Dive headlong into the funniest multiplayer fighting game of our days! This is Gang Beasts offering you to get a portion of real fun while controlling the battles of gelatinous characters. They are colorful, comic, and looking like awkward balloons.

These funny little fighters are placed into the strangest environments with various types of arenas. Download Gang Beasts to knock out your opponents out of the arena as soon as possible and become the high-class gelatinous fighter (no matter how weird it sounds). To know about the oddities in the game, read our Gang Beasts review below.

Graphics — 4.5/5

Cartoonish 3D graphics is probably the thing you need to immerse into the game entirely. Though your missions are violent, namely to fight the opponents, the colorful visuals restrain real aggression by adding fun and lightness to this fighting game.

The visual effects are not usual for this game genre. In Gang Beasts, there are no realistic visuals common for the fighting games. The effects are minimalistic, the animations are simple, and the overall atmosphere reminds some kind of a cartoon you have somehow immersed in.

Gang Beasts was to be heading to Xbox One later this month, but pre-orders have had to be postponed for a second time unfortunately as the title just isn't quite ready. It appears that there's.

Let this cartoon be ruled by your will: dress your gelatinous characters in different costumes and change their appearance. The background music which is silly as the graphics complement the overall experience.

Gameplay — 4.5/5

Gang Beasts is a pixel arcade action game with a cooperative mode and the ability to play on the same computer, in which players will control little gelatinous men fighting each other. More than two players are needed to take part in a silly fighting confrontation.

The essence of the game is simple: you are (or rather your character) is involved in a series of battles in different locations. You proceed to a new level with higher complexity and another environment. Toss other players to knock out each of them from the playing arena. You need to carry out different funny actions to fight your opponent. While doing it, make sure you are not dying of laughter.

Switching between various gaming modes and eight maps, you are trying to stand the last one on the arena. Apollo 11 metacritic. The task is difficult yet addictive and full of fun.

Most of the matches turn into the real chaos so that you can’t restrain laughter no way.

Controls — 4/5

Though you may think it is hard to control gelatinous characters because of the problematic controls, it is not so. It may be only because of the game’s special physics, but the controls are straightforward and manageable.

All you need to do is to grab other opponents with both of your arms, lift them, and toss them out of the arena. A mouse and a keyboard are at your disposal as they are meant for controlling all actions. So you are going to handle the controls after a while of practicing. The only thing you need to give more attention during the fights is your stamina bar. It represents the health condition, so you better make sure it is full when you are trying to control your character in a fight.

Replay Value — 4.5/5

As Gang Beasts is addictive and fun, most of the players prefer coming back for more. Odd characters and silliest fights ever, isn’t it a reason to replay the game?

Gang Beasts is versatile and unique. Thanks to funny effects, cartoonish animations, and various means to fight, it brings you an enjoyable gaming experience. Playing at least once is a must, replaying is highly-recommendable.

The Bottom Line

Gang Beasts is the unique title among tons of other fighting games. It is action-packed and full of fun. Hours of laughter and excitement with the funniest characters is guaranteed. If you want to experience something new and unusual in the genre, then Gang Beasts is the choice.

Melt down an action figure to its primordial goo. Shape the wreckage into an anthropomorphic body, and somehow keep the limited points of articulation. Insert it into a dangerous arena with three companion abominations. Inspire it with the will to live and the instinct to destroy. Add a silly hat.

The eventual product is Gang Beasts, a multiplayer brawler more interested in coddling chaos than honing control.Obfuscating control in the pursuit of creative anarchy is a proven, if not rapidly decaying, approach to game design., and pleased a remote audience as well as they entertained a local player, but this trend felt stale by the time the wrapping came off in. Gang Beasts, which was first released to early access in 2014 at the peak of this phenomenon, seeks to apply this principle to an arena-based fighting game.Tapping the left and right shoulder button issues a left or right punch. Holding down the same shoulder button turns your arm into glue. Pushing the A button jumps, but only when the button is released.

