What do you do when the, when the soap in your bathroom? Yeah. Gets really small and thin. You know what I look in the mirror, when I get out of shower, and I think life's too. Don't throw it out and get another one. Hell, yes, that's exactly what I do as well. Listen.
And when I was a kid, I was like, oh, I could fold it in two and then I get another little run out of it and then you drop it. And then you start thinking of all those films where there's guys in prison and you're dropping the soap and you're like, this is a bad idea. This is life telling me this thin sliver of soap. It's like when When there's tooth, when the toothpaste is done, it's done. Don't get trying to get more out of it. Life's Too Short.
All right, right Sunday's. Welcome to seven days to play your Weekly, mobile gaming review program. I am theis, and I'm Sam for the past seven week. I have recommend actually more than seven weeks. Yeah, probably has been seven weeks about now. Hasn't it for the past seven days or a week? Maybe more I have recommended for us to play rocket League, Sideswipe. Rocket lead, sideswipe is the latest game from psionics, the original makers of Rocket
league. If you don't know what rocket league is, it is a game that's now available and most consoles or all consoles possibly where you are driving a car and playing soccer with it. That's a good way to describe it. It is very popular. It sucks. It's like an Esports thing when it came out was was rocket League free.
When it came out or pay to play a can't remember because at one point, they switch from one to the other right rocket League was a Say, it was like, you know, I think it was like, a 30 dollar game. Yeah. It was like, yeah, it was like half price kind of a Bobby but below is kind of like a budget game. But since then, it's really taken off. And now it's just free to play which was smart because I just got so many people. Yeah, and yeah, the Esports side
of it is enormous. It's available on all consoles, it's available on Nintendo switch and now it's available on the iPhones and your Mobile devices. Hmm. But in this variation it's a little different from the original rocket League. Meaning, it is not the full 3D game that you might expect where you have all the dimensions to consider your car traveling around at Rocket speeds, three full players.
Lots of different modes, right? The the let's say the main game is much more complex, but even still normal giving simplistic right? The normal game it's you can have up to like 4 V, 4 players, if I'm correct. Right? And where exactly? And you can, you know, you can match up with teammates easily. You have like your rank leagues. You have your, you can like get into a lobby with your friends and just like play together and
all that stuff. Rocket League side swap is a little different where I think the maximum number of players is to V2 the other major variation with rocket League sideswipe is it is a side-scrolling sort of like a side view game. So it gets rid of all the three dimensions and you're just Mainly focusing on just about to run. Yeah left and right or forward and backwards.
Yeah you have. Your goal is probably going to be either be on the left side or on the right side and then you're opposing goal is going to be on the opposite side and you just have to try and kick that big ball with your kid and going to into the goal. Maybe with a cool little front flip or something. Little bright Pizzazz. Yeah, there is there's a bit of mechanics that goes into the game, but before we before we get into that, let me read you.
The The description we have very long description, but I'm just gonna read like the first first portion of it will settle in people. Here we go. Rocket League. Sideswipe is a Twist on soccer, with cars drive jump, and boost to put the ball in your opponent's goal, score more goals than your opponent to win. Hey, that's a really straightforward description of the game. Score more goals, you will win, right? And you gotta put your ball in the opponent's goal. It's like trying to describe
soccer, right? If someone he's never has ever heard of arguably, the world's game could crack a visual for some of our listeners, but trying to describe soccer, there's someone who's never seen it before. Or, or watched it all played it on from the makers of Rocket League car. Soccer has been reimagined for mobile devices. Get in the game with the intuitive touch controls. It's as simple as putting the
ball in your opponent's, net. But watch out your opponent will try to score 20 and also can we just not that? It's as simple as getting it in the go. Yeah. Right boy, very simple continue. Please hit your Boost to go faster or use it to get off the ground and into the air and pull some sick Maneuvers that sick with four eyes. Oh, they See. That wasn't you there? That was the that was that's in
the copy. Okay, sake Maneuvers in the are leaving your opponent and ah it's definitely written by British because Maneuvers is spelled like the British way, which meant to be spilt. Carry on matches are just two minutes making rocket League sideswipe. Easy to pick up and play. No matter where you are. Good luck. Oh, I like that suck a coach. And you Kona. He's a sucker works. Good luck. Mmm. This I have to say is pretty good. Copy The Ian gives you the full aspect of what the gameplay
might be like, right. Even sort of like the rules of the game is like simply scored score more goals than your opponent to win. You know? They don't do that often. Write in terms of describing what the goals of the games are like it this is all you literally need to do, right? And then it's it clearly explains a Twist on soccer with cars. Great perfect. And that's pretty if someone if someone said to you, what the heck is rocket league in general? But yeah, it's pretty good.
