There’s a lot we still don’t know about the final roster in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. All of eight of the characters that were prematurely unveiled – courtesy of diehard fans going through the beta’s code – have officially been confirmed, and now those who have been following the development of the title are ready to see which unannounced characters will end up making the cut.
There are still plenty of mascots that gamers would love to see make it into the final game, and it looks as if two more noteworthy characters may make an appearance in All-Stars Battle Royale – although one may end up as DLC.
All Games Beta recently posted an image of Kat’s profile in Battle Royale, and it looks to be from SuperBot‘s official website for the title. Details on the Gravity Rush protagonist’s inclusion in Sony’s much anticipated free-for-all are slim, unfortunately, but it appears to be a rather legitimate screenshot. The art style does match that of previous roster entries, but it’s still possible that this is a hoax – a very well done and cruel hoax, mind you, but a hoax nonetheless.
Kat is one protagonist in particular that makes sense for a fighting game, and her ability to manipulate gravity wields great potential for a move set. We even thought so highly of her that she made our list of 25 characters that need to be in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, so it’s good to see evidence supporting her addition to the game’s already star-studded roster.
Another character that many fans were hoping for is Oddworld‘s Abe. The classic PlayStation title is an iconic part of the brand’s lineage, so adding Abe seemed like somewhat of a no-brainer. Sony America thought the same thing at one point too, but may have opted out because the game was already too far into development. While the Oddworld inhabitant won’t be shipping on-disc, the development director at Oddworld Inhabitants, Stewart Gilray, believes that there’s still potential for his goofy-looking hero to appear as DLC.
“I was over at Sony America and they were definitely up for it, but the developer hasn’t gotten back to us. We’ve been trying to get in touch with them since May and can’t work out if they’ve fixed their character line-up for the release version or if they’re simply not interested?!”
“We’d love to get him in the game. We’ve already been talking about the moves he could have like possessing Kratos and beating the shit out of everyone… I guess they’re busy and we’re busy.”
Abe and Kat would make for great roster additions in our humble opinions, if only because their arsenal would be jam-packed with bad ass and innovative moves. Whether or not Kat will make the final cut is still up for debate, but it’s easy to imagine that her confirmation may happen as soon as the Tokyo Game Show later this month.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go weep over the official (and hopefully only temporary) lack of Abe in All-Stars.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will smash onto the PS3 and Vita this November 21st.
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While Kat has only been in one game, on the Vita, her gravity-defying abilites definitely make her an interesting character in a fighting game. I hope she is, in fact, on the roster. As for Abe, I haven’t played an Oddworld game so I don’t really care about him.
Et tu, Matt? There’s not much love for Oddworld nowadays is there?
Nope. But maybe one day I’ll buy the HD re-release of Stranger’s Wrath.
Photo is fake.I can’t anyone would write an article about it.
Abe comments are interesting though.
I wrote the article for the same reason you clicked it. It’s an interesting rumor!
I do agree that the Oddworld quotes are interesting though. Hopefully Abe is a character SuperBot chooses to pursue as DLC. There’s no question that he’d be a fun addition.
HELL NO!!!! to Abe
Kat would be a welcome edition to the cast but that image was debunked on the PSASBR forums yesterday. It’s a fake
Also i forgot to say, there was a leak with Kat in it which is looks alot more legit. They are on the LocoRoco beta leaked stage and in the backround there is a Colossus from Shadow of the Colossus
and htf does abe fit into the garbage world of ps3 exclusives ? this game is a total joke in comparison to smash brothers rosters which actually make sense as opposed ot having random characters form random franchises b/c they all have ‘something in common’, dont the japanese think anymore, or have they followed the americans in trying to rip everyone of with dodgy games ?
er… what? you just trying to troll. What a stupid comment XD
says the one that doesn’t understand what i was trying to say.
Corey’s right. Your comment is very idiotic. Uncharted, Infamous, MGS, Sly Cooper, etc. are not just random franchises. And SuperBot is based in California, not Japan.
i was talking about the non-exclusive characters. and sony is based in japan is it not ? these guys are making a game for sony which is japanese and not an american publisher/company.
the only people being sucked in by this obviously desperate cash grab are the same hysterical jokes that buy trash like CoD every year without thought.which are also the same people killing innovation in the games industry.
now one might be thinking ‘but this is so different and varied then smash brothers’ or ‘it’s cool to see them all fight one another’ well no and no b/c the fighting is very similar to smash bros and does not really look innovative (minus a feature here and there to hide the fact that the studio sucks at gameplay design). the characters themselves are all from different visual styles, so there is no consistency in design (besides all characters having an annoying glow around them which seems to completely hide the character).
the combat itself looks like boring repetitive bs with characters only having 2 or 3 attacks that throw the enemy across the screen (unlike smash bros which involved a certain level of skill and strategy to win against non-ai players).
Ok besides Bioshock all of the non exclusive characters were at one point in time exclusive to the playstation brand such as DMC and Tekken. Also on the gameplay if one is going to copy from another game why not copy from a great game like Smash Bros? Is the fighting gameplay look very similar yes but we the public have not the played the game yet. I am hoping for the best because I am huge fan of Sony’s exclusive franchises past and present. You’re entitled to your own opinion but you don’t have to put down the people looking forward to this title and also some of those people who buy COD every year are like 14 or 15 year old kids who probably don’t know a good portion of this roster.
dude shut up your such a winy little girl this game looks awesome i don’t care who is in the game now that they have nathan drake cole sly and jak its won my vote. And besides your not going to master every character. so just be happy if they have your favorites you negative Nancy
that was towards jawalka
You weren’t clear in your statements. You didn’t clarify that you were talking about non-exclusive franchises, nor did you make it clear that you were talking about Sony, rather than SuperBot, when you mentioned the Japanese. Besides, SuperBot is the one calling most of the shots on PSASBR, not Sony.