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Game Info

Developer: 

Arrowhead Game Studios and Pixeldiet Entertainment

Release Date: 

Q4 2012

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The Showdown Effect is a 2.5D multiplayer action game inspired by action movies from the 1980s and 1990s, where champions from different eras of time fight to the death for fun and glory. Players will battle for the upper hand using various weapons, a wide range of dynamic environments and even the engine’s own dramatic audiovisual effects.

The Showdown Effect looks to recreate the outrageous action found in classic movies by providing players with a number of big screen favorite weapons that include:  shotguns, frying pans, lightsabers, assault rifles, grenades, katanas, gauss guns and anything in between. No explosion is too loud and no bullet dodge is implausible – The Showdown Effect is all about impaling your friend with nearby broomstick and dropping a “Stick around”-taunt as you jetpack heroically off to the next enemy.

Features

• Up to 8 player fast paced cinematic multiplayer action
• Rich, detailed audiovisual feedback
• Context-sensitive movement and combat
• Progress your character and unlock new customization options
• Multiple game modes
• Re-experience the action of your childhood movies across different environments.
• Numerous heroes, dozens of weapons, hundreds of moves - infinite fun.