Review: Override: Mech City Brawl (PlayStation 4)
No gears, no glory! Control gigantic robots and duke it out in this 3D mech brawler! Epic battles await in local and online Versus mode, 4-player Co-op – where each player controls one part of a mech – and a single-player game mode. Each mech has its own gameplay style, special moves, and finishers.
Pros:
- Crisp graphics.
- 9.79GB Download size.
- Optional tutorial.
- Arena brawler gameplay.
- Five modes- Vs, Matchmaking, Arcade, Training, and tutorial.
- Invert axis option.
- Platinum trophy.
- 12 mech characters with each having unique attacks and finishers.
- Vs- Free for all or teams. Supports bots and local players.
- Matchmaking (online)- Ranked, 1v1 and brawl.
- Arcade- Story mode with varied difficulties and challenges. In this mode, you have a choice of where to go and what to earn, Unlock new skin colors/skins/mods and weapons.
- Arcade mode hub-
- Research is in the arcade mode and improves your stats.
- Mech bay- add mods to the four slots.
- Armory- Assign weapon packs to determine what spawns in-game.
- Takes elements from Rampage and Godzilla.
- Cool as fuck city devastation, You get totally level the city in minutes.
- Sick looking mechs and enemies.
- Bite-sized levels.
- Combat- Lock on, jump, counters, special moves etc.
- Stable netcode.
- Weapons spawn in-game.
- Co-op- You share the controls for a mech and it is actually a lot of fun.
- Easy to pick up.
- Arcade atmosphere.
- Each character has their own story variant.
- 4 players are the only way to play this game! Local for betterer results.
- Typical missions in the arcade are wave-based combat and boss matches.
- Garage- Go here to add new skins to your mech.
Cons:
- Button Masher.
- All campaigns play the same and feel flat. Just no life or variation to it all just text from characters.
- A long period at the end of a match when you have to wait for saving icon to go and rewards to pop.
- Enemies don’t have health bars and instead just flash red when near death.
- Awkward controls.
- Small text aplenty.
- Slowdown in places and stutters when enemies spawn.
- Very repetitive but this is more in terms of single player.
- Feels a tad unbalanced.
