One surefire way, according to popular marketing belief, to make your product look edgy is to grab content from the vastly colorful underground culture. Granted, it doesn't always work, so while news about SCEE creating a new battle game patterned after b-boys made us go “Watchu talkin’ about, bra?” (yes, we talk like this all the time), we still had to give the game a chance, mostly out of genuine curiosity, but also because we like the thought of getting in on the opening moments of a potential train wreck.
Here’s a clip from the press release: “B-Boy uses a dynamically controlled fighting system to help you battle the best b-boys on the planet. Over the course of an in-depth ‘B-Boy Life’ mode, players build up a crew and battle against real-life superstar b-boys including in-game host Crazy Legs, the legendary and original b-boy, who worked closely with the development team to ensure the game's authenticity.”
While we may sound glib about the probable worth of this game (somehow it just reminded of the travesty that is Lowrider), we really can’t rule out the chance that B-Boy just may turn out to be one of the most original titles ever seen on the PSP. I’m sure many were skeptical about games like Gitaroo Man, Mr. Mosquito, and Katamari Damacy before they came out and entranced the market, so we’ll have presuppose that Sony could very well deliver a pulsating, magically-enhanced B-Boy to a waiting crowd of enthusiastic PSP gamers.
