No virtual joystick made for a fighting game is as great as King of Fighters-i.

King of Fighters-i is a simple version of the King of Fighters 13 coming out on 2011 holidays season, with less characters and simpler moves to adjust on the phone control limitation. It’s on the iPhone with the traditional 3 versus 3 and 1 versus 1 fight styles. Including Practice mode with combo training and endless matches.

The ported hand drawn sprites looks amazing on the iPhone and with the fighting animation, you’ll realize that this game is well adjusted with the iPhone while it has all that animation going on in the fight.

King of Fighters-i control layout is simple enough to mash up any fast combos. The layout has E for dodge, S for special attacks, K for kick, P for punch and HD to buff yourself in a way to be able to cancel special attacks in order to do another special attack in between for more combos.

In conclusion, The King of Fighters-i is an amazing fighting game on the iPhone, the game is 8US$ and that’s not bad with the amount of content and plans of upcoming patches. But sadly the multiplayer is through Bluetooth only and maybe in an upcoming patch there will be online matchmaking.

What we think: It all depends with your skills to be honest and it’s enjoying to master the combo trainings at start. We hope for this game to come out on the Android as well. Anyways, If you’re looking for a fighting game on the iPhone then this is your first choice!

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-king-of-fighters-i-002/id445305792?mt=8