Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark is all about knives and swords, gaining extra damage for backstabs, and she can even steal her opponent’s face, stunning them later when she transforms into them. ![]() It’s a supremely smart way to incorporate the life-long rivals into a single fighter, and this creativity and love of the source material is present across pretty much every character available in the closed alpha test. And then when it comes to their special attacks, Tom will slingshot Jerry across the map, and they’ll bat projectiles back and forth, catching any unlucky foe in the crossfire. They move around the stage with their eyes locked onto one another, a standard attack causing Tom to swing at Jerry with a mallet, only for it to smack an opposing player instead. But instead, MultiVersus sees Tom & Jerry constantly fighting each other. Acting as a single playable character (in a similar way to Smash Bros’ Ice Climbers) the iconic cat and mouse duo could have easily been made into a fun generic fighter, with the two teaming up to deal damage to their foes with a series of punches or kicks. But Player First Games, the developer of MultiVersus, manages to rise above this cynicism with one simple act - it really understands the characters it’s using. At first glance, it might seem like the same sort of cynical crossover cash-in that Warner Bros has attempted before in films like Ready Player One or Space Jam: A New Legacy, throwing as many franchises on screen as possible in an attempt to squeeze the maximum amount of serotonin out of our nostalgia-addled brains. MultiVersus is Warner Bros’ attempt to throw its hat into the platform fighter ring, bringing together a range of characters from its diverse library of IP, and based on our time with the closed alpha, it could well be one of the most promising games in the genre.ĭeveloped as a free-to-play, multiplayer-first title, MultiVersus is built around the idea of 2v2 fights, pitting strange combinations of characters against each other in improvised teams, such as Batman and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo taking on Arya Stark and Bugs Bunny. And we’re seeing more and more games in the genre releasing these days, from high-quality indie fighters like Rivals of Aether and Brawlout, to licensed games like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl. It’s nearly impossible to release a platform fighting game without drawing comparisons to Nintendo’s hugely successful Super Smash Bros.
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