Ragdoll Masters is a fun game where you control a ragdoll with your four arrow keys. In each level there is one or more enemies to beat, in the beginning it's easy, but soon you'll be up against multiple enemies, or enemies several times your own size.

You hit (and get hit) with the ends of arms and legs, and your head. When you're fighting landing several consecutive blows without being hit yourself gives you a bonus multiplier for those extra high scores, not only that, but your attacks will become more and more powerful as well for each hit you land while not being hit yourself. That second part is vital if you want to succeed in the later levels. When you get beaten in a level, the game is over, and you'll have to start all the way from the beginning.

Besides the single player levels, you can also play together with someone else, on the same computer. You can choose between co-op and versus. The co-op being the same as the single player, except that there's two of you playing it.

Ragdoll Masters also has a range of options to keep the game interesting, you can change the flexibility, speed, and blow power (ie. how far your opponent gets hurled away when you hit it) of the ragdolls, you can also change the gravity of the levels, and the AI level of the opponents. Enough to keep you happy for quite some time.


The demo version places some restrictions on all this of course, it only has three levels, with a nag screen between each level, and some options are locked.

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