Gigantic: Rampage Edition Review - "Gameplay As Varied As Its Cast's Designs"

A 2017 MOBA game has been revived with , making some excellent changes, though not enough to make it feel like a revolutionary experience. Free-to-play games filled with microtransactions flooded the market over the last few years, which are thankfully nowhere to be found in Abstraction Games' third-person hero shooter. Instead, players receive a multiplayer experience with an impressive roster of quirky and unique characters for the same price other games may charge for a single character skin.

deserved a second chance because it was up against some steep competition in the F2P multiplayer arena when it first launched. While it successfully built a community of hardcore fans with its unique gameplay, it was shut down nearly a year after its launch. Now, with the help of publisher Gearbox and developer Abstraction Games, it's back withnew characters, maps, and an upgrade system that rewards players for playing the game instead of how much money they spend on microtransactions.

Gigantic: Rampage Edition is a serviceable MOBA game with enough different about it that it's worth a try.

For the $19.99 price of admission for, players will gain access to a game that avoids season passes and additional requests for more money to unlock everything it offers. While the game lacks a variety of game modes, has a unique set of rules and challenges that require more than typical team death matches one would expect from a multiplayer-focused shooter. The 5v5 MOBA tasks teams to work together in order to take down the other teams' massive and intimidating Guardian, as well as protect their own.

In each match in, players must defeat enemy players and collect orbs from waypoints that charge up overtime before the other team can do the same. A well-coordinated team with effective healing and distribution of buffs and debuffs will be vital to succeed, especially once enough points are gathered, causing a team's Guardian to traverse the map and pin the other, opening up an essential