Anthem

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3707 Ratings

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  1. ArgusLVI
    Feb 22, 2019
    2
    I was really looking forward to Anthem, honestly. However, Bioware have **** out one of the worst excuses of a game I have ever seen. The lore was there, the concept was present, and yet, the game completely falls flat. Super basic and wonky combat, a cliche story, a sever lack of endgame content, and a endless series of bugs is all you will find here. And the loading screens?! **** theI was really looking forward to Anthem, honestly. However, Bioware have **** out one of the worst excuses of a game I have ever seen. The lore was there, the concept was present, and yet, the game completely falls flat. Super basic and wonky combat, a cliche story, a sever lack of endgame content, and a endless series of bugs is all you will find here. And the loading screens?! **** the loading screens, this is 2004 tier game design.

    What the **** honestly.    … Expand
  2. MJay00
    Feb 25, 2019
    0
    This is the most boring game with a Bioware-Logo on it i have every played.
    I felt asleep with a controller in my hand. Repetitive after 25 minutes.
    This is fact. No hate.
    EA really destroyed the original Bioware Studio.
  3. Yaweigh
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    No soul that you would expect from the name Bioware but all of the minimum effort you expect from EA. Absolute minimum game design essentially no evolution or progression and overpriced. This is a $9.99 game IMHO. You can put lipstick on a pig, but I'm not kissing it. This game is the pig in that analogy.
  4. Hagryke
    Feb 22, 2019
    3
    Muchisimos bugs, pantallas de carga larguisimas, a las 20 horas ya lo notas repetititvo y el contenido es super escaso. Por no hablar de los dialogos y las historia que telita.
    Esto juego valdra la pena cuando cueste 20 € y le haya metido 20 parches, y otros 20 dlc.
    No recomiendo para nada comprar este juego de salida, a menos que seas bobo.
  5. Lanov
    Feb 22, 2019
    3
    Looks and plays like a pale copy of the Warframe without any interesting ideas.
  6. rallybilen
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    I can't agree more with the low score reviews. It is almost disrespectful how bad the game is. It feels like a shell with nothing inside. Gameplay is super stiff and uninspiring and the open world it's just there. Don't support this game. We deserve more.
  7. 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
  8. pafciu
    Feb 25, 2019
    4
    Game is nice for just first few hours and then you get bored to death with it. Story is pathetic, loot is pathetic, quests are pathetic, UI is TERRIBLY pathetic, economy is INSULTING bad, crafting is completely USELESS and BROKEN. Loading screens are EXTREMELY painful. Lacking many essential features like in-mission inventory, stat page, squad interaction, chat, etc. Avoid this game untilGame is nice for just first few hours and then you get bored to death with it. Story is pathetic, loot is pathetic, quests are pathetic, UI is TERRIBLY pathetic, economy is INSULTING bad, crafting is completely USELESS and BROKEN. Loading screens are EXTREMELY painful. Lacking many essential features like in-mission inventory, stat page, squad interaction, chat, etc. Avoid this game until patched in half a year.… Expand
  9. HannibalMortis
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    So to begin with this game is nothing like "actual in-game footage" shown in E3 trailer. Everyone knew that was pre-rendered, but that doesn't make a lie any better.
    New games today keep looking better and better, but for some reason, they keep leaving optimization and bug fixes to after release date. Anthem is one of these games with multiple serious bugs, optimization problems,    So to begin with this game is nothing like "actual in-game footage" shown in E3 trailer. Everyone knew that was pre-rendered, but that doesn't make a lie any better.
    New games today keep looking better and better, but for some reason, they keep leaving optimization and bug fixes to after release date. Anthem is one of these games with multiple serious bugs, optimization problems, connectivity issues, constant crashing, lack of content, a small map with just a couple unique places and another loading screen after another,

    My first day felt like I was being pushed to go and shop items in Vanity Store constantly. What is hilarious is that there isn't even much to buy in there. $10 skins for a game which costs $60 is just one of the disgusting things in this game. Some Bioware loyalists keep defending this by saying "you can buy them with in-game credits". Yes, you can by grinding around 5-20 hours for them. None of these armor parts are lootable or be gained as a reward from missions. Is game basically is just a looter-shooter, then why there is no great loot to be gained anywhere? Weapons are just the same with a different name and colors. None of them has anything unique to them and other loot like parts are just to build stronger versions of these weapons and other invisible mods to your Javelin.

