The developers at SuperBot have not had an easy time keeping any aspect of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale under wraps. Just a couple weeks ago, the top secret Battle Royale beta had its code stripped apart by beta testers, and a ton of previously unannounced stages and characters were revealed. Before that, Nathan Drake and Big Daddy were leaked via the game’s official website, and now even more members of the roster have been ousted by the game’s site.
The domain has since been restored to its former glory, but that didn’t stop legions of gamers from grabbing a few screenshots of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale‘s official website, and posting them in the PlayStation forums. The clearest character reveals were of mascots that we already knew would be included – thanks to the previously mentioned leak late last month. Sackboy and Raiden can clearly be seen in a couple of the images, and there’s no question that the two recognizable protagonists will be joining the fray.
What is questionable, however, is the legitimacy of an additional image that contains a number of other unconfirmed combatants. The previously mentioned leaks have already confirmed the appearance of Heavenly Sword‘s Nariko, as well as Ratchet, and they are found scattered amongst the background of a link titled ‘Join the Community’. That’s not all this blurry image displays though, because it looks as if Jin and Kazuya from Tekken will be joined by Ninja Gaiden‘s Ryu Hayabusa in the final list of characters.
It would be shocking if gamers didn’t establish some immediate beef over these third-party additions, especially since the likes of Spyro and Crash are still nowhere in sight. If this image is accurate (which it seems to be) then Battle Royale will feature a grand total of three Tekken mainstays (including the already announced Heihachi Mishima), and that is frankly overkill. Ryu Hayabusa is also a little out of place, and we imagined the ninja would have made more sense as a guest character in Super Smash Bros. 4.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is scheduled to hit retailers on October 23rd, exclusively on PS3 and PS Vita.
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Source: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (via PlayStation Forums)
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That said, I’m glad Raiden and Sackboy are in there, as well as Ratchet. But 3 Tekken characters? People who don’t play Tekken, such as myself, don’t even know who they are. At least the other characters are more widely known.
people do play tekken, its also the biggest fighting game in japan. people play it more in arcades than street fighter.
It’s not nearly as popular in America. Fighting games in general aren’t as popular as other genres in America. One Tekken character was enough. Three is overkill. There isn’t another game that has three characters represented in PSASBR, even the biggest ones, yet a fighting franchise gets three characters, even though they are unfamiliar to the majority of American gamers.
If they were thinking about the American Gamer they wouldnt have included Kuro/Turo (forgot his name lol, i only knew about them from SFXT). They are in there solely for the Japan audience, Sony is Japanese with explains it, which is also the reason for the Tekken characters.
I agree with you 3 Tekken characters is a but much, i play mostly fighters now (before it was shooters) and i would have liked to see a Street Fighter character, Ryu (just cause hes a poster boy for the franchise) or Cody (he is my favorite SF character).
Just because fighters arnt the most popular in America doesnt mean fighting characters cant be in it, the game is a fighter so it makes most sense to include them but 3 of the same franchise isnt good. They need to appeal to as many genres no matter what is the most popular (which is shooters)
I agree with you. They want to appeal to the Japanese audience,so they throw in a Tekken character. But they don’t need to throw in 2 more.
I don’t know, it’d be weird if they only put in Heihachi, It’s kind of annoying that people see him as the most famous character in the series, and it wouldn’t make sense if they only put Jin or Kazuya in, you kind of have to have both of them.
But I’ve said it before and I stand by it. No Crash and Spyro, no buy. I’ll wait ’til it’s 30 bucks used.
Really? You won’t buy this game if Crash and Spyro aren’t in it? That’s absurd.
If Crash and Spyro are not in the game then people are gonna be pissed. I doubt it would even be hard to get them since they are only nostalgia type characters. there game nowadays suck, Crash hasnt had a decent game since Twinsanity and where the f**k is Spyro
Dont know why you think Ryu isn’t a good character for this game, you also didn’t explain why he would be better in Smash 4. Also it looks like Smash getting Tekken characters wont happen either.
They should know how big those two characters are to Sony and the Playstation so i still do not know why they would be announced unless they will be the very last characters announced, also would explain them not being leaked, Jin and Kazuya haven’t been leaked until now so im guessing these would have been the characters to be revealed at gamescom. I wont give up hope until the game is actually out. I’ve not pre-ordered it either because i wont get it straight away without them. I also wanna know the roster, more than 40 then i may consider buying it day 1 but it also has to depend on the characters.
If you read the feature I linked to, then you would have seen the logic behind Ryu’s appearance in Smash.
Here’s a quick quote from my feature:
“Team Ninja, and more importantly Tecmo Koei, have a strong relationship with Nintendo. We’ve seen various team-ups between the two companies; the two most recent being Pokemon Conquest and Metroid: Other M. The house that Mario built is even publishing Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge for the Wii U, so the ninja’s chances are looking good. His latest appearance in the fighting franchise, Dead or Alive: Dimensions, featured a cameo from Metroid‘s Ridley, and after being thrown around by the massive space pirate we’d imagine he’d be out for revenge.”
I never click links, but if you said here is the link with my reasoning i would have clicked. Doesnt matter, i dont mind him being included but your reasoning would have me wonder why he is in this and not smash 4.
That’s fair, not many people do. We do include the links for a reason though.
I’m curious as to why Sony picked the character (if he is indeed in the final roster). Regardless, he could still appear in Smash, but it really wouldn’t feel all that significant after his appearance in Battle Royale.
Having actual characters from a fighting game, such as Tekken or Street Fighter, kind of defeats the purpose of a game like this. No?
Kind of. If they’re iconic enough, I’m okay with them being in the game, but none of the Tekken characters are really iconic in America. I’ve never heard of or seen Heihachi Mishima, Jin, or Kazuya. They don’t represent PlayStation at all. I looked up Jin and Kazuya, and they looked almost exactly the same. Why would they pick two characters that look almost exactly the same? PSASBR needs variety in its roster, not look-alikes. I think one Tekken character was plenty, but three is overkill.
Jin and kazuya are family thats why. Tekken used to be sony only during its glory days. But 3 characters from this series is overkill, id like to see more characters to like Chloe frasier, and did they confirm solid snake yet? I forgot!
Snake was in SSBB, so I doubt he’ll be in PSASBR as well.
I think we’ll get Big Boss instead of Solid Snake
in this game i would like to see old snake raiden mgs4 spyrothe dragon titan fromspyor the dragon batman joker megaman pacman lara croft jax and dexter lurkers and the dark makers
in this game i would like to see
batman,joker,soiliman groundy,catwoman,robin,nightwing,batgirl and twoface(batman arkham city) scorpion,subzero,radien and goro(mk) old snake and raiden(mgs4) spyro and titan(sryro the dragon)megaman and pacman(street fighter x tekken) lara croft(tomb radier) goko,vegata,omaga,and broly(dragon ball budikai tenkaiche 3) jak and daxter,lurkers and the dark makers.