Yeah. Soccer with cows and then all the extra questions come of like, what? Like wow. Oh yeah, that's a good description. It's right up your daughters. Yeah, have you played rocket League before theis? Good news. A lot, what a lot with one of the earlier PlayStation versions with a bunch of friends again, cannot stress. This enough, the OG rocket League game with friends. Either in person pre what's happening in the world or online. Excellent. Very, very good.
Lot of fun. A lot of fun. It's just like, imagine when you're in the school yard, playing a sports game. Yeah, with your friends, they, they over the years, they really honed in on that. But honestly, the from the day rocket League came out of the
core DNA of the game. It's about just like getting a ball to the other side with your friends and then they added a bunch of mods and you know that's fine, we could talk about that but I applied rocket League a lot years ago and then I pivoted to the switch when I was traveling a lot with work, pre what's happening right now and played a lot with W and played a lot and really enjoyed it because you can, I think it's one of those games where you can actually get better at it.
The more you play especially with the mechanics around immersed into that but like some similar mechanics between both the original game and the sideswipe game, it is one of those games I think personally where the more you play you will definitely get better and you'll learn kind of how to embrace the mechanics of it to better score a goal.
But also, I think what's really cool and the people at Sonic's have put effort into this is They make it kind of fun in the way that there's flare and you can put silly things on your cars and you can just get a little bit ridiculous, but just like a lot of other games out there, all of that, all the Cosmetics are just sort of a daunting, give you any unfair advantages, but they do give you personality. So then when you're playing soccer, you're not just playing
soccer with some boring cars. There's like some bizarre ones that are just like when the exhaust is shooting out dollar bills or just like, I don't know, like it's they've got like a big like an orange cone, you know, on the top of their car and like I feel like that. A lot of fun with that.
And obviously that we could talk about that with sites web, but there is so much in common in a good way, I think between the games, but I have played the original game a lot over the years but it was, yeah, it was interesting. I kind of moved from One console where it kind of looked a lot nicer was on the big screen, you know, and then moved into more of the portable world with the switch. And I think they did a really good job of the port, it was. Yeah. It's a lot of fun.
Yeah, I would do it if we were traveling now, you know,
honestly totally. I think there is something about rocket League. Like you said, Are the more you play it. Your, your skill level being improved is, is one of those games where you definitely notice it. Like, if I see myself, the first time I played it versus the way that I play it now, even that like, I don't have that much experience with rocket League, hmm, but because I've also seen some other people play and like understand what's capable, right.
I'm now a much more calculated and skilled player than when I first was. I'd say the fun level is still probably the same meaning like it has a pretty good level of fun whether you're just a beginner right? Or whether you're like pretty skilled and know how to do like the Sigma Nu version actually hands at the ball around. Yeah. You're touching on like, that's exactly right. I think when you begin, if you play with the AI, you can set it on really simple.
And you can honestly just get the ball to the other end and it's ran. But that, as you as you get better, you can increase the difficulty there, or even the Making is I think's superb where they'll try and match you with your level anywhere in the world and you'll get people that are better and better. But but the way in which you can get a ball to the other end is a lot of fun.
