Ignition Entertainment's latest releases are KOF XI, KOF Maximum Impact 2, NEO Geo Battle Coliseum and Metal Slug ANtholgy on PS2. Each cost £19.99 esp. KOF MI 2 because the previous game cost £29.99-39.99 (includes a slipcase, expanded instruction manual with move lists and a bonus making of DVD (dubbed translated in English rather than subtitled).
KOF XI and NGBC were released in Europe way before the USA was announced but both of them were riddled with glitches. BAD glitches.
KOF XI: Tizoc, the Mexican wrestler with a griffon mask was called MAI (the sexy ninja) in the character select screen. Come on, how can you compare Mai with Tizoc? Stupidness! Luckily, Mai is not called Tizoc and only applies at the character select screen.
In training mode, when you press reset or default settings in the practice menu, the game freeze. Another bad glitch was that during cutscenes and ending scenes, the text scrolls acrsso the screen, as if they never press the Return key on the keyboard. Lately i have never experienced it that much.
When selecting 50hz, the borders are blue at the bottom. Weird.
NGBC: During winning quotes, there is a quote saying something like 'fool1-4'. I think this is the translator's laziness to translate it.
What's worse is that the endings have NO TEXT AT ALL.
In conclusion, the USA versions of both games are perfect in everything the PAL version could have been. Ignition, if you are reading this, you should have been ashamed of yourselves!
Metal Slug Anthology on PS2 is one of the worse ports ever in Europe. The game has NO 60hz MODE! None! The game now has big black borders on top and bottom and the game looks stretched because it looks like they just ported the PSP version on to a PS2 disc. Luckily there's no loading times like the PAL versions of 4/5 (apartf rom the starting screen).
