![]() Costume concepts from Batman, Minions, Colonel Sanders, The Witcher and many more have fans excited about what sort of customization options and crossover opportunities may be in store down the line. The game has already had a few official video game crossover costumes, such as a pre-order bonus for the PC version that gave players a Gordon Freeman skin from the Half-Life games, and just recently players had the opportunity to grab a Bullet Kin skin from one of Devolver’s other popular games, Enter the Gungeon. Fall Guys features a costume shop in which players can customize their “fall guy” with a number of different costume parts that can be purchased with real money or in-game currency. This has been reignited once again by the influx of new players from the Free For All update. People sharing clips of last-second victories and crushing defeats as well as hundreds of pieces of fan art, many of which depict the potential for movie and video game-themed crossover costumes for players. Some updates also affected the game on a wider scale, such as changing the minigame rotation so that it would not choose two team-based minigames to be played back to back, something that many players initially found irritating, as well as adding additional stages into the game.īeyond the sheer numbers of viewers and players the game has brought in, Fall Guys spread throughout social media has been just as fierce. Mediatonic has also taken steps to improve the reporting and removal of cheaters from the game. The server stability is noticeably improved however, the occasional disconnection and lag spike still exist. In the following weeks and years, the game saw many hotfix updates to address some of these issues. Some players expressed disappointment towards the game’s content-to-price ratio, but now that it is free, the price tag is replaced by an optional battle pass that costs around $10 and unlocks a plethora of cosmetics including Altair from Assassin’s Creed. The game has cross-play enabled from the boot and where there’s a PC there’s a way. Not only that, but a number of cheaters had popped up using a variety of speed and jumping hacks to ruin the fun for everyone. During its first week, the game’s online servers were plagued with high traffic which led to a large amount of lag and disconnects for many players (myself included). However, the launch and recent re-launch of the game were not as smooth as they could have been. The physics and platforming are as tight as a game with the name “Fall Guys” would allow in the most aggravatingly fun way, the music is catchy and energetic, and there exists a fine line between luck and skill in the stages that the game walks fairly well. The game was originally priced at $19.99 but when I reviewed it, I did so on PlayStation 4 via the free PS+ download so, in a way, it was already sort of free.Īfter logging a couple hours into the game, I can say that it is very fun and highly replayable. Fall Guys has been at the top of viewership, hitting over 500,000 active viewers at various times throughout the month of release. PlayStation players who subscribed to PS Plus on launch were able to get in on the action immediately as the game was announced to be included as one of August’s free game downloads when it launched, eventually moving on to become the most downloaded PS Plus game of all time. Out of the gate, Fall Guys received favorable reviews from a number of media outlets with the game’s Metacritic review score currently sitting at 80 on PC. The last one standing takes the shiny crown. ![]() The goal of the game is to jump, dive, and climb your way to victory through a gauntlet of colorful free-for-all and team-based minigames. ![]() In case you’ve somehow missed this game, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a battle-royale platformer developed by Mediatonic, published by Devolver Digital, and, after being a PlayStation 4 and PC exclusive, is respawning as a free-to-play title with the aptly titled Free For All season. ![]() ![]() The game that mixes the nail-biting suspense of the battle royale genre with the slapstick hilarity of game shows like Wipeout, Fall Guys has found a large player base, hundreds of thousands of viewers on Twitch, and went on to become the most downloaded PlayStation Plus game in the history of the service no small feat from the team that brought you Gears POP! and Murder by Numbers. It would be an understatement to say that Fall Guys has made a huge splash it was released on August 4, 2020. We originally published this review back in September of 2020, following the initial release of Fall Guys, but we are bringing it back, with a small addendum, in June of 2022 following the game’s free-to-play release. ![]()
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