Nearly one year ago we covered a 4-player multiplayer arena fighting game launched on Kickstarter. It went by the name of Combat Core and showed some promise, but failed to get anywhere near its funding goal. Here we are, a year later and Combat Core has returned! Development did not stop in between the campaigns as now the game being displayed looks far fancier, with an overall level of polish that was missing beforehand. Now instead of looking like an unassuming multiplayer brawler, it now looks like a brand new Dreamcast game (and I mean this in the most loving way possible!).
Combat Core allows for one-on-one fights, but the four player battle royales definitely look the most appealing. You’ll be able to play multiplayer locally or online depending on the situation. While in the arena, players will be able to interact with it at different times via hazardous traps and the like. Weapons can also be picked up and utilized by the lucky player who snatches them up first. Heck, they’ve also thrown a character creator in for fun which allows players to customize their preferred stats, skills, and gear. You can definitely feel the influence of games like Power Stone in Combat Core, and that’s awesome.
Want to play Combat Core right now? You’re in luck because there’s an alpha demo available for Windows and Mac. Make sure you download V.2! All tiers reward backers with a copy of the game on PC (via Steam since it was successfully Greenlit), but Xbox One and Wii U versions are also a possibility in the future. Combat Core needs $30,000 in funding to succeed and has already raised a good chunk of it.
Track the progress of the Combat Core Kickstarter in our Campaign Calendar.
Man this looks cool. I mean it looks a little barren right now (I 100% blame the generic, early 00’s “techy” aesthetic of the arena. Looks like a blue “Fuzion Frenzy” minigame or something. I know they cite “Custom Robo” as an influence too though, and it does evoke that successfully, I admit), but the characters look awesome. Getting character designers behind stuff like Cryamore and Skullgirls DEFINITELY helps!! I wish other developers of fighting games (*cough* Kung Fu Factory *cough*) would acknowledge it when they badly need some style (*cough* GirlFight *cough*) and seek out some professional artists like that who work in comic-or-manga or something. And luckily, Combat Core’s fighting actually looks pretty solid! I’m downloading the demo and just pledged $10 to ’em right now (might throw more at them laters). I really, really wish we had some more arena fighters.
Well, Power Stone-y style ones. Technically, we have quite a few now, they’re just more… free-roamy (Anarchy Reigns, Rise of Incarnates, Blade Symphony, Archeblade, that kinda thing). I know I’m not the only one who feels like this, I just hope that they can get some momentum going. Maybe push this out to Youtubers or something – if they let someone like MaximillianDood make a video about it, that would do wonders. Seems like the only way for real-deal, tiny indies to succeed on KS these days – it’s getting so that only big names looking to make spiritual successors to past glories get the vast majority of attention from gamers and press these days (excluding sites like this one)
Seriously, this looks fun and has loads of promise! I love seeing this; I hope it can pull it off.
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