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Bounty Battle reveals its all-stars
Indie gaming’s hippest heroes will clash on PS4 this summer
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Rumours persist
of a new
PlayStation
All-Stars Battle
Royale heading to
PS5, but you can’t
play hearsay. Instead, turn your
attention to something very real:
indie brawler Bounty Battle.
The pitch is the same: one to
four players slug it out against
ten colourful backgrounds. It’s
unashamedly two-dimensional and
features a cast of well-loved
characters. Choose from over 25
familiar faces from 20 of consoles’
most-loved indies, including Death’s
Gambit, Guacamelee!, Dead Cells,
Owlboy, and even Blasphemous’
dour The Penitent One.HIP TO BE HIT
Looking across the character
roster, we’re amazed it’s taken this
long for these indies to gang up and
shove some established stars outof the limelight. The character
design on display is beautiful.
These heroes play the part too.
Each fighter has a bespoke array of
moves and special attacks, plus a
minion support character to lend a
hand when needed. We’ve seen
Battle Chasers: Nightwar’s Gully call
on war-golem-with-a-big-heart
Calibretto to lend a hand.
Though played in 2D to match the
origins of the cast, Bounty Battle is
happy to lay on the spectacle. Hits
land with a fiery flash and fighters
blaze across the screen – Gully
lands a hard-hitting three punchesbefore picking up a boulder and
slamming it into her dazed rival.À LA MODE
There will be multiple ways to play,
includinga storymode,couchmultiplayer,practice,andtutorial
(the latter replicates the fighting
stick display of an arcade cabinet
for a punch of nostalgia).
A Signature Edition is available to
pre-order, and will come with four
limited-edition enamel pins featuring
Atlas, Lazarus, Lilith, and Tyran,
numbered prints signed by the dev
team, a special case, and a 34-page
bookletchampioningtheheroes.EACH FIGHTER HAS A BESPOKE
ARRAY OF MOVES AND SPECIAL
ATTACKS, PLUS A MINION.Bounty Battle releases this summer;
order here: signatureeditiongames.com.