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Jump Force

Game

Jump Force is a 2019 crossover fighting game from Spike Chunsoft and Bandai Namco that pits heroes and villains from dozens of Shonen Jump manga against each other, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Jotaro Kujo and DIO, after their worlds collide with reality.

Genre: Crossover fighting game
Platform: PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Developer: Spike Chunsoft
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release Year: 2019
Japan Release Date: 2019-02-14
North America Release Date: 2019-02-15
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Gameplay

Fights play out as three on three team battles, though only one fighter appears on screen at a time while the other two wait to tag in as support. Combat happens in destructible 3D arenas built from real world landmarks, and players chain basic attacks into flashy special moves and team assists rather than relying on the deep, character specific movesets found in a traditional fighting game.
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Premise

The story follows an invading force that breaks into the real world and drags manga universes along with it, forcing heroes from across Weekly Shonen Jump to band together against the threat alongside a player created original character. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is represented at launch by Jotaro Kujo and DIO, with Giorno Giovanna joining later as paid downloadable content.
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Release

Jump Force launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows in February 2019 to mark Weekly Shonen Jump's fiftieth anniversary, with a Nintendo Switch version following in August 2020. Critics gave it a mixed to poor reception, landing in the mid fifties on Metacritic; reviewers praised the scale of its crossover roster but criticized a shallow combat system, a repetitive story mode, and rough technical presentation.
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