Power Rangers: Grid War gets a new update today that adds online lobbies and viewer mode making it play like a complete fighting game.
Online websites will host up to eight players and allow them to fight across different games at the same time. When other people are done, they can simply watch the other games continue to happen rather than be stuck around until the next game group is ready.
This update also adds playback and progression to the PS4 version of the game, combining that player base with other colleagues on the Xbox One, Switch, and PC. Although I cannot attest to the robustness and performance of a character promoting eight people and players from four different platforms, it at least sounds cool in theory.
What Power Ranger released in March last year was missing many items, including many Power Rangers themselves. Developer nWay has been adding a bit to the game since then, and the base-version now has 12 attackers while season two adds six more. It has recovered story mode now which, though it was originally promised, was not available at the time it was introduced.
That may not be the case heading to Evo anytime soon, but Power Ranger it looks very much like a complete fighting game these days. However, there will be no stealing place in my heart that was held by Morphin Power Rangers Sega Genesis fighting game. At least until Grid War adds Cyclopsis.
