Legendary football (or soccer if you’re American) star Cristiano Ronaldo has been announced to be joining the cast of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
It was mysteriously teased back in September that Cristiano Ronaldo would have some kind of involvement with SNK’s new project and now it turns out that it is for him to be a full-fledged character in the game.
This ambitious crossover was announced earlier today via Cristiano Ronaldo’s X account and you can see his post on the matter below.
Big news to share with everyone today!
I’m going to be a character in the new fighting game FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves! @FATALFURY_PR
Let’s have some fun on April 24th!
#SNK #FatalFury #CR7 #AD pic.twitter.com/UX0PhYKKNP— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) March 26, 2025
SNK are no strangers to having sports-based characters in their fighting games with the American Sports team from way back in King of Fighters ’94 serving as a prime example, but this is the first time they have an actual real-life sports star appearing as a playable character.
In the trailer, we see Ronaldo reacting to the Fatal Fury characters spawning around him before he jumps into the game himself and starts hitting Terry Bogard with some EX dribbles, kicking the ball at him, tackling him and even throwing a punch.
He ends the sequence by letting out his legendary SIIIIUUU celebration cry.
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We’ve included a gallery of images captured from the video which you can look at above.
See the announcement trailer for Cristiano Ronaldo’s inclusion below.
SNK also released a gameplay trailer featuring more of Ronaldo’s moves which you can see right here.
One can’t help but think that placing this announcement right before the game’s second beta is going to help SNK stress test those servers, even though Ronaldo himself won’t be playable during the beta.
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves is set to be released on April 24th, 2025.
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