Bonus points if they start cackling maniacally as they do it.
Maps like Gondola, Container and Elevator allow for some more precarious situations to play out, usually involving one or more players holding on for dear life while the chaotic evil player amongst you takes out the support wires holding the level up. The most fun tends to come when experimenting with what the physics can do more than actually scrapping with people. It’s interesting to see the different strategies people employ while playing, with some opting to run and hide, while others use the game’s more advanced techniques like dropkicks and diving headbutts to score more flashier knockouts. On the flipside, Gang Beasts naturally comes into its own at parties, with multiple players trying to knock each other off the map like an impromptu Royal Rumble just started on a rooftop or a freight train. In truth, the only reason to buy this game if you don’t have friends is for the admittedly easy 1000G. There is an online multiplayer experience, with support for public and private games, but solo matchmaking to play this game online just isn’t the same as hearing and/or seeing your friend get salty because you knocked them out with a sweet headbutt. The game is specifically designed for local multiplayer experiences. We’ll get this out of the way now, but Gang Beasts does not cater to the solo player experience. The bumpers control your hands, with taps resulting in punches while holding the bumpers lets you grab onto things like the environment or your opponent’s face. You control a customisable gelatinous blob who must fight other customisable gelatinous blobs by knocking them out and chucking them off the map.
Even though it’s been out for about a year and a half on PC and PS4 (and been in Early Access even longer), Gang Beasts still manages to draw in the laughs, and this Xbox One version is no exception, so long as you have the mates to enjoy it with. If you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Gang Beasts is a physics based multiplayer brawler placed in the same category as Human: Fall Flat for “Games That Do Big Numbers Online”. Talk about “striking while the iron is tepid”. Unfortunately, the game has been available for a really long time on PC and PS4, so it feels like the hype has pretty much subsided for the Xbox One release. The game was nominated for "Excellence in Multiplayer" at the 2018 SXSW Gaming Awards, and for "Multiplayer" at the 14th British Academy Games Awards.It took Boneloaf and Double Fine long enough to bring Gang Beasts over to the Xbox One, but that day has finally arrived. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 67/100 for the PlayStation 4 version based on 8 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."
Outside of early access, Gang Beasts received mixed reviews from critics on both the PC and PlayStation 4 versions of the game. Opponents that have been knocked down are not completely defenseless however, as they can fight back to be released.Īlready in its freeware alpha state, as well as upon Steam Early Access release, the game was met with positive response from critics and fans. The core gameplay involves using various physical abilities such as punching or kicking an opponent until they are knocked out, and then attempting to toss them over one of the stage hazards. At initial release it contained 8 multiplayer stages. Gang Beasts is a cross-platform multiplayer beat 'em up party game with gelatinous characters, melee fight sequences, and hazardous environments, set in the fictional metropolis of Beef City. It was also released on the Xbox One on March 27th, 2019.
The game released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, and PlayStation 4 on December 12, 2017, following an early access period for the PC platforms that began in August 2014. Gang Beasts is a multiplayer beat 'em up party game developed by British indie studio Boneloaf and published by Double Fine Presents.