Anthem

 PC
User Score
4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3707 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,141 out of 3707
  2. Mixed: 303 out of 3707
  3. Negative: 2,263 out of 3707
Buy Now
Buy on

Review this game

  1. Your Score
    0 out of 10
    Rate this:
    • 10
    • 9
    • 8
    • 7
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 3
    • 2
    • 1
    • 0
    • 0
  1. Submit
  2. Check Spelling
view
per page
  1. ursiel
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    Boi was I wrong about this game. lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  2. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  3. pokeaatrox
    Jan 30, 2023
    0
    I stopped at the farm mission with the tombs in full during the main quest. No thanks. The grind should be in end game, not when discovering the game
  4. The_D4RknesS
    Jul 20, 2022
    0
    and mind blowing what is going on with this game selling for 1 cent lolololol
  5. AngryShark92
    Feb 8, 2022
    0
    I cannot write a full length review on this because I really don't have the desire to, but in a quick synopsis... this is just another heavily marketed service game layered with MTX that releases unfinished and receives updates as necessary. This is an entirely anti-consumer practice and needs to be called out if there is any hope of receiving quality games in the future.

    + Beautiful    I cannot write a full length review on this because I really don't have the desire to, but in a quick synopsis... this is just another heavily marketed service game layered with MTX that releases unfinished and receives updates as necessary. This is an entirely anti-consumer practice and needs to be called out if there is any hope of receiving quality games in the future.

    + Beautiful world design and graphics
    + Fly anywhere mechanic is cool
    + Some fun co-op moments

    - Home world is lifeless
    - Quests are repetitive
    - MTX is unnecessary
    - Loot balancing is awful
    - Terrible facial animations
    - Boring story (from Bioware???)
    - Bullet sponge enemies
    - Weapons all look the same
    - Loading times (Played on an NVME drive, shut up "Journalists")
    - Service-based game

    Overall, this a bad effort by Bioware, it is sad to see as I thoroughly enjoyed Mass Effect 1 & 2, but it seems to be an inevitable end by now... Anthem may be the final nail in the coffin as EA has no qualms about shutting down a studio that does not meet lofty financial expectations. EA needs to give their teams more time to develop games, and not bring in anti-gamer consultants like Anita Sarkeesian... cannot understand that move, beyond bizarre. 3/10 is a gift.    … Expand
  6. TheBasicReviews
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    Story: 0/100
    Gameplay: 0/100
    Graphics: 0/100
    Music/Soundtrack: 0/100
    Main Character(s): 0/100
    Side Characters: 0/100
    Regular Enemies: 0/100
    Bosses/Boss fights: 0/100
    World/Level Design: 0/100
    Playability (Bugs and optimization after patches): 0/100
    Would I Play It Again?: No
    Where Does It Rank In My Top 500 Video Games of All Time List?: Nowhere

    Rating: 0/100
  7. kokopete
    Oct 20, 2021
    1
    An embarrassment for Bioware. A broken incomplete game, with Christmas tree on March.
  8. predatorrules
    Jul 1, 2021
    0
    Cons: tons of disconnects my major issue with the game 2021.
    graphics are just okay with small maps which doesn't justify the performance, not even going to mention Tarsis city.
    Uninteresting NPC dialogs, repetitive combat and side quests.
    Pros: combat is nice, got nice amount of weapons and mods to customize your playstyle.
  9. AlbYSaN
    Jun 26, 2021
    1
    This could be one of my favourite game ever and instead it was been a shame.
    Promised updates never arrived, lack of content and remake stopped.
    For the rest (graphics, gameplay, etc.) magnificent game.
  10. Dom007
    Mar 28, 2021
    2
    This game lasted long. Two years and it's already dead with no future plans for it.
  11. txowina
    Mar 20, 2021
    0
    EA = compañia que se queda con tu dinero sin que tú recibas nada a cambio.

    EA lejos de mí.
  12. nurii29
    Mar 19, 2021
    0
    its really bad even on ultra settings its doesnt look good
    controls are awful
    weapons suck
    most of the game copy pasted from mass effect andromeda which is also awful
    no soul no story

    dont even bother to download
  13. Ermask
    Jan 2, 2021
    0
    Worst optimization ever. It's just a scam on PC. Stuttering with low graphics settings in I7 7800x, 32GB ram, 2070, SSD 4GB/s. So have in mind, that you have only 24 hours to refund the game if you want to give it a try.
  14. timmeeeyak
    Dec 15, 2020
    4
    I was blinded by the good name and everything bioware meant for me in my head. I've preordered it AND got the origin access premier subscription. Because of this, I now feel kind of ashamed that EA and bioware got the better of me and got me blindly excited for this hollow shell of a game. there's literally nothing exciting about this game after a few hours. the story is shallow at best,I was blinded by the good name and everything bioware meant for me in my head. I've preordered it AND got the origin access premier subscription. Because of this, I now feel kind of ashamed that EA and bioware got the better of me and got me blindly excited for this hollow shell of a game. there's literally nothing exciting about this game after a few hours. the story is shallow at best, gameplay is getting repetitive pretty fast and from a technical standpoint with all the performance issues and loading screens this game is a complete mess. farewell bioware, it's been great.… Expand
  15. Ctag14
    Dec 12, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. By far worst game I've ever bought, biggest pipe dream in all of gaming. Played it launch week haven't touched it since… Expand
  16. Jorgenn
    Dec 6, 2020
    0
    Liez before and after launch , they said game will be supported for yearz but last game update was feb.2020 . Stole our money #biofail never again gtfo
  17. Adefender
    Nov 20, 2020
    2
    This game took 6 years to make. SIX YEARS. It was hyped up so hard, the interviews were so confidient.... and what did we get?

    - Broken games, with countless bugs - Really bad console port: horrible ui, horrible swimming and flying which should be perfect because its one of the main aspects of the game - A million loading screen - it's literally a loading simulator, you get loading    This game took 6 years to make. SIX YEARS. It was hyped up so hard, the interviews were so confidient.... and what did we get?

    - Broken games, with countless bugs
    - Really bad console port: horrible ui, horrible swimming and flying which should be perfect because its one of the main aspects of the game
    - A million loading screen - it's literally a loading simulator, you get loading screens after 4-5 min gametime everytime, open world, huh?
    - Bad gear system
    - Awful little and bad endgame content, there are 3 strongholds from which 1 of is basically a story quest replay, the stronholds are so badly balanced and designed it's phisical pain
    - Downgrades and awful optimization / performance

    I could go on for ages, but this game doesn't even worth the time it takes to sort all of the problems out...
    The only pro's it has is the gameplay, which is fluid and sometimes fun, but that's all that is good about this game.
    It was hyped, we had hope but it turned out it was for nothing. It's horrible in many aspects, I got bored of the game before release. It was a 3 day game. I didn't have high expections, I wanted like 100 fun hours out of the game and I would've been good. I tought that nothing will be as bad of a scam as Destiny 2 at launch. I was wrong.... at least Destiny was fun for a week, this game is "fun" for max 3 days.

    Sad.    … Expand
  18. pasquozzo
    Nov 10, 2020
    3
    questo giocon non è come visto nei trailer e oltre ad avere una storia penosa e incoerente a mio parere non si salva neanche il lato grafico, che tanto mi aveva fatto sperare, con cali di fps anche nelle semplici cinematiche iniziali per poi pero essere fluido (e io ho una 1660) .
    l'unica cosa che si salva sono i combattimenti abbastanza divertenti e non ripetitivi
  19. Juniorsp
    Nov 4, 2020
    2
    Se jogou Destiny, The Division e Ghost Recon com seus amigos, provavelmente vai gostar deste aqui tambem, o problema é que a felicidade dura pouco, e em poucas horas de jogo vai ver que tudo é repetitivo e sem graça.
  20. Porph
    Oct 31, 2020
    0
    This game is in its second year of release and they STILL haven't fixed something as essential as using Raw mouse input so if you move the mouse slowly the input doesn't get registered in-game.

    Reminds you every second that you can be bothered to play that it's a bad console port.
  21. Modax19
    Sep 29, 2020
    3
    I started playing Anthem in 2020 after it became available on the EA Play basic subscription. I played it for 8 hours before uninstalling. Anthem is boring, tedious, and occasionally extremely frustrating. The matchmaking process is slow and the loading screens are long. Matchmaking seems to pair you up with players when you would rather play alone and fails to find any players to helpI started playing Anthem in 2020 after it became available on the EA Play basic subscription. I played it for 8 hours before uninstalling. Anthem is boring, tedious, and occasionally extremely frustrating. The matchmaking process is slow and the loading screens are long. Matchmaking seems to pair you up with players when you would rather play alone and fails to find any players to help you when you would like some help from a squad. The difficulty varies from stupidly easy (in main quest missions) to stupidly hard (if you begin the wrong side mission) The worst part of this difficulty discrepancy is that the enemies you are facing all look alike. I didn't get any enjoyment out of finding new loot or defeating tough enemies. The whole experience was joyless.… Expand
  22. honest_rev7
    Sep 24, 2020
    1
    Boring trash.

