![]() ![]() Rolling up in a ball (one of the more wild-card aspects of Knockout City) means a teammate can pick them up and throw them. There’s a melee attack that’s also a good counter for separating a foe from their ball, so it really isn’t a matter of getting to the good weapons first. ![]() ![]() In one straight-forward free-for-all match, I was seeing novice users (like me) running at top speed once they saw a ball spawn point, winding up to fire away, only to have their element of surprise taken away by someone who was paying better attention when the tutorial showed how to intercept a ball. I’ll disagree that there are few moves in here but I see his point about it being easy to learn and then difficult to master. “There are very few moves, but it’s enormously complex in terms of layers, which allows you to really go through that kind of cycle of introduction, practice, and mastery,” Bala said. Velan most recently developed October’s toys-to-life/mixed reality game Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit “Because dodgeball is the inspiration, we get to play with multiple balls in the scene,” said Guha Bala, Velan’s co-founder and president. Good news for that: The first closed beta for the game starts on Feb. Teamwork is as critical to winning (and fun) play as an understanding of Knockout City’s many unique rules and techniques. In a preview staged by maker Velan Studios and Electronic Arts on Tuesday, I often just found myself standing back and watching the action, trying to develop a sense of fundamental play. In the playlists of the funky, futuristic, and over-the-top dodgeball game, few things are as simple as they sound. ![]()
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