IGN: Let's not beat around the bush: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has blatantly and unabashedly borrowed from Nintendo's ubiquitous brawler Super Smash Bros. in innumerable ways. But let's not sell it short, either. Even though All-Stars pays serious homage to what came before it, it still looks like a game that the PlayStation Faithful will absolutely eat-up in droves.
"But let's not sell it short, either."
You just DID in the first sentence...
"There's no reason to be coy about its inspiration -- Super Smash Bros. undeniably paved the way for it -- but no reason exists to dismiss it as a clone, either. After all, it's not very often that a clone gives its inspiration a serious run for its money. And from what I've seen and played of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, it seems ready to do just that."
Oh my.
Sony Playstation Super All Stars Ultimate Battle Royale Rumble
SPSASUBRR for short.
People always attack you when you 'copy' something done recently but never rip you apart when you have 'copied' something that has been done long before.That seem to be okay to do as long as no one ever finds out the facts.By that logic every game is a clone of the last one because you only improved on a concept that already existed at some point. That would make Halo, Mario, Gears and SSB and many other games clones of platformers, FPS, third person shooters and 4 player arena fighters that existed before they did.