    Characters talk AT you. They seem like charicatures of better Bioware games.

    That first person interface is odd.

    Fort Tarsis is empty. Lore is not a story. I didn't hate it. I played it, and then just forgot about it.

    Don't spend your money on this.
  23. Iudex20
    Jul 31, 2020
    0
    Stop supporting garbage games and garbage devs like this. Original Bioware is long gone
  24. Dreminator
    Jul 25, 2020
    0
    So glad I didn't buy it, but played it with a friend first.
    It looks great and all, but man, this is more a messed up demo than a real game
  25. TheAncientOne
    Jul 10, 2020
    0
    EA's customer support is absolute and utter garbage.
    Getting support for this game is impossible.

    The game itself is not horrible but the company publishing and
    controlling it is a pile of absolute trash.

    Do not waste your money on EA games !!!
  26. WhiteWolf995
    Jul 1, 2020
    2
    I bought Anthem Delux Edition 6 months ago and tried to play on my Older laptop with 2GB Graphics and i5 7th gen CPU, it did not work properly. There was lot of lag, stuttering and freezing. Later when I bought new laptop with 6GB 1660ti and i7 9th gen CPU and I thought I will give it another try, may be this time I will get better experience. But I was proven wrong the game is terriblyI bought Anthem Delux Edition 6 months ago and tried to play on my Older laptop with 2GB Graphics and i5 7th gen CPU, it did not work properly. There was lot of lag, stuttering and freezing. Later when I bought new laptop with 6GB 1660ti and i7 9th gen CPU and I thought I will give it another try, may be this time I will get better experience. But I was proven wrong the game is terribly optimised even on lower settings there were lags and one time during a cutscene the entire thing freezed and all I could do was to skip the cutscene. And then on the first mission after you get your first Javelin the matchmaking did not work. I waited for 10-15 mins without getting in to the match becoz there was no one available for matchmaking. At least they could have added a single player option like in Warframe.



    I have read other reviews    … Expand
  27. EIIsworth
    Apr 21, 2020
    0
    I paid the full price when it launched to ENJOY the following points in minutes:
    - 60 mins flying like Iron Man
    - 30 mins of finding out the variety of story and quests
    - 60 mins of dialogues

    So after 2 1/2 hours I saw enough of this game.
  28. ryman221
    Apr 20, 2020
    2
    2.5 out of 10 - Very Bad game. Honestly the worst AAA game I've ever played, permanent scar on Bioware's legacy.

    Scoring Scale: 1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed. 2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting. 3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities. 4 - (MEDIOCRE) A    2.5 out of 10 - Very Bad game. Honestly the worst AAA game I've ever played, permanent scar on Bioware's legacy.

    Scoring Scale:
    1 - (AWFUL) Among the worst games ever made. The developer should be ashamed.
    2 - (VERY BAD) These games are so bad they're insulting.
    3 - (BAD) Just bad. Game suffers from a wealth of problems in all areas, very few redeeming qualities.
    4 - (MEDIOCRE) A game that has its fair share of serious problems with a few glimmers of quality sprinkled throughout. More than anything it's forgettable.
    5 - (OKAY) For every positive this game has there is just as many negatives. You may be able to find enjoyment in these games however you will likely be met with equal amounts frustration and disappointment.
    6 - (GOOD) There is a decent amount of fun to be had in these games albeit with a few noticeable drawbacks. Worth checking out at some point especially if on sale.
    7 - (GREAT) A game that has some flaws but all in all is a great game worth every penny of its purchase price.
    8 - (AMAZING) Game of the year contender only allowing for some minor flaws.
    9 - (SUPERB) One of if not the best game released that year, truly special.
    10 - (NEAR PERFECT) One of the best games ever made.    … Expand
  29. Typing
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    This game is just a destiny wannabe. How the **** did you manage to **** that up EA? If in had to describe this game in one sentence it would be that it is the videogame equivelant of jurassic world. So much potential so shamefully wasted. I would rather be doing assasin's creed trailing missions than playing tgis piece of **** they dare call game.
  30. joshbreviews
    Feb 14, 2020
    3
    Games like Anthem remind us that executives will absolutely abuse their employees if allowed. The company lovingly refers to their abused employees as "stress casualties". As if that makes it better. All the suffering those people were forced to go through? For what? Nothing. Nothing about this game is good.

    I hate to say this, but it feels like there must be government intervention via    Games like Anthem remind us that executives will absolutely abuse their employees if allowed. The company lovingly refers to their abused employees as "stress casualties". As if that makes it better. All the suffering those people were forced to go through? For what? Nothing. Nothing about this game is good.

    I hate to say this, but it feels like there must be government intervention via legislation to restrict these game companies, because like any company out there, if there is a moral loophole, they will absolutely exploit it, no matter who gets hurt.    … Expand
  31. Eloyjf
    Feb 12, 2020
    0
    Anthem 2.0
    kkkkkkkkkkkk!
    Next joke from EA games to try to stock your money.
    Anthem is a failed game!
    Poor Bioware, I'm sorry you guys are on a leash for EA, just to get more and more money than making great games.
  32. Mvhegs77
    Feb 10, 2020
    0
    Possibly the worst game that's ever been released (but if beaten out by worse games, only because they were truly that had) I've never seen a more disrespectful slap to the consumer market than Anthem. No content, no polish, no effort. Actually killed Bioware for me (EA is already a seed of corruption and everyone is aware these days)
  33. avatara
    Feb 9, 2020
    3
    It's year after start and still problems with connection, so nobody even try to solve it.
    I can play all game except Anthem, did network recommendation (clear origin cash open ports flush DNS etc. twice) , ask for help in tech.issue forums - who cares ?
  34. KottyBobick
    Jan 30, 2020
    0
    This is a joke. Im never buying EA game again. This is a boycott now. Promising so much, and lying. Just learn from Schrier article the way it was created.
  35. MelkTert
    Jan 24, 2020
    1
    What's there to say? The game was made in a mess and a mess is what we got. The game is dull and full of money-grabbing schemes. At least it looks nice.
  36. gash46
    Dec 27, 2019
    3
    I just couldn't stand the boring gameplay any more. It's pretty if you have a PC to run it properly, but for a game so empty it should perform better at medium settings. The gameplay is repetitive and dull, and I just couldn't care less about the characters on offer. It just feels like another Destiny 2 and in all the bad ways. I got it for £8 and I still feel like I want my money back.
  37. samstylle
    Nov 25, 2019
    0
    This game it's awfully horrible"trash'and etc... I can't believe it this game can call of a game. The loadings it's eternity of hell . The graphics it's ok though it's not the same of the demo. The worst of all the storyline it's thoroughly a waste of garbish .the the gameplay what a Boring missions
  38. spannerrings
    Nov 24, 2019
    3
    + Cool graphic
    + flying is great and fun
    + Gunplay(not gameplay) is still feel good +++ Uninstall is better than playing this **** - Still worst game service ever( always keep dc) (play on free Origin Basic October/November) - Story is meh - worst loading screen - gameplay is repetitive and boring as hell. - unbalanced loot and gameplay session - Unfinished broken product -    + Cool graphic
    + flying is great and fun
    + Gunplay(not gameplay) is still feel good
    +++ Uninstall is better than playing this ****

