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Lethal League Is Balling Outta Control

A new, upgraded version of the browser-based original is heading to Steam with GGPO support in Q3.

Apr. 23 2014

Posted by: Jeff

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Lethal League

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Hot damn!

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Hell. Yes.

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The world is a better place now.

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OHMYGOD YESSSS

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Fuck Yeah

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Edited By chaser324

While I can totally appreciate the focus many recent games have placed solely on local multiplayer, I'm thrilled to see that this game is taking online multiplayer seriously.

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Nothing could go wrong as long that original ball hitting sound is in there. It's so vicious and brutal. Ah, I love it.

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Hells to the yes!

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That music takes me back... this is awesome.

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NEXT: WINDJAMMERS!

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Sony, Microsoft, get this damm game on your consoles.

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@mrfluke said:

Sony, Microsoft, get this damm game on your consoles.

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GET BOPPED

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@mrfluke said:

Sony, Microsoft, get this damm game on your consoles.

Microsoft - Make this work on a guitar controller, get a publisher, tips on the loading screen, and maybe we will put a ad of your game somewhere in our messy dashboard.

Sony - Get it working on the PS4/Vita and we will let the world know you have a awesome game.

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can someone link the video where the Bombcrews plays the web game?

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Is this Divekick 2?

jk - This was pretty awesome when I first saw it on a UPF. It only looks better now. But I'm not sure how long it'll last online seeing how simplistic it is. Hopefully it'll have more modes / mechanics when it releases.

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Love this game's music and fast paced action. I'm In.

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@mrfluke said:

Sony, Microsoft, get this damm game on your consoles.

Microsoft - Make this work on a guitar controller, get a publisher, tips on the loading screen, and maybe we will put a ad of your game somewhere in our messy dashboard.

Sony - Get it working on the PS4/Vita and we will let the world know you have a awesome game.

microsoft supposedly cleaned up their act now with their new indie initiative. so they might not be all that strict anymore.

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Min-eSports 4 lyfe!!!

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Divekick Killer?

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Showing my age: one of my favourite games as a child (E-Sports!).

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Holy shit.

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First saw this game in the Mystery Game finals at UFGT9. Looked hella hype, then Giant Bomb played it soon after that. Very cool that it's coming back as a fully featured game!

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How did Dave Lang fail to secure the publishing rights to this game?

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YUP. LET'S GOOOOOOOOO.

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Hmmm, this looks pretty rad, but at the same time I can't help but worry that they didn't pick up on the lesson of Divekick diluting its perfect simplicity by adding stuff for the sake of adding stuff. Still, this looks a hell of a lot more faithful to its original version than Divekick, so I'll be keeping an eye on this one. :-)

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This game looks SICK!

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@deusoma said:

Hmmm, this looks pretty rad, but at the same time I can't help but worry that they didn't pick up on the lesson of Divekick diluting its perfect simplicity by adding stuff for the sake of adding stuff. Still, this looks a hell of a lot more faithful to its original version than Divekick, so I'll be keeping an eye on this one. :-)

I will never understand this attitude about Divekick. All of the additions just made the game better without adding too much complexity to the game nor losing the heart of the game. The original version had too few factors within its gameplay for a prolonged scene to thrive. It was a game that, once you had enough time with it, would have matchups where certain characters just lost 90% of the time because of their lack of options.

Well, if you feel that way about Lethal League, I guess the original browser version is still available.

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Man this game was so sick during the UFGT Mystery Game tournament last year.


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Never heard of this game before. Watched the trailer. Played the prototype.

I WANT THIS!

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I hope this full release means we'll get to see the crew playing it again.

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This is unexpected and I'm so happy that this is a thing.

I kind of wish green helmeted Raptor had a name too, like a Ken thing or something. I don't know, these are things that I think about.

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i loooooooooooove them balls

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Well this came from out of nowhere. great to see that it's more than a browser game/prototype/thing now. Laughs were had watching Jeff and Vinny duke it out.

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Dude! Fuck yes!

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@itwongo said:

Dude! Fuck yes!

you stole the words out of my mouth.

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My one question I had before watching: Does it still have the dope menu music?

Yup, yup, and yup again.

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Nice to see Iron Galaxy license out their flash engine.

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yes! I still play the browser game every once in a while (btw... the CPU is a god damn cheater). Cannot wait to play this game online.

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I'm getting some serious Jet Set Radio vibes out of this trailer

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Showing my age: one of my favourite games as a child (E-Sports!).

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NO SHIT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THINK OF EVERY TIME I SEE LETHAL LEAGUE BEING PLAYED YOU ARE MY KIND OF (OLD) PERSON YO

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Super excited to see they are going ahead with this. Megabyte Punch was so damn awesome and when they mentioned they may be looking at fleshing out Lethal League I was getting so amped up.

Couch co-op is definitely a competitive space now!

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Yes i will be buying this

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This is awesome. It'll be interesting to see how this gets fleshed out into a full, proper release.

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Who can take a baseball, hit it at your face. The Candyman can.

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The changes they made to Baseball this season are crazy.

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GET HYPED!!!!

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS