PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale gameplay footage and interview, Smash Bros. style game

yes!

I would be fine with this if they add dart from legend of dragoon since thats sony's but it wont happen,anyways this game is idk it looks like smash with real combos to me

this game looks pretty good!

this is actually another smash bros., let's see how Sony says that it is a new experience and they try to sue Nintendo for a non existant 80's patent of that type of fighting game like they did against Wii and they doing vs WiiU

lol sony's lameness and stupidity has no limits

uuuuummm no

Ya any kind of nod to the legend of dragoon would have sold me but it is highly unlikely, but who knows with fan wishlists and enough time and dlc anything is possible.

the fact that sony made a blog post about legend of dragoon coming as a download title next month makes me think that this game will include something from LOD.

#8 LOD coming as a PS1 classic is fantastic news more than Smash clones.

I smell a Nintendo lawsuit coming very soon because this seems like a shameless Smash Bros rip off.

there is even a final smash mechanic in this game lol

There's not a final smash mechanic, it's more like Level 3 Hyper Combos from what they said in the video.

I loved Smash 64 and Melee (no Brawl) so I'll be keeping my eye on this.

and so ends the shooter era

Sony Smash Bros

Nothing gets me hype like hearing that the DLC potential is huge... lol

@#16

I heard they're going to have 3rd party character support. Ryu's gonna be day 1 DLC. Kappa

The final boss will be Firmware Update 2000.0

Obvious Smash Bros similarities apart, why do the backgrounds look so dull?

Btw i'm thinking Capcom might have allowed for Ryu or a couple of SF characters to appear in this game...maybe? Since Sony already made several deals for SF X T, it wouldn't surprise me

SF2>anything past that would be a "shameless rip-off" for a fighter

So sony decides to make a game thats a style from a precious nintendo series that had no other worthy clones before.. what of it? No different from the different takes of the 2d and 3d fighters as they go for the same concept as each other with some notable tweaks to be "unique". This is probably gonna get the flame due to it being how smash bros is waking up to smell the coffee realizing you can't monopolize a certain play style theme forever. honestly surprised no one bothered doing it sooner, but thats most likely it takes time to develop well-known said series mascots to represent a party game in a positive fashion. I feel Sony can do this, but not Microsoft (Halo,GOW,Fable,Kameo won't get them far)
*end rant

hope Jak/Daxter,Spyro,Crash Bandicoot, and maybe Rayman makes the cut

Oh good, a new game for the EH Pitbulls to tear apart.

If Eventhubs starts covering SSB I quit.

It's funny that people are calling this a Nintendo rip-off, but once the core gameplay got explained (by sites like IGN and GameInformer) everyone got butthurt because they were wrong.

The one core mechanic that is the same is that pressing an attack button in a certain direction determines which move you get. The flipside to that is that there are more attack buttons and supposedly significantly longer movesets for each character.

Everything else is different. The game utilizes a system in which attacks fill meters (like core fighting games) and those special attacks have KO potential. GameInformer made it sound like you can't KO with basic attacks, which is a unique position to take on any fighting game. So its a back-and-forth or trying to build meter while slowing or preventing the opponents from building meter.

HooliganComboFTW said 47 minutes ago

So sony decides to make a game thats a style from a precious nintendo series that had no other worthy clones before..

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Jump Ultimate Starts would like to have a word with you.

Jump Ultimate Stars*

@22 Why wait? Just quit now.
Can't wait to see what N.Drake is lookin like.

Looks pretty cool, I wish they came up with a new style instead of biting off smash bros though

Who cares if it's "copying" Nintendo? Sony has a rich history with great characters, so I'm looking forward to this.

Haters can go cry in the corner. :)

@NWAndroid

Def Jam: Fight For New York says hi.

Game looks like garbage. No one is gonna beat Nintendo in this area, they just have the best characters.
Kratos? Nathan Drake? Sweet Tooth? Fat Princess? LMAO! Sony doesn't have all stars so it is beyond hilarious that they name the game as such.

This is killer app for me. By holiday season I shall own a ps3.

The Hate really brings this site down. How can these people be so angry all the time?

It's a game.

This one needs Crash Bandicoot and Solid Snake.

Sonyfriends desperately defending another stolen gimmick? Of course there are. Stay unoriginal, Sony.

Shameless rip-off

Haven't anyone heard the saying "A good idea is worth copying".

