuff about it, got a few questions so that the topic can actually go somewhere.

Beforehand, here's a list of all the characters appearing so far.

http://www.snkplaymore.jp/official/nbc/character/
For those who don't want to click the link, the characters it lists are the following. (skip the spoiler if you want to read the link and don't want to bother with the list)

[spoil:58710405b0]Yuki and Ai, who are new characters made for this game.

Terry Bogard, Rock Howard and Hotaru Futaba from Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

Marco Rossi, the lead character of Metal Slug.

Keiichiro Washizuka, Kaede, Akari Ichijo and Moriya Minikata from Last Blade.

Nakoruru, Asura, Haoumaru, Genjuro Kibagama and Shiki from Samurai Showdown.

K, Kyo Kusanagi, Iori Yagami and Shermie from King of Fighters.

Mai Shiranui, Geese Howard, Tung Fu Rue, Kim, Jin Chonrei and Jin Chonshu (YES!!!) from Fatal Fury.

Hanzo, Fuuma and Mudman from World Heroes.

Kisarah Westfield, from a game that I don't know about but I think it's a Baseball game.

Cyber Woo from King of the Monsters (YES!!! again).

Mr. Karate, Mr. Big, Robert Garcia and Lee Pai Long from Art of Fighting.

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Also there's a few unlisted characters that have been confirmed, I belive most of them are boss characters.

Goddess Athena and Mars People from Snk VS Capcom Chaos. (I know they aren't originally from the game, but it's the first fighting game they're in )

Atomic Guy from King of the Monsters.

Neo Dio from World Heroes.

And I can't find any pictures and the site doesn't have them yet, apparently King Lion from Kizuna Encounter and another original character named Mizuchi who apparently has some relation to the Orochi have been confirmed.



As for the questions.
What do you think of the game so far?
What do you think of the game's roster?
Which are your favorite characters appearing so far?

I think that the game looks great so far. The are putting a lot of effort in to it(remaking sprites for old characters, giving it a lot of bugtesting, trying to balance out characters and stuff) and I like some of the gameplay ideas presented so far.

I love their choice of characters to the point where no matter how bad the gameplay could possibly end up being, I'll still enjoy the game .
They have a very good mix of popular characters and more odd characters/underused characters (All it needs is Shizumaru and I'll be in gaming heaven).

My favorite characters appearing so far are Cyber Woo (I LOVED playing as him in King of the Monsters when I was a kid), Chonshu (I'm a rabid Chonshu fan and nearly went insane when I found out he was in the game ), Akari, Hotaru, Nakoruru, Lee, Kim, Mr. Big and Rock.

Now, discuss my puppets DISCUSS!

[SaitoRockman]

Well, I am going insane, just because I finally found a game with Hanzo from World Heroes!!! It's been TOO long, I've waited over 10 years for a new World Heroes game, but this is good enough!! And K' just looks just as bad-ass as ever!

I think I am gonna get this game RIGHT when it comes out, or if it's not for consoles.... I'll steal my own arcade cabnit!!

BOOYAKA!!