You know what a fun with that I think and you do get better you learn to not chase the ball as much with the bigger game with the OG game. I think it's a little rain with the phone but but yeah it is. It's a very familiar kind of game I have played before and it's definitely one of those games where like Teamwork Makes a huge difference and especially communicating with your teammates because just like Real
soccer. I feel like this is one of those games where teammate like your team is pretty imperative to making 100 specific goals, right? Oh yeah. Like sitting on just all right like totally awesome. Yeah, I think that's like that's a really good point. You're not just driving the ball to the other side. Like you said, like the more skilled you are, you can actually take your time and kind of like loop around to like position yourself in the right
place. I play defense a lot in the original game, might be the goalie a lot because the other two people which I'm playing with around the world and we didn't have voice. Comms would just be chasing the ball, and then you can get and go like, rocket league is what regardless of which version of broccoli you're playing. You can get a goal from the other side of the pitch, if you're good. So playing defense is actually really critical as well. So yeah.
I think it's definitely something that felt familiar. So cool. So now that you've definitely now that you've played the original rocket League how do you feel about this sideswipe version First Impressions were well I didn't really Pay enough attention to the name of side to it. So when I let it out the game, I assumed it would be one to one port or something like that or a literary difference. But then I was pleasantly impressed with how they it looks.
Like they've actually just that just like held a phone up in front of like a product person's face. And they're like how do we adapt this game to suit? This thing we have here rather than just like like we said before, with porting from the main consoles to switch was almost a wonderful basically one to one port, you know? It's just like how you've got the same control some dexterity, you've got Actual dumb sticks and and real buttons.
So let's just give you the same game that you've got on the console. But I was, I was kind of impressed by how they, it looks. Like they've sort of gone back to the drawing board and said, which features map, well, to a mobile device which features do not, when you've got a touchscreen. You don't have those tactile control because I think you'll never have talked a lot about this too. Is like a, how much you can and
must are. Do you have on on like a piece of glass as opposed to, you know, joysticks and and real real haptic buttons and what have you? So I off the bat I was just sort of impressed that Sonic seem to have really tried to embrace the platform that we're going for rather than a direct Port. Of course, it's a different game, it's called sideswipe. Like I think that's the now I see it. I was going like, oh, duh. So yeah, my initial Impressions. Were this could be interesting.
What did you think? Yeah, totally. I was really tickled by the fact that this is kind of a completely different game, right? Like, it has the spirit of Rocket League, it is playing soccer with cars. But which is just thick as a great look. Yeah, I got a photo, you can place like with college like, say that to anyone on the street, they're like, what I think? It's great. Yeah, right. I think some certain vehicle TV shows have literally done that
before, right? Have taken cars and fuck you but he'd soccer with them. See, if you have seen any of those episodes, you're not far off. What? The as you say sam the spirit of Rocket league is about. That's pretty much it right with extra nice ass and I think like I like that, they told Totally distilled it to the mobile version, right? They considered what's going to be, what's going to be the aspect of mobile games, thats going to be comfortable for
mobile gaming. So I really like the two minute time limit per round, right? I really like the fact that it's only focusing on two Dimensions. So it doesn't really tax you with thinking, about three dimensions or even like considering it. I'm sure it's like point. The tax detect, the cognitive load, it takes ranking more than two Dimensions, you have, you're absolutely right, I think. Look, I'm it sometimes works. I really dislike it when they
port a game over, right? And it's like pretty much a straightforward Port. Yeah. And the feeling that you're kind of limited by your phone when you're playing the exact same game as you would on like a console. Right. That's the feeling that I really like kind of like when you know, when you weren't used to letterbox and then you got the letterbox version, you always felt like the letterbox was like a hindrance the other night. You felt like you're not seeing
the Full version. It's the rest of it, exactly. Like that's the feeling that I sometimes get when they Port over a game to me, think of a game where they ported to mobile and maybe haven't given it the same consideration like this and you got to it and you were just like, oh, this is they've just smushed a console or PC version in. Yeah, totally. There are lots of games like that off the top of my head, let me see, like, Fortnight, right,
for mobile. And it's pretty much like just the direct Port giving you You know, like the the touch controls and all that stuff, it's still works, but it still makes me feel like looks, yeah, it makes me feel like I'm looking at the original game through a filter, right. And some way that I feel like I'm not getting the full experience II. Feel like you're restricted like, you, like you've being held back a little bit from well, you know what? Be cut.
