BATTLE ARENA REVIEW 2023

Battle Arena is a multiplayer, immersive 2D sci-fi shooter! The game will immerse you in the world of space combat! Here everyone will find a weapon to their taste! The game features 12 different weapons, 5 characters, as well as 10 different sights! You have to fight with other players for the right to be the first. The winner is the one who gets the most points! Arrange dynamic battles in a game where 9 people will face you! Hit the opponent with your skills to dodge shots, or detonate grenades and kill! The intense battles of this game take place on a large space map, with various bonuses in the form of health or refilling cartridges. Use them wisely! Come and prove that you are the best!

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

MINIMUM:

OS : Windows 7

Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 455 Processor 3.30 GHz

Memory : 4 GB RAM

Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1Gb

DirectX : Version 9.0c

Storage : 1500 MB available space

Sound Card : All

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OS : Windows 10

Processor : Intel Core i3-6100 Skylake 3.7GHz

Memory : 8 GB RAM

Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB

DirectX : Version 9.0c

Storage : 1500 MB available space

Sound Card : All

25 minutes into the Witcher Battle Arena match when I realized it should have ended 15 minutes earlier. I was enjoying the simplicity of attacking iconic characters from the Witcher world with flashy spells, and didn't notice the clock ticking away and the respawn count locked in place. Battle Arena is broken, and matches will no longer count. I reboot the iPad app, load another match, and run into new, equally annoying bugs and connectivity issues. This is typical, unfortunately, and unacceptable for a free-to-play 3v3 MOBA that already has enough problems.

The rich world of The Witcher is primed and ready for competitive multiplayer games, and Battle Arena gives each of its nine launch characters a fun and unique skill set. Letho is a brutal tank that can deal and take massive amounts of damage at the expense of mobility; Yorveth's archery skills make him vulnerable if someone closes the gap, but if you can get his skill-shots out, he's absolutely devastating. And Geralt of Rivia himself modifies his stylish attacks with the sign magic that makes him such a talented monster hunter in the mainline Witcher games. These characters and more rotate in and out of free-to-play accessibility, so if you play long enough you can enjoy them without spending a dime.

Character abilities feel decent, and their skills are satisfying to perform in sequence, but, unlike other attempts to adapt MOBA gameplay to mobile platforms, the lack of player-to-player interaction completely neutralizes the battlefield. It positions itself as an objective-based strategy game, but matches usually boil down to mundane deathmatches with minimal tactical options.

Both arenas available in the launch feature layout are too similar to each other to stand out as exceptional, and with no meaningful way to coordinate with your teammates, it's difficult to claim and defend three objective points. Pressing the red exclamation-mark icon pings your teammates with helpful information, indicating allies with green shields, enemies with red swords, and control points with blue flags. If you can see the label, you can see the purpose; Ping contributes nothing, and there is no reason to use it.

To make multiplayer matters worse, there's no way to play with friends -- no friends list, no useful Game Center connection, no way to invite specific players, and no local-play feature. It also fails to punish players who quit mid-match, so there's little reason to stay in a game that's going badly. In a multiplayer strategy game where it's important to stun, slow, and deal damage in the right order, it's a shame that The Witcher Battle Arena does nothing to facilitate or discourage team-based multiplayer. And if you don't queue up in a 3v3 game with randoms, you'll be stuck practicing against bots alone or with a few unknown online allies.

Battle Arena's frustrating technical issues add to it. I had three bugged matches that wouldn't finish, meaning I wouldn't earn coins to buy new characters or skins, and I wouldn't unlock stat-boosting items for my heroes. I disconnected from the match at least once every time I loaded it. In a game where the economy relies heavily on playing time to improve your hero with RPG upgrades, this is inexcusable.

Even worse, The Witcher Battle Arena completely wiped out my progress after six hours of play – my leveled-up characters lost their loot, and any characters or skins I wanted to unlock disappeared. It's a loss to lose because the unlock system is as rewarding as a great RPG - the items feel valuable, especially when picking up rare loot drops for boots, belts and other upgrades. If something doesn't suit you, you can sell it for Crowns, the in-game currency used to buy cosmetics.

The indie gaming scene is full of local cooperative party games. Affordable, and offering fun games for the whole family, this one hit wonder has enough content, and enough draw, to have like-minded friends and family members fighting for bragging rights. - at least until the next cheap game comes along to grab their attention.

A frantic nature, lots of over the top gameplay and enough reasons to scream and shout are usually the main points of any such game. And on the face of it Gilt Battle Arena delivers on all those qualities. But to stand out from the crowd, you need a decent USP, something that will make you stand out from the pack, something that will make those friends want to meet more than once.

