A quirk of the physics engine might cause them to grapple with each other's nether regions, for example, or make one of them haul the other across the floor by one of its glowing, hollow eyes. And even if that doesn't work, you might just end up dragging the bastard down through the grinders with you, to the delight of everyone present.ĭespite their featureless forms, there's a surprising amount of tragic humour and personality to be found in the creatures while all this is going on, and that's largely a result of the lolloping way they spar and latch on with one another. Get too close to any of these mechanisms and you're sausages before you know it, but some frantic button-mashing may just help you dance out of danger, and tumble back over the safety railing so you can fight another day. This first simple boxing arena helps you get to grips with the controls easily enough, but the next zone packs the sides and centre of the room with meat-grinding rollers. Play for a little while and you learn to wait for your opponent to gain height before grabbing hold of them, for example, making it much easier to topple them over the ropes of the boxing ring, and out of play. Go at the opposition with both hands raised and you'll be able to lift them up and hurl them clumsily and unreliably towards danger.Īlthough the controls feel loose enough to ensure that victory's never yours until the last blob's standing, there's enough skill in the timing of your grapples and punches to add meaning to the impish thrill that accompanies every successful take-down. As you dance around your opponents, you must also choose when to throw a drunken left punch here, or a right hook there. There's a drunken lack of precision when it comes to steering your amorphous blob of plasticine around the game's arenas, and yet you feel very much in control at all times. The secret sauce that makes Gang Beasts so much fun to both play and watch is found in the flailing - yet by no means random - nature of these wobbly controls. Combat is primitive and amusingly unreliable, and whoever survives the most number of rounds in each session is declared the winner. It's a last-man standing affair, one where you and up to three friends wobble your characters around a healthy selection of hazardous environments, doing precarious battle with one another. Taking its starting cues from 2008's QWOP frenzy, the game stars a handful of nondescript sparring opponents who are only really distinguished from one another by the colour of their plasticine-like flesh.
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Gang Beasts wasn't like any of the other multiplayer brawlers available to play this year, and it's not even really like any other multiplayer brawler you've played full stop. A similar buzz rose up around another game at this year's show, and it's not hard to imagine that the same good fortune awaits it. Chatter about the game spread around the event like wildfire, notes were made to drop by the stand to see what all the fuss was about, and the game rightly rode this wave of enthusiasm all the way up to its release.
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Back in 2012, Hotline Miami created more than a minor stir at the first Rezzed PC and indie gaming show.
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