Rocket League

   Okay just a quick one today, I just really want to recommend Rocket league. It's football with cars. That's basically it, but it is genius. The ball is massive, there's boost pickups, the car can do flips and stuff and teamwork seems non existent. This seems the kind of game I'd have never stopped playing 5 or so years ago when online gaming was all I did with my time because I imagine if you were playing with a group of friends and communicating you could easily beat the cluster that randomly put together teams usually turn in to. Not to say it's not still fun joining a random team online as everyone seems to play like madmen, there was one noticable time I came up against a group playing together as they were frustratingly organised but usually it's just crazy.
   You can go from 1 on 1 up to 4 on 4 and there is local multiplayer and offline modes with bots too. There's a simple season mode in there that you can play alone or in local multiplayer as well as the usual exhibition mode plus training modes to practice (and man do I need to, I appear to be dreadful at it). The cars are customisable, you can change they type, the paintwork, the flag you fly, wheels, smoke and car-hats (naturally). The game also keeps track of all your stats which is fun to see how many games you've won, goals you've scored etc. XP is easy to come by for things like clearances, assists, goals, overhead kicks, saves and just generally completing a match without quitting so you tend to unlock something new for your car after every match

   The only real problem I have is that it's a bit Americanised, so there's no draws, you go to 'overtime' until you get a winner in case of a draw at full time and in season mode it's not simply done on a league table, you HAVE to go to a playoff at the end of he season. It's football damn it, not soccer!
  These personal annoyances aside, I can't put this game down, there's so much stuff I have to do around the house but I'm just losing hours to Rocket League, hell, writing this was difficult enough (at least there's some Scrapheap Challenge on to keep me entertained). The best part though is if you have a PS4 with PS plus, it's free throughout July (it's also on steam for non ps4 owners). Get it now!