Omega Strikers is a F2P Sports game and can be described as a 3v3 air hockey game with abilities.
The main objective of the game is to outsmart your rivals and score a certain amount of points to win the match. The amount of points to score differs from gamemode. Before scoring a point, there are some parts of the arena where the ball must hit first, after doing that, the gate which defends the goal opens and makes the opponents more vulnerable. At the beginning of each match, you choose your character with certain abilities. Each character's ability adds variety to each game. Before the match, after choosing your character, you also choose a buff, adding an additional bonus to the role you play. There are two roles, two forward players and one goalie. Choosing the right character for each role can be crucial to the outcome of the match.
Apart from abilities, you have different arenas, which differs by only the parts which must be hit before the goal become defenceless. Apart from that, you only have three gamemodes.
There are not many obligatory microtransactions for a F2P game to be honest, which is good, mostly fashion items, but the important thing are the characters, who can be bought with currency earned by simply playing the game.
The main objective of the game is to outsmart your rivals and score a certain amount of points to win the match. The amount of points to score differs from gamemode. Before scoring a point, there are some parts of the arena where the ball must hit first, after doing that, the gate which defends the goal opens and makes the opponents more vulnerable. At the beginning of each match, you choose your character with certain abilities. Each character's ability adds variety to each game. Before the match, after choosing your character, you also choose a buff, adding an additional bonus to the role you play. There are two roles, two forward players and one goalie. Choosing the right character for each role can be crucial to the outcome of the match.
Apart from abilities, you have different arenas, which differs by only the parts which must be hit before the goal become defenceless. Apart from that, you only have three gamemodes.
There are not many obligatory microtransactions for a F2P game to be honest, which is good, mostly fashion items, but the important thing are the characters, who can be bought with currency earned by simply playing the game.
Rating: 7.6/10 - Pretty Good
Despite the overall weak character design and lack of content, this game managed to grab me with good gameplay. It can get repetitive after some time and I can already see that the player is expected to grind for levels for a while before being able to get enough money to buy more than a few heroes, but a steady stream of content can fix that.
Despite the overall weak character design and lack of content, this game managed to grab me with good gameplay. It can get repetitive after some time and I can already see that the player is expected to grind for levels for a while before being able to get enough money to buy more than a few heroes, but a steady stream of content can fix that.
It's hockey but your character has moba-like skills that hit the puck and your opponents, and you can kill each other via ringouts. Bad games usually end fast because of snowballing and the long ones are always intense as hell.
The new awakening system means that the matches are extremely varied even if they start with the same set of characters because your performance affects which awakenings you can pick which affects your future performance and so on.
I would give it a 5/5 but some characters are toxic af and devolve the game if their user has at least double-digits IQ (somewhat rare occurrence in such players), and I don't think they'll be reworking or deleting them any time soon. That said, when you're put in a lobby with people of similar skill levels it's some of the must fun I've had in years.
If people let this game die I'll take it as proof that doing game design is a waste of time in multiplayer games.
The new awakening system means that the matches are extremely varied even if they start with the same set of characters because your performance affects which awakenings you can pick which affects your future performance and so on.
I would give it a 5/5 but some characters are toxic af and devolve the game if their user has at least double-digits IQ (somewhat rare occurrence in such players), and I don't think they'll be reworking or deleting them any time soon. That said, when you're put in a lobby with people of similar skill levels it's some of the must fun I've had in years.
If people let this game die I'll take it as proof that doing game design is a waste of time in multiplayer games.
As of 5/18/23 the online seems barely functional with half of the 6 games I played randomly ending in a lag spike that booted me out. Since I can play other MP games on this game WIFI and have no issues I assume this has something to do with how the game handles premature leaving. From what little I played the gameplay was slow and not compelling enough to justify such a crap shoot.
I haven't had this much fun with a competitive multiplayer game in actual years. Holy shit man, I love this game so much.
They have a few rough edges here and there that need a bit of smoothing, but I can tell the developers genuinely want this game to be as great as it could possibly be, so I do feel very hopeful for the future of it. It's fun, unique, feels very good to play and improve at, and has a good group of people behind it, what more could you want?
They have a few rough edges here and there that need a bit of smoothing, but I can tell the developers genuinely want this game to be as great as it could possibly be, so I do feel very hopeful for the future of it. It's fun, unique, feels very good to play and improve at, and has a good group of people behind it, what more could you want?