INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Apple is taking a big swing with a new game, Ultimate Rivals: The Rink, that pits your favorite pro football, soccer, baseball, and hockey
players against each other - to, well, play hockey
Instead, Ultimate Rivals: The Rink, the debut title for seven-year-old indie developer Bit Fry Games, is an arcade-style game that takes its
cues from older classics like NFL Blitz and NBA Jam with cartoony versions of famous athletes and exaggerated sports action.Games have tried
The 58-player launch lineup will be grown over time - and considering it also includes Wayne Gretzky as the sole non-current player, might
add more legends later on.Ultimate Rivals: The Rink deviates further from sports fidelity by shrinking teams down to three-player squads
made of a center, a wing, and a goalie
approximated from their performance in their sports of choice.(Image credit: Bit Fry Game Studios)In play, the game is a little like a video
game version of the bubble hockey tables that inhabit pizza taverns and bowling alleys
The latter are silly and superpowered, letting Trout clobber enemies with baseballs, Rapinoe kick a quintet of balls in every direction, or
gaming crowd - a Rocket League with pucks and sports stars
the game to fit comfortably on an iPhone display
Each match spans six minutes divided into three periods of two minutes each
pick-up-and-play, has no single-player story mode, and features a lot of flashy athletes
Ultimate Rivals a franchise
After all, some of its games are available elsewhere, and only Apple product owners could sign up for and use it
with a broad range of iPhones, iPads, Macs and Apple TVs scared off some developers
production budgets that go into making AAA games dazzle players on their high-powered consoles and PCs
be the game that finally pulls that off, though it will still have an uphill battle to convince folks to go to the effort of subscribing
(even with the free month trial)
Studios)What Ultimate Rivals has is fantasy - not just to put together your esoteric dream team of players, but to be competitive without
why it took Bit Fry seven years to acquire licenses from player associations to put athletes from five different sports into one game
Bit Fry is already announcing that the next title in the series will be Ultimate Rivals: The Court, which already has a release window for
'Spring 2020' in the US (Q2 2020 elsewhere)
basketball-related attributes
If Alex Morgan can kick a soccer ball swiftly down the field, she can surely dribble it quickly down a basketball court.And since its
sports, there will always be more pro athletes and new underdogs that capture the headlines - and then, with a little coding magic, those
players can show up on your fantasy hockey squad overnight.EVrQgFfbwHjxwr9p6JXZu6.png?#