    - Still worst game service ever( always keep dc) (play on free Origin Basic October/November)
    - Story is meh
    - worst loading screen
    - gameplay is repetitive and boring as hell.
    - unbalanced loot and gameplay session
    - Unfinished broken product
    - bug everywhere
    - Content feel emptiness    … Expand
  39. Dungeon00X
    Nov 14, 2019
    1
    A "game" that like to show off lighting effects and background but that's about it. I tried to play the BETA, but was kicked out so many times I just gave up. Actually seeing the game play out, it's actually very bad. The deadly spiral of "Live Services" has shown that it's not only a business model that doesn't work, but they have to rush out an unfinished product to market just to getA "game" that like to show off lighting effects and background but that's about it. I tried to play the BETA, but was kicked out so many times I just gave up. Actually seeing the game play out, it's actually very bad. The deadly spiral of "Live Services" has shown that it's not only a business model that doesn't work, but they have to rush out an unfinished product to market just to get their return investment. A complete and total failure that may mean the end for Bioware, devoid of content and replayability that is an absolute joke, nobody should still be playing this game. The loot shower bug was the highest point of this "game" and EA knew this. Now I look at it on store shelves for $20 and laugh.… Expand
  40. Growup
    Oct 29, 2019
    1
    The content was a couple of months late that resulted in deleting the "road map" of what is coming in the game.
    It still has a lot of bugs. When they introduced/added Cataclysm in the game. Half of the people were stuck in infinite loading screens.
    The pre-order was 80$ to receive nothing. If you wanted to play the game earlier you needed a sub on origin. for 15$ aside of the 80$ that    The content was a couple of months late that resulted in deleting the "road map" of what is coming in the game.
    It still has a lot of bugs. When they introduced/added Cataclysm in the game. Half of the people were stuck in infinite loading screens.
    The pre-order was 80$ to receive nothing. If you wanted to play the game earlier you needed a sub on origin. for 15$ aside of the 80$ that you spent on the pre-order of the game, that slams you in the 95$ price range for a game that the people who purchased the game also was testing it and reported bugs that were fixed and some of them are still not fixed at this time.
    So, to resume, this game should be at the 10$ market price for what it's offering to the person that purchased this unfinished game that was too much jacked up in marketing.    … Expand
  41. aaron2005
    Sep 29, 2019
    0
    That always online stuff is just awful BS. I have some connectivity issues through my LAN. However, I was just starting to playing and was throw in a loading screen. While I am talking in the citadel someone smashed a loading screen in my face. 30 Secs of loading, just to throw me back to the very first game menu. I don't want to play with others peoples, I don't want to know about theirThat always online stuff is just awful BS. I have some connectivity issues through my LAN. However, I was just starting to playing and was throw in a loading screen. While I am talking in the citadel someone smashed a loading screen in my face. 30 Secs of loading, just to throw me back to the very first game menu. I don't want to play with others peoples, I don't want to know about their existence and specially I don't want to be thrown out of the game on places where I never ever meet any other person. Waited kinda long to that getting it to origin vault. Yeah, miss me with that BS, I will play something else without that always ON Sht.… Expand
  42. JustStorm
    Sep 23, 2019
    0
    Due to network errors, it is impossible to play this **** I have never written reviews here, but this game will infuriate even the calmest person. it’s impossible to complete a single mission, it’s impossible to enter the game for 30 minutes, and even if you come in, it can be thrown out after 30 seconds.
  43. Paschon
    Sep 16, 2019
    2
    After the horrible release i gave this game a second chance today.

    There hasen't been changed anything. Bioware literlly learned nothing of the whole big **** about this game. Month after release this game has still no content and still is full of bugs. This game released with 2 strongholds and a few missions that were repeating all over the place. In all that month bioware managed    After the horrible release i gave this game a second chance today.

    There hasen't been changed anything. Bioware literlly learned nothing of the whole big **** about this game.

    Month after release this game has still no content and still is full of bugs. This game released with 2 strongholds and a few missions that were repeating all over the place. In all that month bioware managed to release ONE single stronghold to the game.

    I wanted to start the new mission thats came with the event and i couldn't. It did not start. They NPC was bugged out and did nothing when i was trying to talk to him.

    The result was UNINSTALL.

    I hope this is the death for Bioware.    … Expand
  44. GurmpyCoolCat
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Broken game for a long time, the game developers backed out of their year one road map. Limited time event was 2 and a half months late. Head developer quit and moved on. Low game population. Tons of loading screens. I was very hopeful for this one.
  45. marcantoineg
    Sep 14, 2019
    1
    Anthem is everything a game shouldn't be. Expensive base game. Filled with **** microtransactions. No balance or testing. Graphics downgrade. False advertisement. Future content cancelled. Repetitive gameplay. Boring story. I could go on and on. The game's already dead anyway.
  46. ActualReviewer2
    Sep 2, 2019
    0
    Terrbible, EA quality at it's best. Release a game, make promises, deliver on NONE of them. EA style.
  47. Ravi77
    Aug 5, 2019
    0
    BioWare are frauds and they pulled the scam of the year. If you don't understand why I'm saying it, watch and read all the marketing related stuff from EA and tally against how many of them have been fulfilled.
    Piss poor pathetic broken incomplete piece of garbage released by BioWare followed by running away while tucking their tails between their legs.
  48. Genis94
    Jul 15, 2019
    0
    As someone who got Anthem for free with a new GPU, I still cannot recommend it at the price tag of $0, let alone retail cost. Anthem is a broken game littered with all manner of technical issues, bogged down by a lackluster story, and features no real endgame content to justify the grind or repeated time investment. If you're looking for a multiplayer online game with open world, shooting,As someone who got Anthem for free with a new GPU, I still cannot recommend it at the price tag of $0, let alone retail cost. Anthem is a broken game littered with all manner of technical issues, bogged down by a lackluster story, and features no real endgame content to justify the grind or repeated time investment. If you're looking for a multiplayer online game with open world, shooting, and all sorts of cool powers, Warframe exists.… Expand
  49. CASeoul
    Jul 1, 2019
    0
    Everything bad about EA and Bioware, but cranked up to an 11.
    Refund would be nice, but will probably never happen.
  50. StellarKane
    Jun 26, 2019
    1
    Buggy, shallow trash ruined by loot boxes ......................................
  51. Madara25
    Jun 24, 2019
    0
    Это самая унылая игра подобного жанра из всех, что я видел. На минуточку, я играл в Варфрейм, Судьбу, Дивизию, но это полный шлак. 3,5к за предзаказ возвращать никто не хочет от чего еще больше портится представление об этой игре. в Мободрочь ради мободроча, ибо иных развлечений тут нет. И то теперь порезали систему лута, чтобы можно было получать топ шмотки лишь с данжей и все. ТупоЭто самая унылая игра подобного жанра из всех, что я видел. На минуточку, я играл в Варфрейм, Судьбу, Дивизию, но это полный шлак. 3,5к за предзаказ возвращать никто не хочет от чего еще больше портится представление об этой игре. в Мободрочь ради мободроча, ибо иных развлечений тут нет. И то теперь порезали систему лута, чтобы можно было получать топ шмотки лишь с данжей и все. Тупо гриндя одно и то же. Контента нет абсолютно. Игра проходится за 10-12 часов, после чего наступает время под названием "займи себя сам". Мне вот абсолютно комфортно убивать мобов в Сложном режиме и смысла идти в ГМ1-3 нет абсолютно. Ибо просто не за чем повышать себе сложно. Ничего кроме увеличения хп и урона нет. Тупо болванчики для битья. Невозможно унылый гринд. Я надеюсь нынешних Биоваров закроют за такую халтуру. От прежней студии не осталось ничего… Expand
  52. Joker_14_pt
    Jun 18, 2019
    1
    Jogo horrível não comprem senão vão fritar as vossas ps4 nem free game deveria ser
  53. KlintWestwood
    Jun 10, 2019
    1
    I was worried from the "Beta" and regretted my pre-order. "They will address all issues in the future" is something i hear from many people that like the game. As someone who played Destiny from the start till now, Anthem is comparatively a terrible game. No loot to actually care for. Cosmetic items are almost non existent. No PVP which MANY people solely play games like this for. When itI was worried from the "Beta" and regretted my pre-order. "They will address all issues in the future" is something i hear from many people that like the game. As someone who played Destiny from the start till now, Anthem is comparatively a terrible game. No loot to actually care for. Cosmetic items are almost non existent. No PVP which MANY people solely play games like this for. When it comes to the story, it is boring and dis-interesting. I really did not care for anyone. Not mentioning the terrible optimization on all platforms and bullet sponges/one kit kill enemies, this game is a poor example of a game. I regret having this game in my library, I would return it if I could. I'm not going to touch it for another year and see if these issues are actually resolved.… Expand
  54. mikayelatoya
    Jun 10, 2019
    1
    A super generic shooter, nothing more!!! Visuals seemed to have been done a severe downgrade. Story is worthless. Ar rip off of the brilliance of crysis games.
  55. pavel8585
    Jun 6, 2019
    0
    - Story is boring
    - combat gets old fast
    - Dead player base ( cannot match make!! )
    - Cancelled Roadmap! ( game goes to nowhere )
    - GM2 , GM3 unplayable - 99% of ppl dont have gear to play this
    - Bugs
    -Glitches
    -If you think that Fallaout 76 was bad this game is mutch worse
  56. CallenAmakuni
    Jun 5, 2019
    3
    The first part of the review is a Post-release impression. For a more recent (and truthfully honest) opinion, there's an UPDATE tab at the end.

    Anthem is a frustrating experience. Because it does a lot of things wrong (basic features included), but what it does right it does so magnificently. Personally, it is undoubtedly the most fun I've had on a video-game in a very long time. But    The first part of the review is a Post-release impression. For a more recent (and truthfully honest) opinion, there's an UPDATE tab at the end.

