[Dreadlocks]

Slow? try more realistic. Sure fireballs aren't realistic, but the character detail, plot design, and tournament is realistic (It's not just some random 1on1 battle and no one knows what the heck is going on and why the heck are they fighting?) This game has a deep story, much deeper than Street Fighter. The tournament makes sense (teams of 3 people take turns fighting in a tournament. When one loses, another steps in to replace him/her, they don't die or just lay there dead until the next round(unrealistic). The waiting teammates even make gestures everytime you hit someone or get hit) the game feels so realisitc, I can imagine having a real KOF tournament in real life. (of course, we wouldn't have fireballs, or cool projectile attacks though.)