📚 Review: Knockout City is a simple and very effective multiplayer shooter

Trade in your guns for dodgeballs in this fun and unique riff on third-person shooters. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who has never played a game of dodgeball before. One of the time-honored gym class traditions that separated the nerds from the jocks, dodgeball invokes memories of Axe body spray, scraped knees, and getting last week's algebra notes absolutely smacked out of my head. But no amount of suppressed adolescent trauma could stop me from getting excited about Knockout City, the newest multiplayer shooter that trades out pistols and assault rifles for good old rubber balls of pain. This comes courtesy of Velan Studios, the team responsible for last year's mixed reality racing game Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit on the Nintendo Switch. Published by Electronic Arts under its EA Originals label (the same label that published A Way Out, It Takes Two, and Sea of Solitude), Knockout City hopes its multiplayer offering will be easy enough to pick up and play, while still of... ...