Today marks a special day for us here at SuperBot Entertainment, as we finally get to share our game with the world! PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale existed as an idea in the hearts of gamers way before SuperBot got around to making it, and the expectations of the fans are really what drive us. This game is a labor of love, and we’re excited to be able to finally show it — learn more in our new video interview above.
So what is PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale? First and foremost, it’s a celebration of a storied history of great characters and rich worlds brought together in one game. And for us, there’s no better way to celebrate than by creating an experience that players can sit around one screen and enjoy together. There are probably a few types of games that can be enjoyed by four players simultaneously, but for us at SuperBot, a brawler was the obvious choice for one really good reason: the developers here at SuperBot really like fighting games. We love playing them and we love making them. With PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, we set out to make an experience accessible enough for all PlayStation fans to enjoy while also creating something deep enough for the serious fighting game aficionado. We think this “accessible yet deep” strategy is the perfect way to bring PlayStation fans of all stripes together.
The game features a number of cool game modes for both single and multiplayer, with a focus on online play which features a robust tournament mode. Players will be able to compete against each other as well as play cooperatively. We can’t wait for you all to try it for yourself.
Until then, please stay tuned; there are plenty more features, characters, and levels we want to show. And you definitely don’t want to miss what we’ve got in store for E3!
Mind blown…Sackboy, Ratchet and Drake (all obvious, I know) and I will be a happy camper.
PLAYSTATION ALL STARS BATTLE ROYALE should be called instead:
Cross Over Chaos. but written this way:
〤 ○VER CH△□S (with bigger symbols, so they fit)
Or name it like this:
B△TTLE R○YALE: 〤 CH△□S
The “PlayStation” part needs to go (it is obvious because it will be released on a Playstation).
I especially like the idea of having the iconic Playstation face buttons in the title, it says “it’s on Playstation” with out being as “cheesy” as just putting Playstation in the title.
PLEASE READ MY POST
Other than that the game is great. XD
I have made a list of possible franchises that can be added to the roster (on a previous post), based on how many generations the franchise has appear on a PlayStation system.
What is up with that horrible title? Title Fight was so much better.
I must say i’ve heard the rumors about the game & to finally see the footage of the game in action on yhe Ps blog i’m totally stoked!!!!!!!!!!
I have been wanting this game for a long time. I would love to also see Spike from ape escape or even one of the monkeys. Rayman also would be cool. Excited to play as the obvious Ratchet and clank as well as Drake and Cole.
Please have Nariko as a character. It’s such a shame that Sony doesn’t utilize its IP’s to the fullest there is no doubt in my mind that a sequel to Heavenly Sword would have sold really well now that there are way more PS3 players than at the start of this console generation. It would be great to be able to see Nariko continue on in some form and maybe build up some buzz about Heavenly Sword. Also this may be a bit of a stretch but i would honestly love to see some representation from L.A.I.R….As much as everyone else didn’t like the game, there is a lot of potential with that franchise as well and its a shame to see another great IP just go to waste. Having a level where the dragons interact would be pretty cool, or better yet have Rohn as a playable character. At least take my suggestions into consideration although i fully intend to buy the game regardless. Good luck! and I can’t wait to see more at E3!
Hi Omar I think you should have the KO out of the stage formula and a health bar. At least make it optional because that alone is what makes fun this fighting games.
Remember, this is a game to the fans and it doesn´t matter what other fans says.
PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN
I’ve had this idea in my head for years. Sony has a huge amount of 1st-party franchises and characters to choose from, and putting them all together in a “Smash Bros.”-style fighting game makes perfect sense.
It’s a shame I didn’t pitch this idea to Sony myself…
I just hate that terrible name (PS AS BR? Really?). And the logo is even more bland than Sports Champions. Other than those 2 gripes, the game looks like a solid Smash Bros. clone. Congrats Sony and SuperBot Entertainment!
first off, Omar, you guys are gonna get alot of love lol. as a SSB player, i know how much fun this game is going to be! with all the content you people are gonna be putting, i think the replay value is gonna be very high. seeing the suggestion of Chimera in the game, you cant go wrong. could be included as a mini boss or playable character. to conclude my comment, NATHAN DRAKE ALL DAY EVERYDAY. with one of his taunts being, wait for it… wait for it… KITTY GOT WET!
I hope there will be plenty of female characters too like Nix and Kou (inFAMOUS), Meru, Shana and Rose (The Legend of Dragoon), Lara Croft(Tomb Raider) and some classic characters like Sir Daniel Fortesque(MediEvil), Spyro(Spyro), and Crash Bandicoot(Crash Bandicoot). I hope there will be forums so playstation fans can discuss favorite character and other stuff so they make into the game.
