Maximus 2: Fantasy Beat-Em-Up

MAXIMUS 2 is an award-winning fantasy beat-em-up brawler that emphasizes robust and satisfying combat mechanics. It successfully integrates elements from classic beat-em-ups, providing players with a memorable gaming experience. Engage in solo battles or team up with up to four players for cooperative multiplayer action!

STORYtelling takes a unique approach with a single, continuous shot reminiscent of 80s classics. Rather than transitioning between stages abruptly, animated sequences seamlessly connect different areas, immersing players in a captivating journey.

Engage in real-time MULTIPLAYER co-op by teaming up with friends online or locally with Bluetooth controllers. Up to four players can join forces to combat foes together.

Play as distinct HEROES, each with unique roles and weapons such as the tank, wrestler, magician, outlaw, healer, and ninja. Strategic teamwork is key to survival, as players can assist fallen teammates, provide support or healing, and coordinate attacks to keep enemies juggled in the air.

Experience seamless progress with Google Play Games integration for Cloud saving. Though there are some in-app purchases available, the entire game content can be unlocked through gameplay. Consider opting for the Premium Upgrade to show your support for ongoing game development efforts.

Maximus 2 Beginner’s Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Crush Your Enemies and Save the Duke

BASIC TIPS AND TRICKS

These tips will help you get through the majority of the game. Most of these also apply to many other beat-em-ups out there.

Combo!

See? This grunt gets it!

How does a beat-em-up play and how can it be won?

For anyone unfamiliar, you go around places to fight bad guys, occasionally pick up food from the trash (it makes perfect sense in context, we promise), use dangerous litter to hurt the baddies, and then you reach a boss at the end of the level. Usually, in other modern games, it might sound like a piece of cake. But granted that this game is inspired by older titles, the difficulty increases considerably each level. In the first few items, we will discuss some basic rules that apply in any beat-em-up. The first most important way to gain the upper hand in any fight is to execute combos.

Combos are a rapid string of attacks performed onto an enemy. The easiest way to perform a combo is to get in the enemy’s face and hammer the attack button repeatedly. After executing a combo, the enemy will be sent flying. You can do this repeatedly and in most cases, any enemy caught in the radius of the last strike will also be sent flying. Sending the enemy backwards will give you time to regroup and re-assess your situation.

After waiting for the enemy to get up, be careful as they might retaliate with an attack fiercer than yours! If you happen to catch them off-guard or dodge the enemy’s strong attack, you’ll be able to combo them again into oblivion. In some cases, walking over their downed bodies will allow you to pummel them on the floor. This causes even more damage to them.

One of the more exciting things about performing combos is you can even try chaining these with your special attacks. Each character in Maximus 2 has their own set of special moves that can be added to a combo. What matters here is that you constantly experiment and see which combos work for you. Eventually, you’ll find a really good combo that’ll help you get through enemy hordes.

Enemy hordes are common in games like these, but it’s better that you take each of them out one by one.

Try to Focus on One Enemy at a Time

And the big Astaroth*-looking guy was all alone in the end. (*Astaroth is a character from the Soul Calibur series.)

The enemies will swarm you in every direction. While it’s nice to take them out in droves, doing so could mean suicide.

Instead of going headlong into the enemy horde, try taking out your enemies one at a time. This is of course by singling out the enemy you have damaged the most. If you managed to bring down the health of one soldier, focus on them until you beat them. Killing off your enemies one at a time will be more consistent than trying to take out multiple ones simultaneously.

The logic behind this is that taking out one enemy at a time will whittle down their numbers at a more consistent pace rather than trying to hurt many enemies at a time. The latter means having to stay in front of a lot of them, and this means contending with their attacks. If at one point, one enemy that you missed actually hits you, the rest of them will follow and eventually combo you. It will hurt and it will greatly reduce your chances of survival.

To further illustrate what we mean about survival, fighting one enemy means they’ll be busy reeling from your blows. They will stagger and it will keep them from fighting back most of the time. This means less damage done to you and more time for you to regroup when you’re done with them. Consistently thinning the crowd out will also help you get to the end of the level quicker.

There is a caveat to fighting enemies one on one, though. The caveat being you will most likely be fighting groups of enemies at a time. After swinging at them, decide on singling out the most damaged one of the lot and take them out while the enemy regroups. Repeat this until you’ve successfully dispatched the enemy group.

Putting yourself in the middle can get you in trouble as we will explain in the next item.

Never Turn Your Back to the Enemy

D’oh! Shouldn’t have turned away from him!

In almost any fight (even in real life), turning your back to the enemy is always a risky move.

The enemy can be unpredictable and might even use this to their advantage. You can get jumped, grabbed, stricken on the back of the head, and more depending on the creativity of the assailant. In any beat-em-up, this is an easy way to lose your lives.

More often than not in a beat-em-up, enemies love to gang up on your character. Turning your back to them gives them an opportunity to strike. As much as possible, keep your character facing them all the time. If there is anyone behind you, try jumping over them or running around them. Doing this gives you the opportunity to get the jump on them if they haven’t turned around yet. Otherwise, it helps to always be on your guard.

Not keeping your back to the enemy could also keep you from being “accidentally” chucked into bottomless pits. Just imagine doing so well forcing an opponent into one such pit when their buddy comes up from behind and sends your sorry butt hurtling into the abyss. It won’t help your cause at all. Either they are all being forced into the pit or you fight them off yourself.

This leaves us to highlight a way you can take advantage from being cornered.

Fight from a Corner

From one corner to another!

What happens when you corner a beast?

With nowhere left to go, a cornered beast will most likely fight back with twice or thrice the ferocity. In this case, you must become this beast. You will have to purposely get yourself cornered.

Of course doing so does come at a price: getting juggled by the enemies. The greatest advantage you have while you are cornered, however, is that you will be able to pick a fight with your enemies all at once and not have to worry about turning your back to them. Combo them and retreat into the corner.

If any of them appears the most wounded, pursue them and take them out immediately. After which, return to the corner. Do this repeatedly until the enemy group has been thinned out. The hard part comes when you might somewhat get overrun by them.

The enemy has grouped together and is marching at you non-stop. You might have little space to move and keeping them all in a single blob could be quite dangerous for you. When one swings, the rest of them will, too, and you’ll get juggled into the wall. If you aren’t careful, this will rapidly decrease your health. Once they start to close in on you, jump over them and try to lure them away from the corner. Dispersing them should let you pick out the weakened ones.

Corner fighting is a good way to deal with enemies in tighter spaces. Against some bosses, this tactic may also be viable, but it’s best used against plain grunts, especially if there are a lot of them on screen. Upon mastering this technique, you’ll find yourself eating dirt a lot less.

System Requirements:

- Internet connection required for Online Multiplayer mode.

- Minimum storage space of 400 MB.

Recommended Specifications:

- 1.5 GB RAM

- Android 8.0+

Immerse yourself in the action-packed world of MAXIMUS 2 and unleash your skills in this thrilling adventure!