Each of the five map layouts is simple but include their own interesting elements that help keep matches dynamic, such as jump pads, endless fall pits, busy highways and giant swinging wrecking balls. Velan Studios have also added a training area in your player’s Hideout, for you and your crew to practise moves and throw balls at a dummy and also serves as a mini social hub for your crew to hang out.Īfter a quick set of tutorials, you’ll match up against other solo newbies getting familiar with the game in Team KO 3v3 matches. From the gravity-defying Moon Ball to the anxiety-inducing, time-ticking Bomb Ball, there are six dynamic spheres you’ll have to master. You can also do fake throws, allowing you to bait an attempt to catch from your opponent while opening them up to a follow up strikes.Īside from the basic dodgeball, there are also a wide variety of unique balls that spawn throughout the map that make gameplay lively. One button lets you spin, while another makes your character flip, allowing you some maneuverability in the air, while doing so before you throw also allows you to do the harder-to-predict Curve Throw or Lob Throw respectively. You can dodge balls by dashing, and this also doubles up as a tackle when you hit a player, knocking their precious ball out of their hands and dazing them for a bit. You can also jump to get to higher vantage points and hitting it twice lets you glide for a bit much like in Fortnite.īeyond the basics is where the fun begins. You can pass the ball to a teammate, which also charges the ball, making quick passes between teammates an efficient way to prepare charged balls quickly. Pressing the left trigger allows you to catch an incoming ball within a small window of time, allowing you to return the ball with extreme prejudice. A more you charge a throw, the faster it flies.
The controls are simple to pick up, you walk over a ball to pick it up, and hold down the right trigger to lock the ball on an enemy and charge a throw, releasing it to throw. It’s important to note that these functions are purely cosmetic with no gameplay advantage, such as new outfits for your character, colourful taunts and MVP animations when you win a game, making Knockout City a game where skill truly matters. Progression comes in the form of levelling up, unlocking cool (albeit sometimes campy) cosmetic items to customize your brawler. To keep things fresh, there are many fun, recognizable game modes blended into the dodgeball formula such as Team KO (TDM game mode), Diamond Dash (Kill Confirmed), Face Off! (1v1) as well as innovative modes such as the highly chaotic Ball-Up mode where balls don’t spawn, and you can only throw your teammates. Every knockout gives your team a point, and in the traditional Team KO mode, the team that scores 10 knockouts first wins the round, in a best of three rounds format. In each game, every player has two “strikes” before they are knocked out and have to respawn. Gameplay is simple – think dodgeball with over-the-top acrobatics, add a variety of balls with special effects, played across dynamic maps each with their own unique elements, and you have a recipe for endless fun.
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Like Fortnite, it’s a game that’s truly cross platform, bringing together players from across PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, and PS5 and Xbox Series X and S owners are also able to join in the fun with backwards compatibility. With a neon Fortnite-esque art style and Splatoon-ish colours, Knockout City combines the right aesthetics with an easy-to-pick-up formula to become the next big multiplayer team game, if that is even a possibility.
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