    The world of Anthem looked great in the E3 trailer. It really did and I was excited to get in there. I just didn't expect the whole map to be more of the same seen in the trailer with a huuuge downgrade. In the trailer we see these animal running around, birds flying in flocks, those big walker things walking around while one gets destroyed with amazing fireworks. You know a beautiful dynamic world like many other games are starting to have now. None of that is in the actual game we got. Bird respawn mid-air front of your eyes and does only have one flight pattern which is forward and honestly, they don't look great even from a long distance. Those walkers are just lifeless unanimated objects and even those beautiful fireworks are gone.

    Actual flight distance has been also downgraded. Now we need cooling around half the time that Javelin did in the E3 trailer. Overall flying is the best thing in this game and for that, I'm giving 2 out of 10 and not 1 out of 10.

    Briefly, this game has a lot of great ideas, but terrible execution.    … Expand
  10. rykou1701
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    This game has truly potential to become a great game, however, the lack of What to do, and no feeling of being rewarded due to lack of good loot, Problems with connections, Loading screens which you will stay more at this than actually playing, makes this game a Stressful option to spent your weekends.

    Dont recommend anyone to buy it.
  11. Punisher88
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    The game is pretty. That's all it is. There is a stupid amount of load screens, many of the mechanics are incredibly poorly designed and thought out. The game is extremely grindy, full of terrible roadblocks to keep you from progressing too fast, the game can actually spoil itself. At a low level you can be brought into late game missions that will spoil what little story there is for you.The game is pretty. That's all it is. There is a stupid amount of load screens, many of the mechanics are incredibly poorly designed and thought out. The game is extremely grindy, full of terrible roadblocks to keep you from progressing too fast, the game can actually spoil itself. At a low level you can be brought into late game missions that will spoil what little story there is for you. At the end game you only have 3 simple missions as the "endgame content" that are just rehashed versions of previous missions. There's very little customization options, the city hub you go to feels completely dead, any signature bioware tropes like deep characters and conversation trees. Theres a few places where you can choose what you say but it doesn't do anything to change the story or anything. Terrible game. Bioware needs to go back to making great games like dragon age, mass effect or knights of the old republic.… Expand
  12. ArcPlasma
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    It's jarring and baffling to have non-futuristic weapons in far future sci fi games. It took Bioware 80 months to develop the game and the combat consists of basic assault rifles from 1990 with flying light mech suits.

    There's some fantastic melee abilities like ghost projections that can autonomously use melee abilities, but those few cool things are weighed down by the inexplicable    It's jarring and baffling to have non-futuristic weapons in far future sci fi games. It took Bioware 80 months to develop the game and the combat consists of basic assault rifles from 1990 with flying light mech suits.

    There's some fantastic melee abilities like ghost projections that can autonomously use melee abilities, but those few cool things are weighed down by the inexplicable cave drawings in a far future setting and generic weapons (that are incredibly boring) a few hundred years behind javelin tech; Bioware has regressed far future sci-fi by at least a few decades.

    All of this on top of bad AI, bad map design, bad mission layout and design and guns that are so broken, bullets fire up to 70 ft to the right of the target. I have never seen that in the last 1100 games i've played.

