Volley Pals – Review

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When I was a kid, my father refused to play video games with me, he insisted it was because I was “cheating” when I’d memorised every special move on the latest fighting game, but I was just hoping to enjoy some multiplayer gaming. Over the years, online multiplayer and various matchmaking systems make it easier than ever to find people who actually know what they’re doing, but at home, with children, parents or even your partner or friends, it’s not always easy to find a game that provides fun for everyone, without punishing any skill-gap.

Volley Pals aims to fix this with a simple, arcade-style volleyball game that anyone can play.

Volley Pals can be played by up to 4 players, (2 vs 2) though if you’re brave (or smart) you’ll chose to play on a team alone, but just like Volleyball, each team can touch the ball twice before it has to head back to the other half of the court, when the ball hits the floor (or is touched 3 times consecutively by one team) the attacking team gains a point. In a similar fashion to Rocket League Sideswipe, there’s no out of bounds and the ball will bounce back off the end of the court, meaning it’s constantly kept airborne until a point is won.

Controls are as simple as they can get, with left and right moving your character, and A jumping, when you jump your player into the ball it will automatically knock it back into the air.

The number of times a ball can be hit, the points required for a win and the match length can all be changed before starting the match, so if you’d rather have a quick single-hit game with the first to 3, or play 10 minutes non-stop to see who gets the highest score, there’s enough options within these three rules to mix things up a little.

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