X and B are responsible for ducking and a half-assed kick, respectively. Y lifts a held object (almost always another player) above your head. For some reason, double-tapping B deploys a vicious head-butt. These are the primitive instruments in which Gang Beasts allows its players to orchestrate comic pandemonium.Certainly, a more intuitive control system could have been developed. Of equal certainty is the negative impact it would have had on Gang Beasts’ performance. It’s sloppy by design and stupid by necessity, creating a volatile mixture of artistry and luck perfected to match Gang Beasts’ maniac aesthetic.

It’s a bunch of goofy blob people fighting each other, a post-modern version of Bum Fights where nobody actually gets hurt and empathy isn’t sacrificed in the agreement.The absence of a normal control model does not preclude the development and application of skill. Either a properly cocked punch or a fierce head-butt can knock an opponent out cold. This creates a small window of time to pick an opponent up and use your momentum to hurl them out of the arena and win the match. Inevitably, said opponent always comes to life at the last second and clings to life in a mad scramble. Watching someone either pull themselves out of a meat grinder or dangle below a moving truck reflects panic and desperation on both sides of the equation.

You can never count someone out, often in spite of the effort on either side.Gang Beasts’ collection of levels present different angles to explore its potential. A wrestling ring is the vanilla layout, with similar low-stress options on a rooftop or on the catwalk of a roadside billboard. These are opportune places to learn and practice the basics. Soon you can move onto two opposing elevators, the aforementioned area loaded with meat grinders, one with a fan contraption that throws players into the sky, and another with two trucks accelerating down a highway. Fighting (or taking advantage of) the environment is as important to survival as trying not to receive a concussion.Then there’s the Ferris wheel level, which, in our experience, created an exhibition closer to performance art than open fighting. Each player begins the match in a different car, and the challenge is supposed to lie in finding a safe way to navigate to another player’s car so you can beat the shit out of them there. By hanging onto the Ferris wheel’s spokes, we ended up using Gang Beasts’ physics system to break the cars off the wheel and create a dangerously unstable playing field.

From there almost nothing happened on purpose, leaving the rules of death and victory open to a personal belief system. Making a dangerous mess and somehow finding a way out was a thrill on par with any of party-gaming’s most valuable moments.Combining three friends with three hours of Gang Beasts quantitatively provided one of the best multiplayer experiences I have ever had. It’s in the company of, and Samurai Gun of straightforward games tuned for parties and focused gatherings. It looks so damn stupid, and its basic operation narrows the gap between novice and professional. In our session, Gang Beasts produced a density of laughter and screaming not present in many other four-player (or two teamed) competitions. When all of its pieces are aligned, Gang Beasts beliefs are almost impossible to doubt.Despite officially leaving early access in 2017 and coming to the PlayStation 4 over a year ago, Gang Beasts is still kind of a mess.

On a launch Xbox One, it drops frames when action gets hectic and crawls whenever glass is shattered. Sometimes the camera either has no idea where to focus the action or can’t see through a massive object in the environment. The suspicion that the whole thing is about to break is somehow consistent with Gang Beasts’ precarious aesthetic but, technically, these are actual problems and not part of the ride.Like its PlayStation 4 and PC counterparts, the Xbox One release of Gang Beasts features online multiplayer through Xbox Live.

I do not have an Xbox Live Gold account. I am sorry.Multiplayer brawling is the core of Gang Beasts, but it does try to stretch it legs elsewhere. Waves mode throws hordes of AI opponents at human players and is mostly bad. Soccer mode applies Gang Beasts controls to booting around a soccer ball on a small field in a timed match. While soccer technically works, it was also something I played once and never wanted to play again.

These feel like sideshows created to pad Gang Beasts’ “content,” and feel incongruous to its delightful main attraction.It’s hard to care about Gang Beasts’ limitations. I’m not bothered by non-existent tutorials, the lack of a coherent single player option, and disastrous technical issues. I also don’t try to use scissors to change a light bulb or substitute gasoline for vegetable oil. Gang Beasts’ ability to simultaneously entertain four locally available human beings and consistently pull laughter from cartoon violence is more valuable than any of its perceived shortcomings. When used as designed, which is a hell of a qualification, Gang Beasts can still make fire anywhere you try to start it.