Bitmap Books has announced the release of Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History.
The book is available in a Standard Edition for $48.99, and a Collector's Edition for $76.00, and features 460 pages worth of concept sketches, promotional illustrations, cover art, and more.
You can learn all the details below.
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A celebration of Fatal Fury, known in Japan by its original name Garou Densetsu, Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History is a comprehensively written and gorgeously illustrated love letter to fighting game fans, full of history, lore and fascinating insights into the development of the series. Arcade masters SNK have been captivating fighting game fans since 1991 and have spawned an impressive seven canon ‘main game’ installments. Fatal Fury was key in defining the fighting game genre and remains a firm favourite amongst the fighting game community to this day due to its tight gameplay, beautifully balanced characters and compelling fighting mechanics.
In creating Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History, Bitmap Books was graciously granted access to the celebrated gaming company’s vast archive of concept sketches, promotional illustrations, and cover art. Across 460 pages, printed using special Pantone ink and premium paper, readers explore the legendary Fatal Fury series in remarkable detail, informed by candid interviews with key developers from across the series including pixel artists Hitoshi Okamoto, Youichiro Soeda, and Nobuyuki Kuroki, planner and designer Takeshi Kimura, and Chief Producer of SNK Fighting Games, Yasuyuki Oda, who also authored the book’s foreword.
Within the pages of Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History readers will be taken through the design philosophies that guided each Fatal Fury entry, discover the intriguing connections with other SNK titles such as KOF and Art of Fighting, and delve into the detailed history of each game in the series, such as Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, Fatal Fury: First Contact, Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
Featuring vibrant full-page sprite sheets, carefully reproduced screenshots, plus concept and promotional artworks by artists including Shinkiro, TONKO and Eiji Shiroi, Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History is a visual delight for all self-respecting Fatal Fury fans!
The Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History Standard Edition comes in a large hardback form factor, with cover art that carefully compliments Bitmap Book’s existing SNK volumes; THE KING OF FIGHTERS: The Ultimate History, Metal Slug: The Ultimate History, and NEOGEO: A Visual History.
Fatal Fury/Garou Densetsu: The Ultimate History Collector’s Edition is also available and offers fans the ultimate tribute to Fatal Fury, including an interactive slipcase and a selection of exclusive extras.
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