When the titular host appeared and asked a trivia question, my friends and I all stopped fighting with each other to jump onto a platform that corresponded with the correct answer. One particularly hilarious example sees the Craftworld-based LittleBigPlanet arena change into a giant game show set from Buzz, PlayStation's trivia series. They're not static though – the fight may start in an arena based on Resistance or Parappa the Rappa, but it inevitably morphs halfway through into something from another game, usually with incongruous and often funny results. The battle arenas are almost the real stars of the game, with each inspired by different PlayStation games. Since the objective in most battles is to kill those opponents as many times as possible, that's a good thing.
Using the right combination helps build up each character's "special" meter, which unleashes devastating attacks that kill opponents.
Killzone's General Radec, on the other hand, is very good at those long-range assaults.Įach character has more than 20 unique moves, so becoming good with them does require some skill and strategy. Kratos is deadly up close yet vulnerable to distance attacks. Sackboy, for example, is excellent at dropping objects that can hurt opponents but he's relatively weak in direct combat. While you can easily join in and mash buttons, each individual character's strengths and weaknesses soon become apparent. The characters can go one on one with each other, but things are more fun – and frantic – when the arena is full with four combatants, either locally or online.Ĭombat is as simple as you want it to be, with one of the gamepad's buttons for jumping and the other three for attacking. The roster includes recent stars such as God of War's Kratos, Uncharted's Nathan Drake and LittleBigPlanet's Sackboy, as well as more obscure characters such as Fat Princess from the downloadable game of the same name and Spike from Ape Escape. series of fighting games, Battle Royale is an out-and-out brawler that brings together all of PlayStation's best-known – and least-known – characters for a healthy dose of button-mashing madness. In the tradition of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros.
It's just too bad the company couldn't have done more with this moment than the uninspiring PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. It's hard to believe the original PlayStation came out almost 20 years ago – and that Sony now has a library of characters deep enough to celebrate the fact.
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