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Rocket Arena is an arena-style FPS game that provides you the respawn system, ripping the "death" part from "deathmatch". Jump out and back in the arena to revenge the enemies who knock you out!
You can watch the full announcement trailer below:
Rocket Arena gameplay
From the name “Rocket Arena”, you can guess the major parts of its gameplay. You’ll take control of your character to join in a closed 3-on-3 arena, cooperating with two teammates and shooting rockets to knock out your enemies as many times as possible. Each round will last for 5 minutes, and the team with more knock-out counts will be the winner.
The fun thing is that the game doesn’t follow the same mechanics of other shooters. They’ve eliminated the headshot mechanics, and only rockets are allowed. Every character has a blast meter that will increase every time you are hit by a rocket explosion. When it reaches the critical point, the character is immediately knocked out of the round, but will rapidly come back and continue shooting.
Of course, people don’t walk in a fantasy world, and Rocket Arena is no exception. The game allows a variety of movement abilities including dash, teleport, hooking, double jump, triple jump, and even rocket jump to hop around the maps shooting and dodging.
The game also provides another play mode. It’s a football-like mode, where people will focus on shooting the ball into the goal instead of shooting rockets of the enemies.
Fantasy-like settings
The game has toon-like graphics. The characters look like they coming from a Dreamworks Animation film, which is friendlier and will be easier to gain acceptance of parents. Objects on the maps are also fantasy-inspired, which made the game even less violence and “healthier” entertaining, like what Super Mario Bros had brought.
The rockets – the main firing projectile of the game varies from different characters, which is quite fancy for anyone not expecting a bloody shooting scenario. For instance, Kayi fires lightning bolts, Amphora shoots real rockets and Izell throws flamed spear. Each character also has alternative shooting equipment with some interesting support effects: Kayi shoot a snowball that slows the incoming projectile, Amphora drops bouncing bombs and Izell throws a hurling bola.
The game is confirmed to be released for PC and Xbox on launch. You can sign up for the closed beta now. PlayStation 4 version is still under development.