    This game is an astonishing disaster and a new low for sci fi.    … Expand
  13. Prenner
    Feb 25, 2019
    0
    EA garbage, stay CLEAR. Do not reward this company with your money, they do not care about their games or you, they only care about your CASH.
  14. Unfinished
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    Beta. Beta. Beta. Where to begin? Loading screen after loading makes the game unbearable. Approx. 15 to 20 hours to beat the game. Fort Tarsis feels dead. NPC's are as dumb as the look. AI is non existing. Have to wait to equip loot? PLEASE. Story and lore are boring and incohesive. Shoot. Kill. Wait. Repeat. Bio-ware is officially dead as of this writing. Wait for $5 bargain bin forBeta. Beta. Beta. Where to begin? Loading screen after loading makes the game unbearable. Approx. 15 to 20 hours to beat the game. Fort Tarsis feels dead. NPC's are as dumb as the look. AI is non existing. Have to wait to equip loot? PLEASE. Story and lore are boring and incohesive. Shoot. Kill. Wait. Repeat. Bio-ware is officially dead as of this writing. Wait for $5 bargain bin for cheap thrill. DEFINITELY NOT WORTH the $60 Benjamin. You've been warned.… Expand
  15. miccael
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    I love this simulator! Best Loading Screen simulator ever.
    RIP Bioware. Press F to pay respects.
  16. Vigil
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    On paper, this game sounds like a no-brainer - massive open worlds with verticality and beautiful landscapes, dotted with points of interest to make you wonder what came before you. The execution however, feels like it's duct-taped together. Disjointed mechanics, lack of feedback in combat (especially with guns), poor sound design, poor UI design, poor story, loading screen after loadingOn paper, this game sounds like a no-brainer - massive open worlds with verticality and beautiful landscapes, dotted with points of interest to make you wonder what came before you. The execution however, feels like it's duct-taped together. Disjointed mechanics, lack of feedback in combat (especially with guns), poor sound design, poor UI design, poor story, loading screen after loading screen, lack-lustre loot, negligible end game, atrocious story... it's just all so tiresome. BioWare had so many examples of what to do and what not to do with a looter/shooter and didn't take any of the mistakes other's have made in to account.

    I'd like to be able to say that many of these fundamental design choices can be fixed with patches or time, but I'm just not sure they can be. It's clear that after almost 7 years this is all that the studio is capable of, and it's a damn shame. It could have been amazing, but it's not and I doubt it ever will be.    … Expand
  17. NeverLast
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    a failure game , unfinished as they promised that will be , story is nonsense without logic , loots of bugs , errors , boring as hell because repetitive quest , side quest total crap " look at the older mmorpg wich they have a loot a sidequest and at least with meaning . item drop very wrong , they said no loot boxes but in fact that it is , some players and i have encounter boxes who dropa failure game , unfinished as they promised that will be , story is nonsense without logic , loots of bugs , errors , boring as hell because repetitive quest , side quest total crap " look at the older mmorpg wich they have a loot a sidequest and at least with meaning . item drop very wrong , they said no loot boxes but in fact that it is , some players and i have encounter boxes who drop loot . not worth my money with these unfinish crap… Expand
  18. Cabin4Boy
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    А давайте скопируем Warframe и Dark Void и будем продавать его за ахринительную сумму.
  19. Thoresu
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Wouldn't recommend it to anyone
    I was really looking forward to this game. But it isn't even half finished yet. Played it for more than 10 hours and honestly.... That's it I'm bored with it. There's nothing to do the story is awful the shooting is not too bad but the enemys are boring and actually have the dumbest AI ever.
    Wouldn't recommend it to anyone
  20. LikesNeatCars
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    Terrible game. The flying is pretty decent, the combat is OK. Everything else... story, loading times, map, immersion.. they're all crap. I have very little faith that this game will be fixed anytime soon because it has massive complications, just like Fallout 76..
  21. deriksagetwitch
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    Game is nice to look at.. and that should tell you everything you need to know about the game. Graphics was never the forte of BioWare, but that's all this game has. Pretty environments, though lackluster with severe copy and pasted environments. Unfortunately the game is half the game promised at the E3 Gameplay trailer, with missing foliage, soulless Fort Tarsis NPC, missing charactersGame is nice to look at.. and that should tell you everything you need to know about the game. Graphics was never the forte of BioWare, but that's all this game has. Pretty environments, though lackluster with severe copy and pasted environments. Unfortunately the game is half the game promised at the E3 Gameplay trailer, with missing foliage, soulless Fort Tarsis NPC, missing characters (and their missions), no open world random events (like the giant monster attacking smaller animals).

    Personal Narrative at Fort Tarsis is missing-- or severely lacking
    Facial animations for random NPCs are borderline scary, sometimes worse than ME: A.
    Main story is short, relying heavily on repeatable and stronghold runs (1 of which is recycled)

