Head Ball 2 - Online Soccer Game is a combination of pong and soccer that uses every freemium mobile game trick in the industry. Enjoy customization options, levels and stats, rare time-limited characters, and an energy system in this arcadey football game.

In Head Ball 2, you control a soccer player consisting of a giant head and a foot. Your goal is to use a combination of movement, jumps, and kicks to outmaneuver your opponent and get a soccer ball into the opposing goal.

Rather than using a top-down camera angle, Head Ball 2 places the camera at one side of the field. With no ability to sidestep, you're limited to moving back and forth between your opponent's goal and your own goal. Jumps and high kicks ensure that the game makes plenty of use of vertical space, keeping gameplay diverse and somewhat fresh.

In many ways, Head Ball 2 resembles the classic game of pong. The 2d camera and the way you block the ball with your giant head are quite similar to how you block the ball in pong with your paddle. Unlike in pong, however, in Head Ball 2, there are microtransactions. There are also powerups, levels, stats, and more, meaning that your ability to control your character's movements, react to your opponent's strategies, and execute tricky plans to score goals is often less important than the numbers associated with your character.

In addition to crazy stats, Head Ball 2 has a number of powerups that you can use to alter the outcome of the game. You can make your head huge, make a goal bigger to make it easier to score, turn the ball into a fireball, and more. These powerups can alter the pace of the game in a big way, but they're also very limited. This means that a lot of your success against your opponents in Head Ball 2 will come down to your timing with using these powerups and your ability to defend against your opponents' crazy combinations.

Speaking of opponents, Head Ball 2 places a robust emphasis on multiplayer. Instead of playing real people, though, you'll face what are almost certainly bots for the majority of your matches. This is a very sane concession from a development standpoint, as the twitchy reaction-based gameplay of Head Ball 2 does not mesh well with mobile internet and cross-country connections. The game puts a great deal of effort into disguising this fact, however, which makes it seem very disingenuous. Either the developers are lying about the game's multiplayer aspects and you're fighting bots most of the time, or you're fighting a set of people who use the exact same strategies, never emote or taunt, and have absolutely flawless connections to you in every game. The fact that your opponents use a seemingly curated selection of heroes and items and have terrible powerup management lends a lot of credence to the bot theory.

Head Ball 2 utilizes the same sort of freemium microtransactions that you see in many other mobile games. It's fairly generous in terms of free-to-play progression to a point. You'll have to manage your resources carefully, and as you start fighting tougher opponents you'll probably be tempted to spend a bit of cash to level the playing field. If you stick with it you'll be able to tough out this section and get your team up to amazing stats, enabling you to crush the competition.