Gamers are just over a month away from getting their hands on SuperBot Entertainment‘s PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and many fans are eager to see if the game is as much fun to play is it is to speculate about the contents of its roster. Some players have had the privilege of participating in the game’s closed beta for the past few months (the same beta that accidentally leaked Battle Royale‘s roster and levels), and Sony has finally revealed when the beta will become available to other members of the public.
Today PlayStation.Blog announced two dates that various PlayStation 3 users will be able to access the beta for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. PS Plus members will get to kick the tires of the much-anticipated fighting game beginning October 16th, while the rest of the community can access the beta on October 23rd. Anyone who’s sans a PS Plus account, but happens to own a PS Vita, will be able to download PlayStation All-Stars onto their portable as a special treat for supporting the handheld. The beta is also cross-compatible, so Vita owners will be able to play with anyone playing the beta on their PS3.
Only six characters will be available for use in the beta: Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Colonel Radec, Sly Cooper, PaRappa, and Fat Princess. There will also only be two different stages to choose from (Metropolis and Hades), and two game modes (four-player online tournaments and 2v2 online tournaments) that participants will be able to pick. Fortunately, the 2 v 2 matches will support friend invites, so acquaintances will be able to team up online and deliver some cooperative beat-downs.
PlayStation.Blog also revealed an image featuring all of the bonus costumes that gamers will receive when they pre-order PlayStation All-Stars at participating retailers. The additional costumes cover all 20 of the launch day characters, but aren’t by any means essential to the fighting experience. Still, they are a nice little incentive to encourage gamers to throw down the cash in advance.
The official beta for PS All-Stars Battle Royale will only run until October 30th, so anyone who wanted to try out the game prior to its release should make a point to download the beta before November rolls around. The lack of overall characters and stages available in the beta is a little disappointing, but they should be enough to provide fans with a feel as to how well the final product will turn out.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale launches on November 20th, exclusively on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita.
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Source: PlayStation.Blog
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Sweet! Initially, I planned on buying the game, but then I decided against it. However, the beta might be able to convince me to buy it. I’m eager to play it.
One reason I don’t see All Stars being a hugely successful game is that little-to-none of the characters in the game are anywhere near as iconic and nostalgic as the characters in SSB. One of the things that makes SSB so great is the nostalgia factor of all the old Nintendo characters that we all grew up with getting together and fighting each other in a free-for-all match, allowing players, young and old alike, just who would win in a fight between Mario vs. Link vs. Star Fox vs. Kirby. With All Stars, there’s not as much nostalgia while playing it, because most of the characters are either new, not as popular, or foreign. When reading the character list for any SSB game, 99.9% of gamers will recognize most, if not all, of the characters on the list. When I was reading the list of characters in All Stars, I barely recognized half of them , and I have owned all 3 Sony consoles. Only 3 of the characters (as far as I can remember) are nostalgic, being Spike, Jak, and Parappa. However, never in my life have I ever contemplated “I wonder who would win in a fight between Spike vs. Jak vs. Parappa?” If Sony wanted this to be a major title that would appeal to gamers across all platforms, rather than just current PS3 players, inclusions such as Spyro, Crash, Q-bert, Cloud, Cortex, Ripto, Klonoa, Lara Croft, or even Leon S. Kennedy would have made the game appeal to not only the PS3 audience, but the audience of gamers who don’t play PS3, but played PS1 or PS2. The fact that all of someone’s favorite old video game characters are in a game together could make someone not only purchase the game, but even purchase the console if they don’t own it already.
This game is for the Sony fans.
Not necessarily. It’s for current Sony fans, but fans of their older games are kinda S.O.L. My point was that it won’t be anywhere near as popular or successful as SSB because the SSB characters appeal to everyone, and All Stars only appeals to current-gen Sony fans.
Well I’m thinking that’s what Sony wants. It’s sort of a fan service to their current fans. Or at least, that’s how I see it.
That has to be it, but there’s still a question that begs to be answered: Why would they not want to win back some of their old audience?
I barley new any body ssb but in this I know practically all of them so thats just your opinion
No, I said 99.9% of gamers would know most of them. You, my friend, are the 0.1%.
Also, most of what I said is just opinion, but I’m entitled to it just like anyone else. However, I wasn’t wrong in saying that most gamers would recognize the SSB characters whereas most of the All Stars characters can only be recognized by current PS3 players.
i wished for some Sora and Crash action, but luckly we have Sackboy
AND SORA! Somehow, I forgot him on my list..