    If you look at the 90 day roadmap it appears, to me, that the game should've actually released in May, because that's when things are being added that probably should've been in day 1.    … Expand
  22. rccesar
    Feb 22, 2019
    2
    Não comprem jogo extremamente caro e enjoativo,não entrega oque promete no trailer sem falar do down-grade, O Anthem não está pronto para o mercado, todos contaram, mas a EA lançou um jogo inacabado.
  23. skyerist_pidar
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    I am a russian journalist and a proud homosexual. I am happy that EA fully supports LGBT community (i represent the russian LGBT community), but i am very sad that this game is bad. It's borring, full of bugs, bad fps, poor shooting mechanic. RIP Bioware
  24. R3dial
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    Absolute utter garbage. Apex legends has more loot than this epic fail. Rip Bioware.
  25. downliner
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    If you want to spend more time loading a game than playing it then you are in for a treat because Anthem may well have the longest loading times in gaming history! And if one long wait is not enough then fear not because EA has you covered with multiple loading screens each one getting longer than the last! You'll be in loading simulator heaven.

    It's a real shame because while the game    If you want to spend more time loading a game than playing it then you are in for a treat because Anthem may well have the longest loading times in gaming history! And if one long wait is not enough then fear not because EA has you covered with multiple loading screens each one getting longer than the last! You'll be in loading simulator heaven.

    It's a real shame because while the game does look beautiful its just too buggy and what made EA release this in its current state only a week before quietly pushing out far superior Apex Legends is anybodys guess but to be a manager in EA you don't have to be intelligent, just greedy!

    This is certainly not a Bioware game we know and it shows because the story is awful but then the world is littered with lore. The problem is you will spend more time reading that lore than playing the game and the cutscenes tell you very little. This is the same dev that made Andromeda right? And that was BioWare Montreal which is a very small division. Well that shows.

    So on top of a terrible launch they have the audacity to charge full price for this heap of junk. No one can deny it looks great but haven't we learned yet that graphics just do not make a game if it doesn't have a strong element of gameplay and that urge to want to return and EA completely missed the target yet again.

    Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't but one things for sure. It's just not ready yet.

    The reason this did not get a 1 from me is because you can see they really made an effort on the graphics side so they get points for that.    … Expand
  26. qwrkup
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    Allo oui c'est pour jouer ...
    Voila, Anthem est sortie il y a 2 jours et je crois que je l'ai fini (en 2h didactitiel inclus).
    Et je me suis beaucoup plus amusé sur Goat Simulator. Pour résumer : Ok il est beau, mais niveau histoire j'ai eu le droit à 2 missions puis plus rien. J'ai parlé à tout ceux à qui je pouvais parler et ... on ne me propose plus aucune mission. Donc si c'est ça    Allo oui c'est pour jouer ...
    Voila, Anthem est sortie il y a 2 jours et je crois que je l'ai fini (en 2h didactitiel inclus).
    Et je me suis beaucoup plus amusé sur Goat Simulator.
    Pour résumer : Ok il est beau, mais niveau histoire j'ai eu le droit à 2 missions puis plus rien.
    J'ai parlé à tout ceux à qui je pouvais parler et ... on ne me propose plus aucune mission.
    Donc si c'est ça le jeux ... ça n'a aucun interret.
    j'ai eu quoi ... 3 missions, 4 cinématiques, j'ai appris qu'il y avait eu une bataille et ... fin de l'histoire ...
    Sérieusement ? 50Go à télécharger pour ça ? même la démo avait plus à racompter !
    En plus le niveau de difficulté est un peu abusé. Dès la première mission je me prends des vagues d'ennemies de plusieurs dizaines ... HELLO LE JEUX je suis niveau 1 et seul contre 30 ennemis ... je sais que mes armes me permettent de les tuer en 3 ou 4 tires ... mais pendant que je flingue ceux qui sont devant j'apprécierais beaucoup de ne pas me faire descendre par derrière. Obligé de jouer en facile sinon impossible de finir la première mission ... et encore je dis ça ... je l'ai fini et la trame principale s'arrête là ... génial ... donc voila, j'ai jouer 2 heures, je ne me suis pas du tout amusé, et j'ai désinstallé le jeux.
    Autre chose que je trouve totalement absurde, on me demande de choisir mon apparence ... sauf que "dans" le fort je suis à la première personne (et je suis une personne agée de 80 ans qui se traîne des pieds dès qu'elle vas quelques part) et on ne voit jamais ma tête. C'était ... vraiment indispensable de changer d'apparence ?
    Et sinon pour l'expérience de jeux, faut ... "tirer sur des monstres, plus ou moins tout le temps les mêmes, qui arrivent par vague" ... voila ... donc bon, je laisse tombé le multi (ça ne m'intéresse pas du tout, et le farming en boucle non plus. C'est vraiment pas mon kiff de recommencé 50 fois la même chose). Du coup la seule chose qui aurait pu m'intéresser, c'est le mode solo (les missions en privé) avec la trame principale ... et au bout de 2h (didacticiel inclus), j'ai parler à tout le monde dans le fort, et la liste des missions est vide ... que dale, plus rien à faire, le jeu ne me propose absolument plus rien pour suivre la trame principal. Voila, 2h de jeux et la trame principal prend fin. Je n'ai aucune idée de la manière de faire "continuer" la trame principale, alors je laisse tombé.
    Si c'est tout ce que le jeux a à m'offrir... kayThanksBy je l'ai désinstallé    … Expand
  27. Anterra
    Feb 25, 2019
    4
    20 hours in the Game:
    What is nice:
    - Graphics. - Overall dynamic of fights - yes, first 10-20-30 times they really feels nice - Flying... That's all, actually. What is the reason of 4 our of 10 - - Short and boring story, finished in 2 evenings. Srsly? From BIOWARE after ME and DA? - No Characters. At all. Only "talking souless NPC". - Tons of loading screens. Who said opening    20 hours in the Game:
    What is nice:
    - Graphics.
    - Overall dynamic of fights - yes, first 10-20-30 times they really feels nice
    - Flying...
    That's all, actually.

