The Fatal Fury collection from SNK started again in 1991 as a part of the preventing sport increase that dominated arcades internationally, and its reputation led to the collection releasing a number of video games all through the ’90s. In the years since, these traditional video games have been ported to consoles, however there hasn’t been a brand new entry within the collection since 1999.
Until now, that’s. The collection is returning with Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves in 2025, ending a drought of 26 years with no new title. It will function the return of characters from previous video games, most notably collection star Terry Bogard and his protege Rock Howard. Other fan favorites, like Mai Shiranui and Billy Kane, will even be included and get up to date designs.
City of the Wolves will act as a continuation of the earlier sport within the collection, Garou: Mark of the Wolves. The T.O.P. system, now known as the S.P.G. system, makes a return. It permits you to choose a bit of your well being bar (both the beginning, center, or finish), and when your well being is in that vary, your S.P.G. will activate.
When your S.P.G. is lively, you’ll regenerate well being, have boosted assault energy, your energy gauge will fill sooner, your REV Meter will fill slower, and you may carry out REV Blows. Those final two factors are a part of an vital new mechanic in City of the Wolves known as the REV System. REV Blows mix collectively offense and protection, permitting you to strike exhausting whereas additionally shrugging off enemy assaults.
You can combo into these after REV Arts, which can be utilized after a particular transfer to carry out a stronger model of mentioned transfer. And REV Guard is a singular kind of block that creates more room between you and your opponent than a daily block and in addition eliminates chip harm from particular assaults.
All of those actions construct up the REV Meter within the backside left nook of the display, and as soon as the meter is full, you’ll turn out to be overheated. While on this state, you gained’t be capable of use REV actions anymore and your guard gauge will lower everytime you block assaults. If the gauge runs out, your guard will likely be crushed and also you’ll take longer to get well from being hit.
Your REV Meter slowly reduces as time passes, in addition to whenever you stroll or sprint towards your enemy, land an assault, or efficiently use Just Defense or Hyper Defense. The former occurs whenever you block an assault at precisely the precise second, whereas the latter occurs whenever you do a ahead enter at precisely the precise second of a multi-hit assault.
This REV System provides a strategic layer to every combat, since you possibly can’t merely use highly effective REV actions time and again. You have to keep watch over your REV Meter and steadiness aggressive offense with well-timed protection to keep away from overheating.
For the primary time within the collection, you’ll additionally be capable of select between two completely different management schemes that may decide the button inputs wanted to execute every of those strikes. Known as Arcade Style and Smart Style, they’re designed to offer choices for gamers skilled with the collection in addition to newcomers diving in for the primary time.
If you’re excited to dive into Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, it’s out there to pre-order and wishlist now forward of its launch date of April 24, 2025 on PC, PS4/5, and Xbox Series X/S. Pre-order bonuses embrace Terry’s traditional costume from Fatal Fury 2 and early entry to the sport on April 21, three days earlier than launch.
The base worth of $59.99 additionally contains Season Pass 1 and 5 DLC characters. We already know who two of these characters will likely be: Ken and Chun-Li from Street Fighter, the primary non-SNK collab characters ever featured in a Fatal Fury sport. This marks the continuation of a collaboration between the 2 franchises after Terry and Mai have been featured in Street Fighter 6.
If you’d prefer to pre-order, you possibly can go to the official website to choose the platform you’d prefer to play on. Or if you wish to be a part of the neighborhood, you possibly can observe SNK on Twitter or Discord.
