The King of Fighters '98
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The King of Fighters '98 is an arcade developed by SNK, released 23 July 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and PlayStation.
What The King of Fighters '98 is
The King of Fighters '98 is an arcade game developed by SNK and released in 1998. It was published by D4 Enterprise. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, PlayStation, Neo Geo AES, Neo Geo CD, Android, Arcade and iOS. It runs on Neo Geo MVS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The King of Fighters '98: The Slugfest, known in Japan as The King of Fighters '98: Dream Match Never Ends, is a 1998 fighting game developed and published by SNK for the Neo Geo systems. It is the fifth game in The King of Fighters series and features most of the characters who appeared in the previous games, from The King of Fighters '94 to The King of Fighters '97. The game provides no storyline in contrast to the previous installments. Instead, The player selects a team of three characters to participate in The King of Fighters tournament until they reach the boss Rugal Bernstein, even though the character dies in The King of Fighters '95. Two fighting styles can be selected, and…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the The King of Fighters series
The King of Fighters '98 is the eighth of 71 entries we hold in the The King of Fighters series. It arrived 11 months after The King of Fighters: Heat of Battle. The next entry was The King of Fighters: Kyo in 1998. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 at 90.
How it was received
The King of Fighters '98 holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average. Players rate it 69, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
The King of Fighters '98 launched on 23 July 1998, within three weeks of SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix and Heart of Darkness. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix, Heart of Darkness.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The King of Fighters '98 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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