And here's the thing, I personally, I think it's because I know what it feels like to have a controller in my hand, your keyboard and mouse. So it's almost like, if I didn't know that, That I've never played for tonight before I probably like, oh, this is kind of fun. Like it's almost like holding I'm worse off because I know that the experience is so much better when you have more
dexterity when have more. So I think this is a common problem that Studios must face when they're trying to put games or create games for mobile that are sort of inspired by or again 121 from. I don't know if the category is, but larger format games or like games are on console and PC, they must face this but bring it back to sideswipe, it feels like psionics kind of chose not to do that and they literally went to the drawing board. I would just like, hey, like,
which bits of this game? Do we think would work? And which bits do we have to think? Or what are some of the most popular mobile games? Why, how do they work? How long do people play in them for? And then can we, can we adapt rocket League to sort of work like that? So, yeah, that was my initial impression. I was like, I think they did that think they actually had that conversation thought about it and didn't just do a one to
one? Yeah, well, I'm really glad that they did that because I think, like, the could totally open a market for this, where I can see this being like really competitive and its own right? Oh yeah. They They have like tons of mobile games that are now like Esports and they broadcast it and I feel like this kind of has the same quality where has the Nuance of Rocket league and just a different format that's just more accessible for the phone.
But you mentioned before that, it's one of my three by threes one of my good points, was that it's fast and it is fast. It's two minutes. It feels very aggressive. And for Esports, I would watch that like, short two-minute games with, like, for pros. Playing either be really fun. Be very aggressive, like just seeing all the crazy moves that they do. Yeah, I'm sure they were Yeah. Honestly, that would actually be really fun to watch.
I'm I think people are if you're listening for the last couple episodes of getting to know that I'm like a much bigger fan of short, sharp aggressive gameplay like this. So I would watch that may be a lot of fun. Yeah, with that taste. Let's get to the 3 by 3. S. Another kind of snuck one in there to laugh. Very intentional, segue three things, good in three things bad.
You've already started with the fact that it's fast, but I think, you know, I think one of the main things to say about this game for First of all for me is it just looks really great. It looks it looks like rocket league and once you get in there, you know, psyonix knows the flavor of the game that they're already making, scribe the so Sam has a design background for anyone.
That's new to the show, but Sam, how would you describe the design aesthetic for both the original game and side soil? Because I can picture it in my brain. I know exactly what it looks like, but ya can't use words. It's Sports. It's like it's like professional sports. That's right, it looks like either soccer, you know, like you're watching some Sky,
Sports, soccer or ESPN flashing. It's like it's a little flashy trick and let me take that back but like the way they did display, the way, the chi Ron's appear, the way, like the name stuff, you know, like shows up. It's all very like sports. See ya and the way that, you know, but it's it actually look like it's as know what's game, it's a game. So they're not trying to like tone it down. Down and try and like appeal to a wider audience.
I think they'll like if you're into sports and you like soccer and you want to play a different style soccer, like boom, here you go. Yeah. Like it doesn't that kind of treatment doesn't work for a lot of games, but because this is like, set in an arena. It has like Flags everywhere. You have like badges, you have patches your hands of stuff in this.
Yeah, crazy bounced up like, it's totally it really lean into it. Hmm But yeah, I think you know, top marks on the presentation It feels like rocket league, but at the same time, it's definitely interpreted for mobile. So all the buttons are like very easily, accessible all the type and fonts are well chosen. So for legibility, and we've talked about this before that, sometimes a direct Port suffers from legibility because it really weighs it down. Pushed it in. Yeah.
And you're looking at like size 6 or 7 Fawn, and you just can't you can't read it right off. I, we touched on this before, but I think the familiar Mechanics for me having played the original game which I appreciate some people have not was really helpful. I think that was really good to like sort of understand the idea of driving fast. Boosting jumping in the air doing flips to try and like hit the ball into the goal. But also I want to say the
music. I love the music from the from the original game that's like sort of drum and bass. It's very electronic but it's again, it it just suits the mood, it's like wipeout. If you have played wipe out of the way, Place some of the best soundtracks I think. Out there of all time, any, any sort of computer gaming, and, and this, this felt so the mechanics in the music felt familiar and I thought that was a good thing for me. Help me kind of slip into a lot faster.
