Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment, SCEA
Developers: Sony Interactive Entertainment, Bluepoint Games, SuperBot Entertainment
Genres: Arcade, Family, Fighting, Massively Multiplayer
Platforms: PS Vita, PlayStation 3
Released: 2012-11-20
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a crossover 2.5D fighting game, including a big roster of Sony’s signature characters. It’s a quick paced game, similar to Nintendo’s Super Smash Game, where characters fight each other on the battle arenas with a lot of stage unique hazards. Each stage combines two different games, presenting 15 levels of varying difficulty and layouts. 20 playable characters and 4 DLC exclusives, and not all of them are from Sony exclusive titles.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has multiple modes, offering single-player arcade mode that shows off game’s story. A mysterious being is searching for the strongest warriors from all the worlds, and heroes and villains alike are trying to locate the new threat. Arcade story mode will match players against a group of randomly selected characters, before facing off with the interdimensional threat. And multiplayer modes are all based around either reaching the set amount of kills first or getting the most kills in a set time. There are three types of special moves, based on the number of AP players use, and they gain the AP by hitting other players. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has a cross-platform play feature for PS3 and PS Vita.