Playing soccer by ramming the ball into goals with cars or trucks shouldn’t necessarily work, and it almost definitely is an unlikely candidate to become one of the most popular multiplayer video games around. Credit the developers at Psyonix with not only coming up with the original idea but having the foresight to both keep the game simple enough that anyone can pick it up and understand it within minutes and make it meaty enough that it’s turned into an esports staple.
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