DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 10514.cars—and now it’s free to play.
I think the absurd premise is what makes it
work though. Most sports games, especially
nowadays, aim for a certain style of realism.
For Madden, making the “best” football
game means making the most authentic.
Players, stadiums, even the broadcast
experience has to be recreated down to the
finest details.
Rocket League does none of this
obviously. And yet I think Rocket League feels
more like playing an actual sport than
Madden or its fellow sports simulations. I’ve
watched teams spontaneously “invent” zone
defenses and triangle offenses, seen
legendary plays lead to last-minute
comebacks, I’ve even made a few clutch
saves myself. Rocket League is a team sport
for the digital era, every bit as thrilling as its
real-world counterparts.
Oh, and you can play as a DeLorean. What
else could you want?- SOMA
Soma (go.pcworld.com/soma) is not the
game I expected from Frictional. Soma’s
immediate predecessor, Amnesia: The Dark
Descent (go.pcworld.com/amns), was often
referred to as “the scariest game ever made.”
It became synonymous with the rise of the
YouTube Let’s Play, as people watched others
scream their way through a game they were
too scared to play.
But Soma isn’t another Amnesia. It’s
barely even a horror game in the traditional
sense, instead getting by on atmosphere and