I know this doesnt have anything to do with FusionFall, but i do want to talk about it since it kinda ties in today with it, not in gameplay, characters, story etc, but in its Engine: Unity Web Player, which was recently removed in most browsers (hence why FusionFall RETRO will be playable via a Launcher and not thru the browser). Due to its removal, the game is dead, but it certainly has some interesting mechanics and story behind it. Today im taking you all to a trip down the memory lane of this game.
The game was released back in June of 2014, and it was a MOBA, or Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. In it you could choose your favorite Adventure Time character and use them to fight against other characters in a League Of Legends type of gameplay. It was really popular and fun too.
It was simple to play. Move your hero by clicking wherever you wanted to go. Attack with Mouse 1. Press Q,W or E to use your special moves or powers (with E being your "Ultimate"), and press B to level up your heroes Backpack once you Level Up by collecting XP.
Backpacks could be bought using the coins obtained at the end of a match, where your would be put in a team of 3 battling against 3 other opponents. Coins could also be used to buy Outfits and Skins for your characters.
Each character had special abilities or characteristics unique to each other, and this could be affected by the Backpack you used, and the items you upgraded in said Backpacks. Me personally was a Magic Man main, or i preferred to use him most of the time, followed by Gunther and Marceline.
Now you might be asking: Why would such an awesome game go down? While many say it was because of Unity´s death, which also killed other games like Project: Exonaut and FusionFall Heroes (begone) , its main reason was because Cartoon Network decided to cease development on the game. The last patch for the game was in May 19th, 2015, where afterwards it experienced a short and painful death.
Its sad to see such an awesome game go, as i loved it and would still play it with regularity, even if it was just single player. CN even had great hopes for the game, as they even hosted Tournaments. Maybe if it went the route of FusionFall at the beginning, where it began as a Pay-to-Play game, maybe it could have lasted longer.
To what i know, the game can still be played in the best browser of them all: Internet Explorer, but alot of the graphics and some sounds are missing, according to some people and sources.
As of now, the only multiplayer game left for CN is TKO, which might go down any time now considering that most of the multiplayer games are getting canned and left to rot. Im planning to cover TKO at a later date, but for now you can still go and play it. You simply need to dig deep into the CN site to find it.
Did you play Battle Party when it was still active? What was your favorite Character to use? Which backpack did you use? If you could bring back any game from CNs past that is no longer available: Which would it be? Comment below and they might be featured in a later post.
~Plants10000
have a great day
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