Wednesday 5 December 2012

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Characters


There are 20 playable characters. Polygon Man and other characters will be featured in the game, but are not playable. It has also been confirmed that more playable characters will be released later on in the form of DLC, with two having been announced thus far.
Big Daddy
Cole MacGrath
Evil Cole MacGrath
Colonel Radec
Big Daddy Cole MacGrath Evil Cole MacGrath Colonel Radec
Dante
Fat Princess
Heihachi Mishima
Jak and Daxter
Dante Fat Princess Heihachi Mishima Jak and Daxter
Kratos
Nariko
Nathan Drake
PaRappa the Rapper
Kratos Nariko Nathan Drake PaRappa the Rapper
Raiden
Ratchet and Clank
Sackboy
Sir Daniel Fortesque
Raiden Ratchet and Clank Sackboy Sir Daniel Fortesque
Sly Cooper
Spike
Sweet Tooth
Toro Inoue
Sly Cooper
Spike Sweet Tooth Toro Inoue

DLC Characters

Emmett Graves
Kat
Emmett Graves Kat

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Stages


There are fifteen Stages confirmed at this time. Each stage is based on an area from a single franchise; however, after a certain amount of time, the stage gets "invaded" by elements from another franchise. It has also been confirmed that new stages will become available in the form of DLC, with one having been announced thus far.
  • Alden's Tower (inFAMOUS invaded by Sly Cooper)
  • Black Rock Stadium (Twisted Metal invaded by Jak and Daxter)
  • Columbia (BioShock invaded by Twisted Metal)
  • Dojo! (PaRappa the Rapper invaded by Killzone)
  • Dreamscape (LittleBigPlanet invaded by Buzz!)
  • Fearless (Heavenly Sword invaded by WipEout)
  • Franzea (LocoRoco invaded by Metal Gear)
  • Hades (God of War invaded by Patapon)
  • Invasion (Killzone invaded by Ape Escape)
  • Metropolis (Ratchet & Clank invaded by God of War)
  • Paris (Sly Cooper invaded by LittleBigPlanet)
  • San Francisco (Resistance invaded by Ratchet & Clank)
  • Sandover Village (Jak & Daxter invaded by Hot Shots Golf)
  • Stowaways (Uncharted invaded by BioShock)
  • Time Station (Ape Escape invaded by Resistance

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Items

Baumusu's Axe The Mark of Kri
Baumusu's Axe is a weapon from the game The Mark of Kri. Players can pick up this item and swing it around to deal damage. This item does not knock out AP orbs. 
Boots of Hermes God of War
The Boots of Hermes is an item from God of War III. This items gives players a speed-boost, gives them a side dash and allows them to jump higher. 
Dohvat Laser Designator Killzone
When the player fires the weapon it will paint an area that will be bombarded with explosives.
Freeze Missile Twisted Metal
Can be picked up by players to freeze opponents in a block of ice.
Hedgehog Grenade Resistance
The Hedgehog Grenade is a weapon from the Resistance series of games. It is a weapon which shoots out needles in all directions, using it namesake as inspiration. Players in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale can throw this grenade at oponents and temporarily stop opponets from using supers.
Killer Bees Ape Escape
The two satellites fire weak beams at opponets and fire in the opposite direction that you are facing.
Leech Beam Wipeout
The Leech beam absorbs AP from other players and gives it to the user.
LR-3 Railgun Starhawk
When used it shoots a bullet that goes across the screen, similar to Radec’s sniper rifle except much stronger. It can go through players and temporarily stop them form using their supers. 
Murder of Crows BioShock Infinite
When used the crows travel in a straight line across the screen going through any player. When hit it will sap your AP and change your button layout.
Nanotech Ratchet and Clank
While Nanotech recovered Ratchet's health in the Ratchet and Clank series, in All-Stars, it drops AP that increases your Super meter.
Razor Claws Ratchet and Clank
From the Ratchet and Clank series. Players hit by this will lose AP.
RPG -7 Uncharted
The RPG-7, although a real weapon, is in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale as a weapon from the Uncharted series. It can be picked up by players and can fire projectiles at others, causing a large knockback alongside the loss of AP orbs.
Sackbot LittleBigPlanet
Sonic Rift ModNation Racers
The Sonic Rift item is a level 3 weapon from ModNation Racers that launches a string of blue rings along the level. In All-Stars, it turns around at walls and falls to the lowest level if released from high ground. The item leaves players stunned, but it has a delay before actually hitting players.
Spear of Destiny God of War
A weapon from the God of War series. It can be picked up and equipped to your character as a weapon. Any player hit by it will lose AP
Sturgeon Uncharted 3
Players can pick up the fish and slap opponents with it to deal damage.

Epic-Class Items

Fusion Bomb Ratchet & Clank
From the Ratchet & Clank series the fusion when thrown will create a bomb that will explode into multiple small bombs.
Gravity Shield WipEout
The Gravity Shield is a pick-up from the WipEout racing series. It forms a protective bubble around its user. While being used, the player is protected from being attacked, deterring opponents from building their super meter, and losing their own AP.
Great Mighty Scythe Patapon
From Patapon, swinging the Great Mighty Scythe will create powerful tornadoes that will reverse the controls of anyone who is hit. Being struck directly by the scythe will cause the victim to begin floating away, leaving them open for combos.
Medusa's Gaze God of War
The Medusa's Gaze is an item from the God of War series. In the God of War games, Kratos may use the head to turn enemies into stone. In PlayStation All-Stars the Medusa Head is the only item in the entire game that will allow for kills, thus making it the only other way to kill someone other than using supers. Players may use it to turn their enemies into stone, giving the opponent some time to escape from the stone before they are destroyed by other players.
Red Orb chest God of War
In the God of War series, chests were used to upgrade weapons and magic. In All Stars it gives an extremely large amount of AP. It is an epic item giving it a rare chance to spawn. 

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Game Info


PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a crossover fighting video game which was released on November 20, 2012 in North America, November 21, 2012 in Europe, November 22, 2012 in Australia, November 23, 2012 in the UK and is scheduled for a January 2013 release in Japan. The game was developed by SuperBot Entertainment in conjunction with SCE Santa Monica Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita video game consoles. PlayStation All-Stars was announced in April 2012 on an episode of GTTV. Omar Kendall, formerly a designer on the UFC series, the Backyard Wrestling franchise, and X-Men: Next Dimension, assumed the role of director for PlayStation All-Stars after joining SuperBot Entertainment. Game development began in 2009 with a creative team that included members from several Sony and former third party development teams. After three years of development and being delayed from its initial October 2012 release, the game was scheduled for a November 2012 release.

The gameplay is conceptually similar to that of Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series. Up to four players can battle each other using characters from various Sony franchises such as God of War, PaRappa the Rapper and Sly Cooper, as well as third-party franchises like BioShock. There are, however, differences in how opponents are defeated. During the game, players damage other players to receive orbs that build up a power meter at the bottom of the screen (These orbs can also be found on the stage over the course of the match). Earning enough power allows players to use one of three levels of super moves which can be used to defeat opponents and earn points. The game will feature cross-platform play between the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita versions.

The game features a traditional single-player arcade mode, in which players must defeat several randomly-selected opponents, followed by a character-specific rival battle and, ultimately, a battle against the game's main antagonist and final boss, Polygon Man.[6] Multiplayer modes include time-based matches, where players compete to achieve the most kills within a time limit, stock based matches, where players attempt to be the last one standing, and kill-limit matches, where players compete to be the first to reach a certain number of kills. The game also features a single-player challenge mode, in which players attempt to complete specific objectives.