Local multiplayer is sort of a dying feature and I’m thrilled to see it included. This is ultimately a fairly standard mode but it will allow 4-player split-screen local multiplayer for couch play with buddies.
Once the player completes all matches in the season, they will be rewarded with in-game items and achievements/trophies for their platform of choice.Įxhibition matches allow the player to play a single match against CPU bots or friends. The player can select how many matches they want to play in the season, create their own team, select a logo, and choose a difficulty for the CPU opponents. Season mode allows players to set up a season similar to a standard Sports sim that will act as a tournament. All of these categories of items will expand once the player continues to level up and earns more unlocks.Īs soon as the player equips themselves with their car of choice, a number of games modes are available that range from multiplayer offerings to single player bot matches. The player can also customize their car by adding paint effects, antenna ornaments, decorations and rocket boosting effects. Only four cars are available at the start while more can be unlocked by playing the game, earning experience and unlocking more cars in the process. Vehicles resemble RC cars complete with antennas and over-proportioned bodies. Once the game is booted up for the first time, players can select a vehicle of their choice. Luckily the game is a little deeper than just ramming a ball with a car and include a few features that makes things a bit more interesting.
The amount of players can be customized too, allowing matches of one vs one, two vs two, and so on. Two goals sit on opposite ends of the field and two teams of four battle for control of the ball. The game consists of choosing a vehicle, hitting a soccer-esque stadium, and competing against the opposing team in attempt to knock a giant ball into a goal. Rocket League is essentially soccer with cars that is the best way to honestly describe this game.
Thankfully for us multiplayer dabblers out there, Psyonix’s Playstation 4 and PC vehicular sports title Rocket League gives us something that’s easy to pick up and play. Rarely can a player pop in a multiplayer game a month or so after first playing it and enjoy the experience due to perk and levelling systems that give players who spend more time with the game a big advantage over players who do not. The problem is that a lot of popular modern multiplayer games, like Call of Duty, Battlefield and League of Legends, require the player to invest a lot of time and practice into a game in order to fully enjoy it. Even the single player offerings are incorporating multiplayer elements in some fashion similar to Dark Souls and Watch Dogs. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a game that does not include some sort of multiplayer component in today’s games. Multiplayer online gaming is one of the biggest aspects of modern video games.