A double-leak over the last few hours seems to have revealed a whole new bunch of characters and stages for Sony’s upcoming mascot brawler – firstly, a user on Reddit released a bunch of images of yet-unveiled stages, followed by more unreleased details coming from NeoGAF users rooting around in the files from the newly-released beta.
Let’s take a look at the stages first: as well as ones we already know about, there are (what look to be texture) files for Alden’s Tower (inFamous), Black Rock Stadium (Twisted Metal), Columbia (Bioshock Infinite), Franzea (LocoRoco), Invasion (Killzone), Paris (Sly Cooper), San Fransisco (Resistance), Timestation (Ape Escape), Stowaways (probably Uncharted, given the similarity to the name of the cargo plane level in the third instalment). The Reddit leak seems to confirm six of those stages, with obnoxiously-watermarked images:
A hard-to-see image from Reddit also suggests that Sackboy, new Dante, Raiden, Sir Daniel Fortesque and Nariko will all be appearing in the game. The beta list on GAF, if legit, seems to confirm a number of these – Dante, Nariko, Raiden, Ratchet, Sackboy, and Spike from Ape Escape all appear in the beta files. Evil Cole is also in there, and animation files labelled ‘sackboy’ in the folder for every other character suggests that he will either be able to replicate other characters, or sack-them-up with one of his supers.
All of this is unconfirmed by Superbot, naturally, with the next official reveal to come at Gamescom next month. The Reddit leaker suggests there is more to come (unofficially) today.
Source: NeoGAF
Burgess_101
None of this really matters if the game doesn’t play well. I highly doubt this will come any where near SSB. Then again its also a nostalgia thing with SSB.
ProjectJAY
You should watch SuperBot’s EVO panel, they talk about the gameplay and the mechanics of the game at great length, and how they’re trying to make it it’s own game rather than a Smash Bros clone. They really want this to be a legit fighting game, and I think they might just pull it off :)
stueeeee
The Sacboy thing sounds like Kirby from smash brothers. Sounds good!