PSN Review – Fat Princess
The PSN title Fat Princess was announced over a year ago at E3 2008, and was immediately met with both hype from gamers, and hate from feminists around the country. The game was expected to be released in early Summer this year, but was quickly delayed by Titan Studios. Thankfully, this new and exciting title is finally here, but was the wait worth it?
Fat Princess is a class-based action game that takes some elements from other class-based games and molds them together into a team-based RTS environment. Fat Princess is a 32-player online game played from a top-down camera perspective. Each of the two teams are given a base with several buildings, which serve as an access point for class changing. Whenever you want to switch classes, all you have to do is walk up to one of the designated buildings and pick up a hat. The hats change your character’s costume, which in turn alters your character class. The classes range from the Warrior to the Mage, and each class has two mechanics.
At the beginning of a game, each class only has one special ability, such as fire for the Mage or healing for the Priest. However, once resources are gathered and allocated to upgrading a particular class’s building, the class gains a second mode of play. For the Warrior this means a big polearm with a charge attack, while the Priest gains the ability to play as a life-draining Dark Priest. Whether or not you choose a class is optional, and the default class is the Villager, who is able to move quickly but lacks a proper means of attack. The most interesting class is the Worker, which is responsible for resource gathering, as well as maintaining and upgrading the base, which is essential to winning.
For the most part, each class is interesting and unique, and all classes are essential to winning in the easy-going, yet competitive, game environment. Teamwork is required, and since the maps are very defensively disproportionate, a proper plan of attack (as well as voice chat) is a must in many cases. And often times, there are long stalemates which only seem to end when the timer finally expires. At first, this seems to make the game feel more like a slaughterhouse of endless killing. But once you learn the ropes and get the hang of the battle tactics, the brilliance of this title really starts to take shape. In two of the four game modes, the base serves as a defense for your Princess, whom the enemy is trying to capture.
27 Responses to “PSN Review – Fat Princess”
definitely a 5/5! good review… i cant wait for some add ons
I absolutely love this game
“easily one of the best downloadable games to date, if not the best”. Coming from the same PSN as Warhawk, Tekken and Flower, it’s obviously NOT the best, but it is a fun game, for now.
Sadly it lacks both the depth and the teamwork of Warhawk and though cute, the gameplay seems rather limited. Am I going to spend 800 hours in Fat Princess? Don’t think so.
I’d say it has plenty of depth. Maybe a lack of teamwork, but thats only because its a casual fun game and there aren’t many players who want to actually coordinate the team side of it.
The depth easily comes from the multiple setups of classes you can use in an assault, ensuring you have people healing properly, using support ranged characters and moving together at the same time. All that while ensuring several people on your team are obtaining resources and upgrading the correct units in the right order. I mean its not Warhawk but its also not Galaga. There’s plenty in this game to enjoy and do.
I’m sure i’d love the game but im on the fence at the moment, in the UK its 12 POUNDS! This is a total rip-off and can spend it much more wisely and products that have much more replayability with LBP at 12 pounds.
If it would be lowered to a better conversion rate to at least 10 preferably 8 pounds this would be priced just right, but at the moment it just cant do as i don’t have that much money to spare.
Wish you could change the game mode or vote to change it (not just the map online).
Also wish you could host a dedicated server.
However, this game is well-worth the price tag and I’ll be playing it for weeks, if not months. 5/5 and should probably be an editor’s choice award-winner!
Is anybody else unable to play online even after the patch? My PS3 is in DMZ, I have a NAT 2 connection and I factory-resetted my router but it still won’t let me play online.
false, soccer is the best online mode, after that is snatch and grab.
Id have to agree with nemo20000 its a great game but Sadly it lacks both the depth and the teamwork of Warhawk and though it has its moments, the game play is limited. I dont see myself playing Fat Princess for 800 hours and everyone as well (based on the very little time they play) it shows it. Im still interested in the DLC and some new maps Id also like to see voting on the mode of play.
@ Joshstork
its a great game, just don’t expect it to blow you away.
@ Jonathan Leack
i could have sworn you mentioned a video review?
fat princess = a fantastic experience.
I Love it
@nemo2000
Sorry, but Warhawk can’t be classified in the same way that the other downloadables are. Warhawk was a full-priced retail game at launch. The only games I feel compare to the overall value of Fat Princess are Braid, Castle Crashers and Flower. Braid is great but I find it far less enjoyable than Fat Princess. I haven’t had a chance to play Castle Crashers so perhaps that’s the only comparable game. Flower was far too short, and was limited to single-player. I loved Flower but Fat Princess is just a better buy.
@shadowjin
I’ve been doing video reviews for a few months now, and my video review for Fat Princess was finished last Thursday. You can check it out on my blog @ http://jleack.blogspot.com
I started to have my doubts about this game after many failed attempts to play online. The patch they released this past weekend quickly changed all my doubts. I went from not being able to join a single online game to being able to join every single one. Great game. Well worth the $15 I spent on it and definitely deserving of the 5/5 score.
Great review, Jonathan!
Fat Princess is a great game, however, I wish people would communicate more. I played in a silent room for about an hour last night…and we lost. I’m still trying to get familiar with all the classes and their abilities. Even when I don’t exactly know what I’m doing, it’s still a fun experience.
@ Jonathan Leack
i got confused.. i thought you meant PSL video review.
Great review!
Great game, another satisfying PSN purchase!
I’m just going to say, if you find a lack of teamwork existing within the game, you’re not playing with the right people. PERIOD!
When you coordinate priests, mages, workers, etc… you dominate online just like in Warhawk. There are choke hold points, and everything. This game is wonderfully deep when you understand and work the strategy of it. I’ve taken out 5 enemies at once as an Ice mage by freezing htem, running into the outpost, freezing, outpost, freezing, etc… keeping my health replenished. I’ve also killed a ton of people that couldn’t reach me by throwing bombs off of the Outpost as a Worker class. Without a good strategy the game takes 30 minutes plus per match. With good strategy the games take 5-10 minutes on average.
There’s PLENTY of strategy to compete with games like Warhawk, but it’s a 15 dollar title compared to a 40 dollar (on release) title so you can’t pretend like they have to be equal in every strategic respect.
They’re 2 completely different games and well.. Warhawk is a retail PSN title so it doesn’t specifically count as a PSN title since that was an after thought to boost sales.
with the right team, this is a great experience
I like Cake.
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Can’t wait for DLC
yes DLC will be nice.. still trying to get 6 ppl with a dmn bomb
that and knock 20 things out of someones hands… altho i do love smacking the princess outta someones hands :b gimme my b*tch back!!
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i honestly didnt enjoy this game.
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