Fueling My Competitve Demon – Rocket League Review

<p>We all have a demon&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s that voice in your head that makes you spam &&num;8220&semi;WHAT A SAVE&excl;&&num;8221&semi; after you just scored a cracker of a goal&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s your inner douche&semi; the one that watches all the replays and soaks up glory like a sponge in a swimming pool&period; <em>Rocket League<&sol;em> is competition at its purest form&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s simple&comma; fun and can get really intense&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You may be like everyone else&comma; you heard &&num;8220&semi;Car football&&num;8221&semi; and gave up hope on the game instantly&period; However&comma; when you give it a go&comma; you may pick up the pad and your first phase of rocket-based addiction begins&period; <em>Rocket League<&sol;em> finds depth in simplicity&period; Rocket League is a testament to good game design&period; It also shows as the game has taken 2015 by storm&period; It has positioned itself securely on Twitch&comma; YouTube and even ESL for E-Sports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At its core <em>Rocket League<&sol;em> is car football &lpar;soccer for you pesky Americans&rpar;&period; The game thrives on gameplay that is fast paced and keeps you on your toes&comma; but it also gives you room to relax and not necessarily focus heavily on playing&period; The intensity of the game is all down to how much you commit yourself to an individual match&period; The short-fire five minute matches coupled with the fast movement of players adds masses of replayability&period; I can&&num;8217&semi;t reflect on a moment playing Rocket League where things were slow or I felt the need to stop playing because of the lack of intensity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game thrives when playing with friends&semi; jumping into matches proclaiming who is the greatest and worst player at the game is enormous fun&period; Games are memorable due to spectacular fails and goals&period; It somewhat reminds me of FIFA in the respect that everyone is always trying to outshine their counterparts&period; What really appeals to me about the game is how tangible it is&period; You can play a five minute game or end up playing for five hours&period; Chances are you still will be having intensive fun&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;89503" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-89503" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04190955&sol;20141023&lowbar;rocketleague&lowbar;01&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-89503" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04190955&sol;20141023&lowbar;rocketleague&lowbar;01-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Rocket league is as intense as you want it to be&period;" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-89503" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Rocket League is as intense as you want it to be&period; &lpar;Rocket League&comma; Psyonix&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The game exists with a strong serving of customization&period; All of it is purely cosmetic and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t upset the balance of the game&period; I quite enjoyed tricking out my car with a selection of colours and decals&period; It even expands to body types&comma; wheels&comma; flags and jet trails&period; All of the cars can be set up with five types of paint&period; You unlock all your cosmetics purely by playing the game too unless you want to purchase DLC&period; There is no currency system and no weird payment system for getting the best looks&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s simple and pure&period; It also offers more incentive to play the already addictive gameplay&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Rocket League<&sol;em> is one of the first cross-platform titles on PlayStation 4&period; You can play against PC players due to open cross-play servers&period; You cannot directly invite PC opponents but it certainly fills the servers&period; As a matter of fact&comma; there are roughly between 180&comma;000-250&comma;000&plus; players at any one time&period; All game modes from 1v1&comma; 2v2&comma; 3v3 and 4v4 are fully populated&period; There are so many players that should a team mate quit mid-game&comma; he will be instantly replaced by another online player&period; A nice touch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;89504" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-89504" style&equals;"width&colon; 750px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04190941&sol;20141120&lowbar;rocketleague&lowbar;05&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-89504" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;08&sol;04190941&sol;20141120&lowbar;rocketleague&lowbar;05-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"There is plenty of customization to be had&period;" width&equals;"750" height&equals;"422" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-89504" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">There is plenty of customization to be had&period; &lpar;Rocket League&comma; Psyonix&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The ranked playlists are a way of really testing your metal&period; They rank you with players as individuals and teams &lpar;depending on who your with&rpar; on rank skill&period; It makes for some very intense matches and some insane goals and saves&period; Some of my biggest gasps and sweatiest moments happened while playing on ranked&period; It is the best place to lay down smack talk too&period; My personal favourites include &&num;8220&semi;At least you tried&comma;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8220&semi;10&sol;10 for effort&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;don&&num;8217&semi;t quit your day job&&num;8221&semi;&period; Lose or win&comma; competitive play is fun and really hard to put down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One of my favourite features has to be the very simple &&num;8220&semi;split-screen&&num;8221&semi; addition&period; This disappears so often in this generation of games&period; Being able to play locally with some extra pads is pretty awesome&period; You can play as a team online or more likely play 2v2&&num;8217&semi;s against each other&period; It seems really small as a feature&comma; but it really means a lot to me&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s the little things that matter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Rocket League<&sol;em> is simple&comma; fun and damn addictive&period; It was free on PlayStation Plus last month but even if you missed out&comma; it is worth getting&period; I will be playing this title probably into next year&period; I&&num;8217&semi;ve found no reason to stop playing&comma; and I have had fun every time I play it&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s incredible that such a small title can make a big mark by being just &&num;8220&semi;fun&&num;8221&semi; to play without the AAA budget or having a grand story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><em>A PS4 code was provided by Psyonix for the purpose of this review&period; <&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;