The King of Fighters-A 2012 (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The King of Fighters-A 2012

6 different game modes available in single mode to enjoy the game for hours and hours even alone! Simple Commands allow to easily perform any type of combo! The 2D versus fighting game "KOF-Android" returns…

3 December 2014

What The King of Fighters-A 2012 is

The King of Fighters-A 2012 is an arcade game developed by SNK Corporation and released in 2014. It is available on Android only. It runs on Taito Type X.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game takes place five years after the events of The King of Fighters XI and is the last game of the third story arc that started in The King of Fighters 2003. The fighter Ash Crimson has absorbed the powers from two of the descendants of the clans who sealed the Orochi away 1,800 years ago, Chizuru Kagura and Iori Yagami, while Kyo Kusanagi is to be his last victim. As his former comrade, Elisabeth Blanctorche, prepares to stop him, fighters receive an invitation to another King of Fighters tournament hosted by a person labelled as "R". The tournament is sponsored by a woman Rose who is being controlled by "Those From The Past", the organization behind the two prior tournaments that has…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the The King of Fighters series

The King of Fighters-A 2012 is the 44th of 71 entries we hold in the The King of Fighters series. It arrived a year after The King of Fighters XIII Steam Edition. The next entry was The King of Fighters XIV in 2016.

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What it launched against

The King of Fighters-A 2012 launched on 3 December 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Tales from the Borderlands and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Tales from the Borderlands, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

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