Yeah, my second point is actually music, like they have licensed music in this game, even in the mobile version, which I was very surprised by. So, you know, one of the bands that I really like is Anamanaguchi and it was like a
nun. Am on a Gucci song, just playing in the background as I was like ice selecting the My car and it shows you and like a really good way where you know as soon as the new song starts playing like you can see a little cover art as well as like the name title include taking something in the corner around, right? It's very like sportsy, right? It's being it looks like happiness isn't too like, yeah.
And so, I really appreciated that like, you know, a lot of times music isn't a main factor for a lot of these games. But this, you know, I'm sure psyonix now has the budget and everything to make sure that They have good music in there, right? And and it shows I think I think we've talked about this before, but it's one of those games where you could leave it at the lobby, like 10 minutes.
If you are, maybe on your phone but probably on the console, something like that and the music's great. You just a little bit, keep lying. It's like I think again like that some good but my my final good point is we sort of talked about this a little bit already but I think it was a really smart use of the side-scrolling style platform. I'm sure the best way to describe that but that use of the 2D space rather than 3D I thought was really The really smart from Bible.
It helps you feel like you can pick up the game and put it down. So there's not as much guilt around putting the game down because you're playing too many games. You know, and I played a few games. What I was being absolutely throttled by the AI Li was like 7 to 2 or something, but there's only two minutes I kind of just made it to the end and just sobbed a little bit, and I was like an aisle at it, but it wasn't a two minutes. And I think there's something
really cool about that. If once we're back in this world of commuting and whatever in the future, I think that The two-minute games are would really suit that quite well, total of us being on the subway on a train, whatever, whatever you're doing, even waiting for the plane to take off. Like I think the two-minute window is excellent, right? You can always make time for two minutes which I think is really smart. Yeah, my last good point. Is that this is much like, the original game.
I feel like this is a complete package. There's lots to do, right? So you can train with AI, you can play AI. You can play Live matches either as one on one you can As a team to buy two, you can unlock a bunch of stuff for your car. So I'm going to Cosmetics, it's great. So many Cosmetics. I haven't unlocked different car shapes but I'm sure it's available or going to be available.
Like you can really customize your car with different tires, stickers and all that stuff that's original in the original
game as well. And yeah, there's just lots to do. So if you're looking for a game that you can kind of like sink into and sort of just like have fun with and notice like you improve that game like, You improve and getting more skilled at that game like I feel this is a pretty complete package where you can like really dig yourself into you know considering if you like a sports C kind of game. Yeah, I think that's a given at this point.
Yeah, you need it needed to be sort of into that Sports kind of world to really enjoy this. But I would also say that it's the kind of game. I think you can keep on your phone for a long time and you can you can go really hard at trying to progress and getting your unlocking lots of things or you can just casually play it every other day which I think. Like a really that's a credit to the to psionics because it's not
not all games are like that. Like, some games you might want to dive really deep into complete and then sort of remove and move on. And this is I don't think this is one of those games. I think this is this is like when you could have on the second page of your phone and casually play whenever you feel like it for sure with that, let's get on to the bad points. Hmm. Do you want to start first and only had a couple? They're not, they're not a, not a big deal but they were a tiny
bit annoying. They could just be me though as I often say. The first one is, we were explaining the controls before, but if I remember correctly, the your left side. Is your direction. Your right side is either jump or boost, right? So simple, so simple you'd think, no, it took me a second. Every now and again, particularly the beginning to just remember what was jump and what was boost on the right
side? And I think it was just because, and I think this is one of those ones where I played it so many times on Console. So many times that I have muscles. We feel like the button that tactile buttons which are sort of offset, right? So like I kept like, mashing my thumb above the, I'm guessing the one that's on the left which could have been used or jump. Right. Right.
It's a small thing but I just had to like because it's one of those games where the controls are very simple, but you don't really want to be looking at the controls going to be looking at the ball and you're great. So that's why I'm where I kept kind of, it took me a little bit and every time I play the game but it's in to look at it and trying to remember, but I do think it's muscle memory. I think it's one of Those ones where if I just played it some more, I would remember.
