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Aside from the 1v1 Face-Off mode, all others consist of 3v3 battles. There are multiple modes available from on launch, including Team KO, Diamond Dash, Party Team KO, and Face-Off. Once you've set up your crew, search for a match from the main menu and you're away. When you start Knockout City, you're dropped into a hub where you can practice on a dummy, learn about the different types of balls, and mess about with your friends. But you don't need to worry if you're more of an 'it's not about the winning, it's about the taking part' sort of person, as Knockout City manages to find a good balance between competitiveness and a fun time.

These are just some of the many factors you'll need to take into account if you want to come away with the win.

Not only can enemies fake a throw and make you panic grab, but you'll also need to take into account how long the player is charging the throw as this changes the speed of the incoming ball. You'll need to be on the ball - pardon the pun - because there are various factors to take into account when grabbing a projectile that's hurtling towards you. Although it can often be difficult to grab an incoming ball and avoid getting KO'd, you'll soon start to realise the appropriate time to grab. Knockout City does get plenty of things right though, most importantly the controls and gameplay feel incredibly smooth. These are far from world-ending issues, and can easily be rectified in future updates, but they were enough to frustrate. Most competitive games will showcase player stats in the after match screen but instead, Knockout City's menu requires you to flick through a couple of menus to see how you and your teammates performed. I'm sure there is a much easier way to rectify this problem, but it definitely wasn't made clear in the menu system.Īnother example of the overly complicated menu comes at the end of a match. Instead, we were forced to return to the main menu and start the process again. Following each match, there was no clear way to swap players into the match that were previously spectating. Now, I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but from the moment I launched Knockout City, the menu system seemed overly convoluted and counterintuitive.Ī prime example of this being an issue in the 1v1 mode. Thankfully, Velan Studios have made it clear that this is a passion project that they intend on supporting for quite some time. Unfortunately, even going into the game with an incredibly optimistic view, some elements just miss the mark.ĭon't get me wrong, with the right teammates and a better skill set than I have, players are sure to have a blast with Knockout City, however, there's definitely room for improvements. I was eager to grab my squad, finally turn off Warzone, and have endless amounts of dodgeball fun in Knockout City. I've racked up plenty of hours in games such as Rocket League and Fall Guys, so Knockout City looked like a fun, quirky game that was right up my street. Knockout Cityimmediately caught my attention when it was revealed back in February. From there, players should fully charge the ball and snipe enemies as if the platform was a sniper crow's nest.Just when I thought my athletic abilities couldn't get any worse, Velan Studios release Knockout City and make me realise I'm awful at virtual dodgeball as well as the real thing! Should the randomly selected special ball in a back alley brawl match be the sniper ball, the best strategy is to stick to the elevated platforms, which players can access via green jump pads. This gap is considerably smaller than most edges on other maps, so the player must carefully and properly aim downwards towards the fall. If the special ball in a match on this map is the cage ball, the player's best chance at a successful KOs is short ranged cage ball attacks, near the glowing purple edge in the map's center. The two ball types which should be carefully used on this map, however, are the cage ball and the sniper ball. These include bomb balls, multi-balls, gravity-warping moon balls and more. In Knockout City, each match will have a combination of standard dodgeballs and special balls of one type, randomly selected from the list of special balls.