Knockout City Review
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My recent adventure in Knockout City reminded me of dodgeball, a real playground game, rules. This is the equivalent of a Wild West standoff for fourth graders-watching and waiting for another person full of adrenaline to take action and (hopefully) catch whatever they throw at you.
This is part of the reason Knockout City is so good. After walking through the sacred site of the tarmac of the elementary school, when my little Dodge Bravo was shocked by the supersonic sphere, I could feel the husky rubber deforming my face. I just live like this! Thankfully, I was shot or blown up thousands of times in Call of Duty, but I can’t say the same thing.
But campus nostalgia is not the only reason I have been so fascinated by Knockout City in the past few days (I’m pretty sure my friends are tired of me selling to them). Beneath its cartoon appearance is a kind of intensive combat language, with a variety of ball types, throwing methods, fake moves and team tactics. You are not limited to a chalk drawn rectangle with a line in the middle. Knockout City has the framework of a team shooting game, with a large arena-style map, deathmatch mode and a lot of cover, but compared to any shooting game, its action is more similar to medieval knight fighting.
New Bunker City
Since the target is automatically locked every time you throw, your only option to avoid hits is to catch the ball or dodge at the right time. Catching the ball gives you an immediate opportunity to return the ball faster than before, and every time the ball accelerates, this catching dynamic can continue indefinitely.Once the ball reaches its maximum speed, it will fly so fast that you have to start triggering the catch forward Your opponent even threw it. A long matchup like this can create dramatic moments in every game. Whether I am in the game or on the sidelines, it will make my blood boil.
Mix Knockout City’s stunt shots together and it will become more interesting. Just like pitchers in baseball, players can modify their standard fastball by flipping or spinning, creating a high-throwing ball that can reach the target above you or a wide curve ball that can bend around the entire building to the target on the other side.
There are many ways to use these moves – far, near, slow, fast, fake moves, passing the ball – but there is nothing like sending a ball completely at a 30-meter corner to watch it hit a person who is fully focused on what is ahead. The opponent is more satisfying. After hundreds of KOs, the climax has not subsided.
The special ball type adds an extra flavor to the standard 3v3 team deathmatch mode. Bomb balls, multi-balls, low-gravity balls, etc. can be found in the center of the map for teams to compete (a technique in Halo’s Power Weapon Manual, which can be perfectly translated here). There are also weird cage balls, which imprison the player in a ball on impact, allowing the enemy to pick them up and use them as weapons (or just throw them off the map for easy KO). The deadliest is the sniper ball, which is an American football with a laser sight and the rate of fire is so fast that it actually feels like cheating death to catch a person.
Except for giants like CS:GO and Valorant, I can hardly think of another PvP game that considers its sound effects so carefully.
The most important thing is that any player can curl up into a ball and become a weapon for teammates. When there is nothing else around, Ballform can be a complete savior. A hit is also an instant KO, but it brings a vital risk. When you are a ball, you are helpless, if you are caught by the enemy, you will be caught by them for a few seconds. Have enough time to be thrown back as a weapon against your team, or thrown off the edge of the map like garbage (ouch).
Talking about the control of Knockout City without mentioning the sound design is a crime. The lack of consistent and diverse auditory feedback can hinder games that feel great (think of Biomutant’s clumsy combat), but Knockout City is the best in this regard. Every important action in the game-catch, dodge, pass, tackle, slow ball, fast ball, curve, lob, and every special ball in between-has its own unique sound.And everything you need to hear, such as subtle Whoosh whoosh A ball heading in your direction or suck When someone catches the ball behind you, it always breaks through the soundscape of music, announcer barking and shouting.
Except for giants like CS:GO and Valorant, I can hardly think of another PvP game that considers its sound effects so carefully. As a test, I tried to play the game with my eyes closed for a few minutes, but it was still able to time perfectly and even hit a few shots. In addition to being tactically distinctive, these voices are also extremely expressive.A special shout belongs to someone with a unique record Fool A red rubber ball cracked on the face. For us young dodgeball veterans, this is both comforting and painful.
When I climbed into the team, I started to get some really weird hairstyles. (Image source: EA)
The ball is life
Although the artistic style implies casual fighters, the competition in the knockouts is fierce. Just like in other projectile combat sports games “Deadly League” and “Windbreaker”, the volley can become very intense. It’s hard not to take the game seriously, especially once you start to get better. I am obsessed with mastering as many movements as possible: fake throws, passes, high balls and fastball follow-up movements-the names of these strategies surprisingly seem completely feasible.
My knockout city game only took a few days and it became significantly more sweaty than when I started, but now the ranking mode has arrived with the arrival of season 1, and serious players have a proper testing ground to play the ball. right.
There are only two core modes, 3v3 team deathmatch and 1v1 duel, available in the rankings, and each mode has its own bracket from bronze to diamond. When playing with friends, I mostly stick to casual playlists, but in my free time I have been honing my ranking 1v1. Everything went well for the Bronze and Low Silver, but when I got close to the Gold, I finally started to give me my ass. I want to pretend that I have always kept a cool head, but being faked and wrongly received when facing better players really started to push me to the wall. I participated in the competition naturally, but the past two days have reminded me well that a deep game means a high skill limit, and I can’t even stand.
Total knockout
The familiar flat lighting throughout the game shows that Velan has made some visual concessions to bring it to every platform.
It is always difficult to measure the success of a service game like this, but what I see from the developer Velan Studios is promising. When it was released, there were a lot of contracts requiring me to exercise every dodgeball muscle I had.
There is no exact battle pass, but the basic level process is similar in structure, and each level has rewards. After about 15 hours and at least 50 games, I have climbed to level 60, and have gained quite a lot of clothes, accessories, taunts, and premium currency along the way. In multiplayer games, I usually don’t think too much about the costumes of the characters, but I like this game so much that I regret to be a person who cares about whether his sunglasses match well with the gloves he just unlocked.
This is surprising, because some parts of Knockout City’s artistic style are a bit ugly, such as everyone’s oversized doll head. The retro-futuristic aesthetic with neon tones feels a bit universal, and the familiar flat lighting throughout the game shows that Velan has made some visual concessions to bring it to every platform (including Switch). On the bright side: Knockout City supports cross-games and cross-processes across each version, with your EA account as the central link.
(Image source: EA Originals)
A good sign is that Velan is already doing a lot of right things. Presumably, with the support of EA, the knockout has released a beautiful and complete brawl game from the first day. You don’t have to wait for the basic features to appear (although I want a way to praise the opponent’s excellent combat). The first season launched this week allowed us to experience for the first time how the mode will rotate in and out of the playlist. The weird mode on the deck now is 4v4 TDM without the ball, so players must use each other every time a KO is made. Interesting variants have led to some very tragic dramas.
EA’s decision to provide a 10-day free trial period was also wise, initially attracting more than 2 million players. If you are a Game Pass subscriber on a console or PC, the game requires $20 to be reserved or free, which is exactly how I will play in the next few months.
I hope most of these 2 million people can stick to it, because the knockout cities are simply amazing. The careful consideration of turning the playground pastime, which is mostly ignored by video games, into a rich and competitive play left an endless impression on me. There is nothing more like it, which is why you really should try it for free if possible.
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