And that's not a big deal, I do. And so it's less of a little bit bad point, in more of a, like, learning point for me because I do want to commend the controls. They're very simple that in try. And put four controls on the right or anything like that. I think they're quite simple. So it was my first very minor bad point a, but yeah, I don't have too many bad points as well. My only bad point is when I first logged in and this is me coming from a person that has
played like that. Desktop version of Rocket League where, you know, I have it connected to like my epic account. Yeah, and so I logged in with my epic account but there wasn't anything that transferred over from my original rocket. The account that would have been nice. If there was, that would have been welcome back, welcome back, right? Or something where it gives you some sort of skin.
Yeah. Cosmetic or something, just to sort of acknowledge that, hey, I'm a PC rock or like, you know, an original Rocket League player and vice versa right? Like maybe it unlocks something on my and if you got a blood up the act, the array and sort of thing the actual game. So but yeah, I think I kind of feel like that was an opportunity missed but over like you know again that's probably something that's very difficult to try and for the team to build in. I don't know.
I feel like it's, you know, you've got some common data. I remember when I when I moved from Australia to the US, I had played every Battlefield and then I had to get a new PlayStation Network in the u.s. because they you Is contrast very International, it's really hard, right? And at that point, that's when Battlefield started recognizing that you the previous games you played.
So I lost all that history. I lost the credit of being me, like, our support of this franchise from the beginning, and I was very bottom. So no, I think that's fair. I think they could always patch that in later though. They could always recognize that later and, and unlock some loot. In both games, that sort of recognize the great because I also went through the trouble of trying to, like, log in with my epic account where I could have just easily not have.
Plugged in or something like that in Grace like a guest or something. Yeah and I thought maybe I'd get something for that but yeah it's a small thing that I think could have been good. Good point. Good point my next bad point which I don't know if it's a bad point I'd like you to tell me if you think this is a bad point I felt like that was not enough gas. So the way just for the listeners under the way that you earn your Boost, which is a little different to the main
game in the main game. You sort of run over these. I want to see these little orbs little cones. Yeah. And they Keys like Little bit of boost and then boost is really important in broccoli. And I could be using the wrong word, but it's essentially, when you hit a button and it just forces your vehicle forward at a much, it's the rocket and Rocket League. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, the rocket though. So in sideswipe, are you earn that by simply driving along the
floor in the sense? So not being in the air, right? Right. I thought it was just an automatic. Fill up it when you're not doing in the sense. Like, if you're in the air. Mmm. You're probably using it, right? So what? Yeah, it's like like a soon. As long as you're not in the air and you're going to be like redeeming that gasps I think I just wanted more and it's because of this love being in the air and doing flips. Yes. And I use it to quickly and then
you like a return to the floor. Now that's important. So again tiny little point was like I just wanted like an extra second or so of that rocket boost kind of ability to be able to get from one side of the other and be able to do it in the air. But again, not a big deal. I'm sure I could just adapt to like get used to the amount that I'm given my last. Point is the two dimensional. The the two-dimensional aspect of the game, right? Makes it kind of a completely different game.
I mean, it still feels like rocket League, okay? But and this is something that you might like, or dislike about rocket League. Sideswipe, is that, it's, it's less about positioning interesting with that sounds or Dimension, right? Yeah. It's more about, it's kind of more just like table tennis, where you, I just going back and forth. All right. You're just going back and forth and then you just need to make sure you I don't know.
