Rocket League

 

By now you've all heard of Rocket League, the rocket powered juggernaut it is. For those of you that it may have slipped by, somehow, Rocket League is football with cars.
 

It's as simple as that, and you know what? It's fantastic!

I love FIFA and I'm ok with driving games so the mesh would make sense right? Except the controls you have; trigger to go, A to jump and B to boost, again as simple as they are, are very different to both of those types of games. Don't be put off by what it looks like, it plays like chaos theory in motion which is just what you want sometimes.

That's not to at there isn't some skill to it, it's just that the skill involved is mainly timing based and it's very easy to fling yourself halfway across the pitch in a minutely misjudged boost jump to catch a midair ball. You do regain boost from driving over little glowing pads on the pitch which is very useful for getting to a far away ball or demolishing an opposing, or sometimes friendly, car

There are a smattering of online game types including your normal "get the all in the goal" and Hoops, instead of get the ball in the goal, you get the ball in the hoop, turning it more into a basketball variant. There is also a game mode that replaces the all with a puck decreasing the "where will the ball drop and hope for the best" scenarios. All game modes can be played one on one ranging through to four on four which, using the scientific term, is a clusterfuck.
There is a Season game mode which runs you through a league with bots as your team mates, giving you a chance to hone your skills with appropriately leveled opponents.
Whichever game mode you choose though, it's always going to be blue vs orange.

All changes to the cars are purely cosmetic, toppers than sit on top of your car or antennas, so it doesn't feel unbalance due to special abilities obtained at certain levels. There is minor difference In the pitches, mainly the shape, which could change the direction the call ricochets back into play but they all function the same and vary in locations such as Utopia, a utopian environment obviously, Underwater, rocket cars flying about while a shark watches on, and wasteland, a dystopian backdrop to your RC mayhem.

It is pretty insubstantial but Rocket League is such an additive game and, with each match only lasting five minutes, it makes it so easy to lose track of time by doing the old "just one more" trick. I think most gamers would be drawn in by this snappy, intuitive game and will get a lot of game time out of it like I have and will continue to do. With game modes for all and easy to learn hard to master game-play, Rocket League is a slam dunk and great to pull out when you have friends around, what I'm saying is, go and buy it! Now, seriously.

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