Additionally combos can be extended using throws, super linkers, manual-doubles, and super end specials.Īs a result of the weakened normal moves and other changes to the system, combos have now become more devastating in Killer Instinct 2. However, unlike the first game, players can now open up combos with new and much less risky moves than before (most notable a close Fierce punch or close Fierce kick.) Additionally, Super Moves can be placed into combos, greatly increasing their damage and potency as well as being unbreakable. By pressing a certain strength button after an opener move, a player will launch an auto-double and initiate the combo system of the game. The combo system has its roots in the original Killer Instinct. After the bar reaches a certain point, the player can use a multi-hit super special move (normally referred to as Super Move,) which is usually an extended version of a normal special move. This super bar fills as players take damage.

Normal special moves no longer are judged on priority, but instead follow a three tiered 'rock, paper, scissors' system, in which a certain special move will always break another certain special move (similar to the three tiered system in Soul Calibur.) The system has been seen as flawed due to little differences between the special moves themselves.Īdditionally, a Super bar has been added to the game (similar to Street Fighter Alpha or King of Fighters). Throws have been added into the game to deal with blocking characters (as opposed to the top attack in Killer Instinct.) Additionally, characters can be knocked down much easier with normal moves than in the first game, ending the possibility of opening with a 'glitch' combo and also weakening the effectiveness of normal moves. The matches, as with Killer Instinct, revolve around a three strength system (Quick, Medium, and Fierce.) However, normal moves have lost a lot of their priority and range, as well as gaining extra recovery time.

As with the original Killer Instinct, when a player's original life bar is fully depleted, he or she will fall to the ground, and immediately begin on his or her second lifebar.Īs with the first game, Killer Instinct 2 relies on an automatic combo subsystem in its matches.

As with most fighting games and indeed its predecessor, two characters square off with the goal of depleting the opponent's life bar.

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