    Anthem is a frustrating experience. Because it does a lot of things wrong (basic features included), but what it does right it does so magnificently.

    Personally, it is undoubtedly the most fun I've had on a video-game in a very long time. But unfortunately, giving my opinion here on whether to BUY this game or not requires a certain degree of objectivity.

    BioWare, I say this as a long time fan of yours: please get your **** together. You can't expect the same treatment if your game releases in the same state half-a-decade-old games released in. You are the last to enter the market, you are supposed to be the best. And you are not.

    At least not right now. Anyway.

    Pros:

    - The game is stunningly beautiful and runs (almost) smoothly. A few bugs here and there, but most were corrected by the Day 1 patch. The world looks good, the characters look good (I'm particularly fond of my Shelancer), the Javelins look awesome, be it their metallic textures or the more refined meshes. Good stuff.
    - That Gameplay. Capital G because that's how it freaking had to be done. I can't emphasise enough how much they nailed this aspect. Flying, shooting, making stuff blow up feels satisfying, and each Javelin feels unique and rewarding. You guys can be proud of this.
    -Actual customization. My Javelin is unique. I know that because no sane person would associate the colors I chose. But thanks to that, I'm 100% sure it's unique. Happy to have the opportunity.
    -The music. Listen to "Valor". Thank me later.

    Cons:

    -The story. This is a BioWare game, and I can very clearly state that it has a story equivalent to any standard 2010s FPS. See the average summer action blockbuster? Add in one or two potentially interesting characters, and you have Anthem's campaign. Choices ? What ?Where ? Everybody's going to experience the same thing. Not bad per se, but easily the least convincing story told by the master storytellers.
    -Content. Three dungeons and the same three repeatable contracts at Lvl 30. Yeah, not a lot.
    -Some strange choices. No stat page ? In a stat based game? Also, why doesn't the suiting cinematic happen during loading screens ? A lot of the decisions they made are this confusing.
    -Loot RNG and drop rates. So umm, either remove the random aspect of those inscriptions (which can give you a 0% bonus on a Masterwork or Legendary item at the moment) or let us have a lot of them so that we have more chance to draw something usable. Investing time isn't rewarding when all the loot you get is worse than what you already have in the endgame.

    Anthem isn't a bad game. It certainly isn't as bad as Fallout 76 like the congregated score suggests. It has its (incredibly exhilirating) moments. I spent 35 hours on it since its official launch, and I think that's enough of a return of investment, espcially knowing that I will still play it for a long time. But it feels like it needed a little while longer in the oven. It looks like the devs care about this game though, which is very encouraging. That is why I believe I'll wait for the next updates and come back in a few months to update this review.

    However, and more importantly, I'll borrow a sentence from my ME Andromeda review that heavily saddens me: this just isn't what we've come to expect from a BioWare game.

    UPDATE: Okay, this is now ridiculous. I take it down a few notches because BioWare is seemingly incapable of taking responsibility for its f-ups. That Roadmap ? Not respected. Communication? Absent. Content? What a joke.

    Updates breaking the game even more than it was before ? How did you manage that?

    You had the foundations to build a decent game from where you stood, but I'm sorry, this is a failure. One of the biggest I've ever had the misfortune to witness. And it's BioWare. Sigh.

    Scrap everything. Change how you work, your view of videogames and your methods.

    Never thought I'd say this, but let Dragon Age 4 at least go up to Mass Effect Andromeda's quality if you really can't do better. Let this thing rot and let's never talk about it. Ever. Again.    … Expand
  57. Toleot
    May 27, 2019
    1
    Cool graphics! And 3 months after launched, that "Error loading pilot data, please try again" still keep on coming. And there's no more player to play with. Awesome isn't it?
  58. Floral
    May 25, 2019
    4
    Game play is very inconsistent. How much health you have entering an activity and how much damage you do is seemingly random and is not tied to in game level or gear stats. This undermines progression as your stats are always fluctuating due to RNG. Same goes for enemy health and damage, none of it is consistent. There is no end game and the loot is laughable. There are only 57 guns total,Game play is very inconsistent. How much health you have entering an activity and how much damage you do is seemingly random and is not tied to in game level or gear stats. This undermines progression as your stats are always fluctuating due to RNG. Same goes for enemy health and damage, none of it is consistent. There is no end game and the loot is laughable. There are only 57 guns total, and only 9 models for all of them. Not one gun has a unique model. Only 3 guns from every gun type are available to the player before level 30. For example, there are only 3 assault rifles till you hit level 30. You will keep getting these guns, though with different rarities (which is redundant because the gun isn't truly "rare" if it can also be obtained at the common level), until you hit level 30, then 4 more assault rifles are available. You will only be able to use 27 guns until you hit level cap (granted that you play each class, as class specific weapons are factored into the 27). Because there is no end game, there is no reason to play after hitting level 30. Additionally, weapon perk randomization means that any gun can have any perk, which makes high-end gear broken sometimes. For example, it is possible to get hip fire spread reduction perks for the sniper, even though in Anthem you can't shoot a sniper unless you are aimed. You can also get perks such as 0% recoil reduction on assault rifles and LMG's, which takes up a perk slot and has no effect.

    Very little care went into this new IP.    … Expand
  59. xcxvy
    May 24, 2019
    1
    After playing Kotor and the Mass Effect trilogy, Anthem is a massive disappointment, lack of content, there are loading screens everywhere :(
  60. Elex
    May 24, 2019
    0
    Nice Roadmap you got there, hope it doesnt completely derail ..oh it already has..cool
  61. Elmund
    May 19, 2019
    0
    Absolutely cr*p and soulless , failed miserably. Game has no direction & EA have done it again
  62. Not_your_produc
    May 15, 2019
    1
    Although i am a huge Bioware fan since the first Baldur's Gate , this game is broken at it's core. Two months after Anthem's initial release and still it has a ton of bugs and game breaking problems. My rating is based on the fact that the bugs and server shutdowns make the game unplayable and wrecking your nerve system. It can even hard crash the whole pc in some cases.
  63. arrehn
    May 12, 2019
    4
    200+hrs in review. Great action graphics/gameplay but fatally flawed and unfinished. Jump into one of 4 unique flying robot suits and enjoy zooming, alien jungle combat in squads of up to 4 players.

    On the down side: Game seems to have a split personality, great efforts were made on the world building/immersive side but then these get increasingly abandoned for blatantly unimmersive    200+hrs in review. Great action graphics/gameplay but fatally flawed and unfinished. Jump into one of 4 unique flying robot suits and enjoy zooming, alien jungle combat in squads of up to 4 players.

    On the down side: Game seems to have a split personality, great efforts were made on the world building/immersive side but then these get increasingly abandoned for blatantly unimmersive gamey aspects/graphics. Endgame gameplay touted as 'the real game' but its unfinished and extremely repetitive. Character progression slows to almost nothing after a while. Crafting suffers from always being a step behind what you can pick up off the ground. Save yourself the money, wait for platform/design to significantly mature. I played this for a long time but it wasn't fun, I was just chasing increasingly empty achievements.    … Expand
  64. riken
    May 11, 2019
    4
    Mechanics are done very well, flying and shooting is very satisfying. Graphics are pretty nice too. Skills and items can get all that fighting a little bit fresher, but it is definitely not enough to fill that empty game. Story isn't anything special (at least to the moment where I finished) and walking through your fortress is a disaster. Missions in the main story line at some point getMechanics are done very well, flying and shooting is very satisfying. Graphics are pretty nice too. Skills and items can get all that fighting a little bit fresher, but it is definitely not enough to fill that empty game. Story isn't anything special (at least to the moment where I finished) and walking through your fortress is a disaster. Missions in the main story line at some point get irritating, so I haven't finished it.… Expand
  65. leonpikov
    May 8, 2019
    0
    The game could have really had something, unfortunately totally abandoned by its leading team. Feel sorry for the developers that worked so hard on this game for it to be rushed and pushed out in unplayable state that it is in. Now the new fixes break older functions and the publisher refuses to listen to its community. After what they showed us at E3 and what actually came out, thisThe game could have really had something, unfortunately totally abandoned by its leading team. Feel sorry for the developers that worked so hard on this game for it to be rushed and pushed out in unplayable state that it is in. Now the new fixes break older functions and the publisher refuses to listen to its community. After what they showed us at E3 and what actually came out, this should be marked as a fraud. Glad i was able to save money by only playing it through Prime. If you have fully bought the game i would strongly advise to get your money back if you are having the same problems i am.… Expand
  66. dexon
    May 5, 2019
    0
    f..king Liers, after that show in e3 with that fake mission . and what i see in the game i never ever buy bioware game never! you are dead company bioware it over ...
  67. colossusmain
    May 3, 2019
    2
    Game could be fun for a while but it's like a pretty but extremely dumb gf.
    UI for PC is terrible and almost everything but the environments screams minimum effort.
    Crafting is useless. Loot is done in the worst, most lazy way. Enemy AI and the amount of different enemies is pathetic. Anthem lacks many expected features and basic qol features. I got the game despite the bug    Game could be fun for a while but it's like a pretty but extremely dumb gf.
    UI for PC is terrible and almost everything but the environments screams minimum effort.
    Crafting is useless.
    Loot is done in the worst, most lazy way.
    Enemy AI and the amount of different enemies is pathetic.

