I rarely had to wait long for a game, and if players dropped out mid-session they were immediately replaced by AI bots. There’s a reason why online play is the first option on the menu: Rocket League is designed to be played with actual people, and this is absolutely where it thrives. Playlists of duels, doubles, standard 3v3 matches and the appropriately named Chaos 4v4 mode are all available online, with ranked playlists limited to duels, doubles and 3v3. Alternatively, you can set teams of four against each other, in matches which become so frantic that they’re less like footy, more like a lost, confused beach ball bashed between bumper cars. Destruction is the only conspicuous deviation from clean business of driving around and scoring goals, but in most of the games I played it was a rarity-certainly never frequent enough to be irritating.Įxcept, of course, when it’s not, such as when you’re duelling against a single opponent.
Mercifully, it’s the generous, instantly-respawning type of obliteration. There are no weapons, but certain markers fill your boost and let you obliterate other players. You can focus on the ball, effortlessly whizzing around with it always in view, or switch to the standard camera - very useful for rushing back to defend your goal, or smashing into other vehicles. It’s helped by a crisp, intuitive camera. I feel almost guilty reducing a review to ‘ball’ and ‘car’, but there are only ever those two things in the field of play, and crucially, they both feel great. This contrasts nicely with the fat, beefy bounce of the ball, which gormlessly invites impact like a punchable cousin. Vehicles feel light and buzzy-somewhere between Micro Machines, and those swift, slidey remote controlled cars which only seem to appear on Christmas Day. The weight of the cars, as well as your ability to apply unruly boost to jumps, adds a pleasingly haphazard element like athletic footballers leaping to header high balls, but with less shirt-pulling and zero chance of flattening a £2000 hairdo.Ĭars ease around like butter in a heated pan, but always feel under your control. Cars can also jump and dodge, both of which can be used defensively and offensively. Because matches take place in smooth, enclosed spaces, you can drive up walls and across ceilings. You accumulate boost by driving over markers on the arena floor and unleash it is a thunderous rush that fires you across, over and around the pitch. Cars ease around like butter in a heated pan, but always feel under your control. Like dry martinis and penises scribbled in an unattended notebooks, Rocket League is a celebration of simplicity. This, in turn, is a laughable way of describing a game which would be called moto carball if it actually existed.
Rocket League’s competitive core has existed for centuries, and this helps make a preposterous concept feel primal. Drive car at giant ball hit ball into net score points.
Association football, soccer, wendyball whatever you want to call it, it’s that, but on wheels. All of the best custom maps and obstacle courses for Rocket League competitive ranked players to practice training aerials, dribbling, car control, ball control and other skills needed to improve.I’ve never played a game that needed a tutorial less.
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