It’s buggy as all hell with characters sometimes stretching to cartoonish proportions and sometimes you’ll get repeatedly disconnected from a room before you can even connect. There’s really nothing out there that quite captures the same feeling you get in Gang Beasts when you drop kick another player, pick him up, and drunkenly stumble your way to chuck him into a meat grinder as your character goofily chuckles to himself.Īs great as the main game is, Gang Beasts’ online beta is unapologetically beta in every regard. Gang Beasts really shines in its interesting maps where you’ll be fighting on top of speeding semi-trucks, ferris wheels, a patch of drifting ice, or an incinerator room.

Punching another player in the face to get him to let go of your arm before he makes both of you fall off a gondola is something that never gets old. While the game doesn’t really have any sort of deep combat system, it more than makes up for it in pure charm and stupidity. You’ll kick, head butt, body slam, and grapple while trying to not lose from laughing so hard. It’s a four player brawler where each player controls what amounts to silly putty and you’ll clumsily punch your way to victory in various hazard filled arenas. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to have never heard of Gang Beasts, I’ll run through the basics real quick.

You slowly work your way up to it and end your night in a crescendo of laughter and play dough wrestlers. Gang Beasts is that game you don’t immediately play. You definitely don’t want to start the night with the absolute best game either because then it’s just downhill from there. Play too many of the same games and your nights just get repetitive, introduce too many new games and you run the risk of consecutive bad games that might ruin the night. I like to think there’s an art to a successful co-op game night with friends. MonsterVine was supplied with a PC code for review Gang Beasts is no longer confined to local play with its online beta finally rolling out.

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