1UP: "Despite deep similarities to the Smash Bros. series, Sony's arena-based fighting game can still stand on its own merits."
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.
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.
"More than a CopyCat"
lol
i wish they would have copied it more closely
its a good feeling knocking someone off stage with just a small percent of damage
It's a shame really, all the hands-on previews indicate that PlayStation All-Stars does it's own thing and isn't a direct copycat, but unfortunately all the insecure Nintendo fanchildren still whine about it regardless.
Why get so upset? It's only a game.
When a game creates a Genre, its people with no imagination, or high levels of cynicism that write it off as mearly a copy cat.
God, I can remember for years, game magazine writers (I'm sick of the wrongly used term, journalist) couldnt talk about a FPS without referring to it as a Doom-clone.
Is Saints Row or Sleeping Dogs just a GTA-clone?
Is Uncharted just Tombraider with a guy?
Do we really want a handful of genres in gaming, with only one title in each genre?
Nintendo and their followers always claim originality, Sumo ring.. no Virtua Fighter.. Crossver yeah MVC, Fighters Mega mix, throw in The Outfoxies, and there goes SmashBros. So what's the big deal about this game? Nothing, Go through History everyone takes inspiration.
There are Copycats out there but this game has taken a different approach, it's getting old now..