The only problem is that it’s pretty difficult to throw someone about if they’re still holding on to you and punching at you, but that’s where a lot of the fun lies.įortunately, you can essentially knock a foe unconscious with a swift punch or head-butt, which disables their ability to grab onto things momentarily.

You can grab at any other player or different parts of the environment, whilst you can also quickly lift anything up to launch it around the place. Your main goal is to be the last man standing, with each level offering a variety of different ways to eliminate each player – most of the time it’ll just be a case of throwing them over the edge of the map though. It’s all very clumsy and often pretty awkward, but it’s always totally chaotic and a lot of fun. In a nutshell, Gang Beasts is a physics-based fighter that sees you punching, grabbing, head-butting, and literally throwing yourself at other players as you battle across a variety of dynamic yet dangerous levels. It’s also a title that has its fair share of flaws right now, though it’s nothing that should stop you from thinking about purchasing it.

Now I’ve got a chance to really sink my teeth into it I can see what all the buzz was about – it really is a brilliant little title.

I didn’t get a chance to play it back then, but it certainly caught my eye.įast-forward over two years (and a lengthy Early Access release) and Gang Beasts is finally officially available on the Playstation 4 and PC, bringing its bizarre-battling gameplay to the masses. I was wandering the show floor at EGX and there were a huge group of people laughing at (and queuing up to play, of course) a game that involved four strange little characters beating the heck out of each other and then attempting to throw one another into the deadly hazards that surrounded each level. I remember when I first encountered Gang Beasts.

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