If they play on different platforms, crossplay is available across the board (PC, PS4, and Xbox One). Practice mode allows you to hone your skills and private hosting can be a good way to battle friends. There are ten ‘Competitors,’ or ‘Heroes,’ and ten maps where the mayhem will take place. The ‘Rocket Championship Tour’ attracts rocketeers around the world of ‘Crater’ to duke it out against each other in exotic and futuristic locales. The Context of Crater: Overview of Lore & Structure This final entry may become a tale of tragedy when it comes to the recurring player base, but it deserves to finish this generation of character shooters with a bang, even if there are a few whimpers along the way. Ultimately, Rocket Arena is the conclusive cap to the hero shooter saga. Since then, we have seen a string of successes and failures in this team-based gaming sphere. This is a sub-genre that aims to replicate the appeal of that Blizzard FPS by boasting closed quarters maps and a host of colorful characters to play as.
When Overwatch achieved tremendous success upon release in 2016, the ‘hero shooter’ was born. In today’s world of countless shooters, it’s destined to be forgotten.Rocket Arena Review JB McCarthy - No Comments Rocket Arena is a competent game with a clear sense of what a 3v3 rocket match should be from a technical perspective, but it furtively struggles to find an entertaining hook to keep players coming back. It’s cool for a few rounds, but there’s a serious lack of desire to come back for more. The ephemeral fun factor doesn’t stick around from match to match. The powerups feel like they should be significant, but most of the time you just throw/trigger them and go about your business as usual. Each match has an assortment of bombs, speed ups, and other powerups that you can pick up from random boxes. Mystery boxes attempt to add a bit of flash and flavor to each round but fail. The moment-to-moment zipping around each arena, blasting away with rockets ad nauseam and splashing in your abilities on cooldown loses its luster and becomes monotonous. While I enjoyed Topnotch more than other characters, playing Rocket Arena becomes rote quickly.
I settled on Topnotch as my favorite hero, a salt-of-the-earth old rocketeer who features bouncing rockets, a line artillery strike, and a huge lock-on blast that’s great for area denial and blowing up multiple enemies in a single strike. They’re well-designed, foster lots of action, and have more personality than the heroes themselves. The arenas themselves are quite small, appearing like mini-theme parks complete with unique mechanics to play around, like a train running through a mountain canyon. Rocketball can leave you completely unaware of what’s happening before a goal is scored, and treasure hunt feels like a party game one-off event that’s jarring compared to the rest of the artillery play, running around to scoop up coins like a speed platformer. The treasure-hunting game and the soccer-inspired mode feel slightly different from the rest of the offerings, but not in good ways. In addition to your primary rocket style, you have some special skills and an active dodge, the latter being a timing skill test that you can master after you’ve handled the rest of your kit.Īll matches are 3v3, and they include modes where you score goals like a sporting event, try to hold a specific area as it moves around the map, attempt to collect the most coins, or just plain knock your opponents out of the arena. Their loadouts are more interesting they each have cool variants on rockets, whether you like rapid-fire mini-rockets, bouncing rockets, or sniper-scoped rockets. There’s mermaid girl, guy with dinosaur hatchling, pirate man, and other rejects from a theoretical Nickelodeon cartoon lineup.
Heroes are an essential part of any hero shooter, but none of their designs resonated with me.
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