![]() ![]() You can actually play Gang Beasts outside of multiplayer in the game’s ‘Wave’ mode where you take on a constant barrage of AI enemies, though the meat and bones of the experience is found when competing with others. Don’t go into the game expecting highly detailed visuals though, but rather a clean and charming aesthetic that fits its purpose perfectly. ![]() There are a ton of different options in how you make your little character look (Rick and Morty fans might appreciate a couple of the costumes), whilst the levels themselves are all well-designed too. It all looks the part too Gang Beasts has this simplistic look that, despite lacking in too much detail, manages to feel full of character. In fact, I’m impressed that they keep offering completely different showdowns, with different players tackling them and taking each other out in a myriad of unique ways that constantly both surprise me and make me laugh. ![]() Even after a ton of hours playing, I haven’t got bored of any of the levels yet. Each level offers something different though, with them all full to the brim with ways for you to meet your end. You’ll do battle across a decent variety of levels: it might be a huge Ferris wheel that challenges you to jump between booths to get to players, a pair of speeding trucks on a motorway (watch out for those road signs), a huge incinerator where one wrong move will see you burning to your death, a subway where you’ve got to avoid getting thrown onto the tracks (but can still climb away from if you’re quick enough), or even a wrestling ring where you can create your own miniature Royal Rumble – there’re plenty more outside of that too, though those are my particular favourites. Difficult, but still enjoyable and certainly very satisfying when you do succeed at wiping someone out. This is your best chance to strike and throw them around, though it’s never that easy – as mentioned, the game’s controls are intentionally designed to be clumsy, whilst the fact that players recover quickly, each level has random hazards that will take you out, and other players are out for blood too makes it a hell of a lot more difficult. The only problem is that it’s pretty difficult to throw someone about if they’re still holding on to you and punching at you, but that’s where a lot of the fun lies.įortunately, you can essentially knock a foe unconscious with a swift punch or head-butt, which disables their ability to grab onto things momentarily. You can grab at any other player or different parts of the environment, whilst you can also quickly lift anything up to launch it around the place. Your main goal is to be the last man standing, with each level offering a variety of different ways to eliminate each player – most of the time it’ll just be a case of throwing them over the edge of the map though. It’s all very clumsy and often pretty awkward, but it’s always totally chaotic and a lot of fun. In a nutshell, Gang Beasts is a physics-based fighter that sees you punching, grabbing, head-butting, and literally throwing yourself at other players as you battle across a variety of dynamic yet dangerous levels. ![]() It’s also a title that has its fair share of flaws right now, though it’s nothing that should stop you from thinking about purchasing it. Now I’ve got a chance to really sink my teeth into it I can see what all the buzz was about – it really is a brilliant little title. I didn’t get a chance to play it back then, but it certainly caught my eye.įast-forward over two years (and a lengthy Early Access release) and Gang Beasts is finally officially available on the Playstation 4 and PC, bringing its bizarre-battling gameplay to the masses. I was wandering the show floor at EGX and there were a huge group of people laughing at (and queuing up to play, of course) a game that involved four strange little characters beating the heck out of each other and then attempting to throw one another into the deadly hazards that surrounded each level. I remember when I first encountered Gang Beasts. ![]()
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