The King of Fighters 2006 (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The King of Fighters 2006

The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 was released in North America as The King of Fighters 2006, and is a sequel to The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact. MI2 brings you back to the team fighting universe of…

63 27 April 2006 ESRB T

What The King of Fighters 2006 is

The King of Fighters 2006 is an arcade game developed by SNK Playmore and released in 2006. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2. It runs on RenderWare. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Many contended that the illegal fighting tournament in Southtown was sponsored by the gangland syndicate "Mephistopheles" to achieve the annihilation of their rivals and procure some operating capital. After its "King," Duke, suffered defeat at the hands of Alba Meira in the finals, he and his organization vanished from Southtown. Meanwhile, the media, firmly under Duke's control, released a fusillade of sensational exposés based on information from confidential sources regarding their former oppressors. In spite of this new torrent of "information," almost no one knew that an even larger entity had been pulling Mephistopheles' puppet strings. The truth behind the Addes organization name…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the The King of Fighters series

The King of Fighters 2006 is the 29th of 71 entries we hold in the The King of Fighters series. It arrived 6 months after The King of Fighters XI. The next entry was SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters DS in 2006. Its critic score of 63 is 7 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 at 90.

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How it was received

The King of Fighters 2006 holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The King of Fighters 2006 launched on 27 April 2006, within three weeks of New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V and Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: New Super Mario Bros., Ōkami, Heroes of Might and Magic V, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007.

Official trailer