    What is the reason of 4 our of 10 -
    - Short and boring story, finished in 2 evenings. Srsly? From BIOWARE after ME and DA?
    - No Characters. At all. Only "talking souless NPC".
    - Tons of loading screens. Who said opening an "inventory" require Loading screen? Srsly, in 2k19?
    - Bugs and crashes ( Yes, first week, i know, but game was in development for over 6 years!)
    - World doesn't feel.. big. At all. Actually after 3-4 days it feels very small and empty.
    - Absolutely 0 of hi end content. You simply repeat the same 1-2 "dungeons" for 10+ times one by one.    … Expand
  28. Butane9000
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    Bioware fails again, likely due to EA trying to please it's investors.

    Note: I did not pay for my copy of the game. A friend whose been hyped for this bought it for me as a gift and I'm honestly considering giving him his money back so it doesn't go to waste. The combat feedback loop is repetitive, unimaginative, and grindtastic. Weapons don't do enough damage to beefier enemies and    Bioware fails again, likely due to EA trying to please it's investors.

    Note: I did not pay for my copy of the game. A friend whose been hyped for this bought it for me as a gift and I'm honestly considering giving him his money back so it doesn't go to waste.

    The combat feedback loop is repetitive, unimaginative, and grindtastic. Weapons don't do enough damage to beefier enemies and drag out combat. Abilties are supposed to combo but there's no guide or info on how to make them do so which requires players figuring it out. If a player has to figure out how to use a mechanic of the game then the developer has failed.

    Content is severely limited. There only so much you can do in Anthem and it all boils to the same thing over and over (and not in a gratifying way). To think that future content that realistically should've been included at launch will be added as "paid DLC".

    Story: Lies. End of story. Go to the trailers in Metacritic and watch the "Our World, My story" trailer. It's all lies and wasn't executed at all. Notable Bioware story telling is nowhere in this game. All dialogue options boil down to answers 1 and 2 and have absolutely no impact on your story. Things that you do while playing the game have no impact on your story like the trailer says it will. This is by far the biggest travesty of Anthem and I suspect a false advertising lawsuit will be coming shortly against Bioware and EA.

    Characters: First Bioware games have always been about player choice and there isn't any in Anthem besides choose a face for your player character you will never see and is entirely inconsequential. The characters you meet are unimaginative and honestly unlikable. If your going to be forced to talk to individuals to get quests and advance the story you've got to want to hear what they have to say. However there's not really any NPC that I actively want to engage with. Whats worse is the in-game/real money micro-transaction store NPCs are in game solely to try and sell players on buying cosmetics. In final, unlike other Bioware games you can't do anything with these characters besides talk to them and that's severely disappointing.

