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Rocket League is a fun video game to describe to your pals. It's sort of like football, you'll tell them, but instead of the more traditional humanoid players that you might be expecting, with their fleshy limbs and bodies, here we'll be playing the beautiful game with cars. Rocket-fuelled cars. Also, the ball is massive and you can do wicked front flips. Most people are going to want to give that a go, which is useful, because this may well be the best party game of the year. You'll want to get others involved.Like most things in Rocket League, the objective is a fairly easy thing to grasp - score more goals than the opposing team by bashing your car into the ball at whatever speed you can manage. This initial simplicity, which helps ensure the game is an intuitive one to pick up and play for the first time, does eventually give way to something more substantial.
Things like your rocket boost, for example, can at first prove a difficult thing to use in moderation. When a single button press stands between you and your very top speed, you'll want to use at every opportunity, but that's not usually the smart way to play. Saving that limited boost for the moments that matter and being able to rush in and just nudge the ball over the goalline when needed, or just place yourself between your opponent and your open goal - that tends to be the sign of a more experienced player. Rocket League offers plenty of opportunities, like this, for players to be the hero their game needs.
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