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Author Topic: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.  (Read 4064 times)

drips

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The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« on: December 19, 2012, 12:36:34 pm »



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-effect

Beta 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.
« Last Edit: December 19, 2012, 04:12:49 pm by drips »
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Aptus

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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2012, 12:39:30 pm »

I saw some early footage of this on totalbiscuits channel a while back, looks like it could be one of those silly fun titles. Singing up for the beta hoooo.

EDIT: I used Drips refferal link, shamelessly putting my own here as well :p http://beta.theshowdowneffect.com/?ref=a245e83f20a
« Last Edit: December 19, 2012, 12:41:12 pm by Aptus »
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2012, 12:40:08 pm »

Oh please kids, use my link, I want to play too! :)

http://beta.theshowdowneffect.com/?ref=69d46ecfed8
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2012, 12:48:42 pm »

Ah choices! Who do I choose?
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drips

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« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2012, 12:51:05 pm »

Silly grasshopper. You do not choose the link. The link chooses you.
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2012, 01:05:14 pm »

I'm a little wary of these graphics, it's seriously hard to tell what's going on in some of these screenshots.
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2012, 01:07:37 pm »

I'm a little wary of these graphics, it's seriously hard to tell what's going on in some of these screenshots.

Nah...a man was smoking like a chimney in a no smoking zone so a vigilante street sweeper with a shotgun blade sliced him in half as punishment for his transgression.
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2012, 01:12:29 pm »

Found the video Aptus mentioned upthread, showing pre-alpha footage from back in April: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPV6Gpb02M
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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2012, 04:15:33 pm »

Used Drips link. Adding my own just in case. http://beta.theshowdowneffect.com/?ref=1d1f48acd9d
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2012, 05:38:33 pm »

Drips should be good now, that's 3 who used his (me included).

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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2013, 01:58:42 pm »

Now that this is in beta, would anyone be willing to trade me a copy of this for Dawn of War 2, Civ 5 and/or Torchlight?
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2013, 02:07:45 pm »

It looks really really simplistic to be honest. Like yeah. It has like a few fancy moves with the wall jumping and such. But other then that (which in of itself seems to be handled fairly simply) this game seriously just looks like any of the thousands of running and jumping around and shooting people flash games out there. I seriously see nothing appealing about this game that could make it fun for more then a few minutes.
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2013, 02:11:29 pm »

Now that this is in beta, would anyone be willing to trade me a copy of this for Dawn of War 2, Civ 5 and/or Torchlight?

Are you looking for a copy of TSE, or any of those 3 games?
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« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2013, 02:14:14 pm »

A copy of TSE for any combination (all, if you want) of those games
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Re: The Showdown Effect - Fight to the death, or die trying.
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2013, 05:03:40 pm »

Chattox, PM me your email for a copy. I can never say no to Lil Bub
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