![]() You control a team of nine players - three defenders, mid-fielders and attackers. The sport itself is quite simplistic, if a little cluttered with too many rules. The game's cyber-punk presentation has a cynical edge, with brutality being rewarded as you're encouraged to take down opponents as nastily as possible. Sort of.ĭeveloped as a collaboration between Tower Studios (comprising of former Bitmap Brothers employees) and Vivid Games, Speedball 2 Evolution is a futuristic sports game based on pinball, football, rugby and ice-hockey. Turns out it was the game we wanted all along. Thing is, contrary to our opening paragraph, we'd never actually played Speedball. ![]() Iterations of the popular cyber-punk sporting series have appeared on practically every video game system in existence, with PlayStation Minis being the latest platform to scoop up an updated version of the massively popular franchise. ![]() We'd heard of The Bitmap Brothers' Speedball series of course. But until recently our desire for experimental sports remained unfulfilled. Thankfully we managed to avoid the regrettable deed. Believe it or not, we once had Quidditch World Cup for PS2 sitting in our eBay Watch list. Our lust for unique sporting experiments has taken us to dark places in the past. Numerous publishers do a great job replicating the on pitch action of the real-life sports we love year-after-year, but never dare to push their wares into uncharted sporting territory. It's just a shame that the actual gameplay itself is so over-complicated and unbalanced, even if it is impossibly moreish.įor years we've pondered why game developers don't use the potential of the interactive medium to create new sports.
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