Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves


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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, released in Japan as Garou Densetsu: City of the Wolves (, lit. "Legend of the Hungry Wolf: City of the Wolves") is an upcoming sequel to Garou: Mark of the Wolves. It will be the first new entry in the Fatal Fury series since 1999. It is the ninth game in the series but only the seventh canonically in terms of story.

Development
Director Yasuyuki Oda had been petitioning then-president of SNK, Eikichi Kawasaki, to allow him to produce a new Garou title ever since returning to the company in 2014. The game was first revealed at EVO 2022 on the 7th of August, after the finals of The King of Fighters XV. A brief teaser trailer and poster illustrated by TONKO were shown, confirming that the sequel had been green-lit. The poster shows Rock Howard standing in an alleyway at night. Two silhouettes can be seen on either side of him, one resembling Kain R. Heinlein while the other appears to be Billy Kane.

Further information was revealed in Twinfinite’s interview with Yasuyuki Oda at Gamescom 2022, confirming that Terry Bogard would appear in the game and that there would be a higher emphasis on the single-player story mode than recent SNK titles. He also confirmed that development had begun before the reveal at EVO 2022.

Some Garou sequel details were revealed in an interview with Oda; 10+ original devs will return for the sequel, and some parts of the leaked original Garou: Mark of the Wolves 2 might make it to the full game. The game would not be called "Garou 2" and the game will be presented in 3D with a new art style that is different from both Samurai Shodown (2019) and The King of Fighters XV. Oda also said that he is "cool" with Guest Fighters.

At EVO Japan 2023, another brief teaser trailer and poster illustrated by TONKO were shown, this time showing Terry in his Garou design, standing in an alleyway during daytime. The poster also reveals Joe Higashi wearing a tracksuit and Andy Bogard wearing a button-up shirt. The teaser also ends with SNK stating that the game is "furiously" in development. During EVO 2023, the game's title was finally revealed, along with a teaser showing the cities and various locations of both South Town and Second South Town, as well as in-game footage of Rock Howard and Terry Bogard, as well as its art style.

In an interview with Oda, it was stated that Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is the 7th canonical chapter of Fatal Fury, and is intended to be finale of the Fatal Fury storyline. It is also mentioned that the game will probably offer some sort of easy control mechanic option, and that its visual style was inspired by American comic books like Marvel Comics. It has also been stated that City of the Wolves will be the last SNK fighting game for a while, as the company wishes to revive their older IPs and take their existing fighting game IPs into new game genres. In another interview with Oda with 4Gamer, he reveals that many the newcomer characters found in the cancelled Garou 2 will not appear in the new Fatal Fury, due to how SNK creates characters differently from how did back in the 90s. Additionally, the game will not have a line system like in the early Fatal Fury games up to Real Bout 2, and will remain with the one line system from Garou. However, some of the mechanics from Garou, such as Breaking, will return, albeit in a more developed form.

It is currently unknown when and what platforms the new title shall release on, however, the game is confirmed to run on Unreal Engine 4, making this the third SNK game with this engine.

Confirmed Characters
Characters confirmed to be returning at the current moment:

Additionally, voices of Mai Shiranui, B. Jenet, Kevin Rian, Marco Rodrigues, Hotaru Futaba, Gato and Tizoc can be heard during the Official Teaser Trailer.

About the voice actors, it's highly probable that will be the same which voiced the characters in some SNK recent game entries. This information still needs confirmation.

Trivia

 * This is the first Fatal Fury game to be released in over 23 years.


 * The intro start-up sound from the Official Trailer is the same start-up sound from the intro of Real Bout Fatal Fury.


 * The seven claw marks on the logo is a nod to the fact that this is the 7th canonical Fatal Fury game.
 * In an interview with Oda and 4Gamer, Oda reveals that every game that's not an "Special" game is canon, making the canonical order for the Fatal Fury series being FF1 > FF2 > FF3 > Real Bout 1 > Real Bout 2 > Mark of the Wolves > City of the Wolves.