The Fatal Fury collection from SNK started again in 1991 as a part of the combating sport increase that dominated arcades the world over, and its recognition led to the collection releasing a number of video games all through the ’90s. Within the years since, these basic video games have been ported to consoles, however there hasn’t been a brand new entry in the collection since 1999.
Till now, that’s. The collection is returning with Fatal Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves in 2025, ending a drought of 26 years with no new title. It would function the return of characters from previous video games, most notably collection star Terry Bogard and his protege Rock Howard. Different fan favorites, like Mai Shiranui and Billy Kane, may also be included and get up to date designs.
Metropolis of the Wolves will act as a continuation of the earlier sport in the collection, Garou: Mark of the Wolves. The T.O.P. system, now known as the S.P.G. system, makes a return. It lets you decide 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 energetic, 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. These final two factors are a part of an essential new mechanic in Metropolis of the Wolves known as the REV System. REV Blows mix collectively offense and protection, permitting you to strike laborious whereas additionally shrugging off enemy assaults.
You possibly 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 sort of block that creates extra space between you and your opponent than an everyday block and in addition eliminates chip harm from particular assaults.
All of those actions construct up the REV Meter in the underside left nook of the display, and as soon as the meter is full, you’ll turn into overheated. Whereas in this state, you received’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 recuperate from being hit.
Your REV Meter slowly reduces as time passes, in addition to while you stroll or sprint towards your enemy, land an assault, or efficiently use Simply Protection or Hyper Protection. The previous occurs while you block an assault at precisely the suitable second, whereas the latter occurs while you do a ahead enter at precisely the suitable second of a multi-hit assault.
This REV System provides a strategic layer to every battle, since you’ll be able to’t merely use highly effective REV actions again and again. That you must control your REV Meter and stability aggressive offense with well-timed protection to keep away from overheating.
For the primary time in the collection, you’ll additionally be capable of select between two totally different management schemes that may decide the button inputs wanted to execute every of those strikes. Generally known as Arcade Model and Sensible Model, they’re designed to offer choices for gamers skilled with the collection in addition to newcomers diving in for the primary time.
In case you’re excited to dive into Fatal Fury: Metropolis of the Wolves, it’s obtainable 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 basic costume from Fatal Fury 2 and early entry to the sport on April 21, three days earlier than launch.
The bottom value of $59.99 additionally consists of Season Cross 1 and 5 DLC characters. We already know who two of these characters will likely be: Ken and Chun-Li from Avenue 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 had been featured in Avenue Fighter 6.
In case you’d prefer to pre-order, you’ll be able to go to the official website to select the platform you’d prefer to play on. Or if you wish to be part of the neighborhood, you’ll be able to comply with SNK on Twitter or Discord.