    Anthem lacks many expected features and basic qol features.

    I got the game despite the bug riddled launch because I was hyped for the roadmap features they announced on their website - turns out the road map was a lie, the "new" events that they promised were just reused missions in a rotation. Cortex Locked event turns out to be "Kill 100 beasts"... Sad. Events were a joke and the new features like guilds and mastery system were postponed indefinitely at the last possible moment.

    The developer is arrogant and treats the community poorly, the game lacks any meaningful progression.

    If you are thinking about getting the game wait for massive discounts or play it with Origins subscription, 1 month should be more than enough for you to get bored with the game.

    With the current rate of bug fixes and new content/improvements they'll need at least a year and a half to fix the game and maybe another couple of years to add any meaningful progression and content... if EA doesn't pull the plug first.    … Expand
  68. joev
    Apr 29, 2019
    1
    Please please please don't let the current score fool you into thinking that this game is "half decent". It is not.

    It is a shambolic mess and that situation has not improved in any meaningful fashion since launch (it's gotten worse if anything). The game is the proverbial one trick pony with an amazing trick (to be fair). It has one of the best combat mechanics (/feeling of agency    Please please please don't let the current score fool you into thinking that this game is "half decent". It is not.

    It is a shambolic mess and that situation has not improved in any meaningful fashion since launch (it's gotten worse if anything).

    The game is the proverbial one trick pony with an amazing trick (to be fair). It has one of the best combat mechanics (/feeling of agency in combat) I've experienced in any game and the shame of it is that this can and could keep you coming back for more (it's so satisfying) for a long time until you come to the realisation that this is literally it's only trick (good as it is).

    The setting, characters and the entire storyline is just not interesting. The game works hard with all the standard tropes to hook you emotionally but somehow (despite some decent mocap and voice acting) just falls flat and the characters don't feel more than digital puppets, the story is uninspiring (and cliched) and the world feels "samey" and uninteresting after the initial few hours.

    Graphically it's pretty but honestly, in the modern era, it's not particularly special. It's basically on par with the fidelity we expect from AAA titles nowadays.

    Once you get to the end-game it falls to pieces completely. The "grind" is unrewarding and positively frustrating. You will lose interest very quickly.

    Keep in mind that the current review score is anchored on many good reviews in the first week by hopeful players who enjoyed the core mechanic (as did we all) but didn't realise how flat and shallow this shell of a game really is (once you finish the 10 hours of campaign). We all were optimistic that BioWare would come good and deliver the game we had seen in the pre-launch promotions and demos. It is as far from those today as it was at launch and from what we've seen from BioWare in the first crucial months of a difficult launch, it's never going to get there.

    So don't be fooled by the initial optimism. If those reviewers came back now three months after lauch and re-scored, this would be in the low 30%s (if that)

    Save your hard earned money for something more worthy of it... unless you just like to ride that one trip pony for hours and hours and hours and hours (I got to 138 before I finally fell off with exhaustion :>)    … Expand
  69. MrPromo
    Apr 28, 2019
    4
    I was fool enough, to pre order this loading simulator. Yeah it has nice graphic, but that is it ! Thats all. And above all of that, I played it something about 40 hours, in February, when it comes out. Since Feb I never played this crap again. But guess what ?! Now (29th April 2019) I gave it a chance and download it again. It started very well actually BUT !! after a few minutes inI was fool enough, to pre order this loading simulator. Yeah it has nice graphic, but that is it ! Thats all. And above all of that, I played it something about 40 hours, in February, when it comes out. Since Feb I never played this crap again. But guess what ?! Now (29th April 2019) I gave it a chance and download it again. It started very well actually BUT !! after a few minutes in freeplay mode connection lost ! YOU GOT TO BE KIDDIN ME ! After two months you give me just a 2 and half minute of gameplay ?! Now I know why Origin does not have Refunds.....-_- DONT BUY THIS "game"… Expand
  70. williy51
    Apr 28, 2019
    0
    After close to 200 hours of this game its not worth it. If you own it and have invested time in it like me and many others by all means play it. But anyone looking to get this make a hard pass. This is no where near a complete game and won't be for some time. Yea its fun and unique and cool but how many times in a row are you willing to watch Ironman. You kill random mobs, medium monsters,After close to 200 hours of this game its not worth it. If you own it and have invested time in it like me and many others by all means play it. But anyone looking to get this make a hard pass. This is no where near a complete game and won't be for some time. Yea its fun and unique and cool but how many times in a row are you willing to watch Ironman. You kill random mobs, medium monsters, bigger monsters, and gaint monsters or shot and pick up things over and over and over with no point. This game had so much potential with the ability to create and reshape the world however they wanted to. Instead after like 20 hours of nothing but story you will have done every unique in the game. They keep promising new and better content but the game is still broken at its core. People can try to defend this game all they want but look at what we have. This game launched with unnamed animals and the weapons that didn't work think about that for a minute. They at no point played every masterwork to even see if they functioned. This is and unacceptable state for a $80 AAA game. It maybe good one day but I'm not to hopeful it will make it. After my Origin premiere expires I will like not ply again.… Expand
  71. psyduck86
    Apr 24, 2019
    1
    Way too flawed - pretty but hardly any substance. It's a shame that they chose to release this in its current state as I feel it needed a lot more polish and content. At the very least more variety would not go amiss. In addition I feel the hub as story thing just doesn't work very well for me.

    In short, nice graphics, good sense of motion but poor long term gameplay and sub-par gunplay.
  72. MyklR
    Apr 24, 2019
    2
    Do not buy this game. While the combat is outstanding, the graphics are beautiful and the flying is a blast, everything else in the game is a terrible nightmare of garbage. Seriously, do not waste your money or time on this game. BW just scrapped their 90-day roadmap and there is nothing on the horizon. The loot has been botched since launch and they can't even fix that, in a looterDo not buy this game. While the combat is outstanding, the graphics are beautiful and the flying is a blast, everything else in the game is a terrible nightmare of garbage. Seriously, do not waste your money or time on this game. BW just scrapped their 90-day roadmap and there is nothing on the horizon. The loot has been botched since launch and they can't even fix that, in a looter shooter game.

    It's a complete disaster.    … Expand
  73. yesitsthatbad
    Apr 23, 2019
    1
    This game is content-barren and a buggy mess. Do not buy this game. It's been out almost 3 months and there have been zero changes. Devs abandoned game.
  74. jrista
    Apr 21, 2019
    1
    After looking forward to Anthem, this game ended up being a total flop. I paid for Origin Access to get in on the game a week early, and after the initial "Ooh, Javelins are cool!" experience faded, the game just fell apart. Bugs galore, some of them so fundamentally breaking that they felt the need to rush out a patch so fast that the patch broke as much as it fixed.

    Ultra thin    After looking forward to Anthem, this game ended up being a total flop. I paid for Origin Access to get in on the game a week early, and after the initial "Ooh, Javelins are cool!" experience faded, the game just fell apart. Bugs galore, some of them so fundamentally breaking that they felt the need to rush out a patch so fast that the patch broke as much as it fixed.

    Ultra thin gameplay, no content, meaningless content, confusing gear, with a split-mentality between in-town gameplay vs. open world & missions. I played anthem for around 30 hours before I finally couldn't take any more. There is simply nothing there beyond the mindless and ultra mind numbing, excessively repetitive gameplay loop. The gameplay itself, fun for about 10 minutes, becomes a horrendous slog thereafter. I am no stranger to repetitive game loops...all games are usually built around a simple core gameplay loop. I've played other looter shooters that, while repetitive, somehow bring out an entertaining, progressive feel that you can play for hours without actually feeling the repetition. Anthem, sadly, feels like nothing but absolute, unmitigated, RAW repetition. There is nothing that really keeps it entertaining...it's just a mindless slog.

    Loot, which is fundamental to a looter shooter, is about as lackluster, just downright pathetic, as I've ever seen for a GaaS game. Loot ranks and statistics hardly ever make sense, with "Legendary" rank or purple items often having stats worse than green and blue items. Statistics on each item often make little sense, sometimes even counteract each other. RNG at it's utter worst.

