It's the follow up to the PC game Ragdoll Kung-Fu which was made by Mark Healey who at the time worked for Lionhead Studios.
Mark Healey was the co-creator of Media Molecule, most people will know that they created LittleBigPlanet on the PS3. Although I've only spent about 15 minutes playing the game I can't help but feel that it should really be called LittleBigFistsOfPlastic due to how the game feels.
As far as I can tell it uses the LBP game engine and looks as gorgeous as that game did.
DEBUT TRAILER
You can play with up to four players at a time but it's looking like it's offline only at the moment which'll hopefully change some time.
There's 9 different levels available from the start and 4 multi-player game modes which are Deathmatch, King of The Hill, Capture The Fish & Dodgeball.
SMASH GAMEPLAY
The single player game consists of a tutorial and a Challenge Mode. I've not seen many of the challenges the challenges but they've consisted beat the crap out of a load of people and then beat the boss.
You can also play the multi-player sections on your own with up to three other AI controlled characters in the match.
What looks like it's going to be a big part of this is the Character Editor are as just like LBP there seems to be loads of costumes and characters to unlock. LBP had a character pack released today with the characters from this game included and it seems inevitable that we'll end up with Sackboys in this eventually.
CHARACTER MONTAGE
The combat isn't going to be comparable with Street Fighter IV when it comes down to deth of play but there does seem to enough moves to kep it entertaining. And after the dragging people around and the hell out of mates in LBP, that's about al you need.
You can do the same dragging and slapping moves in this but you can also pick people and objects up then throw them. They tend to go right across the screen when you do that too.
In the levels I've seen things like windmills which allow you to grab hold of the sails and spin around exactly like you would in LBP. There are some special fireball type moves too and you can pick up weapons which swing your arms around independantly using the sticks while holding down R2 or L2.
The music, just like LBP fits in perfectly wth the game and had me smiling straight away.
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