I feel like it's more lucky. This is more lucky that you get the ball in or more luck is involved in order to get the ball in. Did you miss that from the original game? Lot more the Tactical side of it where you could position yourself and sort of yeah in last-minute 2nd original game if you're more skilled than the other player like you can totally have a shutdown, right? Like you can just totally own that person by being a much better player. Whereas I think that variability
In this game is a little less. There are a lot of like accidental almost accidental goals but sort of less tactical goals. I saw inside toilet. You like that person did not even mean to do that, but which happens in the original game to, by the way, it doesn't happen in the original game but I'm saying like, if you're good ratio is like higher. Yeah, so that's what the ratio is a little bit higher and this, that is a good point, that is
good point. I think, I think it still works though for mobile because it is such so short and fast. I think they had to make that concession. I imagine someone at that table so I can It's like there's some going to miss this side of it but then I maybe the conversation is yeah but they could just jump on the couch and fire up the console and play that game if they want that level of, you know, tactic Ray. And I guess that's the other
thing. I'm going back a little bit on the good point is that this game even though it's really enjoyable on its own, right? It made me want to play the original version. I was hoping you would bring that up. That is a really interesting point and I don't know if that was entirely intentional from psionics but there's probably probably it is you little bit of
intention. Yeah. So someone's never Played rocket league and they pick this game up and they play Sideswipe and they're like, this is kind of fun. Surely that person is more likely to convert into someone will pick up the bigger game, which is free. But then perhaps drop some cash on Cosmetics or something like that. Totally invent literally invested in the game, which makes rice even just playing the game is valuable. But my last bad point was the a I had.
Did you play much with the Bots? Will you playing mostly online? I'll know I was playing mostly online. Yeah okay so I was traveling a bit of Holidays and the Bots are extremely hard. I got absolutely the rash by the regular level. I'm doing little air quotes here, people like Regular level. I was thrashed like 8 to 20. Yeah. And I was just getting my ass handed to me with with the regular matches as well.
I was like, oh my God, I'm unworthy and it's one of those ones but because it now here's the thing, I don't know how to describe this. I'll be as brief as I can, but it feels like a slippery slope. Once you start losing it, just feels like the a Just hammers it home but interesting if you had a similar experience online or maybe that's just a lot of skill players. Yeah I feel like there were very little hmm. I'd say I played around 10 to 12 matches online and having to do win one or two.
Yeah, you mentioned before the communication aspect and how that is pretty important. I've only in recent years have not been able to play as much online with friends but with two people you know you can't really talk to that other person. Person, right? So there's no there's nothing like that. It's all just attack in like it's pretty frantic. That's a good way to put it but most of the games I played was actually one. Do you want? Frantic not like we're one.
Yeah I don't know from my idiot. I think I was just went straight for 22. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah I played mostly I played 1 V 1. I felt like I had a little bit more control of like what I was trying to do without someone not messing me up. Yeah to V2 and that small space is very easy to do. It's like you kind of And it's like your palms get sweaty, you know, but it's great. Yeah, that was a okay that's my final that point. And even then maybe I just need to be better.
But having said that theis, what is your final seven, a rating for Rocket League side. Swipe my final rating is a 5 out of 7. Mmm. Mine is a four out of seven days. Justing. Yeah this I really like the game, okay. I think it has a huge potential of being really fun, but there is a couple of things that made Amy stop playing one. Mmm I think there is something about connecting online and playing with Live players. That's very taxing to me, that's like mentally taxing.
Like I kind of dread that the aspect of people like it takes a while or just like it. It's I feel like it has something to do with my a.d.d. Okay? Where if something is taxing or there's lots to be expected, either, I have to perform really well or Just not do it at all. Right. And there's no me just like trying to do it casually and you know just like trying to have a little fun with it. I see. And the online aspect of that is what makes that a little? Yeah taxing. Exactly.
Like it's mentally taxing for me and so with that aspect, like I tried the AI but it just wasn't like the same. So, yeah, I felt like and the other aspect is the more that I played sideswipe, the more I just wanted to play the original release. Sting. Well, how would you feel if you think and this is tough but if you've never played rocket league and you don't replace I'd swap, I mean you can't miss something you've not experienced. Yeah I think it's really
enjoyable. Like I think this game is definitely enjoyable and and something people should definitely try and download and play right whether or not you have played rocket League before or not but semi-different people do have not played rocket League. I think this is a great game. Yeah, would you recommend people try this before trying rocket League? Mmm, I don't know. Because I feel like this game can mess you up in terms of how to play rocket league in rocket
league. And as you said before, they are different games. I think it's like that the same Monica they share some similar DNA but I think it's important to recognize as you said that they are different games and they and the tactics are very different ones, very at the siteswaps, very aggressive, very short, and sharp completely with sites ways. I feel like it's a lot easier to do, kind of like the car flip, and then having your car, like, kind of like, slam the ball in. Yeah.
