Despite the oppressive force of his group, he is defeated moments before the ship docks at NESTS's space satellite. He decides to entertain his passengers with a match and is backed up by his pet black lion Glugan, Ron, and Krizalid. He congratulates them for reaching the finals and states that they're headed for NESTS's real headquarters. There they meet Original Zero, whose clone decimated the cartels' secrecy with his scheme in the previous year. In the tournament finals, the Hero Team boards a special blimp that is soon revealed to be a spaceship. The NESTS cartel decides to host the 2001 KOF tournament so that they can use it as a method to eliminate their enemies and enter their own team into the ranks. At last, this tournament will end it all!' The third title in the King of Fighters: The NESTS Chronicles.

What are the true objectives of the event's sponsor? There's no guarantee that even with this tournament, tragedy will not repeat itself. The interest in the tournament rivaled that of the '97 contest, nay, perhaps even exceeded it.īut for this tournament carried out on the international stage, an astonishing fact came to light.Ī team from NESTS has entered the tournament! This incident was reported to be the result of an artificial satellite crashing to earth, and adorned the front pages to various newspapers of countries all over the world.Ī legion of individuals called for the end to the KOF tournament which always invited some sort of accident, but ironically this fighting tournament with a bad history once again regained considerable popularity. 'An entire city was wiped off the globe with the use of the satellite weapon, Zero Cannon, during King of Fighters 2000. The official story given by Eolith is as follows: This game was given a remade intro for the PS2 port. While teams in 19 were limited to selecting one teammate as an assist, now teams could have up to 3 assist characters, or none at all. KOF 2001 kept the Striker assist system from the previous two KOF games, but added a new twist to it - the ability to adjust how many Strikers a team could have.

This game also is the third and final chapter of the ' NESTS CHRONICLES' story arc, started in The King of Fighters '99.

It is the first of two KOF games published by Korean company Eolith after Aruze put SNK into bankruptcy. Team battles will never be the same again. Four new fa ces along with returning competitors join the cavalcade of warriors in legendary four-against-four battles of the new century. At long last, the epic of NESTS draws to its exciting climax. The King of Fighters 2002 A NESTS Activity Base of 2001.

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