Disco Dodgeball Remix Review – Not My Favorite Sports Like Thing

<p>Disclaimer&colon; A copy of this game was provided by the publisher for this review&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Disco Dodgeball Remix is an adaptation of the PC game Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball which launched in 2015&period; Each match takes place in one of fifteen different TRON-like glowing skateparks&period; And players rush to scoop up procedurally generated dodgeballs&period; From there they make long shots&comma; trick shots&comma; and bank shots trying to get eliminations or complete certain objectives based&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Disco Dodgeball Remix Is More Than Just A Port<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The game now has 21 Different Gameplay modes to choose from&period; These modes include a classic PVP&comma; Grand Prix&comma; and Elimination&period; Meanwhile&comma; cubes and hoops provide a more objective based gameplay&period; However&comma; as interesting as many of the modes are sometimes their objective is not always clear&comma; this leads to frustration&period; Single players can have fun in the Arcade upgrading their robot while taking on bosses&period; Or they can try out online multiplayer&period; With level-up game progression&comma; players can unlock over 70 items to customize their robot&period; The game also now includes a number of powerups including a boomerang ball and a jetpack&period; But honestly&comma; it felt like too much was added and not enough was perfected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Violence Is For Everyone In Fantasy &&num;8211&semi; As Long As You&&num;8217&semi;re At Least 10<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The game is comically labeled Everyone 10&plus; for Fantasy violence&period; For some who graduated in the early 2000&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; this may conjure up memories of dodgeball being banned in school for being &&num;8220&semi;too dangerous&&num;8221&semi;&period; Apparently hurling large rubber projectiles across wide open spaces at one another is a bad idea&period; Most children under 10 will never get to experience dodgeball in the traditional sense in school&period; And while many schools worked around it by replacing rubber balls with softer foam ones Disco Dodgeball Remix made no effort to work around this rating&period;  When struck by a ball&comma; robots flat out explode&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But perhaps the fantasy violence comes in the form of a monster-truck voice styled announcer announcing when players get things like &&num;8220&semi;first blood&&num;8221&semi; or an &&num;8220&semi;ultra kill&&num;8221&semi;&period; Is it necessary&quest; No&period; Does it add anything to the game&quest; Not really&period; Could it be argued that it&&num;8217&semi;s fine for children under the age of 10 to play&quest; Of course&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re really worried about the dangers it poses&comma; why not turn off the volume&quest; While the music does resemble that of a skate park it gets redundant sounding quickly and starts to feel more like background noise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"JWmlqDcNVIA" title&equals;"Disco Dodgeball Remix –Your New Favorite Sport-Type-Thing for Nintendo Switch&comma; PS4 and Xbox One"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;youtu&period;be&sol;JWmlqDcNVIA"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;JWmlqDcNVIA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Disco Dodgeball Remix –Your New Favorite Sport-Type-Thing for Nintendo Switch&comma; PS4 and Xbox One"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>One Man&&num;8217&semi;s Dream Taken To The Next Level<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball was developed by one man&comma; Erik Asmussen&period; But he needed help adapting the game to consoles&period; That is when Zen Studios stepped in&period; The vice president of publishing at Zen Studios&comma; Mel Kirk&comma; stated the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;when Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball came out on Steam&comma; I think I was among the first people to download and buy it”&period; And that when his kids loved the title he wrote Erik&period; Erik stated that he was happy that Zen helped as he did not have the knowledge to move the game to console himself&period; Will it be your new favorite sports type thing&quest; Maybe&period; It depends on how many other sports types things you have I suppose&period; But it is a console game with local co-op and could be nice to pull out when friends come over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;