King of Fighters is a fighting game by SNK. The soundtrack has all the music and sound effects from this game. It's a fairly nice CD, with varying musical pieces. However, many of the songs are like you are in the city, with background "voices" and "electronic noise". This does not detract from the music, and in fact adds to it, as it is very appropriate for this modern fighter. As well, all the songs are quite fast with heavy drums (nice!) and some have a pretty good synthesized guitar. I'll give a guide through a few of the more notable tracks. Track 1 is one of the "city" based songs - a very good intro to the game. Ten is slower than the others with a fairly heavy bass. It's very good. Twelve is a jazzy song featuring an organ and saxophone. In the liner notes, there is written music for a small jazz band! Very cool! The music is for a sax, guitar, organ, bass, and drums. A nice touch indeed! Twenty-one is a slow, light song appropriate if you were relaxing in a lounge. (It is interesting to note that there are seventeen pages of liner notes, all in Japanese.) Other tracks have jungle, military, Japanese, and slow, ominous style music, more jazz, and even a circus style tune. All in all, this CD is fairly good - I liked it. However, it may not appeal to everyone, especially if you've heard the Final Fantasy series.
