Knockout City Goes Live On Switch Next Week With A Ten-Day Free Trial

Oh, it's that game with the cringy commercial. I almost forgot about it.

Man. This game will never live down that marketing fumble. The game they advertised sounded so much more interesting than the game they unveiled.

The best part of this game isn't even in the game. I wish they'd give Princess Charm her on game, she's too good to be a marketing gimmick. Except you know... EA.

Wait! this game isn't free to play?????

@Bolt_Strike I agree, I thought she was going to at least be a character along side the game.

So EA gives us this garbage but not Mass Effect Trilogy that is a Xbox 360 port with slight upgrades that could run well on the Switch... this is why they are hard to take seriously anymore.

I'll give it a shot.

I will try this on Xbox as its coming Day 1 on gamepass. Looks fun but definitely should have been F2P if they are pushing season passes so heavily - I can see this going the same way as Rocket Arena.

@kingbk the Mass Effect Trilogy is over 80gb and if it could run on Switch EA would have got it onto the system because they like money.

@cdmac the old game ran on the 360 but I doubt the remake would.
Its 4k/30fps or 1440/60fps even without going into the other improvements, not to mention that the original game out in 2007 - anyone who wants to play it has done so already.

If you want to play these big modern games/reboots buy another console to go alongside the switch (a series S is cheaper than a switch). I would hate for games to be held back just so that they could run on old hardware.

@Snatcher
Nope. This game is only free if you have EA Play. Otherwise it's 20 dollars.

And given the whole promotion with currency, you bet your bottom dollar there's going to be MTX in here. This game can't even use the "it's a free game" (like Apex Legends) excuse because it isn't. This is just all-around greedy and shameless.

Not to mention the wasted potential of the characters they used in the ad....

I love the idea behind this game. But I don’t play online so...

Nope Nope Nope!

@JR150 O, well now I think I can crap on the game now.

Wow that looks like an all-out assault on parents' wallets and players' psychologies. I hope games like this become illegal soon.

I played the previous beta and I honestly liked it, or at least I liked it more than the sort-of compareable Ninjala. I especially loved that it includes a 60fps “performance” mode (like e.g. Rocket League) that plays great!
The biggest and dumbest issue I had was that I could NOT get my son to play on his child account, as the game requires an EA account which cannot be linked to a child Nintendo account (my son can’t play FIFA online for the same reason).
In other words, shooter Fortnite is fine to play on a Nintendo child account, but for footy FIFA and toss-the-ball Knockout City... user must be 18+.
Thanks, microtransactions!

PS: On a side note, character creation in Knockout City is atrocious: I could not get any “female” character to look like anything remotely resembling a girl.

I was genuinely very excited for this game but assumed it would be free to play. No thanks to paying 20 bucks on an online only game that will be dead in a few months.
Do publishers not pay attention to what worked for big hits like Fortnite & Among Us (F2P) and what didn't work (hundreds of online only games with cool ideas but no players).

@Mr-Fuggles777 games are technically are already being held back by older hardware. The Xbox One and PS4 for example.

Also how is the series s cheaper than the switch? They are both the same price

@Mr-Fuggles777 I heard that the Halo Master Chief collection has some sort of ability where you can download each individual game and then delete that game and download the other game

@kingbk as Mr Fuggles said, while the original trilogy can run on switch fine , the remastered version might not. Maybe it could be like on switch it will be just called Mass Effect Trilogy but it uses assets from both the original trilogy and the Legendary Edition which is kinda what Skyrim on switch is.

As for the space issue, EA could make the entire game digitally and make the trilogy digital download or they could just release the games individually instead.

And I have said about Halo MCC, where that game has an ability to download individual games to get around the space issue

@Snatcher
Honestly thought this Knockout City game was Free-to-Play also lol smh. Welp, I guess I'll check out the free trial, but I imagine that's probably it. Wasn't going to be something I delved into often anyways I don't think.

@kingbk
I also hope EA could/would find a way to bring the Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster to Switch, but if you look at the dev updates on it I don't think that'd be easy without significant cuts/pullbacks. Sucks to say, but it's probably better to just play games like that on another more powerful console than the current Switch.

@anoyonmus switch is £280 and Series S is £250. The switch Lite is cheapest coming in at £200.
The switch is also a gen behind Xbx1 and PS4 with a "pro" model likely to bring the switch up to base ps4 level when everything else will move forward once current gen systems become more available.

I'm not sure about Halo as I've just downloaded them all so haven't really looked. Might check it out when I need to make space.

@Mr-Fuggles777 oh I think it depends on region, Since I am in USA (NA), Series S and Switch are both $299 and switch lite is $199. So I wouldn't say Series S is cheaper in where I am from

And yes, the Halo MCC has the ability to download and delete games individually. And I think Nintendo should unveil this "pro" model next year or release it next year because by that time, the stock shortages might be reduced and LESS
SCALPER ISSUES. So I think it will be a while to see a "pro" or whatever name it is called. I say next year in my opinion because I think Nintendo is aware of PS5 and XSX/S shortages so maybe they could release their new console next year. I personally want this E3 to be only about games.

And as I said for switch pro, it might not come out this year because of pandemic and semiconductor shortages and I am sure Nintendo won't want to repeat the mistakes Sony and Microsoft did with their consoles, so maybe like later this year they could announce it and release it next year would be interesting or just reveal it at E3 but not release this year.

But I kinda doubt switch pro could be at E3 though

@Snatcher Once you pay the price to buy it, it's full of all the normal free to play purchases so don't worry.

Shame it's not free to play. I was hoping it would be. Can't justify paying for this. Bomberman r ftp were are thou? Konami hurry up.