Anyway... Damn! Ghost Recon looks amazing.

"Stay unoriginal Sony, it's not like I've never played other games which were rip offs and bite offs of other games before. I've always only played like 3 games in my life!"

Shut the hell up. LMFAO

Also, "DreamMix TV World Fighters"

1.) People saying law suit are morons.... Capcom and SNK anyone? Yeah, stfu.....

2.) This is just another game genre, if this is a rip off, then anything that's an FPS is a clone of Counterstrike...

3.) Omg please include Ryu and Scorpion since, the cats and cole are in SFxT, and Kratos is in Mortal Kombat.... DO IT DAMMIT! WE NEED MKvSF

It'll probably take a while before this is any good but they got the money to get there.

no i wont hate on it but im not interested unless the change it into a straight foward fighter but till them mehh not me cup of tea

LET CASHCON BLABBER OFF ABOUT OVER SATURATION - THANK GOODNESS FOR THIS ONE ...

lol, are we seriously discussing this?

Can't wait for the Smash Bros 4 Maximilian videos.

@19, halo

"Obvious Smash Bros similarities apart, why do the backgrounds look so dull?"

I was wondering the same thing...looks really disappointing!

I like SSB and I like Sony. This game looks awesome.

rip off or not, i just hope they have a decent roster. Altho looking straight at it its like smash bros written all over it. And watching the killzone dude do the "first person" thing the first thing to pop up into my head was brawl's version of Solid snakes final smash... cant say im surprised tho.

I wasnt a fan of brawl like many others, hopefully this could fill the 4 player void when me and my friends get together to have some game nights(tired of them defaulting to halo series). Sfxt couldnt keep anyone interested. Mario party's lost their novelties a long time ago. Dreamcast controllers are busted so no more random power stone1-2. None of my friends dare touch any smash bros when im around.
lack of good 4 player local games in these recent years put me and friends off from gaming like we used too(outside being swamped with work)
Hopefully if done right, This game could amp us up again to get back into old habits :D

Oh hell yeah, sfxtk scramble mode is a$$!
I cant wait for this because I cant and wont get a wii just for smash bros! You know, something to play for fun????. Dont forget couch co-op n online co-op, 2v2 rank/endless battles! Oh n 360 ppl please dnt hate. -_-

Looks pretty fun. Hearing that there are two competitive fighting game players as developers is hype news as well. Anything to take Brawl to shame is good news to me. Brawl was so dreadful and has left a hole for that style of competitive gaming. Can't wait till this comes out! If it happens to be good, I'll actually buy a PS3 :/

A Game full of original characters is a rip-off?! lol what?

Looks like a fun game haha. Sack Boy confirmed as boss character. And holy hell if Dart or Albert get into this game from LoD I am sold 100%

Good to see some LoD fans up in here. I wanna see Dart in this for sure.

LOL Sony fanboys are so shameless, can't believe they are actually defending this game!! This is such a huge rip off I think it is actually sue worthy. I mean c'mon, leve design, game play, and worst of all the hud rip off. I mean seriously wtf Sony?

I hope Wander and Ico+Yorda are in this.

I don't really care that they are borrowing so blatantly from nintendo, as long as they admit it.

"Wow, so there are characters from all of your company dukin it out? I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT ANYWHERE BEFORE!"

Come on, guy. He also tried to focus on the fact that killzone dudes super was that he turned the screen into a fps, acting like it was revolutionary... like that hadn't been done in brawl. I don't mind that they are doing what they ar doing, but I'd like to hear someone go "Yeah, we are taking a bit of inspiration from a past game" even if they don't mention smash bros or nintendo specifically.

Good grief....AGAIN?!! First the Move, now THIS??...Betcha the guys at the Big "N" are ROFL-ing their butts off right now...this is ridiculous...

meh >_>

Kevin Butler as final boss. Called it.

For all you idiots saying its a rip off of Smash bro. shut up. If thats the case then every COD, Battefield, and any other similiar fighting game is a rip off from each other. I'm pretty sure it will have diffrences from Smash bro. The concept is the same but aspects will be diffrent.

@57

"He also tried to focus on the fact that killzone dudes super was that he turned the screen into a fps, acting like it was revolutionary... like that hadn't been done in brawl."

