Platform fighter relaunched in May
MultiVersusdevelopment studio Player First Games has been acquired by the game’s publisher, Warner Bros. The studio’s co-founders will continue to lead the studio. The platform figher’s second season is due to go live tomorrow, adding a ranked mode and new characters Samurai Jack and Beetlejuice.
“Our team is excited to join the Warner Bros. Games family, and we feel that this will be great for MultiVersus overall. We are working to make the MultiVersus game experience the best it can be and having our development team integrated with the publisher is optimum for the players,” said game director Tony Huynh in a statementsent to IGN.
It returned on May 28th of this year, with revamped art, new characters and levels, and a PvE mode. We haven’t paid it much mind around here since, although we liked the initial beta well enough. Our cousins over at Eurogamer were less kind towards the relaunch, calling it aSmash Bros. derivative spoiled by its monetisation.
I like Smash Bros. a good amount, both as a knockabout couch experience and as baby’s-first-fighting-game to play with my kid. It’s nice MultiVersus is an entry in the genre that’s available on PC, but I can’t imagine ditching Nintendo’s take for a microtransaction treadmill with characters likeJason from Friday The 13th.