    From a graphics standpoint. It was the glistening graphics from the original Anthem E3 video that originally hooked me. They were incredible...and the graphics combined with the promise of a real-time, seamless, evolving world with real weather, random event encounters, and loot you could pick up and use immediately (vs. the system now, where you pick up loot and don't even know what you have until the mission ends, let alone are able to use immediately), I was utterly roped in. The graphics of the actual released game are a shadow of what was demonstrated in the original video. I can only imagine that the original version of Anthem was built on Unreal Engine, as would have been appropriate, and then later switched over to EA's pathetic Frostbite engine. The graphics, pretty at a moderate distance, break down at greater distance and close up. The realistic depth of the original E3 video, the dynamic world and environment and weather, are simply not there. Everything is the same, everywhere you co, so much the same that you even get lost in the open world...there are no recognizable landmarks, no unique aspects of the world, to tell you where you are or help you navigate. As mindnumbingly boring as the gameplay.

    I really wanted to like Anthem, and really wish there was more here...but ultimately the game was launched as a failure. Whether it remains a failure over time...only time will tell. I do not trust EA to do anything more than try to wring out every penny possible from the poor saps who keep playing it, while never actually resolving the fundamental issues the game has. Issues so fundamental I honestly wonder if they can be "fixed" without having to replace the entire core engine of the game.

    Greatest gaming disappointment of 2019... IMO, even greater than Fallout 76 (which was indeed a disaster of roughly equal proportions, but I guess I wasn't quite as invested in Fallout 76 as I was in Anthem...)    … Expand
  75. Saint_Teodor
    Apr 18, 2019
    1
    18.04.2019 nearly 2 months after release, it's still a broken mess and it will never get better.
  76. Maxxian
    Apr 14, 2019
    4
    Completing the main story is where I had the most fun playing this game. However once completed and at max level, this game really shows its issues.

    Freeplay shows how empty the world is as you can fly for minutes before you see anything to shoot Loot drops are awful Gear you do get is boring as is mostly +shields, +armor and +damage. Very little creativity. Harder difficulties are    Completing the main story is where I had the most fun playing this game. However once completed and at max level, this game really shows its issues.

    Freeplay shows how empty the world is as you can fly for minutes before you see anything to shoot
    Loot drops are awful
    Gear you do get is boring as is mostly +shields, +armor and +damage. Very little creativity.
    Harder difficulties are only harder as the enemies become stronger bullet sponges
    Only 3 legendary contracts (missions)
    Only 3 dungeons
    No character display showing your stats
    Four total loading screens for starting/finishing your 10 minute missions
    Patches tend to break more than they fix
    You need to land every 30 seconds to "cool your jets" before you can fly again

    I wanted to love this game but it just lacks so many elements to a loot shooter.    … Expand
  77. Kalrion
    Apr 14, 2019
    0
    It's a purely awful game. EA is on it again, I had my trust in Bioware but I'm only worrying about Dragon Age now... The game is quite repetitive and full of micro-transactions. It's just a big dissapointment.
  78. serf_mistika
    Apr 12, 2019
    2
    Waste of your time and money. Don't buy it.
    Even with this horrible start, the game still has no new content, no changes, nothing. RIP anthem
  79. strikken
    Apr 11, 2019
    0
    Anthem is a massive failure on every level. The UI, play loop, lack of end game, weapon designs ( or lack thereof ), and overall game design are utterly trash. The biggest problem with the game though has nothing to do with playing through it. It has everything to do with BioWare's failure of leadership, vision, and willingness to change course to create a great title. Chop the head offAnthem is a massive failure on every level. The UI, play loop, lack of end game, weapon designs ( or lack thereof ), and overall game design are utterly trash. The biggest problem with the game though has nothing to do with playing through it. It has everything to do with BioWare's failure of leadership, vision, and willingness to change course to create a great title. Chop the head off this bloated cow of a studio fallen from greatness and start over at the top with strong visionary leaders ( who also agree that Frostbite is trash ), and maybe this studio can climb back to greatness. This game, however... It's already way too late for Anthem. DOA. RIP.… Expand
  80. Fehler66
    Apr 10, 2019
    4
    Updated 02.04.2019

    + really beautiful world + good coop gameplay (on difficulty GM 2+) + combat mechanic is fun + Animations, Movement system and flying is cool + Audio-visually amazing - lack of endgame features - highly repetitive missions (at the end it is always: fly there, shoot stuff, do something, fly there, shoot stuff, do something, ….) - player HUB is one of the most    Updated 02.04.2019

    + really beautiful world
    + good coop gameplay (on difficulty GM 2+)
    + combat mechanic is fun
    + Animations, Movement system and flying is cool
    + Audio-visually amazing

    - lack of endgame features
    - highly repetitive missions (at the end it is always: fly there, shoot stuff, do something, fly there, shoot stuff, do something, ….)
    - player HUB is one of the most lifeless places I’ve seen in any "MMO"
    - uninspiring loot, weapons looks all the same
    - connection error
    - missing basic features like a chat
    - Audio cutting out (fixed)
    - after 150hours playing ..... just boring    … Expand
  81. ShazamKnight
    Apr 9, 2019
    3
    The game is beautiful, the flying is fun, and the combat itself is enjoyable for the most part, but I find it hard to classify what kind of game this is. It's a looter shooter without any exciting loot, and a shallow loot pool, it's an RPG with an incoherent mess of a story, and it's crafting system is shallow. And boy do I hope you like loading screens, because they are long andThe game is beautiful, the flying is fun, and the combat itself is enjoyable for the most part, but I find it hard to classify what kind of game this is. It's a looter shooter without any exciting loot, and a shallow loot pool, it's an RPG with an incoherent mess of a story, and it's crafting system is shallow. And boy do I hope you like loading screens, because they are long and plentiful, it's hard to even get into any kind of a groove before another 30 second cut scene interrupts your playing. This game was definitely rushed like they had no idea what they were doing for years then all of a sudden they had a deadline and they threw this game together with random assets and called said "job well done!"
    This had so much potential but in it's current state, it's a $60 Beta test we are paying for to help them fix. Sad, this game had potential and we're left with another Destiny grind fest with little content and even less story.    … Expand
  82. suzer
    Apr 6, 2019
    0
    I feel like they stole my money. Probably the worst game i've played last 2 years.
  83. chronicrenegade
    Apr 6, 2019
    0
    This game had so much potential, but it was squandered by a studio in crisis. EA and BioWare's brutal work environments contributed to a game that feels unfinished. While beautiful and fun to use the flying mechanics, Anthem lacks a compelling story or characters. The loot is NOT consistent with diminishing returns, and the game cannot be played alone (if you want to have fun). Overall theThis game had so much potential, but it was squandered by a studio in crisis. EA and BioWare's brutal work environments contributed to a game that feels unfinished. While beautiful and fun to use the flying mechanics, Anthem lacks a compelling story or characters. The loot is NOT consistent with diminishing returns, and the game cannot be played alone (if you want to have fun). Overall the game is wrought with bugs and patches for those bugs that only serve to make the game worse. BioWare and EA have 100% lost my faith and I will never pre-order a game from them again. Lest it be shipped unfinished.

    TL;DR The Division 2 will become a benchmark for the looter shooter genre, and Anthem will be a story of caution and dismay. Do yourself a favor and uninstall this garbage game.    … Expand
  84. sunni1010
    Apr 5, 2019
    2
    I have only 10 hours play time after all these weeks, and told my self I will give it a chance to at least 30 hours of play, to see if its good in my opinion. Every time i try and click start game my brain does not let me. Anthem plants a bug in brain saying 'don not touch this s****. Developers need fix this
  85. Stege
    Apr 5, 2019
    0
    I really, really, really wanted this to be a success. But the game is hot garbage. Pretty garbage but garbage nonetheless.
    This had so much potential. Incredible graphics, unique movement and fun shooting mechanics. But thats all there is. This game plays out like a demo. After i finished the main storyline, i sat there thinking, "Thats it?". BECAUSE, there is no substance at all to this    I really, really, really wanted this to be a success. But the game is hot garbage. Pretty garbage but garbage nonetheless.
    This had so much potential. Incredible graphics, unique movement and fun shooting mechanics. But thats all there is. This game plays out like a demo. After i finished the main storyline, i sat there thinking, "Thats it?". BECAUSE, there is no substance at all to this **** terrible piece of **** Once you realise the story is complete trash, the missions are repetitive and boring and that all the bosses are just bullet sponges you lose hope.
    "Buts its a looter shooter, even if the story and missions suck at least i can get some awesome loot and look awesome while doing it". NOPE. I looked the exact same throughout the entire story, the loot suuucks, there are no cool guns, no fun drops, no armor pieces or emotes. NOTHING.
    This game plays like a glorified tech demo cashgrab. And dont get me started on the loading screens.    … Expand
  86. jkarlsen
    Apr 5, 2019
    4
    Anthem seems -- even over a month after its release -- nowhere a finished game. It's a game that looks and sounds fantastic, but when it comes to gameplay it's entirely too shallow both in content and mechanics. Anthem has plenty of good ideas, but they're buried by features that are both poorly designed and whose intents don't work well together. Further, every post-launch update hasAnthem seems -- even over a month after its release -- nowhere a finished game. It's a game that looks and sounds fantastic, but when it comes to gameplay it's entirely too shallow both in content and mechanics. Anthem has plenty of good ideas, but they're buried by features that are both poorly designed and whose intents don't work well together. Further, every post-launch update has introduced major unintended bugs, and there doesn't seem to be a clear understand on the developer's part on what the actual problems are, let alone how to fix them.

