GotGame: Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale was Sony’s answer to Nintendo’s Smash Brothers series. This is not to necessarily say the game is a rip off, but clearly Sony was looking at the success of Nintendo’s prized fighting franchise with green eyes when they decided to pursue their own fighting game franchise.
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.
Nope it shows that Sony doesn't know their audience well enough. Basically the same problems they are having with vita. They focused too much on the hardware with vita and should have locked in some hardware moving titles.
I don't get the hate for this game. It is not trying to be SB. The only thing similar is that they take characters from many of their franchises and let them fight it out. Thats it. The similarities end there. And 16 of the characters in the game are from Sony. Only 4 of them (Raiden, Heihachi, Dante, and Big Daddy) are from third party. Not only that but Sony didn't even use alot of their characters. Gabe Logan? Nathan Hale or a Chimera? You can't put all the characters in one game. They will probably put more in each game that comes out after, but with all this negativity they might not make a sequel. Best game of 2012 for me for sure.
Problem is they shouldve had multiple chars from soemf ranchises like Ratchet and Clank having Nefarious and Quark as playable beside Ratchet. God of war having Kratos,Zeus and Hades.
i also thought ps all stars was a great 1st effort and the cross play between vita and ps3 was seamless. superbot was on to something and proved they understood how to make a fighting game. was looking forward to future dlc and a sequel on the ps4 but i guess thats not happening now.
It was a great attempt but the first entry from what I have read from others was lacking. And like I have said many times in the past it came out right next to CoD.
If anything it should have been a DL title only for maybe $20-25 dollars.
I would have liked them to go a different direction instead of the copied Smash Bros route. Maybe do an a game like Capcom X Namco. That game was Japanese only but it was fantastic and it was a fighter but a strategy game.