You can feint shots to bait the invincibility of attempting to catch the ball, you can curve and lob your shots around and over walls, you can adjust the speed of your shot with how long you hold your throw, messing with timing and allowing for easy hits. But branched from those basics is a surprising amount of depth with a skill ceiling that’s higher than expected. You can pass, shoot, dodge, catch, and roll. Knockout City gives a quick 20 minute tutorial that goes over everything that you can do in the game, and there isn’t much to worry about picking up initially. They do show up periodically in the Brawl Shop, which has multiple other items for sale with Holobux, Knockout City’s premium currency, which is unlocked through the Battle Pass, completing contracts (daily, weekly, and career quests), or via micro-transaction.īut what has pulled me in the most is just how fun, addictive, and fair the gameplay is. These come a little few and far between for my liking since some outfits require a generous amount, and the first 100 levels of the Battle Pass give out a couple every 20 levels. Additional color options for outfits can be unlocked with Style Chips, which can unlock one of the four options on outfits and other clothing pieces. No outfit is set on a specific gender, and all hairstyles and facial features can be mixed and matched to go with how you want your character to look: even if most of the face options look like your character is slightly melting. Moreso, the inclusivity of making the numerous aesthetics with an androgynous overtone is a welcome one. These unlocks are all randomized, which I loved seeing as almost every character in my 45 hours of gameplay had a different spin on how they looked and wasn’t contrived by the same unlocks on the same levels for every player. Knockout City decided to skip the paid Battle Pass and provide a free one to all users, with up to some 900 levels of content to unlock. You’ll start your career with creating your character, with customization in clothes, hair, gloves, gliders, and taunts to name a few. Knockout City pits players in 3v3 dodgeball combat while giving the recipe a few pinches of color and style to add in the mix. But a multi-billion dollar company going out of its way to put promising titles on its pedestal is so beneficial for a game like Knockout City, a multiplayer dodgeball action title by Velan Studios, with a deep catalog of titles as, uh, checks notes, Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. Home to schools and trampoline parks abound, and movies that get quoted way too much nowadays, it’s a little weird that it’s taken up until 2021 for there to be a high profile video game release regarding the, uh, sport? Event? Game? But lo and behold, the publisher of last year’s Multiplayer Game of the year Rocket Arena, EA Originals, is back with another colorful bombastic throwdown that has taken up more of my life than I care to admit.ĮA, most notably known as that company that’s more than willing to take your money in the most nefarious ways, have etched a bit of a small spot in my heart with their EA Originals line, which has been killing it the past few years with titles like A Way Out, It Takes Two, Rocket Arena, and the Unravel series. Man, who doesn’t love dodgeball? The recreational pastime of wielding a rubber ball and absolutely plastering people in hopes you don’t get blown up yourself.
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