Your Beat 'em Ups! Give them to me!
Your Beat 'em Ups! Give them to me!
My daughter and I have played the hell out of X-Men on my PS3. I'm bored! She's not, she could blow up sentinels with Storm all day long.
Are there other button-mashers out there that:
-Have a playable female character (so Ninja Turtles are out)
-Available on PS3
-Multiplayer
I'm aware Dungeons & Dragons: Shadows of Mystara comes out in June. Can't wait. But until then, I need something new since I can't listen to "Nothing stops the Blob!" again.
Scott Pilgrim VS The World The Game HANDS DOWN... Castle Crashers if you buy the DLC. (both are 4 players)
ReplyDeleteedit: turns out Pink Knight is technically male... so I guess that ones out... but The "Ultimate Bundle" of SPVTWTG has 3 playable female characters Ramona, Kim and Knives.
What about the old Simpson's game? Lisa and Marge were playable, I believe.
ReplyDeleteI forgot the Simpsons is available in the PS Store. Excellent. /Mr. Burns.
ReplyDeleteBut more suggestions are good.
Also check for Capcom's original Alien Vs. Predator arcade game!
ReplyDeleteI too am looking for games to play on PS3 with my family... if it weren't for the "button mashing beat em up" aspect I'd suggest Little Big Planet 1 or 2. We've also gotten quite a bit of fun out of the Marvel vs Capcom (and similar) games... might be particularly suitable given the fact that it will be some of the same characters as The XMen Arcade Game
ReplyDeleteHaven't tried the XMen Arcade game since that time we went to an arcade for a day-camp trip and actually had all the slots filled with players and pumped tokens into the thing until we beat it... does it hold up?
ReplyDeleteGolden Axe
ReplyDeleteGauntlet (any of them)
William Benjamin John Davis I think X-Men Arcade holds up. We've just beat it a dozen times.
ReplyDeleteI've got Little Big Planet, but platformers aren't my or my daughter's strengths. We both suck at jumping.
A. Miles Davis is there a Gauntlet game for PS3 that I've missed? That would be perfect. Golden Axe is a good one to run by her too.
I think so? Let me check.
ReplyDeleteGauntlet 2, apparently.
The Marvel Ultimate Alliance games are pretty good brawlers... you can probably get a copy from the local public library.
ReplyDeleteFor a kid-friendlier version the Marvel Super Hero Squad game is decent.
ReplyDeleteoh man, an arcade growing up had the 6 player version of the x-men arcade game. that thing ate so many of my quarters.
ReplyDeleteCrazily enough, in a little sleeper town outside of the Twin Cities, there's an old-school arcade where you pay $5.00 and can play games all day. He's got the two-screen, six-player X-Men game. It's awesome. I'd only ever played the four-player version.
ReplyDeleteI am nominally certain that the version I played on that day-trip was the 2 screen/6 player version. (edit: quick internet search revealed [thanks to the local Punk scene message board] that Midway did [and still did as of 2007], in fact, have the 6 player variant.)
ReplyDeleteI wish the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games were in the PS Store.
ReplyDeleteCasey Garske, Rusty Quarters opened on Lake Street. My friends and their 10-year old kid report it is totally bitchin'.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rqarcade.com/
Larry Lade that is sweet!
ReplyDeleteI am not quite convinced Castle Crashers is actually as excellent as the hype, but it is certainly hella fun for multi-player. There is a Pink Knight character, but she's DLC. (Read first comment above, never mind.)
ReplyDeleteI'll second Marvel Ultimate Alliance. It's fun a beat-em-up/RPG hybrid. If you're at all into Marvel Comics, it's like one of the best licensed video games out there.
I might have to stop by Gamestop to see if I can track down Marvel Ultimate Alliance used. Superheroes are kind of our thing.
ReplyDeleteMUA2 is a re-hash of Civil War, but more satisfying.
ReplyDeleteMarvel Super Hero Squad is also good.
Marvel Ultimate Alliance is the best game ever
ReplyDeleteUltimate Alliance II is more complicated of a game, and not as fun
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