Stretching back from my roots as a tournament player to my current gig as lead game designer for Sony’s Santa Monica Studio, I’ve spent over two decades in fighting games, and have been thrilled to revisit so many great memories from my own PlayStation history with the characters and stages of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
I’m here today on behalf of SuperBot Entertainment, Bluepoint Games, and Santa Monica Studio to announce that PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has gone gold on PS3 and PS Vita! All of us are extremely grateful for the help from our beta players in testing our networking, and thrilled to see the amazing response from all of you that played the beta, which is just a small slice of the full game.
In celebration of this milestone, we wanted to share something special as a small “thank you!” to all the amazing PlayStation fans who have helped us come so far. Today we’re officially unveiling the opening cinematic sequence to the game. We’ve been pretty tight-lipped about our final boss, but if you hang in until the end you’ll get a glimpse of the villainous mastermind that’s returned from the depths of PlayStation history to pull the strings in All-Stars.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments below and if your interest is piqued, remember to pre-order All-Stars today! Pre-ordering scores you an exclusive costume for every character in the game, and with Cross-Buy, every PS3 copy comes with a download code for the PS Vita version at the low, low cost of zero!
Thanks again to PlayStation fans around the world for your incredible support, and come November 20th, I’ll see you online — just look for the unbeatable Drake player at the top of the leaderboards. :P
Great trailer, makes me pretty dang excited. I’ve followed PSABR from almost day 1, it seems crazy it’s coming out in less than 2 weeks.
Anyway just a few random thoughts(I know your job is interacting with the game community and not that much marketing, still maybe you can pass this along):
While I will probably get/pay for any extra character DLC regardless of who they are, I think you guys should throw us a bone with some of the characters that many were asking for at day one. Heck you guys could even release these characters and make a TV ad about each one being in the game(applying the reveals to TV channels that would fit the character’s demographic would work very well).
I’m also interested in the almost non-existent support of SCEI/J games in this. Parappa, Toro, and Spike are the only characters that come to mind. They have had tons of other games that reached fairly high popularity in the west and would help for sales in Japan as well. Demon Souls, Dark Cloud, Legend of Dragoon, it’s also pretty strange to not see NIS or Yakuza character as the teams they have are fairly supportive of the PlayStation name and are quite well known.
I hate that Sony/SuperBot/whoever decided to give pre-order bonus costumes to only certain sellers and that these sellers don’t include the bonus as part of the disc but send it to you by email and they impose their own ridiculous restrictions.
Sony/SuperBot if you are giving pre-order incentives that are EXCLUSIVE to only certain sellers make it items like keychains etc. that are not actually “in-game” items.
I’ve been playing ASBRbeta for the past few weeks with only the 6 available characters. Just watching this intro made me remember ALL of the character rosters that’s going to be coming! I AM NOW RE-PSYCHED AGAIN FOR THIS GAME TO COME OUT!
So u left behind the likes of cloud and wander to put heichachi and 2 coles…. yeap pretty much describes my disappointment in the game if its true that thats the final roster…. anyways im still buying it but guys could have done a much better job….
apart of that…. its there a reverse livestock mode ala smash bros since u left behind the acclaimed out of the stage kill that we all wanted?
Really cool that Madeon’s song the Finale was in this. He is starting to get some serious recognition.
Gamestop & Amazon have the preorder DLC … one is online & the other is in most cities – not too hard to get the DLC … I went with GS b/c I want the game Day 1 & Amazon (with delivery) could be more up in the air …. really interested to see the single player story campaign …. of course the MP is what will make this game exciting, but it should be a blast to figure out the moves of each character …. any info on the Vita file size ? would really help.
Oh and the intro its FU#$%^ing AWESOME :)
I need to know more about the story before I can buy it. I really hope the embargo is not after release so I can preorder. I need to know if there is God of War/Dante stuff in the story. If so I can’t buy it because of religious reasons. If they are just characters in the game and non of their story comes out then no big deal.
Interesting. Well, if you don’t choose those characters, you won’t be forced to experience content related to them.