Should have called it Sony All-Star Battle Royale or come up with another title.
SOme 1st party Characters you shouldn’t forget to add:
Toan(Dark Cloud)
Jaster Rogue (Rogue Galaxy)
Nathan Drake
Nathan Hale
Cole McGrath
Jak & Daxter
Ratchet & Clank
for 3rd party please don’t forget these characters
Cloud Strife
Sephiroth
Sora
Eva Brea
Fei Fong Wong
Nowe from Drakengard 2
Dante
Laharl(Disgaea)
Faize
and man many more. ADd these and its a day 1 purchase for me. I don’t care if the characters are DLC,
Also need to get Gex in there also was a main stamp for sony before those games were released on the n64.
this needs Laharl from disgaea or someone from the series it always seems to be an early title on any Sony system :) if so I’d buy it in a heart beat
I’m super stoked about this. Vita release is a must!!
Some 3rd-party characters to consider:
Dante and Virgil (Devil May Cry) [Capcom]
Solid Snake / Big Boss, Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid) [Konami]
Cloud, Chaos, Sid (Final Fantasy) [Square Enix]
Mega Man, Dr. Wily, and Protoman (Mega Man Classic) [Capcom]
X and Zero (Mega Man X) [Capcom]
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Eggman (Sonic) [SEGA]
Joe Musashi (Shinobi) [SEGA]
Alex Kidd [SEGA]
Bomberman [Hudoson]
Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) [Tecmo / Team Ninja]
Crash Bandicoot [Vivendi Universal / Activision]
Spyro [Vivendi Universal / Activision]
One of the Belmonts (Castlevania) [Konami]
Lara Croft (Tomb Raider) [Eidos]
Pyramid Head (Silent Hill) [Konami]
Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Alber Wesker (Resident Evil) [Capcom]
AiAi (Super Monkey Ball) [SEGA]
Duke Nukem [3D Realms / GearBox]
I really can’t think of any other nostalgic 3rd-party characters. Looking at this list, Capcom sure has a ton of recognizable characters of their own! “Sony vs Capcom” anyone?
I. Am. VERY excited about this game, but I have a few questions:
1. Will Spyro and/or Crash be in this game?
2. Some fans are saying that this is similar to/based on Super Smash Bros. (series). So what , are you trying to join the competition, like Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble (but the Viewtiful Joe series stopped because Clover Studio hit the trail on Capcom)?
And finally, 3. Will you be including lots of content, like a video about the history of Spyro and/or Crash, or interesting secret characters and/or costumes based on the history throughout Sony?
Reply ASAP when you’ve read this. Appreciate it. ;)
Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Cloud or Lightning, and Snake and if not Snake then Old Snake would be awesome!
This game is going to be wicked!
I’m pretty sure Ratchet and clank will be in this and Jax and Daxter. And Nathan Drake would be sick!
For me Snake and Cloud are a must show for this game.
Superbot it looks like you guys have done a great job developing this game thus far. And as a longtime PS fan going back to the PS1 I want to thank you, Santa Monica Studios, and Sony for coming together and giving us fans what we’ve been asking for. Gameplay looks great, level design looks clean(for an early demo), and characters ooze their personality. My only concerns have been mentioned plenty of times already. The KO only by supers bothers me because while it adds a different strategy to this kinda game, it is also limiting as well. Seems to kinda make damage level/% kinda moot and makes finishers paramount. I worry it might lack the added drama of being low on health and on a last life if all you need is to avoid/gain a super to stay alive as the amount of damage you have taken is irrelevant. I think we as gamers need the choice to decide if we want damage to matter, ring-out KOs(a big deal!), and things like damage KOs(without finishers) in our modes we choose to play. I know differentiation is the key here, but don’t cut off our options to force uniqueness against the competition.
Aside from Jak, Ratchet and the obvious Nathan Drake
I want Elena Fisher and the one and only Ethan Mars lol
characters i would like to see
someone from an atelier game
the boss from metal gear solid
that kid from Ni no kuni
Claude or Albel from star ocean
Blackheart/Noire from hyperdimension
Fei from Xenogears
Luca blight from suikoden 2
Kite and haseo from dot hack
ryu or nina from breath of fire
Please add Riku from the Kingdom Hearts series and maybe Leon S. Kennedy from Resident Evil series. Those are the characters I want so badly. If there in it, I would buy 2 copies of this game. Game looks amazing keep up the good work guys.
