When you first see Rocket League, you'll be immediately drawn to its bright, appealing visuals and ostensibly simple gameplay formula of 'Hit big ball with car to score goal'. Easy, right? Well, nope... The realisation of Rocket League's high skill level will hit you when you jump into your first match (unless you're one of the few players coming over from its obscure predecessor, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battlecars). Rocket League is purely physics-based, which means that it requires extreme precision on your part, and that's not easy to do when you're losing all perspective of up and down as you try to decide whether the ball camera or standard 3rd-person camera are best (hint: you need both). In your first game, as you find yourself stuck in your own goal, driving up the wall, or floating pointlessly to the wrong end of the pitch after missing an ill-judged lunge for the ball now rolling into the goal you left open, you'll think to yourself 'How the hell am I ever going to get good at this?' The answer, young one, is that you just keep playing, which isn't hard to do considering how compelling and ultimately rewarding Rocket League is.
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I'm a writer-editor hybrid whose writings on video games, technology and movies can be found across the internet. I've even ventured into the realm of current affairs on occasion but, unable to face reality, have retreated into expatiating on things on screens instead.
