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Clusterball

What is Clusterball? It's a sport. Clusterball is an online sport, designed to invoke the same adrenaline rush as Quake and Unreal, but replacing the spatter and gore with pure gameplay. By combining the feel…

80 17 July 2000

Clusterball is a fighting developed by Daydream Software, released 17 July 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Clusterball is

Clusterball is a fighting game developed by Daydream Software and released in 2000. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

What is Clusterball? It's a sport. Clusterball is an online sport, designed to invoke the same adrenaline rush as Quake and Unreal, but replacing the spatter and gore with pure gameplay. By combining the feel and gaming experience from ball, flight and racing games, Clusterball is totally unlike anything you?ve ever seen before.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Clusterball holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Clusterball launched on 17 July 2000, within three weeks of Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX and Jet Set Radio. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX, Jet Set Radio.

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When did Clusterball come out?
Clusterball was released on 17 July 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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