At first I didn’t like how the hitting and the flipping was so similar to the competitors game or that alot of this game was very similar. I do like the new way of playing though and the 3 levels of super moves. But I wonder if you will have a traditional way of playing, with health bars? I would like that regular mode. Will the game allow us to control with dpad? Hate using analog for fighters. Or have customizable controls? I like to block with r1. Would be nice if we could control the super level we were using. Like street fighter. Even if I have a level 3, I would like to use 3 level 1 supers. The environmental hazards, awesome. But they seem to not make a big impact, like its not life threatening. Maybe if health was involved they would be? Maybe for the control of super levels, the health thing would work better for that too. Overall the most important thing is accurate controls, good online code and lots of 3rd party support and content. Go big with this one. Yah got something that can be really special.
what the heck, keeps saying my comments are awaiting moderation… jeez, guess I can’t link a classic / funny crash bandicoot commercial in a comment… thanks..
Here’s part 1 of my comment since the blog hates fully fleshed out opinions as well…
Game looks fun… now please remember that before reading the rest of this too: Game looks fun but copying super smash bros TO THE CORE is VERY lame in my book. I mean, even the style / character design looks like super smash. And I’m not a fan of that style by the way.. characters look kiddie etc.. why not give the SONY characters their own style, or KEEP their own style from their respective games… When I first imagined a PS fighter I imagined 3D and LOTS more unique visuals+GAMEPLAY than this. Really SONY, I have to say I honestly think it’s pretty sad that a gamer has to tell you how to make BETTER / more ORIGINAL ideas, but it seems we do sometimes… (continued in part 2…)
Part 2:
You’d think it would be a GAME DEVELOPER’S / ARTIST’S SPECIALITY to be CREATIVE… and yet this copy-cat game is the BEST you guys could do? I’m really sorry to say it.. because I’ve been a fan since the BEGINNING of the PS1… but I mean it as a KICK in the behind so you guys could maybe get yourselves in TOP form. TRY something original, instead of just copying the competition. The best games are original. Nuff said.
Hate to be negative / sound mean, like I said I only am saying these things in hope that you guys create more original games. I will probably pick this up because I love the PS characters but I believe it could have been MUCH more, for what it is supposed to stand for.
Please let there be character from KINGDOM HEARTS in this game!!! Kevin Butler would also make a funny character to play as! Can’t wait to play this game!!!!
^and assassins creed of course!
@007PorscheMGS
I too thought the visuals were very………dated, like Wii dated. Thought if sony was doing something like this, they would at least put more effects in it. It looks too similar to smash bros from the looks and the attacks. But, you can’t copyright gameplay mechanics, so everyone copies each other. However, when someone does copy another, they at least make the effort to make it look and feel different.
I’d love to see Cole in this game and I’m curious if the characters from Playstation’s early years (such as Spyro and Crash) will also be included.
It’s probably to late to add characters so all of us posting suggestions probably won’t matter one bit. But Superbot if you are still reading and taking suggestions awesome! Just don’t overdo it with DLC. here are my suggestions:
Nathan Hale (In his super infected form from RE2’s end)
Sir Daniel Fortesque
Cole McGrath
Tomba
Nariko
As for 3rd Party characters I think you should only put in ones who for the most part are associated with playstation. So even though I love say Scorpion from MK, Ezio from ASSASSIN’S CREED, or any Mega Man characters, they aren’t characters you think of when you think of Playstation. Here’s who I think should be in from 3rd parties.
Solid Snake
Lara Croft
Crash Bandicoot (but use his classic design, do not let Activision force you to use his new one!)
Cloud Strife (from Final Fantasy VII)
Dante (from Devil May Cry)
Kazuma Kiryu (from the Yakuza series)
Release date naaaooooo!!!! I need to git to tha choppaaaa!!!
YEAH!!!!
A commentor on another site brought this up to my attention. It does seem like the game relies heavily on specials and supers (more on supers). I find that kinda broken. All fighting games build off of normals and add specials and supers for looks and combos. Shouldn’t the base strategy be with your normal attacks? Yah would most likely say it is, but if it doesn’t do that much damage or kill, whats the point? There is word of a traditional mode with health bars. I’m lookin forward to that and wish yah could confirm that. If there is a traditional mode, I hope normal attacks are effective and if not, wish for a update that will make normals more powerful and useful.
Screw you nintendrones this game will be awesome!
Just include Sora in the game, then, take all my monies! D:
Playstation has a TON of characters. In SSBB I really loved Lucas, they need to have someone(Maybe Cole from infamous) who could do the PK THunder like Lucas! That would be clean.
