Iron Giant Proves Multiversus Isn't Just A Smash Clone

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Multiversus, which officially launched today in Early Access Open Beta (because that’s how video games work now) has done a lot to differentiate itself from Super Smash Bros. It does not have items, except for the ones generated by the characters themselves; it doesn’t have Smash Attacks or Final Smashes, though most character have a few charge attacks that are kind of like smashes; it groups characters into classes like support, tank, and bruiser and gives them unique utility to support their different playstyles, though admittedly, the best strategy is still to punch the other players until they go flying off the edge of the stage. For all the things Multiversus does to be different, it seems it hasn’t managed to veer very far off the path walked by Super Smash Bros.

Or at least, that’s what I would have said before playing as the Iron Giant, Multiversus’ new giant-sized fighter that is simply too big to be in this game. Take one look at the scale of the Iron Giant and it's immediately obvious that this should not, and cannot work. Yet, against all logic, it somehow does. The Iron Giant is developer Play First Games putting its big iron balls on the table and saying ‘Multiversus will not be defined by bros that smashed before us.’ Iron Giant tells us to take our expectations and chuck them out the window, because Multiversus is doing its own thing, and it’s not afraid to take some big risks.

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When I say big, I mean gargantuan. Iron Giant towers over every character in the game to the point where watching them fight seems almost absurd. Small characters like Jake the Dog and Tom & Jerry barely come up to Iron Giant’s shin, while the biggest