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3/5
Punch, Kick, Repeat (Over and Over and Over Again)
Chris Kavan - wrote on 02/09/2023
Multiplayer games are hit and miss and Override: Mech City Brawl, from Brazil, is kind of in the middle. The best thing going for it is the unique way multiplayer is implemented - with each player controlling an arm or leg (or two players controlling the arms or legs) and working together to beat down various enemies. Unfortunately the experience can't match expectations and the game gets highly repetitive rather quickly.
Looks and Stuff: The game is something to look at, that's for sure. Mech designs are clearly "inspired" by several anime and western productions - Gundam, Transformers, Voltron, Patlabor and probably dozens of others. You can even dress up your mechs by unlocking different color schemes and specialty outfits - either by randomly unlocking them while playing or buying …
Rating of
3/5
Let’s Get Ready to Stumble!
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/07/2022
“Override: Mech City Brawl” (“Override”) is the first, last, and only effort from Brazilian Indie studio, The Balance, Inc. Shortly after the release of “Override” in 2018, the publisher for the game, Modus Games, purchased The Balance, Inc. and transformed it into Modus Games Brazil. As always, the MeltedJoystick Crew is perpetually on the lookout for unique cooperative gaming experiences, be they online-only, couch-coop-only, or somewhere in between. I first became aware of “Override” due to the heavy promotion of its novel cooperative mode: A “Voltron”-like experience where up to four players each control one (or more) parts of a single giant mech.
Unfortunately with Local Coop Night shredded like yesterday’s newspaper thanks to a combination of the COVID-19 …
