The King of Fighters 2000

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title = The King of Fighters 2000


caption = Promotional ad for "The King of Fighters 2000" featuring the new Hero Team of K', Maxima, Vanessa and Ramon. The Neo Geo AES version uses this same illustration as its cover art. This is also the last KOF game to use Shinkiro's art style for promotional use.
developer = SNK
publisher = SNK
series = "The King of Fighters"
designer =
release = July 26, 2000
genre = Gaming crossovers/Versus Fighting
modes = Team Battle; Up to 2 players simultaneously
cabinet = Upright
arcade system = Neo-Geo
display =
input = 8-way Joystick, 5 Buttons
platforms = Arcade, Neo-Geo, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2

"The King of Fighters 2000" is the seventh game in "The King of Fighters" series. This King of Fighter has the introduction of Active Striker characters that add an extra dimension of strategy to game play. It also features Another Strikers and/or Manic Strikers that are characters from other franchises in the SNK World. This would be the last "King of Fighters" game produced by SNK before the company's bankruptcy and later revival as SNK Playmore.

tory

After the incident at the KOF 1999 tournament, the commander of the Ikari Warriors, Heidern, is determined to figure out the objective of the NESTS cartel so that he can stop them from achieving their ruthless ambition. A fellow commander and long-time friend of Heidern, named Ling, tells the veteran fighter that K' and Maxima were once operatives of NESTS and that they may hold the key to locating the whereabouts of the mysterious organization. Using this information, Heidern decides to focus his efforts in using the next KOF tournament as a way to lure both K' and Maxima out so that they can be captured and interrogated into telling the autorities about the NESTS cartel. Unknown to Heidern however, Ling has other plans in store for K' and the other fighters. Plans that could endanger Southtown and the entire world. Meanwhile, the NESTS cartel sends a beautiful but mysterious fighter named Kula Diamond to spy and investigate the KOF tournament, upon the fact that there may be a traitor in the organization. At the finals of the tournament, the Hero Team (K', Maxima, Ramon, and Vanessa) succeeds in defeating the Benimaru Team (Benimaru Nikaido, Shingo Yabuki, Lin, and Seth) and tries to figure out on what happens next, but to everyone's surprise, they're suddenly taken to an underground mansion via a hidden elevator and is greeted by a mysterious but sinister-looking man. At the same time, Ling and a couple of his associates suddenly betrays Heidern during the investigation and Ling tells Heidern that the plan to capturing K' and Maxima was just a ruse for an even bigger plot. In the underground mansion, the eight fighters confront the man known as Zero and that the mysterious man tells the two teams about his detailed tactics, in which he eliminated the real Ling and placed a clone in Heidern's position while slipping into his guise from within the process. Also, Zero tells the fighters that he was once a part of the NESTS cartel, but is no longer affiliated with the organization and that he plans to eliminate them by using a powerful space-based weapon known as the Zero Cannon. To demonstrate his power, Zero fires a warm-up shot of the cannon towards a part of Southtown and decimates that section in an instant, possibly killing a lot of people from within the process. Enraged by this, K' and the other fighters battle against Zero with all of their might, not realizing that their clashing energy is being sent to the Zero Cannon's power generator. After a tough fight, Zero is heavily beaten, but is not willing to give up just yet. In a last desperate effort, Zero tries to fire another shot of the Zero Cannon towards Southtown, but discovers that the cannon isn't working and that he gets blown away by an unexpected explosion. At the same time, Heidern knocks the Zero Cannon's second control away from the Ling imposter and disposes of him easily. As Zero tries to figure out on what went wrong, two of NESTS' top agents, Diana and Foxy, appears and tells Zero that his traitorous plan to destroy NESTS has fallen apart. Within the process, Kula Diamond, who's stationed on top of the Zero Cannon in space, uses her own power to fire a blast towards Zero's position in Southtown, killing Zero instantly while decimating that specific section of the city from within the process, though K' and the other fighters manage to escape just in time. In the aftermath of the tournament, Terry Bogard, Athena Asamiya, and many other fighters come to the aid of those who were injured by the unexpected blast of the Zero Cannon and that everyone is determined to clean up and rebuild Southtown from the ruthless attack. As Heidern and the Ikari Warriors look on from their military base, they make a vow to bring NESTS and its associates to justice

Characters

Hero Team

*K'
*Maxima
*Ramon
*Vanessa

Benimaru Team

*Benimaru Nikaido
*Shingo Yabuki
*Seth
*Lin

Fatal Fury Team

*Terry Bogard
*Andy Bogard
*Joe Higashi
*Blue Mary

Art of Fighting Team

*Ryo Sakazaki
*Robert Garcia
*King
*Takuma Sakazaki

Ikari Team

*Leona
*Ralf Jones
*Clark Still
*Whip

Psycho Soldier Team

*Athena Asamiya
*Sie Kensou
*Chin Gentsai
*Bao

Women Fighters Team

*Mai Shiranui
*Yuri Sakazaki
*Kasumi Todoh
*Hinako Shijou

Korea Team

*Kim Kaphwan
*Chang Koehan
*Choi Bounge
*Jhun Hoon

ingle Entry

*Kyo Kusanagi
*Iori Yagami

Boss

*Zero "Main Boss"
*Kula Diamond "Hidden Sub-Boss"

External links

* [http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof2000/kof2000_top.html The King of Fighters 2000] at the official Japanese website of SNK Playmore
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