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Today, my friend and I took breaks from our usually hectic and busy lives to engage in playing video games again. While we started with Diablo III, we quickly moved to Super Smash Brothers when more people came to visit my friend’s apartment. The first two were par for the course for us taking a break and wasting the day away.
But then we got to the third and main event of the night: Rocket League. Initially, Rocket League was suggested by my friend’s roommate. He described it as a soccer game with cars. I was confused at the premise, and then we started playing the game. We had four people left in the living room by the time we started playing Rocket League, and I was instantly intrigued.
We played through a couple of matches for us to get the hang of the game, and then we started playing local player, split-screen. The game includes using rocket-powered cars to hit a ball into an opponent’s goal. My friend’s roommate, who had played the game before, agreed to play on his own against the three of us with three rookie-level AI bots. Since he was significantly more skilled at the game than us, we thought that the challenge would be fair and we’d have close matches.
