Eric Hall’s Top 10 Video Games Of 2015

5) Rocket League

As a proud and decent gamer, I’m typically not a fan of games I’m terrible at. For example, Volgarr the Viking can bite me. In spite of how bad I am at it, though, Rocket League managed to eat up a surprising amount of my time in 2015. Psyonix’s hybrid of vehicular mayhem and soccer is the type of of multiplayer experience that always feels great, even when things are going bad.

Rocket League is, at its core, a simple premise to explain. Instead of using primadonna athletes, you use a car to play soccer/football. That basic description, although perfect for the title, doesn’t do justice at all to what goes down over the course of a five minute match.

Supercharged aerial shots, grief-inducing own goals and miraculous comebacks are just a few of the memories that can be made during a single contest. With Rocket League, Psyonix has managed to capture all of the heartbreak and triumph of sports in a way that EA Sports and 2K Games sometimes struggle with.

Simply put, Rocket League is the sports game for the gamer that claims they hate sports with every fiber of their being.