    Microtransactions: This is at least where Bioware and EA didn't lie. Everything is purely cosmetic and can be purchased for real money or in game currency. While the in game currency cost is high (tens of thousands) In two days of playing I've earned 10,000 in game currency so it's not so bad. What it lacks is variety and anything of interest. It's also in poor taste that things that were unlocked by default in the VIP and Open trial weekends are now locked behind a paywall.

    Bugs: So the VIP and open "demo" weekends were filled with a variety of largely game breaking bugs that have made it into regular release. Why Bioware didn't host a open or closed beta is beyond me. Many of these things could've been caught long in advance. I can only surmise this was because Bioware knew the state of the game and knew they (EA) wouldn't recover from it's premature exposure showing all it's glaring flaws and lies. So they forced a premature release bugs and incomplete resulting in poor reviews.

    Ambiance: Fort Tarsis was shown during trailers to be this bustling city with lots going on. In reality it's a boring uneventful waste of time. People realized this quickly in the demo weekends being forced to walk through it at a crawl. To fix this Bioware added running but it didn't address the core problem of being a completely drab experience so they created a "launch bay" public area where everyones in their suits. Which is itself an admittance that the Fort Tarsis experience Bioware touted is simply unrepairable.

    User Interface: No way to see public events in free roam so now way to gather players together. No way to communicate with other players by text. Overly complicated UI in all aspects. Destiny-like story in lore cards not active gameplay.

    Animations: The biggest flaw I've seen animation wise has to be facial animations on characters. The best word that I can use to describe it is cringeworthy. They're just bad.

    Honestly, can Anthem be fixed? Possibly on some of the issues (combat, content) but not story. Luckily as a multiplayer "looter-shooter" story isn't as consequential. Will they fix it in time before the player base drops it for the sad shell of a joke it is? Unlikely.

    Pros:
    Unique "ironman" style game play that hasn't been done very well before.

    Cons:
    Complete lack of engaging story and likable characters Bioware is known for.
    False Advertising in trailers.
    Unsatisfying combat
    Unsatisfying content
    Lack of usable User Interface
    Unimaginative and Unlikable characters (both friend and foe)
    Wasted and not fleshed out story
    Gear isn't significant or unique and type limited.

    is this worth $60? Absolutely not.

    Sorry for the wall of text, didn't realize Metacritic can't format paragraphs.    … Expand
  29. Enerla
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    I remember two cases when Bioware released a game that focuses on online cooperative gameplay for smaller parties. In both cases, people spoke about weaker than usual writing and explained the game feels like a techdemo even with a decent basic game mechanism. The second such game I remember is Anthem, and the first one was Neverwinter Nights. And that nice old jewel we have found aI remember two cases when Bioware released a game that focuses on online cooperative gameplay for smaller parties. In both cases, people spoke about weaker than usual writing and explained the game feels like a techdemo even with a decent basic game mechanism. The second such game I remember is Anthem, and the first one was Neverwinter Nights. And that nice old jewel we have found a legendary game. The similarities don't end with the focus on cooperative gameplay and initial reception. Both games were backed by a promise of long term refinement and support. And we can also say we can find a similar level of writing and story in both games.

    I am sure many NWN fans already started laughing as they expect the comment. You have dull stories in Neverwinter Nights because anyone, even a total newbie can create stories in that game. Too bad in Anthem we get the same excellence in the only story the game has... straight from BioWare.

    I both cases you can say: Heeey, nice graphics for its time, but a bit too repetitive. Yeah... NWN, a legendary game had this issue too. But if I want to make this comparison fair, I had to admit NWN was tile-based for a reason. Boring copy+paste in an open world game only lead to gamers feeling lost. And even in that ages old game, we can see our charactet often (not just heavy armor), have plenty of customization options (in toolset) but there we can also see the portrait of our characters.

    And at that time you had an option to stop playing in the middle of the mission and continue later without losing a lot of progress.

    Anthem is special because you can't save for the whole mission. And if you run out of time you might have to start the mission again next time. You have an hour in the afternoon, and an hour in the evening? That is pretty average. 3 times walking through the whole fort because you can't start at your javelin, 3 matchmaking phases, 3 times attempting to load the map on long loading screens, 2 disconnects and loading the fort and news at each and every disconnect?

    You lost a few minutes. It shouldn't be a problem. Unless noone joins your "public expedition", so you have lag, disconnects while you have to solo the content designed for 4 people. So you run out of time, and at next attempt you might run out of time again. Frustration is present, progress isn't. It is hard to remember any other game that was half as bad as Anthem here.