    It's a shame, because some very talented people have obviously worked very hard to develop Anthem, but this game needed at least another year of development, and a more focused core idea to build on. With other pioneering games in the genre having had such high-profile problems, it's puzzling to see BioWare and EA not only repeat those same mistakes years later, but do worse on every front.    … Expand
  87. Miniqiqi
    Apr 4, 2019
    3
    I am a simple person, when I play a game and constantly see loading screen, I downvote it.
  88. dseraph
    Apr 4, 2019
    3
    Came to check metacritic out of curiosity and felt compelled to make an account after seeing 10/10 ratings from some users... Please pass me some of whatever they are on lol. I rated this 3/10 using 5/10 as average. I played for one month using Orign Premier since I had concerns. I'm glad I did because I've unsubbed now. Maybe I will take a look at the game again in a year but as of rightCame to check metacritic out of curiosity and felt compelled to make an account after seeing 10/10 ratings from some users... Please pass me some of whatever they are on lol. I rated this 3/10 using 5/10 as average. I played for one month using Orign Premier since I had concerns. I'm glad I did because I've unsubbed now. Maybe I will take a look at the game again in a year but as of right now this patched together troubled game is really not worth the price. I want to give this a 4 but I feel that so many things in this game were poorly thought out that I can't go lighter on it simply because movement and combat is good if lacking complexity.

    -1 for complete lack of endgame content and barebones character/armor customization at launch. I get most games at launch have very limited endgame content in the beginning but nothing this bad. Also there's an insane lack of skins for weapons and skins for a loot based game. There are more skins for Diablo white gear than all the skins in Anthem currently (Diablo comparison because Bioware preferred that comparison, but I expect this problem compared to other games as well).

    -1 for story, story/quest implementation, limited npc/hubzone, menu functionality etc. Story is currently weak but not bad for generally play. I'm a lore guy and the lore doesn't engage me to the degree I would expect from a company who made it's name on amazing single player stories. Story/quest implementation is bad. The lack of a dialogue log of any kind makes the storyline progression so much worse than it has to be. It's a game designed for group play but you have to play single player in order to not miss dialogue and cutscenes because party members that move too quickly force you to skip dialogue that you can't replay (unless you luckily get it again in a quickplay but the same problem exists there). A log would at least help mitigate that but nope. Quests have only two main mechanics (kill, fetch) that gets old fast. Hub and npcs are not engaging enough to make me feel invested in the world. Helpful tooltips or character sheet with accurate stat explanations are nonexistent. It's very clunky to switch suits on the fly from the mission select screen; having to go into the forge each time is annoying.

    The positives: the world looks beautiful if a bit empty and static compared to what was shown to us in trailers during development. Character facial animation is good. Voices are ok for some and cringy for others. Flying and combat feel good together. The foundations for a good game are there as movement and combat are important. The problem is that it's just those things and considering the difficulties of working with the Frostbite engine, who knows if and when the rest of the things the game lacks to make a good game will actually come out.    … Expand
  89. AnthemSuksBawlz
    Apr 3, 2019
    0
    FYI I made this account specifically to review this game and give it a ZERO.

    I pre-ordered Anthem and even bought a copy for my best friend because of the early E3 trailer and later "actual gameplay" trailer. Well let me tell you, those videos were outright LIES that are illegal under US law. The game: - Can't even be played at most times due to server instability issues -    FYI I made this account specifically to review this game and give it a ZERO.

    I pre-ordered Anthem and even bought a copy for my best friend because of the early E3 trailer and later "actual gameplay" trailer. Well let me tell you, those videos were outright LIES that are illegal under US law.

    The game:

    - Can't even be played at most times due to server instability issues
    - Forces you to hit a loading screen for practically everything you want to do
    - There are still constant Pilot Error Data bugs which prevent you from even getting into the one single instanced town in the game (where you start from on login)
    - The combat is a joke since combat is based on scaling (ie a lvl1 player joining their friend will do more DPS with a lvl1 gun than someone with a full MasterWork loadout)
    - Is horribly designed from the ground up
    - Lacks any true end-game and BioWare's 90-day Games As Service model puts the first event a full 3 months after launch which effectively kills the game in terms of the majority of players
    - Is a looter shooter..... WITH NO LOOT. The Devs refuse to make the loot rain despite receiving a THOROUGH post by Diablo 3's director who revamped D3's loot with 2.0
    - The crafting system is now unusable since the harvest nodes you farm to get crafting material with were nerfed into oblivion and harvesting is now a waste of time

    I could go on and on about how terrible this game is, but the gist is that Anthem is a buggy mess that has far too many issues connecting to it's own servers for even a single-player instanced walk around Tarsis.

    Do NOT spend your money on Anthem. And I HIGHLY recommend not buying any more BioWare or EA games ever again unless you want to be looked at as a cash cow meant to be strung along to pay for low-effort DLC, loot boxes, and low-effort cosmetics that aren't even what the players want.    … Expand
  90. Sanadoon
    Apr 2, 2019
    2
    Very disappointed. I'd give the game a higher score, but it is a full priced "triple A game". There are better coop experiences available from less expensive games, especially on PC. (Deep Rock Galactic, Vermintide 2, Killing Floor 2,) to name a few. Heck, even Sea of Thieves lets you actually play more!

    Graphics are great, and if you play a 10 hour demo you will have your fill and    Very disappointed. I'd give the game a higher score, but it is a full priced "triple A game". There are better coop experiences available from less expensive games, especially on PC. (Deep Rock Galactic, Vermintide 2, Killing Floor 2,) to name a few. Heck, even Sea of Thieves lets you actually play more!

    Graphics are great, and if you play a 10 hour demo you will have your fill and seen everything you've needed to see. If you value your time and money, pick something else worth playing that also values it.

    Unless you like looking at static loading screens (even if you have a SSD). If you do, then this is your game.    … Expand
  91. Norman_cullen
    Apr 1, 2019
    4
    The game is overall beautiful, and the flying is fun, however, it was launched probably a year or two before it was realy. Theres NO end game AT ALL. When you hit max level, you get a new instance, and thats it.
    Loot drops are a huge issue because even though you are flying a particular javelin, you pick up loot for the most sought after rarities (masterwork and legendary) for ALL of the    The game is overall beautiful, and the flying is fun, however, it was launched probably a year or two before it was realy. Theres NO end game AT ALL. When you hit max level, you get a new instance, and thats it.
    Loot drops are a huge issue because even though you are flying a particular javelin, you pick up loot for the most sought after rarities (masterwork and legendary) for ALL of the javelins you own. So if you get a legendary drop (that can take upwards of two or more days to drop cause RNG is a pain) and it might not even be for the suit youre currently flying.

    The only reason the drop rate issue is an issue at all is because that's literally the end game. There is no new content to unlock once you get a certain gear score, the achievements for getting all of one gear score dont seem to work (Im at masterwork and I looked and all those challenges are not completed), theres no actual in game REASON to continue playing the game once you hit 30. OTHER than to grind the same three instances and run the same few missions youve already run in the hopes of getting good enough drops to get to GM1 where you get all the loot, where you grind the same three instances and run the same few missions youve already run in the hopes of getting good enough drops to get to GM2. Then you get to grind the same three instances and run the same few missions youve already run in the hopes of getting good enough drops to get to GM3, but at a much harder difficulty, but for seemingly the same weighted loot as in GM1. THEN you get to get into GM3 where you get to grind the same three instances and run the same few missions youve already run... to get the best gear.... for why exactly?

