Over 100,000 players have already joined the open beta of the multiplayer soccer game, which I'm referring to as "Rocket Squad but with feet," on Steam over the weekend. Rematch will cost $30 when it launches this summer, so a large player base during a free beta doesn't guarantee that it will sell a ton of copies, but it also doesn't suggest that it is pointless.

Prior to its release, Concord was available as a free beta on Steam, but not many people used it. I realized then that the doomed FPS was in serious danger. On the other hand, the success of today indicates that Rematch might do admirably.

Since it differs from other sports games in a similar manner, it is equivalent to Rocket League, even though there are no rocket-powered war cars. Controlling one person and collaborating closely with your colleagues is more important than managing every player on the field. When we recently visited the French studio for a preview, developer Sloclap used the following terms: FIFA is a football simulation, whereas Rematch is a player who plays a football simulation. The controls are where Rematch and Rocket League diverge the most.

While Rematch features more conventional sports game controls, Rocket League is essentially a physics game in which you actively bounce the ball about by hitting and flying into it.

There's nothing like completing an aerial launcher goal, so that makes it a little less interesting to me. However, it's obvious that there is space for a more realistic, non-rocket-powered version of the concept.

Rematch is a new approach for Sloclap: the development team previously produced the popular single-player kung-fu game Sifu and the popular multiplayer combative art game Absolver, which should have been more popular. It appears that the switch from fighting to athletics has gone smoothly. Pierre Tarno, the creative director of Rematch, told PC Gamer the developer never even thought about making the game free-to-play.

You can click the icon on the Steam page to request entry to the beta if you want to play Rematch this weekend. We were all given entry, and obviously more than 100,000 others were, so it didn't look like there was a restriction, even though it took a few minutes. On June 19, the entire Rematch launch will take place.