Ambatukam 5: Back with a Vengeance

Ambatukam 5: Back with a Vengeance is a 2010 action adventure game developed by Goofy Ahh Studios (Formerly known as Thug Studios) and published by Bethesda Softworks for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC on October 10th, 2010 in North America, November 14th, 2010 in Japan and December 1st, 2010 in Europe. The game is the 5th entry in the Ambatukam series and the first that Bethesda Softworks published since Electronic Arts lost the rights.

Plot
The game takes place 3 months after Ambatukam 4: Eternal Thugging and Ambatukam alongside fully trained Ambatunat set out to find Ambasingh and fight returning, Erotic Barber, who was rebuilt by the Thug Hunter Division as a machine and Nissan alongside new Nikocado Avocado Sr, father of Nikocado Avocado Jr who is getting revenge on Ambatukam for killing his son and after fighting them, he finds out Ambasingh was working in the shadows and a fight ensues which after beating him, Ambatukam frees Ambasingh out of the control and is told that Ambatufakinnat is coming back and is bringing forth the end of the world and Ambatunat, Ambatukam and Ambasingh prepare to battle Ambatufakinnat.

Gameplay
The player controls Ambatukam or Ambatunat in a third-person perspective in single player or multiplayer via Xbox Live and PlayStation Network or Couch Co-Op and each character has different weapons and abilities and the player can switch between them via the Bumper buttons on each controller.

Development
Development began in 2007, which was 3 years after Ambatukam 4’s release and Thug Studios were now being changed to Goofy Ahh Studios and Ambatukam 5 was being developed alongside Ambatukam: Collection and Turbulence. The game was announced at Tokyo Game Show as simply Ambatukam 5 and was planned for April 25th, 2009 but was delayed due to Turbulence releasing at that time and got a second trailer at E3 2009 showcasing some of the abilities of Ambatukam and Ambatunat and Xbox Live/PlayStation Network gameplay.

Reception
The game received mixed reviews with an average critic score of 53/100 at Metacritic. Some reviewers stated that Gameplay and Co-Op was good but Online lobbies mostly kicked players out and people hated that Ambasingh was a villain. Goofy Ahh Games responded with “I know people are still butthurt over Ambatukam 5 making Ambasingh a villain but you Ambatukam 4 players realize that Ambasingh was a villain but he was actually mind controlled and he was mind controlled again in this game but we will make it up to you. We are gonna make a sixth game with Ambasingh as a protagonist.” but people were happy that they could play as Ambatunat and use his move set.

Promotional Material
When Ambatukam 5 was coming out, Xbox and PlayStation had special pre order exclusives including a Master Chief and Arbiter skin for Ambatukam and Ambatunat and a Kratos and Sly Cooper skin for Ambatukam and Ambatunat.

Trivia

 * In 2020, the game got delisted on the EA Store (Also on Origin) for unknown reasons, possibly due to licensing issues as they lost the rights to the IP as Bethesda bought the rights to the Ambatukam IP, but it is still available on Steam