    If you expect to fly alone an offline singleplayer mode, with savegames inside missions (but out of combat situations) would solve this issue.

    Hey even not showing news repeatedly, not starting in the basement after disconnect, no delays before starting the mission again would help. So there are easy to fix issues that cause a lot of problems for players. And players lose time from the time window before events that change the world and spoil many important parts of the story. So if you want to enjoy the story in a logical order without many bad spoilers and nonsense you are in tough luck.

    Others might say there is nothing original in Anthem, but this kind of issue is pretty new. After all, if you remember how I have compared a few things to a Bioware classic, I have to say, even newbie module builders wouldn't create this big mess, not even with Script Wizard.

    You know what are my 2 favorite things about Anthem? You can't start freeplay as a private game, you are forced to play with 3 people who might be on the other side of the map. So when you are stuck at an event that is designed for 4 people you can't invite friends because the game is already full. Best enjoyed with friends, right?

    Bioware decided that if we rarely see small parts of the face of our character, but otherwise only the javelin is possible that will help immersion because of 1st person perspective. I am sure we all had immersion in previous Bioware titles. But when you can't feel attached to the character due to a broken story, technical issues and actually not seeing him/her that is a showstopper here.

    Too bad this decision means that in a game where between the event loot and cosmetic updates are the goal, we can't have cosmetic updates for the character, only for the armor, which will make things far less interesting. But due to low possibile variety of loot they had to keep amount of loot pretty low, so most outlaws or dominion soldiers, or... come without any gear you can salvage from them.

    Scavengers who salvage everything might not have useful salvage in their caches. Why? Because both crafting system, loot system and customization system is dumbed down and stupid. It means the game is rotten through the core.

    The only good things are: EA willing to take a risk, financing coop gameplay, etc. No DLCs. So with their games as a service business model, we can expect more experimenting. So Origin Access: Premier and its effects are a plus. And that is about the end of it.    … Expand
  30. os12
    Feb 26, 2019
    2
    As pretty as it is, it is fun to fly around like Iron man. But there is much to be desired in this CHEAP Destiny Knock-off. A kindergartner could have cut up pieces of paper and glued em back together better than this game is cut-up and glued back together
  31. Terron2
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    Microtransactions, releasing unfinished games, DLC nickel and diming, franchise whoring, development hell, and then writing off franchises because they failed due to their own actions. Thats what EA has been known for for the past decade and it is the same with Anthem.

    To start off, i had high hopes for this game but apperantly my trust was misplaced. On to the gameplay: The gameplay    Microtransactions, releasing unfinished games, DLC nickel and diming, franchise whoring, development hell, and then writing off franchises because they failed due to their own actions. Thats what EA has been known for for the past decade and it is the same with Anthem.

    To start off, i had high hopes for this game but apperantly my trust was misplaced.

    On to the gameplay: The gameplay is rather acceptable and it als makes a lot of fun to fight and fly around but the fight are reppetetive and the enemies have not much variation to them at all.

    Story: Probably the worst aspect of the game, Bioware is known for their good nerrative but with each title Bioware just gets worse. I didnt saw anything from the promised Multiple choices or the story that is supposed toi center around us. "Our world,your story" : MY ASS. The Story is even worse than Andromeda. The choices you make dont alter the Story and you cant even see your own character, so why bother choosing apperance?

    The World is the only plus i can give, but thena gain: Wide as a ocean, deep as a puddle.
    Bioware failed to innovate.

    The entire game feels like someone came up with all the mechanics in 5 minutes. Seriously, every aspect (maybe aside from the graphics) is 10 steps backwards from what we already used to have in other looter games.

