

Gang Beasts is a great game to play with friends, and offers a fun experience to players of any skill level. It gives you an opportunity to watch other players and strategize how you will win in the next round. I also really enjoy that there is no respawn mechanic until there is one or no players left standing per round. These costume choices can be purely cosmetic, or actually offer some challenge, like the headless costume where the player character’s head rolls around the environment and can be thrown into the fire pit or off the edge to kill off the headless player. Levels are simple but offer their own challenges, and the developers give you the ability to choose levels, number of lives per level, and even costumes for your characters. The gameplay, as I have alluded to before, is solid. This game is just as fun to play with your buddies on the couch, and this also gave us an opportunity to learn more about the game through experimenting with the environments. I thought there may be a lack of this fun and excitement when we brought that experience to smaller setting, but I am glad to report that I was very wrong. Underlying this simple task are the controls of punching or grabbing opponents, all while wandering around unassumingly lethal levels.īit Bash Chicago brought a large group of people together to play the game, where every move and misstep was reacted to by over 50 people. I was initially really impressed by the simplicity of the game: take out your opponents by any means necessary. If you’re looking for a game to kill some time with a couple of friends, and want to lay the smack down on them, then Gang Beasts could be the game for you.Ĭody Shults, Editor: Like Andrew, I also had an opportunity to play Gang Beasts at Bit Bash Chicago last year. Once I got the hang of the controls, though, it was pretty easy grabbing onto the others and lifting them over the various dangers.
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It may be an update or something else different between the two versions, but at home it was hard to tell if I was even throwing a punch, and being knocked down appeared to be arbitrary. However when playing it at home, I didn’t get that same sense of force. When I played Gang Beasts at Bit Bash earlier this year, it seemed like punching had some heft to it and you could knock out a character for a few seconds. In addition to pulling and throwing your competition, you are also supposed to be able to punch and push them down. While I wholeheartedly enjoyed playing Gang Beasts with friends and participating in the smack talk that comes with it, there were some parts that left for wanting. There are a variety of different types of levels ranging from a meat packaging plant and incinerator to an ocean-front Ferris wheel and a plain old wrestling ring. No story, no extensive game design, just good old button mashing.

There is very little to Gang Beasts in terms of plot: throw your friends into danger and be the last one standing. When playing with a group of friends in a smaller setting, and fewer players, there is no reduction in fun by any means. Andrew Burrage, Editor: I had the opportunity to play Gang Beasts at Bit Bash in Chicago earlier in September, and the game is a total blast, especially in that kind of atmosphere.
