PlayStation All-Stars: Round 2

Playstation All-Stars: Round 2	
Playstation All-Stars: Round 2
 	
Developer(s) 	SCE Santa Monica Studio, Naughty Dog Inc., Frostless Studios
Publisher(s) 	Sony Computer Entertainment
Platform(s) 	Playstation 4, Playstation Vita
Genre(s) 	Fighting
Series 	Playstation All-Stars
Predecessor 	Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (2012)
Release Date(s)	May 21st, 2017
PlayStation All-Stars: Round 2 is the second game in the PlayStation All-Stars series of crossover fighting games, following up 2012's PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. The game was developed by SCE Santa Monica Studio, Naughty Dog Inc. and Frostless Studios in 2014-2015, and was published by Sony Computer Entertainment on May 21st, 2017 worldwide for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
==Gameplay==
The game improves and expands on many of the aspects first found in the series first installment (a la Super Smash Bros Melee), while fixing important gameplay issues and character balancing. For example, players now possess a health bar, which adds a more defensive side to matches. The Super Move system has been modified to accommodate these changes, no longer instant-KO'ing players upon contact, but instead removing a chunk of the players health, depending on how strong the Super Move is. In addition to this, vigorous work has been done to include smoother physics and a much more balance amongst the entire roster.
==Game Modes==
===Single Player===
*Arcade Mode - Players must progress through 10 stages, fighting a wide range of opponents from across various PlayStation worlds. At Stage 9, your characters rival will be encountered in a cutscene before you fight. Stage 10 will be boss fight with the new and improved Polygon Man, now with actual attacks! Includes beginning and ending cutscenes.
*Story Mode: Quest of Infinity - With the fate of the entire multiverse at stake, the All-Stars of PlayStation must team up in an epic quest to restore stability through time and space. It won't be easy however, as The Almighty Being, a multiversal deity, will throw anything in our heroe's way to stop them and take over every dimension in the multiverse. Contains side-scrolling, beat-em-up type gameplay mixed with normal fights you'd expect from Battle Modes.
*Trial Mode - Take on a series of challenges for each fighter in the game. Ranging from beating opponents in certain ways, performing certain attacks and more, there's never a shortage of challenges for you to put your PlayStation All-Stars skills to the test.  
=== Multi Player===
NEW! 8 Player Battles are now supported on the PlayStation 4 version!
*Timed Mode - Players will try to get the highest score possible within a time limit. Killing a player scores you 2 points, getting killed causes you to lose one.
*Stock Mode - Players will have to compete with a set number of lives, whoever is the last person alive wins the match.
*Kills Mode: Players will compete to see who can be the first to reach a certain amount of kills.
*Special Mode: Players can set many different effects to change the way the game is played to their liking.
===Online===
*Battle Mode - Play either Timed, Stock or Kills mode with up to 3 other players online.
*World Mode - Challenge players from all around the world and level up to become one of the very best the world of PlayStation has to offer.
== Development ==
Following the establishment of Frostless Studios, they were contacted by SCE Santa Monica and were invited to assist in the development of a sequel to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. With Frostless agreeing alongside Naughty Dog Inc., development started in Q4, 2015.
At E3 2016, during Sony's press conference, a teaser trailer was shown. This trailer featured returning fighters Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter, Sly Cooper & Sackboy and introduced newcomers Crash & Spyro. Following the presentation, an early build of the game was made available on the show floor. The game was met with positive critisism all around. 
Over the course of the next year leading up to the games release, trailers for newcoming and returning fighters were uploaded onto the official PlayStation YouTube channel. At San Diego Comic Con 2016, a more in-depth look at the games improvements was shown off alongside the reveal of PaRappa, Nathan Drake, Gex and Pepsi Man as playable characters. At Gamescon 2016, the release date of May 21st, 2017 was shown along with the reveal of Nariko and Cloud Strife as playable characters.
On January 6th, 2017, a demo of the game was released to PlayStation Plus members. The demo was released to normal PSN users three days later. The demo contained 14 playable fighters and Timed Battle Mode. The full roster was revealed on May 21st, 2017, the same day the game was released.
A month after the games release, DLC was announced to be coming to the game, with 4 new characters coming out each month, wrapped up with five new stages. During the development for DLC, Frostless Studios started to work on their own original IP, but was held back by Sony Computer Entertainment for the next ten months. After getting sick of waiting, Frostless cut ties with Sony and went on to develop games for another major publisher.
== Roster ==
The game consists of 60 characters, which triples the amount of playable characters from the previous game's roster. 23 of which return from the previous game, with Evil Cole being cut for obvious reasons.
Most of the rivalries from the first game have been changed with the roster, to mix things up. The only exceptions are Cole MacGrath VS Raiden and Ratchet & Clank VS Jak & Daxter.
Picture	Character 	Franchise 	Generation	Rival
 	Aloy 	Horizon Zero Dawn 	PS4 	
 	Abe 	Oddworld 	PSX 	Chimera Hybrid
 	Big Daddy 	Bioshock 	PS3 	Pyramid Head
 	Blasto 	Blasto 	PSX 	Sweet Tooth
 	Calypso 	Twisted Metal 	PSX 	Zeus
 	Carmelita Fox 	Sly Cooper 	PS2 	Fat Princess
 	Chimera Hyrbid 	Resistance 	PS3 	Abe
 	Cloud Strife 	Final Fantasy 	PSX 	Wander
 	Cole MacGrath 	inFamous 	PS3 	Raiden
 	Crash 	Crash Bandicoot 	PSX 	Knack
 	Croc 	Croc 	PSX 	Gex
 	Dante 	Devil May Cry 	PS2 	Death Jr.
