The Showdown Effect is a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by 80’s and 90’s action movies where champions from different eras of time fight to the death, for fun, for glory and for awesome. Players will battle for the upper hand through cunning use of different weapons, the game's wide range dynamic environments and even the engine's own dramatic audiovisual effects.
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From what I've seen so far, The Showdown Effect is finally going to give PCs and Macs a game in the veins of Super Smash Brothers. Characters are cliche 80s/90s action film stars, duking it out for cliche 80s/90s action movie reasons. Developed by Arrowhead Game Studios (creators of Magicka) and Pixeldiet Entertainment, and being published by Paradox Interactive, The Showdown Effect is currently aiming for release in March 2013 on Steam, for $10. More importantly, it's gone into beta today. Sign up at the link provided at the end of this post, and hope you get selected, or rope three of your friends/strangers into signing up using your referral link for guaranteed entrance in the beta.
Perhaps people who've signed up could post their referral links in the thread, hopefully encouraging others to use them?
Game Info:
http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/the-showdown-effectBeta signup (non-referral link):
http://beta.theshowdowneffect.com/Beta signup (drips referral link):
http://beta.theshowdowneffect.com/?ref=6cfaa9e083f Edit: (At least) Three people have signed up using my link, many thanks all! If you're interested in signing up and helping out your fellow B12ers, use the referral links others have posted downthread.