Fat Princess

Fat Princess is an upcoming game for the PlayStation 3. Developed by Titan Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, it will be available as a downloadable game on the PlayStation Store. It is set to be released in June 2009.

Gameplay

Fat Princess puts the player on a team consisting of up to 16 male and female cartoon characters, with the main goal in the game to rescue their team's princess held captive by an opposing team, although team-deathmatch and other online modes are also available. The player can choose from ten dessert-themed levels such as Coco Cliffs and Black Forest.

At the beginning of the game, each of the teams will already have their opponent's princess held captive. In order to make their opponent's task in rescuing her more difficult, the player can give more and more food to the princess they have captured, so that she will become fatter and heavier, and the opponent's team will need larger number of players to carry her.

The game's mechanics have the player control a standard 3D, cel-shaded, character at the fort, castle, or stronghold. There are five machines at the player's fort, each producing hats. Depending on which hat gets picked up and put on, the player gets different abilities. The game consists of five classes: the mage, priest, warrior, worker and ranger. Each has its own set of unique weapons and play style.

Each attack or ability can be made more powerful by holding the square button. Holding the square button, for example, allows the mage to make an area of effect attack, which deals damage to all enemy players in his proximity.

The players are able to upgrade their hat producing machines to enhance the strength and abilities of each individual classes. In order to upgrade a certain machines, players must use resources, gathered by workers. The resources are wood and stone, which are gathered outside of castle walls.

The 5 classes:

Warrior: Basic - Sword and Shield, can block projectile attacks (such as Arrows) but will move slower and cannot attack

        Advanced - Wields a large blade, can be used as a charged attack, but a large lunge is used (very powerful)

Worker: Basic - Able to use his axe to gather resources, and then return to either hat machine or outpost. He can also repair, build or upgrade objects on the battlefield.

       Advanced - Uses bombs in order to deal more damage to enemy player or structures.

Mage: Basic - Can deal fire balls, or make an area around him to damage moderately

     Advanced - Becomes an Ice wizard: has the ability to freeze enemies for a small period of time

Priest: Basic - can heal fellow teamates

       Advanced - Becomes a Dark Priest: Can drain health from enemy players to 1 HP (cannot kill them with this technique)

Ranger: Basic - Can use Bow and arrow

       Advanced - Uses the gunpowder rifle (similar to a shotgun), can charge up to shoot more pellets at once (max. 9)

Open Beta

The Public Beta Phase 2 started around middle of April and lasted for 14 days. Although all classes and upgrades were available, there was only one playable map, The Black Forest. ^[4]

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