Speedball 2 HD
Skip · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 7.6h
- Value
- $1.31/hr
- Reviews
- 67% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATi Radeon X1300 Pro, NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache or Intel HD Graphics, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Speedball 2 HD is a modern reincarnation on the classic, futuristic cyberpunk sports game Speedball, originally developed by the Bitmap Brothers and first released for the Atari ST in 1990. A brutal mix of handball and ice hockey placed at break-neck pace.
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The value story
March 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 46 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 68 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 83 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Double Dragon: Neon ($9.99, scores 44) and Kopanito All-Stars Soccer ($5.99, scores 55) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 53. Players sit 14 points higher at 67 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
At 7.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
20% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Just release the original amiga version of speedball 2 brutal deluxe. It was perfect in every way. This is not!
a bit to slow compare to the original, its more like slowball 2. they should run faster so u can feel the speed and get a bit more action in the match. but its still fun and its much longer seasons with cups and champions league the AI players is running around like stupid chickens and not at all in position like in the old origin. Plus it chrashes often and log u out Overall absolutely not the same feeling as the...
The 8 Core Player Attributes * SPD (Speed): Controls movement velocity, slide-tackle reach, and jump distance. Essential for recovering loose balls quickly. * POW (Power): Dictates tackle impact. Higher power inflicts severe damage to opponents' health meters, accelerating player injuries. * STA (Stamina): Serves as the primary defense against Power. High stamina mitigates health loss when tackled and keeps stats...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Speedball 2 HD scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251690/speedball-2-hdThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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