The game might be cartoonish, with its simple graphics, adorable characters and plain colors, but it sure is not a game for kids. There are still others, and some of them include duking it out on top of fast-moving trucks while dodging oncoming traffic signs, brawling inside a subway with incoming trains, and fighting on a gondola, hundreds of feet in the air. Oh, you can also throw them off a ledge with lava on the bottom side of the map. Sounds really violent, but the game’s adorable, simple (though bland) and colorful (sort of…) environment relinquishes any bloody thought. After you knock your opponent unconscious by either headbutting, or sumo-slamming them to the ground, you can then pick them up and throw them into the grinder. There’s even this map where you and the others fight inside an area with industrial shredders. Though small, each map offers you a number of things (and by a ‘number of things’, it usually means pitfalls or deadly devices) to use against other players to defeat them. You will be fighting the other players in a variety of maps.

In this mode, the last man standing which has not been squished by large objects, run through by cars, thrown off a ledge or any of the sort, will be declared as the winner. The game mode’s called the ‘Survival Mode’. The game gets shorter, depending on which map you are situated in, and will depend on how long it’ll finish by how you or the other players fight out with each other. Gang Beasts, although fun and entertaining, has only one game mode right now, which usually always leads to the player by just simply surviving throughout each round.

The game is still in beta, so there’s still going to be a lot of bugfixes, patches, additional contents, and many more. The game’s sort of like a platformer brawling game (like GetAmped, for any of you who’s familiar), and punishes you if you fall off ledge, and aides you through interacting with the objects scattered around the area (though there’s not much objects displayed, in the meantime). Personally, I was hesitant and found myself doubting whether or not I’ll enjoy the game at first, but then right after I checked a gameplay of it on the internet, I decided to give it a try. The real gist of Gang Beasts, though, is by how fun the game gets. Gang Beasts is an online MULTIPLAYER game, which means you can play with your friends on the same PC, all the while playing with other players online. However, though not complex, the game still challenges you to survive throughout the fight, pitting you against other players. The mechanics of the game is simple: whoever has the most number of lives remaining, well, wins. This game doesn’t really require much thinking in order for you to win. From its wobbly physics, to frustrating (sort of) controls, to even its creative environments where you fight, Gang Beasts is surely a game that you and your friends would enjoy, even on just one PC.

If you are a fan of games with silly or random contents, and just want to have fun by just running around, falling off ledges and meeting your demise, or by wrestling your enemies (or friends) into an industrial shredder, then Gang Beasts is just be the game for you.

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