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"The Showdown Effect is inspired by GoldenEye and Super Smash Bros, developer Arrowhead Game Studios has said. CEO Johan Pilestedt said the side-scrolling multiplayer action game learned from each title&amp;#039;s approach to customisation and balancing.  &amp;quot;What is the key thing that made GoldenEye... so successful?&amp;quot; he told Digital Spy. &amp;quot;In one corner of that is the fact that you could customise your games in the way you could. And that is similar to Smash Bros as well. &amp;quot;You can customise your game in any way you like, you can choose characters even though their effect on gameplay isn&amp;#039;t that big, but at least you get to communicate who you are with those characters. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s something we took with us with Showdown. The characters do play an important role, but we didn&amp;#039;t want to make them that unique.&amp;quot; Gallery: View images of The Showdown Effect:  Pilestedt continued: &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t want to have health point differences or anything like that; we wanted characters to be mainly cosmetic, but with one additional item that changed play style. &amp;quot;If you had two or three items, that would mean you would get a bonus or a drawback or something, then people probably couldn&amp;#039;t tailor their character in a way they otherwise would.&amp;quot; Paradox Interactive said last week that it would publish on the new Xbox and PlayStation 4 if they were more open platforms. The publisher also revealed Brian Blessed DLC for War of the Roses, a beta for The Showdown Effect and a new expansion for Crusader Kings 2 at the convention. It will also make its debut on tablets with the release of Magicka and Leviathan Warships later this year. The Showdown Effect will be available from March 5 on PC for \u00A37.99 / $9.99. &amp;gt; Read our hands-on preview with The Showdown Effect Watch a trailer for The Showdown Effect below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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