Studs Up! Win Ugly

Score goals. Break bodies. Collect teeth.

Welcome to the pub league. The pitch is questionable, the referee has his price, and your transfer budget is rattling around in somebody else's mouth.

Studs Up! is a five-a-side football brawler on a side-on, faux-3D pitch. Charge a shot, bend it after the boot, or send a teammate through with a well-timed pass. Then brace for the return tackle. Goals win matches; the teeth scattered across the pitch help pay for the next one.

Take charge of The Mincers, recruit seven local misfits and drag them through a season against five rival clubs. Between fixtures, return to the pub office to patch up the squad, buy upgrades, take a sponsor's money or slip the referee a little encouragement. Injuries follow you home. Dead players stay dead.

Prefer to skip the paperwork? Quick Match puts you straight into the scrap, with tougher opposition waiting after a win. Mud, municipal concrete and suspiciously well-kept turf each put a different spin on a Sunday afternoon.

Got someone on the sofa? 2 Player Quick Match gives you a team each on one screen - keyboard and a controller, or two controllers.

Features

Arcade football - charged shots, passes, lobs, aftertouch and crunching tackles.

A full season for The Mincers, with six clubs, named recruits and a derby grudge.

A dental economy - collect teeth on the pitch and spend them on 30 upgrades across five branches.

Improvised violence - bottles, bricks and four kinds of firearm. Friendly fire counts.

Referees with tempers - cards, penalties, fines and pre-match bribes.

Three venues , restless crowds, pitch invaders and undertakers with work to do.

Consequences - sponsors, campaign events, injuries, substitutions and permanent player deaths.

Local versus - two players, one screen, one of you walking home angry.

Play your way - keyboard and gamepad, difficulty options, adjustable audio, screen shake and goal-flash toggles.

The campaign is single-player. Local versus is same-screen only - there is no online multiplayer.

Fair warning

This game is not balanced. Absurd things may happen. Absurd things will happen.

You can cheese it to win. You can also stand there and watch the other lot cheese it right back and take the match off you. It is not meant to be fair. It is meant to be fun.

So please don't come crying in the discussions because you lost a match you were leading 10-0. You have been warned.