There's so much happening in Cobalt. Like, rather a lot.
The truth is, as much as I detest "it's like this but this," I really feel like that's one of the best place to start out. The best way I can describe Cobalt (the primary third-get together launch from Minecraft's Mojang) is as a curious mixture of John Woo, Tremendous Meat Boy, Contra and (most prominently) Tremendous Smash Brothers.
Like I stated ... quite a bit occurring.
%Gallery-131035%You management a diminutive, adorable, blood-thirsty robot battling others of your kind in a 2D, neon-drenched battlefield. Except for the weapons all robots have at their disposal (batteries, hatred of flesh-men), these bots have a quick arsenal of explosives, power weapons and good quaint robotic punching.
Whereas the modes I played at PAX were fairly conventional (capture the flag, loss of life match), their pace was way more accelerated than what you'd anticipate. Kills and captures occur fast, and one effectively-placed grenade can flip the tide.
It was clear that there was definite methodology to this robotic madness.
In actual fact, the only time the game slows down is when an enemy projectile is nearing one of many bots. As time slows, the bulky beam or bullet is highlighted, and the goal has just one likelihood to deflect the shot by rolling into it (cool) or punching it away (supremely cool).
The effect of this slowdown is that a bunch of gamers meeting in the course of a map rapidly transitions into a sluggish-mo gunfight that might be precisely described as a bullet ballet if the robots weren't so stubby and if numerous the "bullets" weren't rockets/grenades/power beams. It is probably not elegant, but it surely sure is a heck of a number of enjoyable.
Though chaos outlined my brief play time with the game, there appeared to be deeper methods that gamers might explore as time goes by. Actually, Minecraft Server List used to be unable to finish the "superior tutorial" which taught strikes like getting extra grenade distance by throwing mid-roll.
While the velocity and frantic action was a lot to wrap my mind round in a crowded expo corridor, it was clear that there was particular method to this robotic madness. I for one am trying ahead to exploring it when the game arrives on Computer, Mac and Linux this fall.