Yea, I was like "No they didn't!!" o_o

Honestly intelligent comments are not worth anything in this topic anymore. So much hate on a simple game has turn this opinion based debate to all out "SHUT UP ITS A RIP OFF" so I shall just say, like it or shut up and go. We don't need to hear "IT'S A RIP OFF" since its already plastered on more than 20 comments above. Just come it look and move on unless you like then stay and talk about it. If ya ganna hate, do us a favor make a forum to bitch about it there. We like this and we shall continue to like this, U MAD BRO?

Eeeeeehhhhhh.......it looks.......uncomfortable because I really feel it has that Super Smash Bros. vib and stuff, but I cannot say anything about it yet since the game BARELY just announced and I'm willing to give this a try(Hope Cole gets in)

@61 Dude...everyone who has commented on here knows that. While competition is always nice...we cant be ignorant of whats obvious here...Everyone who has seen this game, so far, is thinking....Smash Bros rip-off...even YOU. Nevermind the "minor" differences.

Watching Sony fanboys hate on Smash for years then turning to whiteknight this Smashstation game is hilarious.

I'm not in here to troll. I'm just enjoying the scene.

I already know who the boss is.

It's Master Foot. A big Black foot that kicks you and shoots lasers. If you're lucky you'll also get to fight Crazy foot. Both of them team up and you gotta handle some crazy footwork.

@56

Good God I hope they put Wander in too, he'd fit incredibly well.

I was expecting shameless but jesus christ Sony.

why is "Loads of DLC" a marketable concept? I don't really buy a game because I look forward to spending more money on it.

I would've liked to see it more in the Powerstone style of crazy arena fighting than Smash Bros. If you're unfamiliar, think Smash Bros with full 3d movement with even more weapons and items, and ridiculous interactive backgrounds. We stayed up all night with that just like we did with "Goldeneye" back in high school. Good times... ...{sniff}

Anyhoo, curious to see what they do with Sackboy, since that "Little Big Planet" stage is already there!

Capcom-get ryu in.
Neatherealms-get scorpion in.
Ready?...GO!

1. Smash is fun.

2. I spent a majority of my gaming life on Sony consoles after the SNES (NO REGRETS!).

3. Nothing is original anymore.

4. I will play this with my friends 'til the end of time.

man, people like to bitch about everything. The game will be fun. Not every game has to be competitive to be good.

I hope it's better than brawl since brawl is so boring and also have better controls.

@73, yeah, its okay to rip off other games and squander the opportunity to be original and interesting because everybody else does and it still sells, right?

Thank you, Activision spokesperson.

@73

I agree.

POY POY (1997): Original, 4 player battle (PSX)

POY POY 2 (1999, 3 months before SMASH released):Sequence

SMASH BROS (1999): Copy from POY POY and POY POY 2

SONY BATTLE (2012): Copy from SMASH

"Nothing is original anymore."

@76

Silly. If a whole bunch of companies didn't rip-off Street Fighter II, there would be no KoF, Mortal Kombat, etc. etc..

Smash Bros. may have created a unique style of fighting game, that does not mean there can be no others in that genre. Just as Street Fighter created a certain style of fighting game doesn't mean there can't be any other in the genre, or CoD invented a certain style of FPS, Mario a certain style of platformer, etc. etc..

@76

Bro, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Resident Evil: ORC is a huge rip-off of every third person shooter, but I don't care. I like it because it's RE, that's what got me interested.

I like Smash but I didn't grow up with some of the characters in it. You're telling me I get to play Smash but with characters I have a personal connection to and that's bad? You might as well tell me I can't like Symphony of the Night because its style of play was pretty similar to Super Metroid.

You're an idiot, man. I like innovation too, but sometimes I like to see genres I normally wouldn't play done in a style I can relate to. Call it a rip-off or whatever. I will too. I'll still play it if it's good, though.

@80

For those who play Sony games, characters like Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Nathan Drake, Cole McGrath, Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper, Pappa the Rappa, Sack Boy, etc. etc., are very memorable.

I grew up with Nintendo in the 80's, and though the characters have some nostalgia for me, they are also are growing old and less interesting with every new game by Nintendo meant to milk their franchises.

I hate people saying "Oh im not getting this. It's a smash clone" but really.........who the hell cares? Its a freakin smash type game!

Anyone remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up? oh yeah......that game had lots of potential, but they didnt use the time good enough for it. It could have been ALOT better if they spent more time with content.
I for one am happy to see sony doing something cool like this.
I wanna play as Cole and Sly Cooper. This game will be awesome.