The selling point for Gilt Battle Arena? You have guns and bullets. You can learn how to use it wisely.

A game full of couch-based multiplayer combat and cooperative combat, Criminal War Arena sees you play as one of numerous criminal patrol teams, as they battle the dreaded Judge and his army of villains. Purpose? Take down many of them until the judge finally commits suicide and realizes the errors of his ways. Easy? Well yes, the basics actually are.

The entirety of the game places you and your friends in a small arena where you can move left and right, jump, double jump and dive. And you have to use all these movements as the second you shoot your revolver at the enemy, you have to run and catch the same bullet before you shoot another baddie. The whole premise is a simple one, and thanks to a decent little tutorial, it doesn't take more than two minutes to understand the necessary technique.

With enemies coming from left and right, high and low, you have to shoot and rebound this bullet as fast as possible. In the first instance, it will be your poor friends and family as the Versus mode plays host to all sorts of crazy game modes. With seven locations, and the option to play through single matches, or longer events that can win up to 10 for someone to become the Gilt Patrol Champion, the variety is fairly decent; If slightly equal.

Your standard Last Man Standing does what it says on the tin, while Hot Potato Bomb and Capture the Flag are both pretty self-explanatory. Things get a little silly, though a little early - it's a fun party game - and Chicken Rain sees countless chickens falling from the sky, trying to kill whoever they hit. The crazily titled Cat Mania does the same thing, only with jumping cats. Rocket Man introduces a homing missile into the equation, always hitting the target player at any time. Shoot, and that player becomes a rocket target... until you pay back in another way. Finally we see the Predator mode which sees only the Predator able to dish out any damage, all other players must shoot to become the Predator and take the battle down to the wire.

Each game mode sees 2-4 players take part and as you can imagine, the more players you have in place, the busier it gets. But in addition to multiple game modes, there are six more modifier sets - Ghost, Multi-Bullet, Jetpack, Trampoline, Invisibility and Game Acceleration, Speed Up.

Again, they're pretty much what you'd expect, allowing players to disappear, become ghosts, shoot multiple bullets depending on their rank in the game, fly with a jetpack, or bounce like a trampoline.

It must be said that Versus mode is fairly good fun, but only for a few minutes at a time - and especially with modifiers off. See, while it's nice to have options, they actually make the whole game a bit of a mess, taking the fun out of it. Other than that, and as a party title that can be used as something to fill a spot in the proceedings, it just serves its purpose, but I'd be very surprised if you're still bothering to play with things a few days after your initial Mate Cost .

Thankfully, a co-op mode caters to those who prefer to work together instead of killing each other. More fortunately it is available for 1-2 players. So solo gamers have ample reason to check out Gilt Battle Arena.

Oddly enough, it's the co-op mode that turns out to be the big draw. If you skip the target practice tutorial stage, the remaining seven stages pit you against the best of the fearsome Judge's forces, your only job being to take down as many as possible, earning stars in the process. Throwing rockets, chickens and cats all from Versus mode, jumping for two minutes to try to best yourself and your mates, each time trying to climb higher on the global leaderboard is rather addictive. As the action speeds up with waves, melees and the presence of ranged enemies and you need to be on bullet skill points, this is where Guilt Bullet Arena starts to show some exciting times – if only the lure of personal bests is too great. Each stage is big to ignore.

Again though, it gets too even, too fast, and for all the love in the world, one can only fire one shot to put a person down before they become old hat. The promise of GamerScore popping is a welcome treat if you manage to kill enough enemies in each stage to get a 3 star rating, but you'll have to pull out all the stops to see where you want to score. Earn a ping or two. And it's frustrating to say the least.

Even the promise of unlockable skins for your rather pleasant characters still won't be enough to see you playing Gilt Battle Arena in a week or two. For all the bright colors and smooth gameplay mechanics that Team Invisible Cat brings, it really feels like it has no real purpose.

The price also goes against this - in a pretty big way, actually - any quick-shooting party title needs to be tempting enough for a group of mates to chuck a quid or two into a pot to buy one. The £12 odd Gilt Battle Arena is asking for is tempting enough to look at as a purchase, or to give the co-op option for a single player a shot; Especially for the time you can finally play it.

By all means you can grab it in a sale and check it out to see if it has some companions for a night of fun and games, but otherwise Guilt Bullet Arena misses the mark. Even with that one fatal bullet it goes away.

judgment

Witcher Battle Arena's numerous technical issues contribute to a large list of in-game problems. Its combat is simple but satisfying, and the reward unlock system hooked me immediately, but they're overshadowed by a game that's broken at worst and shallow. The Witcher Battle Arena succeeds at a base level, but at its absolute height, it's barely capable.