![]() You can also turn on combat mode to spar with other players that have entered into Playground Mode. Playground Mode gives you free rein of the map of Grapital City, and highlights various tutorial areas across the map which you can use to learn about individual aspects of the game. There's a lot to learn about Rumbleverse's combat system, and the best way to get to grips with it is to spend some time in Playground Mode when you first load up the game. ![]() ![]() Early Access begins on February 8th.Watch on YouTube Use Playground Mode to learn the basics Rumbleverse launches in 2022 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Here’s to hoping that Epic is able to spread the word about this game in the coming months, and that the final product delivers. With Epic’s backing and Iron Galaxy’s talent, Rumbleverse could have a long future ahead of it. Rumbleverse could join Riot’s Project L fighter as a critical moment where a new fighting game is able to break into the mainstream and stay there. The FGC has already shown much interest in it, with household names like Justin Wong and UltraDavid praising the beta. This project could bring together communities that never would have touched, and help feed more lifeblood into the fighting game community. It’s ironic that the fighting side of Rumbleverse is an arena fighter, a controversial subgenre due to its high volume of licensed games, but it’s what works best with the battle royale format. Tetris has been clawing its way back to relevance with a battle royale of its own, and it’s high time that fighting games do the same. For as much as fighting and puzzle games have done for modern competitive gaming, they failed to adapt to the changing landscape and were left behind. Killer Instinct (2013) developer Iron Galaxy has managed to combine one of the most successful esports genres with one of the least. Rumbleverse isn’t just notable for the rare breed it is, but also what it represents and what it can do. This keeps the action fresh without robbing Rumbleverse of the stable core a competitive game needs. Where the fighting and BR mechanics truly merge is in the pick-ups players can find and imbibe up to ten stat-increasing potions per match, and can find weapons and special moves lying around. The game will be free-to-play and monetized primarily through battlepasses, like Fortnite. Striking, dodging, shielding, grabbing, a super mode, and even parkour reminiscent of Prototype are all standardized. Players start on the same playing field, with the same pool of attacks, stats, and mechanics. The walls gradually close in as the match continues, pushing players together until there is only one left. Rumbleverse is the first to advertise itself as such, and it is undeniably equal parts a fighting game and a battle royale.Īs seen in beta footage, forty players skydive into a large city to duke it out. Some other titles have gone the melee-focused approach like Naraka: Bladepoint and Shadow Arena, but none of them have fully embraced the trappings of the 3D fighting genre. Fall Guys is the most notable title to break away from its association with first and third-person shooters, using party and physics elements instead. In the past few years, many have tried to jump on the back of the culture-shaping popularity of battle royales, and some have tried to do it differently. RELATED: Fortnite's Street Fighter Collabs Are Great, but More Fighting Games Deserve a Chance Rumbleverse is the First True Fusion of Fighting Games and Battle Royale What Iron Galaxy is bringing to the table with the upcoming Rumbleverse is far from normal, and the game is set to make waves as big as its sky-high piledrivers. Or rather, a normal battle royale wouldn’t turn heads. The market for them is getting fairly saturated by this point, so that alone is not something that will turn many heads. Not content with Fortnite and Fall Guys, Epic Games has funded another battle royale project. ![]() However, there was one other Epic-aligned announcement at the Game Awards that slipped past most viewers. While Epic’s presence was subtle, it was undoubtedly a good showing for it. Even Fall Guys showed up with some Disney-crossover outfits, which is nothing to sneeze at. PC game store proprietor, Unreal Engine developer, and Fortnite creator Epic Games showed up as expected with a trailer for Fortnite’s new Chapter 3, and the announcement that it had secured Final Fantasy 7 Remake as a PC exclusive on its storefront. While Nintendo was notably absent, many of the other game industry leaders were present with exciting games and even the occasional film. The 2021 Game Awards were packed with exciting reveals this year.
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