I had a chance to play this game at California Extreme last year. There were about 16 controllers hooked up, and most were full at any given time. Very fun, and

I had a chance to play this game at California Extreme last year. There were about 16 controllers hooked up, and most were full at any given time. Very fun, and extremely chaotic. It's probably one of the most interesting of the couch multiplayer games coming out right now - Samurai Gunn, Divekick, Sportsfriends and the like. There's a bigger difference between 2v2 and 8v8 multiplayer than you would think, and that dynamic is really multiplied when you're all in one physical location. That said I worry about the viability of these games because it's so hard to get a group of that size together in the absence of arcades. I bet they could get really big at college dorms, though. I know the Wii still does very well in dorms because of Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, which have similar optimal player configurations.