PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

[The Daz]

Considering that Crash and Sly look pretty much 100% copy pasted from images from their prior games, and Cloud is in his KH2 outfit...I'm going to say very, very fake. At the very least I'm dead certain I've seen the exact Sly drawing in Sly 2 or 3 pre-missions.

[tatermoog]

Considering that Crash and Sly look pretty much 100% copy pasted from images from their prior games, and Cloud is in his KH2 outfit...I'm going to say very, very fake. At the very least I'm dead certain I've seen the exact Sly drawing in 2 or 3 pre-missions-

Good point. Those Cole and Drake portraits are pretty much the first ones that come up in a Google Image Search, too.

[Green_vs_Red]

Yeah fake (at least I think so) plus that selection screen looks awfully generic.

[KaizokuJinbei]

http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation...med_Characters

Here's a list of unconfirmed characters (some were known already)

Cole - Infamous
Jak and Daxter - Jak and Daxter
James Bond - 007
Kevin Butler - Long Live Play commercial character.
Nariko - Heavenly sword
Nathan Drake - Uncharted
Ratchet - Ratchet and Clank
Sackboy - LittleBigPlanet
Snake - Metal Gear Solid
Yorda - ICO

[MarcelloF]

What's the point of posting an unconfirmed character list...? I love how it uses IMDB as a source.

[black-leg jex]

i would so play as kevin butler

[Gaiyae]

James Bond?

Adding movie characters could be interesting

[Sorikai33]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/...tion-all-stars

In a couple of accidental posts on Playstation's Facebook, it was all but confirmed that Big Daddy from Bioshock and Nathan Drake are in the game.

[Will]

I saw some of the footage from E3 and I really think Sony have made a mistake with the battle/health system.

Sony Smash Brothers seems to be too predominantly focused on flashy super moves to the extent that normal attacks do no damage and the only way to defeat players is to utilise these built-up game changing moves. This means that there's really no need to focus on level 1 or 2 super moves since building to level 3 seems to be insta-kill.

I was always one of those Smash players who didn't like using the Smash Balls and instead liked learning the individual fighting sets for each character.

Sony have a good game going for them with already some big name third party support. Unfortunately they may have dropped the ball on this decision and created themselves a lot of balance issues.

[tatermoog]

Agreed. It's as if Sony said, "We'll copy Smash Brothers to this line, but no further." I knew what to watch for in the demo and still had trouble seeing when players were getting defeated.

One of the things that made Smash Bros. work so well was the insanity of the impacts. Nothing like smashing three players across the screen at once with one well-timed Falcon Punch or Bob-Omb.

Supposedly PABR has more game modes. Hopefully one of them has more impact to it.

[Insider2000]

Honestly, they could copy Smash to the very end. I'd still buy the game.

If Smash Bros. did have the characters they had, I'm pretty sure that hardly anyone would care about it. That's the way I feel about this. I'd love a Sony Smash game.

[Will]

Yeah hopefully new game modes will prove me wrong though the arenas seem over the top enclosed cage matches.

Sony should realise that these kinds of games are not best suited for short 5 minute bursts, conversely the party aspect really takes off when you're locked in a 20 minute stock match with friends

[pyromonki]

How can you even tell how much health people have?

And as you guys said before, the impact in smash bros just feels so much more powerful and hilarious.

When you kill three people in smash bros at the same time, everyone's laughing. (Unless you have that one kid)

[Gaiyae]

I never expected this game to better than Smash.
And for me it doesn't have to. The game still seems like alot of fun.
I'd love to fight with some of Sony's character.
Just give me a somewhat descent single player campain and loads of stuff to unlock and i'll be happy.

[Gaiyae]

Here's another gameplay vid.



Drake looks fun to play as.

[The Daz]

There seems to be no items. Without those and the satisfying juggling and launching of your opponents offscreen, it lacks the two things I find most fun in SSB.
Kinda weird to wish a game is more of an copy, but the sheer jubilant chaos of Smash brothers just looks more fun.

If I can bash in the faces of boring current gen characters with Spector from ape escape, my purchase is guaranteed, however.

[Ghosty Crabber]

Big Daddy? Are they running out of Sony-exclusive characters or something? The game looks fun though :)

[Green_vs_Red]

^ Well it's not like they have a shit-ton onf Sony exclusive characters to throw in the game though that's the sole reason for why they're throwing in third party characters like Big Daddy.

[tatermoog]

There seems to be no items. Without those and the satisfying juggling and launching of your opponents offscreen, it lacks the two things I find most fun in SSB.
Kinda weird to wish a game is more of an copy, but the sheer jubilant chaos of Smash brothers just looks more fun.

If I can bash in the faces of boring current gen characters with Spector from ape escape, my purchase is guaranteed, however.

I think I saw one of the characters pick up an item and toss it early in the playthrough above at about 1:10. It's not the mayhem of Smash Brothers in terms of items, but looks like they might at least be implemented.

[Mumbling2]

I got to play a few rounds at E3 yesterday...

Yeah, there are items. It took me a while to figure out how to pick one up.

The battle system is interesting. Basically what Will said is true, from what I could tell. Your attacks don't do damage to your opponent, but they build up your special bar. The only way to get points is to hit your opponent with one. As far as I could tell, a level three special kills everyone on-screen (though I think Big Daddy's wasn't exactly an insta-kill, but it might as well have been).

It was weird because it's not an intuitive way to fight at all. Even when they explained the rules to me, it still took me a minute to realize I had to use a special if I wanted to win.

They were pretty generous with our playtime. We got to play three rounds at 3 minutes each. Played as Parappa, Sweet Tooth and Fat Princess.

I feel like a strategy could be to use your 1 and 2 specials effectively since they take less time to build up than a lv. 3 special. I won a round with Sweeth Tooth thanks to a well-timed Lv.2 attack that hit everyone.

It was still a lot of fun, but I'm doubting that it could have as much depth as other fighting games.