![]() ![]() ![]() There are, currently, ten playable heroes unlocked with the game’s purchase and one more hero available during season 1. Thankfully, there is an offline PvE mode for players to familiarize themselves with the game before beginning the inevitable cycle of fruitless, unceasing deaths that must precede getting the hang of any new shooter. It is something to acquaint yourself with but also an interesting breath of fresh air. Combine this with the compact maps and scaling knockback system, and gameplay becomes wild.Īnd all that might sound a little complicated, certainly. You can’t just spam a lead hail-storm at your opponent, knowing at least some bullets will hit their mark. Players are forced to not only consider velocity but also the trajectory, AoE, and cooldowns. This salient lack of banana clips and bandoliers encourages a much more careful aim when firing. Indeed, each hero has their own unique weapon system and play-style. ![]() Some rockets zip through the air in straight vectors, some arc, some shoot forth in volleys, some have ammo counts while others do not. What makes this damage mechanic shine is the way projectiles work in Rocket Arena: they are all, appropriately, rockets. There’s no run-and-gun bullet spraying each character has their own flavor of rocket with its own unique dynamics. Instead, players collect damage in a Super Smash Bros style hit-bar that increases the knockback effect of attacks, eventually maxing out at “Mega Blast” where one hit can send players racing over the horizon. In Rocket Arena there is no grisly, blood-spattered death like some of the grittier shooters. And while the aesthetic similarities can’t be denied, the game isn’t even a battle royale It’s a 3v3 TPS that merges elements of Smash Bros and Hero Shooters like Overwatch and Paladins and shares almost no gameplay overlap with Fortnite - so it’s strange, in a world replete with actual Fortnite ripoffs, that the one game that isn’t gets branded so. Rocket Arena is sometimes accused of being a ripoff of Fortnite, with its cartoonish, more PG graphics and slapstick tone. ![]()
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