You guys ready for Metaball??! Rocket league + basketball+ fornite!

Hungry All You Can Eat GIF
 
Hasn't this been on PlayStation? I could have swore I saw it in the FTP section when I was looking through it a couple of days ago. I could be wrong though.
 
The demo was actually a lot of fun. Was one of the IDXbox demos a while back. It's not a looker graphically, but the physics for throwing the ball and the dunks is enjoyable.
 
Never heard of this game. But it's actually been in Steam early access since Sept 2023.

But no doubt, this has got to be the biggest Rocket League knock off ever.
 
I like how the trailer was very careful to have no single continuous gameplay shots for more than 1.5 seconds, and none from the player's standard viewpoint. Instead we got plenty of shots of their little ugly gremlin characters from all angles. Speaks of its quality, I'm sure.
 
Does anyone else read the title as "That's a spicy a meat a ball 🤌🏼"? 😂


edit - I did not see the meatball references before I posted this lol
 
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Looks janky.
Also those character models looks like something you'd see in a low effort Yogurt or boxed juice commercial targeted at kids.
 
MS continuing to unintentionally meme Xbox into complete irrelevance. I mean this game looks like a Rocket League mod that's designed to make the game shittier, AND it already flopped on PS5.
 
MetaBall was an amazing UT2004 total conversion which had marble madness-like platforming/puzzle gameplay, some levels were like Sonic speed levels, others wide open collectathons, others puzzle based, it even had side scrolling and top down sections and you swiched to different materials to use more/less weight or magnetic or other ball properties, maybe pull other physics objects tied with a chain, it was quite fun and varied and it was all tied together with a dreamy fairy tale atmosphere and a hub world that gave it NiGHTS Into Dreams vibes. It wasn't perfect or anything, low production values, lacked cut scenes and extra fancy animations to give the atmosphere and presentation a more polished, complete look, but the core gameplay was already spot on. At one point a real sequel was in development but sadly it never got anywhere far. This looks shit 🤷‍♂️
 
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