‘MultiVersus' preview: no need to break the bank to enjoy this brawler
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- 28 Jul 2022
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Player First Games and Warner Brothers have teamed up to create MultiVersus, a free-to-play crossover fighting game with characters coming from DC Comics, HBO, Cartoon Network and more. With many across the internet calling it 2022’s answer to Super Smash Bros, we got our hands on the beta to see whether it could live up to those standards.
The platform fighter eases you in gently with a tutorial to help grasp the basics of the controls. A series of optional advanced tutorials are available but not necessary, although completing them will give you helpful information such as the almost-unlimited aerial combat possibilities, and the fact that attack decay is a thing. Attack decay in particular absolutely helps to minimise the desire to button mash your way to victory, with each repeated attack dealing less damage. This virtual hand-holding helps players to familiarise themselves with the controls and attack possibilities should they want to maximise their damage output.
Having said that, racking up the damage numbers isn’t the way to victory but it does help. A team scores a point by knocking their opponent outside the arena boundaries, and the more damage inflicted on a character, the further they fly when yeeted from a platform edge. In a primarily two versus two (2v2) format, you may well find yourself cursing the ineptitude of your randomly matchmade teammate, but in an environment where recovery is obscenely easy to achieve and you’re blessed with perks for levelling up a character, it really doesn’t take long to grasp the best methods of annihilating the opposition from an early point in the game. Read More...
