But dammit, Fallout 4 ’s core exploration/gunplay loop is just so damned addicting I can’t put it down. Yeah, the loot system is a step back, and the settlement building is unintuitive. Yeah, the voice and dialogue changes suck. There’s a reason Valve bundled copies of this game with Steam Machine preorders.īrad: Yeah, the inventory’s still janky. Rocket League bucks the trend and rocks at parties because of it.

I adore old-school gather-‘round-the-big-screen gaming, but the vast majority of games these days-even Halo 5 on Xbox One!-are ditching local play for online-only solutions.

Rocket League’s easy enough to pick up and dabble in, but it also replicates the feeling of true team sports better than any Madden/FIFA/NHL/NBA game-rewarding practice, urging you to work with your teammates, and encouraging sportsmanship win or lose.īrad: Hayden summed up the tight, dumb fun of the game already, but I want to touch on a tidbit that makes me love Rocket League even more: Local split-screen support for up to four players. Rocket League elevates a simple (and admittedly dumb) concept into maybe the best sports game ever made, a tightly tuned experience where rocket-powered vehicles drive (and jump and flip and fly) around an arena trying to get the oversized ball into the oversized net.

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