Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game preview at E3 2010

Ryan Wilsey 17 Jun, 2010 at 1:50pm ET Article published in Gaming

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Out of all the new and wonderful offerings that made up the gaming buffet that is E3 2010, one of the games I was most excited to check out for myself is the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game. I was able to get my chance, and I was not let down in the least.

Scott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley that has received enough attention to get a big-budget film as well as a video game. The game adaption is a side-scrolling beat-em-up brawler, very much in the same 8-bit vein of Battletoads and River City Ransom.

The game is being developed under the umbrella of Ubisoft, and they have put together a real dream team in order to produce the Scott Pilgrim game—the main reason for my excitement. The project is headed by the original comic’s author, with the musical score written by chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi. And the team member that has me the most excited for the entire project?

Paul Robertson is lending his talent to create the character sprites and animations, and if I understand it correctly he is the art director to boot. An absolute master of creating and animating bitmap sprites, and famous for a few excellent (albeit odd and rather disturbing) animated video game inspired videos such as Pirate Baby’s Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006, Kings of Power Four Billion%, and Syke Energy Commercial.

I am a huge fan of Paul’s works, and this marks his first major debut for working on a game, as opposed to sprite-based animations that are meant to resemble games. With him on board, along with the rest of the team, the game looks and sounds phenomenal.

We were able to speak with the game’s production managers Pierre Gravereau and Marc-Andre Boivin as well as play a demo copy of the game. After playing the demo with Pierre walking us through the main gameplay features, both of us were really impressed. We agreed it was everything a side-scrolling brawler should have, and hits the essence of the comics perfectly. In all, the game just feels right.

I will, without a doubt, be getting this game. Look for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game later this year exclusively on the PlayStation 3.

Comments

17 Jun 2010 ~ 1:51pm primesuspect This looks so fucking awesome. PS3 exclusive? I did not know that
17 Jun 2010 ~ 1:54pm RyanMM Sad about the PS3 exclusive part.
17 Jun 2010 ~ 1:56pm primesuspect You can play it at my house

RCR was one of the best co-op games ever made for NES.
17 Jun 2010 ~ 1:59pm timuchan I will be buying this. I just finished re-reading Scott Pilgrim in preparation for volume 6 (july 20th can't come soon enough!) and the movie. ^__^
17 Jun 2010 ~ 2:21pm Gloria Is there any possibility it might be available on any other platform at some point? Some of us don't have access to a PS3. : (
17 Jun 2010 ~ 2:29pm primesuspect I don't want to say "almost definitely no chance", but the way these things go, with licensing and exclusivity, chances are extremely high that we will never see this game on anything other than PS3.
17 Jun 2010 ~ 3:20pm Gate28 It's not PS3 exclusive. Everything I've read said It's coming out on PS3 first, then 360 later in the year.

Too bad more games aren't made like this. I love Scott Pilgrim and I love games like Streets of Rage. The last game I saw that was like this that was not just an HD remake was The End Is Nigh, which was wayy too pricey for how long it was. Hopefully This game is priced better.
17 Jun 2010 ~ 4:30pm BuddyJ In. Dibs on Kim Pine.
17 Jun 2010 ~ 4:36pm UPSLynx Developers and Ubi reps said definitely a PS3 with no plans to move it to XLA.

I played as Romona when I played the game with Ryan. She had her magic hammer as her strong attack. Totally awesome.
18 Jun 2010 ~ 1:36am Gate28 Meh. I want to play as Steven Stills. I think its the brown leather shirt with danglys.
18 Jun 2010 ~ 12:20pm BuddyJ
Here's the cover.
18 Jun 2010 ~ 7:01pm UPSLynx Awesome!

KIM PINE IS NOT PLEASED.
18 Jun 2010 ~ 7:20pm Bandrik I've also heard that it will be going to the 360 XBLA eventually, which would make sense. A lot of times they use "exclusive" to really mean "exclusive... for at least a little while". Either way, PS3 nerds will be getting this bag of awesome first.