Sony Smash
Bros.
As a fan of Super Smash Bros. I’ve wanted a PlayStation
and an Xbox adaptation of the series
for a long time, so I could make more of my beloved gaming characters battle it
out with friends or siblings. While Microsoft still has no plans for
something like this Sony will finally
be making it! The game is called PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and
it is a clear rip-off of Smash Bros.,
which I am totally fine with as long as it plays just as well. 6 characters have been revealed so far: Kratos (God of War), Sweet Tooth
(Twisted Metal), Sly (Sly Cooper), Colonel Radec (Killzone 2), Fat Princess
(Fat Princess) and Parappa the Rapper (Parappa the Rapper). The
stages will all be a blend of 2 separate series, like Sly Cooper & God of
War, so that they are both familiar and new to fans. I hope Sony
is willing to go for a Marvel vs. Capcom
2 level of characters in this game because the list of awesome characters that
have graced PlayStation over the
years is huge!
More Halo
news
Halo
4 will have a live action web-series released prior to the game in order to
build up excitement and introduce new players to the series as well to try and renew
Hollywood’s interest in making a Halo film. The series will be 5 episodes long and
release a new one each week. The
episodes are planned to be around 15min in length each and contain a larger budget
than any of Microsoft’s previous live
action campaigns, which excites me greatly because the live action Halo campaigns have always been great in
my opinion, especially Halo 3’s.
Rayman Wii U
A trailer for Ubisoft’s latest entry in the Rayman
series, which I guess means that Origins
was successful, called Rayman Legends
has had its Wii U trailer
leaked. The game will be available on
other systems, presumably the 360, PS3 & PC, but this trailer only shows off the Wii U version. It is a 2D side-scroller
and supports 4-player co-op, just like Origins,
but now it also has online play for mini games and probably co-op. Also the Wii U version has the exclusive ability
to scan in objects in a similar fashion to Skylanders. The demo shows some items that I assume you
have to buy separately because Ubisoft
sees how much money Activision is
bringing in with this gimmick, but it is cool that they not at all subtly
hinted that you will be able to scan in at least 1 Assassin’s Creed related item.
One issue I have is that some people are looking at this as an awesome
feature that only the Wii U can provide,
but Kinect, the Xbox 360 Vision Camera and the PlayStation
Eye could all do this. Plus these
bonuses could be unlockable extras that are free and included on the disk, so
while it is interactive and leaves room for cool additions down the line; it is
in no way innovative or groundbreaking. The
trailer can be seen here:
More War
begins before
A new God of War game has been announced for the PS3 titled, God of War:
Ascension. Ascension marks the 3rd prequel in the series and this
one is set the furthest back in the God
of War chronology. Not much has been
revealed about the single player, but a huge announcement was made and that is
the inclusion of multiplayer this time around.
The game will allow you to play as a “Champion of the Gods” and choose
to honour Zeus, Hades, Poseidon or Ares in order to gain special weapons
and abilities through ranking up. Not
sure if this will be a good move for the game since the last action game to
include multiplayer where it didn’t seem needed was Ninja Gaiden 3, which apparently ended up needing a lot more
attention devoted to single player.
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