

Gang Beasts for PlayStation 4 can be downloaded from the PlayStation ™ Store, physical copies can be purchased from local and online retailers or from the Skybound Games shop (releases on 3 December 2019 in US and 6 December 2019 in EMEA). Gang Beasts for macOS and Linux can be downloaded from the Steam and Humble Stores.
#WHY ISN'T GANG BEASTS ON XBOX ONE? WINDOWS#
Gang Beasts for Windows can be downloaded from the Steam, Humble and Oculus Stores (Oculus version requires an Oculus Rift or Oculus Rift S headset). Gang Beasts is available for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems and as an Oculus Early Access game for the Oculus Rift and Oculus Rift S headset. What Platforms is Gang Beasts available for? Most similar fighting games don’t have these, especially when the arenas are as small as they are.FAQ. Meanwhile, the action itself, which is often over in seconds due to operator error or a strong start from your enemies, can be heavily stunted by inter-round loading screens that often feel longer than the battles. Don’t ask me how it’s still a mystery, and I’m not looking forward to guessing again. There are problems when setting up a local multiplayer game on console after various approaches to logging in, selecting game modes and having other controllers interacting with the screen, we eventually got four players playing on it. In terms of UI, Gang Beasts isn’t the slickest.
#WHY ISN'T GANG BEASTS ON XBOX ONE? PC#
The graphics are inconsistent and pretty lo-fi to begin with combined with frame-rate drops when the action’s high, it can look and act like a last-gen effort on low PC settings. You can get stuck out of camera view every now and again. It’s not great to get hit by a train so hard that your character’s head clips through a wall and your body flails on the other side, forcing you to restart the bout. Still, there are actual problems that affect the overall running of the game. Some levels can be more complex than others, but you'll always be focused on pummelling the. Some are part of the fabric and make things funnier, like hitboxes that are frightfully inconsistent, or a climbing mechanic that’s more chance than skill. With a game that’s this gloriously unpolished, there are bound to be issues.


Sometimes, as I found here in a wholly luck-based one-on-one victory, the seeming champion can often become the loser in a heartbeat. It makes the game so much more exciting when you know that falling over an edge isn’t game over, so long as you’re capable of clutching a wall, bar or railing on your way out. Grab isn’t just for fighting–it’s for saving your skin. But most of the time, the fight’s not over.

Despite the luck often required to get this right, it feels incredible when you finally do it. Throwing is one of the most difficult things to do in Gang Beasts: presuming your enemy is unconscious, distracted or having a hard time with the controls, you can pick them up and, using your momentum, let go at the right time and have them plummet to their death. Again, this’ll knock an opponent out for a short period of time, and that’s when the main mechanic of the game comes into play. Similarly, landing a nice, clean headbutt at the beginning of a round is a game of luck, but when you manage to nail it, it feels more powerful than the magnum from the original Halo. Bouts in 'Gang Beasts' will almost immediately descend into madness.