Whereas that's I feel very difficult to do. Well, that's and I still sometimes will be like flipping off in the complete other direction from the bowl and then you land on the front of your vehicle and you just like no one saw that but you can't, you can really make a mess of it. But, but again, with the, with the original rocket League game, huge stadium is enough time. Usually, if you to get back on your wheels in like, scoot over to the ball, like it's it is.
Yeah. I think that's a really good final point. It's a different game with some similar DNA. But I think it's important to treat them differently, very curious that it made. You want to play the other game more. I wonder if that's common out there for people like us that have played the original and probably put it down for a bit recently. And then this is sort of reignited wanted to play the other game.
I want to Icon, I want to play the other one with some boys comes now with some friends, you know, I think mainly because I got more goals in the original version is mixing this game. Well I mean that is that is true. I think I think it's very normal and uncommon for people to associate you know, winning with Feeling like you want to come back to the game. But again, I was being throttled by the the AI. So I played more AI than I did real. People actually just due to some
travel and stuff. But, so it's a little easier for me, to disassociate with them, with playing, you know, with real people and feeling like that. That competitive nature, I can get angry at Bots and be like, oh, well case that was rocket League sideswipe. Now, it is up to you to select the next game for the next seven days. Pretty excited for this one. This is a real change of pace. Sam. Mmm, the game is called town scaper. Have you heard of it? I have heard of it.
Yes, you have not played it. I have played the PC version. Okay, mainly because I believe we played a game previously that the same creator has made interesting. Yeah. Called bad. North gonna yeah. Yeah. Looking forward to this one. I think this is a great pick looking forward to it, but before we go tyst, yeah. I think of the week, I do there's new film on Netflix, it's called, don't look up. It's been doing the rounds over the next over the last couple of weeks.
Now, we finally watched it the other day. Got some big actors. Interesting. Huge actors. Yeah, we just when the credits are all the beginning. What is like? What? What? Yeah. Leonardo DiCaprio girls marry treat Blanchett. Yeah, yeah, it's really good that and it'll list just goes on and on, I don't want to give anything away. I think the film is is an interesting watch. Interesting, kind of look at,
what if scenario for the world. It has only with the state of what how we consider social media and everything today. Right, exactly exactly. Does there's some there's some political overtones which I think is really interesting, good narrative good. It's the kind of film where you lie. I think most people would watch it and then talk about it. Mmm, over like dinner or something like that. I think it's, I think it's a good feel for that you can get on Netflix.
I think it's worth watching and again. Yeah, great name's Adam. Okay, directed it and wrote it, and he's just a brilliant mind, but I would recommend it's a weird film and I think just push through, at least the first little part. I know, some friends kind of dropped off in the beginning, but I would say it's worth getting through. If anything just for the interesting look on what what could happen, I'll leave it at that. How about you Sam?
What's your thing of the week? My theme of the week is PokerStars VR. Oh, yes, it's, it's something that's been going around lately, mainly because I think a lot of people Oculus Oculus Quests for the holidays and so everyone's been on Oculus an American people. Yeah, trying to think of something to play together and PokerStars is one of those games where we can actually sort of interact with each other in a really fun way. And some of the clay and yeah and still play a round of Poker.
Yeah. Which is not fun. Yeah, it is. It is really fun. It's kind of cool to like create your avatar and then and then see your friends especially During this time where it's kind of hard and not exactly feasible to sit next to your friend right now. So, I think that's actually a really, a really fun harmless aspect to it. And, and you say play cards, I think I think it's almost like the playing cards like a secondary effect.
You know the primary point is to just hang out with your friends and be dorks in. Yeah I think right you can like pass her on like different props to each other and that's just wrong on my server. Yeah. And then with VR because we are so weird. I think we'd wonderful is that when something drops on the floor it's like a See because if you can't physically get on the other side who can get on their floor right now, you know, it's like a funny aspect but that is a real that's been fun, it's
been fun. So that's been something that we've been doing as well. But yeah, join us next week or in a couple of weeks as we come back to either an episode of where we review townscape ER or potentially going over the 20, 21 game of the year list for seven days play. That's our show some of these bikes and a surprise.