 	Dart 	The Legend of Dragoon 	PSX 	Spyro
 	Death Jr. 	Death Jr. 	PSP 	Dante
 	Delsin Rowe 	inFamous 	PS4 	Kat
 	Dr. Nefarious 	Ratchet & Clank 	PS2 	PaRappa
 	Emmett Graves 	Starhawk 	PS3 	Isaac Clarke
 	Ethan Mars 	Heavy Rain 	PS3 	Joel & Ellie
 	Ezio Auditore 	Assassin's Creed 	PS3 	Prince
 	Fat Princess 	Fat Princess 	PS3 	Carmelita Fox
 	Galahad 	The Order - 1886 	PS4 	Sly Cooper
 	Gex 	Gex 	PSX 	Croc
 	Heihachi 	Tekken 	PSX 	Ryu
 	Iota 	Tearaway 	PS Vita 	Kutaro
 	Isaac Clarke 	Dead Space 	PS3 	Emmett Graves
 	Jade 	Beyond Good And Evil 	PS2 	Spike
 	Jak & Daxter 	Jak & Daxter 	PS2 	Ratchet & Clank
 	Joel & Ellie 	The Last Of Us 	PS4 	Ethan Mars
 	Journeyer 	Journey 	PS3 	Sora
 	Kat 	Gravity Rush 	PS Vita 	Delsin Rowe
 	Klonoa 	Klonoa 	PSX 	Tomba
 	Knack 	Knack 	PS4 	Crash
 	Kratos 	God of War 	PS2 	Nariko
 	Kutaro 	Puppeteer 	PS3 	Iota
 	Lara Croft 	Tomb Raider 	PSX 	Nathan Drake
 	Nariko 	Heavenly Sword 	PS3 	Kratos
 	Nathan Drake 	Uncharted 	PS3 	Lara Croft
 	PaRappa 	PaRappa the Rapper 	PSX 	Dr. Nefarious
 	Pepsi Man 	Pepsiman 	PSX 	Toro
 	Prince 	Prince of Persia 	PS2 	Ezio Auditore
 	Pyramid Head 	Silent Hill 	PSX 	Big Daddy
 	Radec 	Killzone 	PS2 	Snake
 	Raiden 	Metal Gear 	PS3 	Cole MacGrath
 	Ratchet & Clank	Ratchet & Clank 	PS2 	Jak & Daxter
 	Rayman 	Rayman 	PSX 	Ty
 	Ryu 	Street Fighter 	PSX 	Heihachi
 	Sackboy 	LittleBigPlanet 	PS3 	Tag
 	Scorpion 	Mortal Kombat 	PSX 	Sir Daniel
 	Sir Daniel 	MediEvil 	PSX 	Scorpion
 	Sly Cooper 	Sly Cooper 	PS2 	Galahad
 	Snake 	Metal Gear 	PSX 	Radec
 	Sora 	Kingdom Hearts 	PS2 	Journeyer
 	Spike 	Ape Escape 	PSX 	Jade
 	Spyro 	Spyro the Dragon 	PSX 	Dart
 	Sweet Tooth 	Twisted Metal 	PSX 	Blasto
 	Tag 	ModNation Racers 	PS3 	Sackboy
 	Tomba 	Tomba! 	PSX 	Klonoa
 	Toro 	Doko Demo Issyo 	PSX 	Pepsi Man
 	Ty 	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger	PS2 	Rayman
 	Wander 	Shadow of the Colossus	PS2 	Cloud Strife
 	Zeus 	God of War 	PS3 	Calypso
=== DLC Fighters ===
Character 	Franchise 	Generation	Rival
Aya Brea 	Parasite Eve 	PSX 	Black Heart
Black Heart 	Hyperdimension Neptunia	PS3 	Aya Brea
Chun-Li 	Street Fighter 	PSX 	Jin Kazama
Jin Kazama 	Tekken 	PSX 	Chun-Li
Juan Aguacate	Guacamelee! 	PS3 	Uberhero
Lammy 	UmJammer Lammy 	PSX 	Riku
Lil & Laarg 	Escape Plan 	PSV 	Robbit
Riku 	Kingdom Hearts 	PS2 	Lammy
Robbit 	Jumping Flash! 	PSX 	Lil & Laarg
Uberhero 	Patapon 	PSP 	Juan Aguacate
== Stages ==
The game contains 27 stages. Like the previous game, all stages contain a mash-up of two different franchises and puts it into one stage. These stages are:
#Dead Space x The Order - 1886
#Mortal Kombat x Blasto - The Krypt
#Devil May Cry x Journey
#PaRappa the Rapper x Prince of Persia - Final Party
#Beyond Good And Evil x Heavy Rain
#Knack x Spyro the Dragon
#Heavenly Sword x Final Fantasy
#Klonoa x Resistance
#Ape Escape x Assassin's Creed
#Death Jr. x Twisted Metal
#inFamous x Kingdom Hearts
#Fat Princess x Rayman
#Street Fighter x Jak & Daxter
#Tearaway x ModNation Racers
#Tomba! x Shadow of the Colossus
#Metal Gear x Silent Hill
#God of War x Croc
#Sly Cooper x Doko Demo Issyo - Krack-Karov Volcanco [Hazards: Clockwerk]
#Uncharted x Oddworld
#The Legend of Dragoon x LittleBigPlanet
#Tomb Raider x Killzone
#Ratchet & Clank x Crash Bandicoot
#MediEvil x Pepsiman
#Ty the Tasmanian Tiger x Starhawk
#Tekken x Puppeteer
#Gex x The Last Of Us
#Bioshock x Gravity Rush - Rapture
=== DLC Stages ===
# Patapon x UmJammer Lammy
# Parasite Eve x Kingdom Hearts
# Hyperdimension Neptunia x Guacamelee!
# Escape Plan x Street Fighter
# Tekken x Jumping Flash!
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