![]() ![]() As bad as the pun is, the ball is in EA’s court on how to take this franchise forward. And, if the game is promoted enough and hits a certain audience on Twitch, or whathaveyou, then the game could see a very healthy community supporting it for years to come. While it’s impossible to tell the shelf life of what Knockout CIty will have, despite its day-one working crossplay and progression across all its available platforms, the game does a tremendous amount right that makes me think that while I don’t see it being a massive runaway success like something like Fallguys, I can see it becoming at least popular enough so that developer Velan Studios can continue to add to it, adding more maps, modes, and more customization items to deck out your would-be dodge-brawler. ![]() It’s a sports-infused game about high-flying dodgeball, with pinging the ball off someone’s dome feeling as addictive as anything else gaming has to offer. Thankfully, Knockout City doesn’t rely on classes, hell, it doesn’t really even have combat in the general sense. ![]() And, if you are at the mercy of joining with random players, then your experience is likely to suffer as a result. Where many of these games suffer is usually through their combat, classes, and the rinse and repeat loop of needing a class-focused team to play with, often putting people into certain roles and needing that teamwork to well. Hell, this isn’t even EA’s only one in the past year with Rocket Arena itself being not much more than an afternoon blip before it simply vanished from the conversation. Those few rounds became hours, and those hours became days, illustrating to me that I was very wrong about Knockout City, and I am likely not the only one.Ĭombat Arena games often come and go. With the title being available on Gamepass and EA Play, and of course a free trial for its first ten days of its release, I decided to at least pop in for a few rounds and see if it was any good. The trailer just didn’t do it for me, and I had already seen the likes of Ninjala, Bleeding Edge, and Destruction AllStars each crash and burn, trying to find their way into an already crowded multiplayer space. Initially revealed during a Nintendo Direct presentation this past February, I dismissed Knockout City almost instantly. ![]()
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