Anarchy Reigns (known as
Max Anarchy in Japan) is an upcoming multiplayer online
beat 'em up game by
Platinum Games for the
PlayStation3 and the
Xbox360. Given that most of the currently announced playable characters are from
MadWorld, or related to it in some way, including it's protagonist, this is possibly a sequel to that game.
This game features examples of:
- Black Blood: Present in pretty much all shown videos, with some occasional, very brief hints of red. Might either be a placeholder, present in the Japanese version of the game, or a changeable setting. Or it could be a reversal of MadWorld: everything in black and white besides blood which is bright red (or blue) vs colored otherwise but black blood.
- Darker and Edgier: At least aesthetically. The game still follows MadWorld's style of having a serious storyline, while everything in-game is delightfully ridiculous.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: The Rin Sisters.
- Guest Fighter: Bayonetta will be this, and is playable if you Pre Order the game from Japan.
- Hollywood Cyborg: Nearly every character is this due to replacing one or all of their body parts with weaponized versions.
- Limit Break: Rampage Mode, which makes you invincible and gives you unlimited Killer Weapon usage.
- Made of Iron: While this would normally be selfexplainatory to some degree, one of the videos has shown that the often used way to brutalize mooks in MadWorld, impaling them with a pole, has made it into this game as well. So in other words, you can throw traffic signs at other characters, they firmly lodge themselves through the target's head and all they do is cause a minor amount of damage and dizzy them.
- Power Trio: Some trailers show Leo, Sasha, and Tesla working together.
- Rated M for Manly
- Pummel Duel: Possible to get in one of these with opponents.
- Shout Out: Plenty, not just to many of the other games Platinum Games has made, but to a bunch of other games as well.
- Sequel Reset / Spiritual Successor: The game is apparently not a straight-up sequel to MadWorld, though it contains a few of the characters. Jack is still with the Chasers, and is actually recruiting for them. Leo, Rin Rin and the Black Baron are still alive, which is not surprising at all in the latter's case, and Mathilda returns too.
- Actually, the Leo Victorian in Anarchy Reigns is a completely different character. He just happens to have the same first name of Leo Formont from the first game.
- Sniper Rifle: One of the items the player can pick up. Yes, sniping enemies while they're busy fighting each other is a valid strategy.
- Testosterone Poisoning: In a development blog, the director referred to the "macho percentage" of the average male in game as 300%. Including the women, the average character is only 200% macho.
- Too Soon: Only time will tell if the Tsunami stage will stay due to the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Everyone can do throws, from a standard power bomb to some more complex moves.
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