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'Fall Guys' Is Candy-Colored Party Battle Fun

If you're stressed out by battle royale shooter games like Fortnite, you and your friends may enjoy steering the jelly-bean-esque characters of Fall Guys around an array of goofy obstacle courses.
The fun of <em>Fall Guys</em> comes in watching its little jelly bean-shaped characters getting whacked around goofy obstacle courses.

When you think of the battle royale genre in video games, you'll probably think of Fortnite. In Fortnite, a group of 100 players parachute from a plane, land on an island, and the last person standing wins.

I was never the biggest fan of games like that. First of all, I'm not great at shooters; my aim is bad and I panic when people sneak up on me. It's just no fun when you spend a lot of don't stand a chance, because everybody else is much better at aiming and, you know, not panicking.

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