{"id":17724,"date":"2018-04-25T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T00:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17724"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T17:51:44","slug":"clusterpuck-99-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/clusterpuck-99-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"ClusterPuck 99 (Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ClusterPuck 99 is a sports game that\u2019s like a hybrid of hockey and soccer.\u00a0 Because of all the different maps and arenas, it also reminds me of Atari\u2019s classic 2600 game Combat.\u00a0 It certainly has an old school arcade feel to it, anyway.\u00a0 So why the \u201999?\u201d\u00a0 Well when I talked to the developers who made ClusterPuck 99 at PAX South, they said they put the 99 on the end because NHL 99 was the greatest hockey game ever.\u00a0 Anyway, up to eight players can compete in this downloadable game for Switch, Xbox One, and PC (reviewed on Switch here).<\/p>\n

The game is simple.\u00a0 Players separate into two teams and try to get the ball puck into the goal.\u00a0 Players themselves also look like pucks sliding around.\u00a0 You can touch the ball and carry it around like you\u2019re \u2018kicking\u2019 or \u2018dribbling\u2019 it, or you can shoot it out in case you need to score a goal or whatever.\u00a0 When you don\u2019t have the ball, you can do a dash attack to knock the ball out from another player.\u00a0 Watch out for obstacles like bumpers and spikes.\u00a0 If you hit a spike, you\u2019ll go splat and must wait a few seconds to respawn back in the game.\u00a0 Depending on what mode you select, the team that gets the most points in a certain time, or whoever reaches a certain score first, wins.<\/p>\n

Speaking of modes, there are quite a few in this game.\u00a0 Play a single game in Play Match, and up to eight players can compete in Party Mode.\u00a0 For single players, try the Challenge Mode where you must win under certain conditions.\u00a0 There are tons of different playfields to choose from in all the modes, but if that\u2019s not enough, you can also design your own in Arena Creator.\u00a0 You can also edit profiles of players, including names and designs to put on your puck avatars.\u00a0 There\u2019s even a Pac-Man symbol, which I thought was cool.<\/p>\n

Really the only problem I had with this game is that when you select a mode, it wouldn\u2019t let me go back to the main menu after that, so I had to restart the game.\u00a0 But I\u2019m sure that\u2019s something that can be fixed in an update or whatever.\u00a0 If you enjoy simple sports games and have a lot of players around who do, too, you may want to give this one a try.<\/p>\n

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When your puck players hit a spike, they\u2019ll splat into a pile of their team color\u2019s goo, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets in this game.\u00a0 Also some parents may not appreciate that the title is very close to sounding like a curse word.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menus, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 ClusterPuck 99 is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ClusterPuck 99 is a sports game that\u2019s like a hybrid of hockey and soccer.\u00a0 Because of all the different maps and arenas, it also reminds me of Atari\u2019s classic 2600 game Combat.\u00a0 It certainly has an old school arcade feel to it, anyway.\u00a0 So why the \u201999?\u201d\u00a0 Well when I talked to the developers who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17726,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions\/17726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}