The maps are all locations around Beeftown, ranging from a subway, meat packing plant, and billboard. About 5 of those maps are also in the singleplayer pool. Melee is the best game mode, a crazy free-for-all, gang is melee but with teams, soccer is an interesting variation on the sports that allows you to beat up your opponents, and waves is the singleplayer mode, but with other people online.There’s over 10 maps, all colorful and interesting, that can be played online or locally.

There are four online modes, melee, gang, soccer, and waves.

The game features various customization options for your character, ranging from firefighters to fast food employees. Gang beasts offers a singleplayer mode where you face the AI on various maps, which is interesting but does get repetitive after some time. This is a fact many players will agree on, but don’t rule out the singleplayer. GangGang Beasts is amazing fun, and best played with friends.

Gang Beasts is amazing fun, and best played with friends. If you’re looking for a good time with some friends who maybe aren’t the most able gamers, Gang Beasts has a lot going for it.

A few modes help flesh it out further (including one co-op) with some variety, and you could hope the potential for some online play would throw some challenges your way periodically, but the joy here is really about in-person play, laughing, smack talking, and making a ruckus as the on-screen action plays itself out. The fact that Gang Beasts mashes them both together in one pretty silly package is a credit to having some confidence or just plain nerve, and while nuanced fighting fans will likely find playing it akin to fingernails on a chalkboard, if you’re able to take a step back and embrace the button-mashy goofiness of it there’s still just enough strategy in flailing and taking down enemies to give it some appeal. Both “wacky physics” and local multiplayer games have a tendency to suffer from people having extremely positive or negative views of them,Both “wacky physics” and local multiplayer games have a tendency to suffer from people having extremely positive or negative views of them, either embracing and “getting” the style of play or likely despising it.

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