    In short, dont buy this game for at least a year or two, or as the fanbois say on the forums/Reddit, "Give them time to fix it".    … Expand
  92. GuBBeR
    Mar 31, 2019
    0
    Waited over a year for this **** A great idea totally **** destroyed. Imagine putting a crackhead to build a house, this is what you get. As soon as you hit lvl 30. You have already played every **** thing in the game. 25% of the missions are bugged, so you get stuck 70% in. The spells are bugged so suddenly they stop working... The item system is BEYOND horrible. Just picked up theWaited over a year for this **** A great idea totally **** destroyed. Imagine putting a crackhead to build a house, this is what you get. As soon as you hit lvl 30. You have already played every **** thing in the game. 25% of the missions are bugged, so you get stuck 70% in. The spells are bugged so suddenly they stop working... The item system is BEYOND horrible. Just picked up the division 2, and after 2 hours, i already see more content, have more fun, and a WAY better item/loot system. **** YOU EA… Expand
  93. GenericJoe
    Mar 31, 2019
    0
    Honestly, this game has no excuse for the state it is in. besides perhaps the general state of the (AAA) games industry as a whole. Overall i think i would give Anthem a 3/10 but for some reason there is a slew of 10/10 reviews so i feel the need to make this zero to attempt to counteract that absurdity.
    With massive improvements to the systems i could see this clawing its way to being    Honestly, this game has no excuse for the state it is in. besides perhaps the general state of the (AAA) games industry as a whole. Overall i think i would give Anthem a 3/10 but for some reason there is a slew of 10/10 reviews so i feel the need to make this zero to attempt to counteract that absurdity.
    With massive improvements to the systems i could see this clawing its way to being worthy of a 7/10 i highly doubt it will do better.    … Expand
  94. bongocat
    Mar 30, 2019
    1
    Anthem is one of the worst games I have ever had the chance to play in my entire life. As a fellow BioWare fan (since 2013), Anthem was an absolute disappointment. This game is not worth $60. Using the excuse that certain issues will be fixed in the future doesn't make sense at all given that the game was six years in development, and BioWare's been making games for 20 years. Everything inAnthem is one of the worst games I have ever had the chance to play in my entire life. As a fellow BioWare fan (since 2013), Anthem was an absolute disappointment. This game is not worth $60. Using the excuse that certain issues will be fixed in the future doesn't make sense at all given that the game was six years in development, and BioWare's been making games for 20 years. Everything in this game is poorly executed, the combat is dry, the enemies are bullet sponges, the characters are bland with no sort of character development or meaningful choices, the level design is also poorly designed, areas are made specifically to anticipate combat, and the story itself is your usual bad guy is bad, kill him, save the world, everyone's happy. There's no valuable meaning in this game. It's absolute garbage. Don't buy it.… Expand
  95. TheRealWitblitz
    Mar 29, 2019
    0
    It's a piece of **** It's a piece of **** It's a piece of **** It's a piece of ****
  96. Sternhoch
    Mar 27, 2019
    0
    Musím změnit hodnocení z kladné na zápornou. Co update,tak to průser. Hra Vás přestane po dohraní skoro okamžitě bavit. Hra je hodně nestabilní. Good job EA.
  97. sTeaLthrcn
    Mar 27, 2019
    0
    There is one thing to do in three ways. New updates and patches break more than they fix or add. This is a total mess of bad development and poor leadership in a company. I will never look at another game EA is involved with. They need to close their doors.
  98. ghost80808
    Mar 25, 2019
    3
    So, many years of development are done, and Anthem is finally here. Was it worth the wait?....The short answer, NO!

    Worse still, is that this is the game that killed the excellent Mass Effect series. For those that don't know, Mass Effect Andromeda, the fourth game in the series and first of it's own story arch, was bumped to Bioware's B team for development, so that their A team could    So, many years of development are done, and Anthem is finally here. Was it worth the wait?....The short answer, NO!

    Worse still, is that this is the game that killed the excellent Mass Effect series. For those that don't know, Mass Effect Andromeda, the fourth game in the series and first of it's own story arch, was bumped to Bioware's B team for development, so that their A team could focus on Anthem. This resulted in a lackluster ME Andromeda, that ultimately ended the ME universe before the story was even finished.
    It really wasn't worth it. Essentially Bio/EA murdered one of their strongest properties, all so they could jump on the multiplayer bandwagon. They jumped, missed the step, clung to the side of that wagon for half a mile, before falling off and being mangled by the wheels!

    Anthem is boring.....VERY boring. We the players were also lied to, or at least misled a lot during the pre-release sneak peak phase of development. I'm sure we all remember seeing one of the pre release videos, showing pilots chat as they mounted into their Javelin suits, before seamlessly jumping off a cliff edge and flying into battle. Later we see one player find a cool new mortar, which he immediately equips and uses to devastating effect. "woohoo" I thought. This game looks awesome! This is what Destiny should have been!

    What we got....Loading screens......LOT'S of loading screens. Not only loading screens, but really LOOOOONG loading screens.

    Fort Tarsis, contrary to the pre-release hype, is a very separate LITTLE world. Leaving it requires jarring loading screens that take forever. Really, Tarsis is just a glorified menu screen where you select missions which you then load into. A menu screen that requires lot's of very slow walking from A to B to access different menus. This really kills the sense of an open world that seemed promised in the earlier trailers. It's also very small and dull. Lacking in vibrant life and sound.

    This brings me nicely to the open world itself (once you finally load into it) It is sadly, also fairly boring. It looks amazing to be fair to the art department. They did an amazing job, but it is limited and very "samey". Likewise it is underpopulated and the enemies feel very repetitive.

    The gun-play and combat mechanics all feel quite nice, as does the movement, but ultimately it's nothing new or exciting. Sure flying around like Iron Man is great, but it doesn't make a game on it's own and the novelty wears off fast.
    The weapon drops also are dull. Mostly you will find the same few guns with pointless stat variations, and contrary to the trailers, you cannot just equip something new you find. You must return to Fort Boring...sorry, Tarsis in order to find out what dropped and to make any inventory changes. Which of course means more immersion breaking LONG load times.

    There are also bugs, lot's of bugs. From broken collision, to total CTD. It's all a bit of a mess. You'd expect this from a rushed title, but this game has been in development for a very long time. I could even forgive the bugs to some degree, if the game had a ton of content that took up all that development time, but it just doesn't. It all feels empty.
    This leads me to believe that either the whole project was mismanaged and lazily crafted, or they stripped the base game to it's bare bones so they could sell us the actual content in DLC form later on.

    Ultimately I kind of hate this game. Not only did it hammer the coffin lid down my favourite game franchise, but it's also just a bad, repetitive, grindy game.

    I know that EA titles often get a bad rap, purely because people hate EA, but this really isn't the case here. I've not played many EA games or had any issues with their games that I have played. I just really genuinely dislike this game. It's the biggest gaming disappointment I've had in years. possibly ever.

    I won't be following Anthem any further.

    Edit. Sadly some members of the community don't seem to understand how reviews work, or are artificially inflating reviews.
    Saying "this game isn't perfect" Then scoring it a perfect 10/10 doesn't make any sense. And saying things like "I personally think this game is only a 5 or 6, but others are mean, so I gave it 10" is just plain idiotic and you are admitting that you are falsifying a review!
    You will also see people claiming that the game is getting bad press because people don't like EA. TRUST ME, it's because it is a very poor game. Don't be suckered in. If it weren't for idiots and fan boys, the score would be even lower.    … Expand
  99. Mushashi7
    Mar 24, 2019
    4
    Great graphics and fast combat with an ok levelling system.
    But I just have this feeling I miss the rest of the game. This is no Mass Effect or Dragon Age for sure.
    I guess combat focused players will like this. But those of us who likes characters and story?
    Why do I have a feeling this is just another moneymaker?
  100. sublimate
    Mar 24, 2019
    0
    F*ck your multiplayer. F*ck your non-story driven games. F*ck your blatant attempts to milk gamers for cash by passing absolute CRAP devoid of any actual meaning as games. These games you are all hellbent on serving us are a disgrace to your legacy. Also, keep your F*cken politics to yourselves, we don't wan't that **** We just want more single player open world action rpgs.
prev
Page:

Awards & Rankings

4
#4 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
4
#4 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

All reviews »
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 76 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 76
  3. Negative: 9 out of 76
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    69
    After a while, suspicion sets in: perhaps EA doesn’t believe in BioWare anymore, and had them release not only unpolished, but basically unfinished product to cut losses and avoid another total rework. [Issue#237, p.44]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 20, 2019
    56
    If you want to see Anthem’s lush jungle and glistening Javelins, do it right away — this game is losing audience fast, and there’s almost nothing to do after the campaign ends. Or check it out on YouTube to save yourself some nerves and money.
    Read full review
  3. PlayGround.ru
    Apr 8, 2019
    60
    It's obvious that Anthem didn't have enough development time, but had some great potential. It's a real shame, that everything turned out this way. Even now, the game can bring out positive emotions. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. No matter how ironic this proverb may seem, it's incredibly relevant for Anthem.
    Read full review
See all critic reviews »