amphibious_ReViews

Typically, when an online multiplayer game makes the transition from console to mobile, one of two sacrifices has to be made. Either the game comes over as-is and suffers thanks to unintuitive touchscreen controls, or it gets redesigned as a spin-off, losing some of the oomph of the original, but feeling a lot more at home on the platform. Psyonix chose the second option with Rocket League and created Sideswipe , blowing everyone away with how it still felt like the source material, despite the redesign. As a testament to its quality, within days of its release, professional Rocket League players were raving about Sideswipe and playing it as a legitimate counterpart to the original. As a fresh perspective on a familiar game, Sideswipe picked up steam pretty quickly. When I think of Rocket League , I think of two things - playing "soccar" and customizing my vehicles. While there's more nuance to it than that, I feel like my experience generally boils down to those two

Save for Team Fortress 2 , online shooters have never really been my thing. However, Fortnite has held its ground as such a huge cultural phenomenon... and it's free. I had to give it a try at least once, and for a while, I was actually pretty interested. I'm not proud to say it, but I did buy the battle pass once, and I had some fun trying to complete the challenges it came with. However, the only time I was really enjoying myself with the game was when I would play online with my friends. Fortnite is a battle royale shooter with destructible environments, which allows players to harvest materials and build their own protective structures. This adds a nice layer of depth not present in other battle royale games, but I found it kind of difficult to learn, especially when I'm trying to dodge the bullets of 99 other people. Thus, most of my time was spent trying to sneak up on my opponents or trying to snipe them from a safe distance. Although I'm not great at the g