GR:Sweet Tooth, Dante, and Sackboy are now co-stars in the same game. Let that bizarre reality sink in for a moment. In PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale, Sony and SuperBot Entertainment take a crack at the four-player, item-centric fighting game genre, popularized by Nintendo's Smash Bros. franchise. This mega-crossover incorporates characters from a wide array of PlayStation franchises (you can read the entire roster if you want), ranging from the hotly anticipated (Metal Gear Rising, DmC) to the pleasantly obscure (MediEvil, Ape Escape). But be warned: If you’re expecting a one-to-one facsimile of Smash Bros. with Kratos and Parappa in place of Mario and Fox, you'll be both pleasantly surprised and mildly disappointed.
While Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale didn't get the best review, there are still some aspects of the game that deserve some credit.
Though PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale is a bit of a cult classic, it could have been a big hit if it launched in 2022 instead of 2012.
It wouldn't have mattered, Sony would've rushed it out and left it to die. More so now than before with their focus now being on SP narrative driven AAA games.
Oh, but somehow Smash Bros. 64 made it work?
It just couldn’t compete with Smash Bros. and it wasn’t a free-to-play game like Multiversus.
I think it released at the right time. It's just after the success of Smash and Multiversus, it's finally time for a sequel.
I'd be all in on a remake or remaster of the original. I enjoyed it because I didn't sit there and compare every aspect to SSB. I just enjoyed it as it was.
Sony should make part 2 and dump a good amount of money on it. Scrap super only kills and it's bound to succeed.
Yes the power kills spoilt it completely WTH was they thinking you should have hp bar that's it
God of War: Ragnarok has plenty of fun references to PlayStation history, but now fans have discovered a conversation that calls back to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale — the crossover fighting game released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
That’s interesting. It actually does make it canon lol. He mentioned it in a mainline game. I’d say that’s pretty cool.
I don't agree with this review score but oh well not everyone has the same opinion.
This game so far ranges from 6/10 to 9/10, reviews are becoming more and more unreliable, hell even Halo got a 5/10. Best thing to do is if you want a game just get it and make your own opinion, to hell with review sites.
No Crash and Spyro in this game is definitely a turn-off.
i don't care or even criticise that this is a "rip-off" of super smash bros because i think it's great that playstation owners get to play a game with such a great concept and fun factor. however it's sad to see that they have failed, at least from the previews (an average of 77/100 on metacritic so far). i haven't played it, so i can't really judge it of course. comparing it so super smash bros brawl which got a 93/100 on the same page though it's hard to keep thinking it might actually be somewhat as good as nintendo's equivalent...
also it's a bit disappointing that crash and spyro aren't in the game (so far) as they would fit perfectly in a game like this, especially when a lot of the other character don't fit just as well into this kind of game...