When playing with friends during the beta period, one of our favourite plans was the ol’ Wolverine/Colossus Fastball Special, especially because our designated “ball” would end up with multiple MVPs for allowing themselves to be thrown. Considering throwing teammates at enemies results in instant KOs, and the fact that charging one of these throws leads to a death from above explosion called an Ultimate Throw, it’s a viable strategy. Still, if you prefer, you can also roll yourself into a ball like Samus from Metroid and just let someone else throw you at people. These throws are also useful at mixing up your opponent who might expect another throw type, but they’re also wonderful at smacking enemies who think they’re safe behind cover. Pressing the spin button before throwing will perform a curved throw, while the flip button will lead to a lob throw. On top of that, there are different shot types to consider which are chosen just before you let go of the ball.
More often than not, you’ll get a ball thrown at the back of your head for your troubles. Still, actually being in a 1v1 during a normal six player game is rare. Because the balls lock-on to their targets, good plans and a solid defense are more important than being offensive. Success in Knockout City, particularly in 1v1 situations, is all about psyching out your opponent, disrupting their rhythm and outthinking them. It’s all mind games, which is a tenet of fighting game play. You can even throw softballs against opponents who are playing at a faster speed, which can easily catch people off-guard. Simply throwing your ball at the enemy will often lead to an easy catch, but you can click the right stick to perform a fake throw to try and bait out a catch attempt before leathering them with a fastball.
The controls are simple, but there’s many strategies at play to try and dominate your opponent.
If anything, Knockout City is most comparable to a highly accessible fighting game, with no execution barrier to prevent high level play. Charging a throw will lock on to any valid target you can see in the vicinity, and throwing a ball will automatically home in on your chosen victim, meaning intricate and hard to achieve skill shots like you’d see in other multiplayer games aren’t really the focus here. Players charge and throw balls by holding the right trigger, and can time their catches with the left trigger. Knockout sees teams of three players compete in a dodgeball/deathmatch hybrid that’s incredibly fun to play. Look a little closer though, and you’ll find a game worthy of your attention, and one that I’m hoping will succeed where other multiplayer games have failed. However, publishers EA had already waded into the unconventional multiplayer game waters before with Rocket Arena, and it felt like that game sank to the bottom before it even started.Īt a surface level, Velan Studios’ offering doesn’t appear too different from all the other multiplayer games that have emerged since Overwatch, Fortnite, Rocket League and others, with plenty of big, bright colours and cartoonish characters on display. The premise of playing a more violent version of dodgeball, which itself is about as violent as sports get without stepping into a ring or cage, as an online multiplayer game was a fun one. If that does happen you can mash the button on the screen in order to break the hold of the enemy.The announcement of Knockout City, for me at least, led to a lot of cautious excitement. So you will need to play it safe and coordinate with your team in order to make sure that you are not picked up by an enemy. The enemy can then throw you at another player or down a pit or something in order to knock you out. Note that while your allies can pick you up in this form, an enemy player can do the same. All enemies that are in the radius of the effect are going to be knocked. When you touch the ground, there is going to be an area of effect. You will then have control over yourself and where you land. When the shot is released the so-called ball will be launched into the air. Whoever is holding you needs to charge the shot to the max. When someone picks you up there is a special ability that you can use. Then any of your teammates can use you as the ball. Once you do that you will crouch and take the form of a ball. This is R on Nintendo Switch, R1 on PlayStation, or RB on Xbox. To turn into a ball in the game what you need to do is pretty the right bumper button.
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