PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale: All Characters Have Been Revealed
Were you hoping that Sony had a few secrets up its sleeve regarding their upcoming brawler PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale? Unfortunately, the game’s cast of characters is reportedly complete, according to Cinema Blend. This means Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot, two characters I thought would have easily made the cut, will be absent from the retail version of the game. Of course, that doesn’t mean they won’t be available for download at some point in the future.
The announcement that Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royale’s roster capped out at 20 characters was revealed during a Twitter conversation between user David Ferrer and Sony’s Sid Shuman. When Ferrer expressed concern over the limited number of characters in the forthcoming fighter, Schuman himself took to Twitter to address the inquiry.
“We have revealed the full launch lineup of characters,” he explained in his post. Those hoping for a little Final Fantasy love were left hanging their heads in infinite sadness.
According to That Video Game Blog, Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royale will include such characters as Nathan Drake from Uncharted, Dante from Devil May Cry, and PaRappa the Rapper from the classic rhythm-based Playstation game PaRappa the Rapper. Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Ratchet and Clank will appear in the game, as well.
Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royale is no doubt inspired by the success of Nintendo’s Super Smash Brothers Brawl, a game which pits the company’s iconic characters against one another in epic, action-packed showdowns. However, the exclusion of such Playstation staples as Laura Croft is curious, and suggests the company might be holding a few key characters back for the inevitable DLC.
The complete list of playable fighters has been included below. Are you disappointed by the lack of certain characters in Sony’s PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale?
Big Daddy (BioShock)
Cole MacGrath (inFamous)
Evil Cole MacGrath (inFamous)
Colonel Radec (Killzone 2)
Dante (Devil May Cry)
Fat Princess (Fat Princess)
Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)
Jak and Daxter (Jak and Daxter)
Kratos (God of War)
Nariko (Heavenly Sword)
Nathan Drake (Uncharted)
PaRappa the Rapper (PaRappa the Rapper)
Raiden (Metal Gear)
Ratchet and Clank (Ratchet and Clank)
Sackboy (LittleBigPlanet)
Sir Daniel Fortesque (MediEvil)
Sly Cooper (Sly Cooper)
Spike (Ape Escape)
Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal)
Toro (Sony’s Japanese Mascot)
Tags : crash bandicoot, final fantasy, playstation 3, playstation all-stars battle royale, video games
Posted: September 30, 2012
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Sep 30, 2012
You know, if ANYTHING they probably just revealed all the characters that are already unlocked
get my drift guys?
So Super Heavyweights like Crash, Spyro, Cloud, Lara Croft, Snake, Sora, Kat, Lightning, Yorda, and Claude (GTA 3 XD) could still VERY WELL be in the game!
After all, a convincing Kat photo from a leak, German magazines mentioning Cloud as if he were in the game, the fact that David Hayter (Snake) is confirmed to voice in the game, all these things leave me hopeful. Besides, Omar and the guys already admitted that Crash would NEVER be DLC, so I'm guessing if he's still in the game he's a hidden character XD.
Besides, that gives us time later to still get all the fan faves like Abe and Tomba!
So don't fret bros, either as hidden characters or DLC, I'm sure we will ALL still get to see our dream match-ups after all!
The only thing I regret is they didn't reveal Snake sooner, I want to go back to that website and add him in my match-up create-a-wallpaper with Drake, Fat Princess and Sir Daniel XD.
Sep 30, 2012
Wow. What noobs. Paul Gale already confirmed whoever said there will only be 20 characters and we will have 22+ I wish people would actually do SOME research nowadays except just believing everything you hear on the internet…
Oct 17, 2012
>Laura Croft
>Laura
>not Lara
for that matter:
>Playstation staple
The Tomb Raider series opened on the Saturn as well as the PS1 and was also for the PC. In the 6th console generation it went full multiplat again.
Crash and Spyro aren't that hard to figure out as they're currently owned by Activision who has taken great strides to thoroughly taint the former glory of both series.
As for no Final Fantasy love, the real question is why no love for Legend of Dragoon, Sony's own RPG super-giant for the PS1?
Oct 17, 2012
HAHAHAHHA
THE EXPENDABLES HAD A LESS WASHED UP CAST.
Half the cast is either some fuck from a disney movie or something a 15 year old emo kid designed, or in Donte's case a 15 year old emo kid.
Oct 17, 2012
I don't see Dante up there. I see some potato faced motherfucker who is the self insert of a self absorbed prick, but I don't see Dante up there.
Oct 17, 2012
Uh…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft
Oct 17, 2012
No Crash, no Spyro, No Cloud.
If it's playstation heroes, then shouldn't they use PLAYSTATION heroes?
Not multiplatform characters?
Why not the original Dante?
How is the new one a PS Hero?
He's for XBOX and NT had to be questioned if a PS3 version of DmC would exist,
because they weren't showing it. This is just bad advertising.
Oct 17, 2012
And by original Dante, I mean the 1st one, not the idiot from DMC3 or the heartless beefcake from DMC4.
I mean the true Dante, Kamiya's Dante, from the 1st one.
The one whose only guest appearance was done right in Viewtiful Joe, because the creator was actually involved…
Oct 20, 2012
Can you say bull crap? I might get this game…eventually. The mere fact that it does not have Crash Bandicoot makes me question whether I want to get it at all.
Oct 20, 2012
Find this hard to believe when they said a few months ago they had 20 plus playable characters
Nov 5, 2012
We have revealed the full launch line up has nothing to do with all characters being revealed,, bad interpretation