I agree fully with @79

Smash type games are for making money. We all know people will buy it like hot cakes if it is really good.

If a Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors smash game was made, u know that will sell like crazy! Thats actually a good idea lol

I liked Digimon Rumble Arena so I should like this. Hope Cole is in.

Looks kinda fun. Although, I'm not really a big fan of the Smash series. But I'll definitely keep this on my radar. (Also, adding Ashley Riot from Vagrant Story would make me a happy, happy man)

@86

What are you talking about? In one of the interview with Gametrailers, they mentioned each character having 20+ moves.

The graphics in this game look really bad. Kirby even looked good next to the Zelda characters in brawl. Sony might make a couple of bucks with this but when Nintendo shows footage of smash bros 4, this game will easily be forgotten. The only game I really enjoyed on ps3 was fat princess and she's playable here.

@77

You're forgetting about "The Outfoxies" 1994 arcade game.
Then PoyPoy etc.

This concept has been around longer than most users here have been alive. I don't think anyone should have a problem with Sony doing one. Besides, seriously when is the last time Sony did anything truely original? I don't really expect it from them anymore.

What I'm expecting is a lot of empty promises. They are going to hype this game and then leave content and gameplay behind. Besides these characters are more unmarketable than the 3rd strike cast.

To those people claiming this is a Nintendo rip off:

Digimon Rumble Arena
DreamMix TV World Fighters
Jump Super Stars
Jump Ultimate Stars
Digimon Battle Spirit
Onimusha Blade Warriors
Battle Stadium D.O.N

Yeah, Nintendo was definitely the first and only company to do this. Do some research. No idea is original in today's world. Just enjoy the games instead of complaining.

@89

The Create, Share, Play strategy with games like Little Big Planet was plenty original.

Hell yeah for Parappa, but what about Rayman and Crash Bandicoot?

it's gon be fun

i hope jak,ratched, a final fantasy character, rayman, and (plz god) crash and spyro are in. but i guess its kinda a of a long shot sines crash and spryo hasnt been in a game sense........

It's not a clone, considering the mechanics are different--DO RESEARCH.

It's not a blatant rip-off as a few are making it out to be, sigh, ignorance.

On another note, I'm getting this.

It's too bad a lot of people haven't been able to really appreciate Smash's depth as a fighting game. Smash hit a great balance between simple beat-em up controls, the stage dynamics of a platformer, head-to-head aspects of a 2D fighter, and with a little sumo mixed in.

It was nice to play a game with a strong strategic element that didn't rely on complex inputs or tie victory to a health bar. Smart players could beat opponents in seconds with just a few precise actions, or even win long matches while at "negative health" with mostly good spacing and stage control. It's just unfortunate that Brawl dumbed so much of this down right when the series was at its peak.

I've played a lot of Smash clones, but none of them have really given me the depth of enjoyment that SSB64 and Melee did. I'll give this a shot, it'll probably be fun with friends for a while, but at this point I'm getting the vibe that Project M will be the only Smash in my future.

About time!! I figured they would have done this a long time ago in response to SSBM with old ps1 brand characters like Crash and Spyro who are not exclusive anymore and more recent characters like Ratchet, Jak, and Sly. Now I wonder what old favorites are guaranteed or not.

For those that think this is stupid....How is it stupid to actually be able to play a smash game with other characters that we all believe should have been in smash on Nintendo system. For those that never liked smash...I respect your opinions but it is a fun game with tons of replay value. Most ppl that don't like smash call the game stupid if the 1) get beat and don't know what's going on 2) haven't even tried or played the game due to the naive perception that it isn't a fighting game (just because it is not held in a box of limitless game play and brings in other elements mostly. Guys open your mind and actually try something new for a change. Stop fearing it and get out of your shells. Bet Megaman X will be in. Just because it is a ripoff of Smash will not kill this game at all. It is going to sell and it will sell well especially in the casual core and hardcore department due to sooo many memorable characters from the Sony side. Most of the people that are knocking it will end up playing it anyway. And for the super sony fanboys.....now you can play a smash-like game without keeping it a secret from your friends LOL.

(I'm super hype. And I honestly think alot of people are hating because either

A)Microsoft could NEVER do this, unless Forza cars were playable

or

B) Blind hate for anything not 1v1/Looks like Smash Bros)