Well all I hope for is Sir Daniel Fortesque and Gex to be in this game.
If Sora (Kingdom Hearts Series), Cole (inFamous series), and Starkiller (Force Unleashed series) were all in it, I would consider it one of the most epic fighting games I’d ever play.
Pretty cool. I look forward to it. There are some things pointed out from the guys on GT though that i think make some sense.
-There’s no sense of danger, like its gonna be fun, but it’s pretty much just whoever can get their supers first then go back to hitting each other in a corner.
-Similar to the first, but for the stages, the stages can damage you and they are cool, but if they dont really do anything or inflict any kind of danger than attacking stages are pointless right?
On my own personal note, i would like, or hope that while putting these characters together, there are VERY little or no reused/copy+pasted animations. I noticed that when Radec and Sweet Tooth were getting hit at the same time, they had the same exact damage animations.
I look forward to this but it wont be fun if it’s just everyone jumping and smashing around in a corner, people have to be have a reason to not want to be brutally hit/comboed on for no reason.
Nathan Drake, Sonic The Hedgehog and maybe Asura sold!!!!!!
If I were asked for any input to this game, I’d love to see the cloaked figures from the new PSN hit Journey, possibly Madison Paige from Heavy Rain, and Nariko from Heavenly Sword. I think all the choices are stellar so far, and reading a lot of the comments, a lot of gamers have some fantastic ideas too. The addition of Parappa has made me a very happy gamer, and you can literally throw in a joke Pocket Station character or that strange Face mascot thing from the early PS1 years and I’d still play this thing religiously.
There’s going to be some good characters in there. Nathan Drake, and Cole show be gimmes and easily in and hopefully Nakita from Heavenly Sword. For third party characters give me these guys:
Snake and Raiden (I want the current Raiden) from Metal Gear solid
Ezio of course from Assassin’s Creed
From Final Fantasy any of these characters would work well at least 2 :Cloud and Sephiroth or Sazh Katzroy and Lightning.
Of course, got to get some villains in there from God of War and even some from Infamous, whatever, villains need to get in there.
That would be all I want.
@alexh4319
Asura would be hot to!! Asura vs Kratos!!!
Will this be available for PSN download and bluray? I ask because I’ve enjoyed being able to purchase games from home and have them ready to play.
@DivineMan357 I’m drooling with excitement lol!
This looks pretty awesome SuperBot. You have my full support. I’ve wanted this to happen for almost 10 years. I only hope that you guys bring Nariko from Heavenly Sword in. To be honest, Heavenly Sword was the REASON I bought my PS3. Well, that and the fact that i’m a HUGE Sony fan. Also, another big thing is that I hope you guys add VAST amounts of content. Not slapping characters in with stages and calling it a game like some other mash ups I’ve had the misfortune of playing, ie: TMNT Smash Up, Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion…etc I’m not saying stage editor and all that but maybe a story mode, training, Local and Online Vs, collectables, challenge mode, Original Character Voices and so on. Stuff that can make us past the hours offline as much as it does online as well covering the minor details that matters to us gamers. Also, are you guys remixing classic tracks from different games? If so that would be pretty badass! Finally, is this game going to be retail or PSN Store download?
Game play wise, if you could add in draw eliminator mini-game that can point to a clear winner, you could really separate yourselves from being compared to Smash Brothers with diverse ways to win or lose a battle. It could depend on which character’s are left on the play field and hinge on who has more energy (or a special item).
I can only imagine themed events like Sly Cooper and Fat Princess finding a safe combination under a timer, or a “dance off” between Parappa and Kratos would only make gamers feel that much more immersed.
Adding in a “draw eliminator” could really re-invent what fighting game fans might expect from a brawler of this magnitude. Possibly reach a family fun demographic if spun just the right way.
A draw eliminator would be my only suggestion to keep things pretty random and original. Already, this game sounds like an epic love letter that probably doesn’t need anybody’s help to be awesome, lol. Keep up the good work, I’m eager to follow updates as they come :)
Might as well also post my wishlist…
These are the first party characters that are ESSENTIAL in order to fully celebrate the PlayStation history:
Crash
Spyro (I know these two aren’t first party anymore, but they should be in it as they were the biggest Sony characters in the 90’s.)
Ratchet
Jak
Drake
Cole
Sackboy
Ico
Here are some third party characters that are not as important, but you should definitely consider them:
Rayman
Lightning
Ezio
Snake
Thanks for reading (again!)