Gaming During Lockdown

  The game that took PlayStation by storm back in August last year, Fall Guys is a brilliantly chaotic new take on the battle royale genre. Inspired by Takeshi’s Castle and Ninja Warrior, you are tasked with completing a plethora of obstacle courses, team minigames and races in order to best 59 other players and win the Fall Guys crown. By late 2020, the battle royale blueprint had been done to death thanks to the popularity of games like Fortnite, Apex Legends and PUBG. So, I am thankful that Fall Guys released and arguably blew all of those games out of the water based on originality alone. Fall Guys managed to blend a currently successful genre with one that had started to die out and should be commended for that accomplishment alone.    Players begin a game alongside fifty-nine others and each round they progress through brings them closer to the coveted Fall Guys crown. Eliminations happen when players fail to finish a race in time, fail to survive certain obstac...

The FIFA series has had a monopoly over the football genre for years in the videogame industry. Even Pro Evolution Soccer (a series once heralded for its moment-to-moment gameplay) has now accepted its silver medal with its popularity waning. The problem I think most sports games have is finding that unique style that shakes the generic formula up in some way. FIFA was able to find that first launching the successful Street series in the early 2000s and has recently had to delve back into that bag of tricks by introducing Volta. Even The Journey, a career mode centred around football prodigy Alex Hunter gave the franchise some new life and I for one was enticed to play it to its conclusion. Essentially, for any sprots title to pique the interest of a new audience it has to offer something unexpected, and this is where we introduce Rise of New Champions. Captain Tsubasa is based on an anime of the same name and intends to include all of the features I said a new game in the genre ...