    It is almost as if Bioware has run out of ideas.    … Expand
  32. MattewIsHere
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    Even from the demo, the game didn't really spark my interest. Flying around for several minutes before fighting some bugs to then fly to somewhere else just isn't fun. The abilities of the "javelins" are really uninspired and the combat is just boring, with the most interesting part of it (the combo system) not really being explained and the only way I figured out the combo system wasEven from the demo, the game didn't really spark my interest. Flying around for several minutes before fighting some bugs to then fly to somewhere else just isn't fun. The abilities of the "javelins" are really uninspired and the combat is just boring, with the most interesting part of it (the combo system) not really being explained and the only way I figured out the combo system was through experimentation. The matchmaking would often crash and the game just felt like it became way to clusterf@#$y. The only positives I have for this game are that it looks pretty, and I generally enjoyed making my suits look pretty. Besides that, the game is really braindead. When I played my first BioWare game (Mass Effect 2), I was blown away by how good the narrative was. This game pretty much shatters what I always thought BioWare stood for: strong narrative-driven games. Maybe they'll make another interesting singleplayer game in the future, but I have no interest in Anthem.… Expand
  33. hetocir
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    Looks nothing like the E3 demos, weapon variety is terrible and I maxed out my character in 3 days not worth 60 dollars. Now the game just tells me to fight the same enemies over and over again and the same dungeons
  34. leoh0
    Feb 25, 2019
    4
    so graphic is awesome , the battle is somehow good, but the feedback of shooting feels pool.

    story is hard to understand the story, easy to get bored.

    lot of bugs, awuful qucik matching, and the loading time, just try it, 5mins loading then connect error, great
  35. TychoMcCormack
    Feb 26, 2019
    2
    A six year development cycle for a substandard looter-shooter that lacks anything even remotely compelling.

    The fact that the game is radically inferior to its E3 presentation demo is just the cherry on the cake.

    Avoid like you would the plague.
  36. 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)
  37. Hornikus
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Эту чушь не назовёшь игрой. Загрузки каждые пять минут, бешенный фарм в мире без контента, вылеты как на ps4 так и на ПК.
    Основной упор в игре сделан на стрельбу, но почему эта стрельба настолько убогая? Если стреляя в Destiny или на худой конец в warframe, ты чувствуешь как отдачу так и попадание по врагу, то тут складывается ощущение, что ты стреляешь по воздуху.
    Заходишь в хаб    Эту чушь не назовёшь игрой. Загрузки каждые пять минут, бешенный фарм в мире без контента, вылеты как на ps4 так и на ПК.
    Основной упор в игре сделан на стрельбу, но почему эта стрельба настолько убогая? Если стреляя в Destiny или на худой конец в warframe, ты чувствуешь как отдачу так и попадание по врагу, то тут складывается ощущение, что ты стреляешь по воздуху.
    Заходишь в хаб локацию, ожидая как-то отдохнуть от того убогого геймплея и становится всё еще хуже. Более унылого хаба, я не видел ни в одной игре. В общем 12 из 10 на кончиках гринда.
    Nice game (sarcasm)    … Expand
  38. JamieMadrox85
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    Well i hate to say it but i predicted this game would be bad before it came out and i was right.

    Luckily i didn't buy it and instead got Origin Access premier for 15$. This game is a broken buggy mess. The characters are all annoying and you have to go spend 20-30 minutes talking to people after every mission unless you skip all the dialog which i started doing pretty quickly because    Well i hate to say it but i predicted this game would be bad before it came out and i was right.

    Luckily i didn't buy it and instead got Origin Access premier for 15$. This game is a broken buggy mess. The characters are all annoying and you have to go spend 20-30 minutes talking to people after every mission unless you skip all the dialog which i started doing pretty quickly because the characters are so unlikable and the story is so generic and boring.

    The mission structure is unbearably repetitive and if you're lucky the mission will bug and you'll get to do it all over again. (Which has happened to me at least 6 times in my 24 hours playing it) The game will seem fun for the first couple of hours but trust me this a game that is NOT worth your time. And no i'm not going to be one of those people that say "well maybe it will be good when they patch it and update it" yeah maybe it will be but people seriously need to stop letting developers/publishers get away with this. 10 years ago this was NOT a thing because if the game wasn't finished it just didn't sell.

    Its been quite a while since i've played a game like this that i wanted to like (because the game looks really good running on ultra settings on my pc) but i can't, the gun play doesn't feel great, the abilities of the javelin of your choosing are more fun to use but get old quickly. Oh and i almost forgot to mention the incredibly bad load times and there are loading screens galore in this game. Even after the patch that made it better it still takes too long (on my solid state drive). I still haven't finished the story yet but i hear that the end game content is virtually non-existent.

    I fully expect Bioware to be closed soon by EA after this disaster.    … Expand
  39. Razor1187
    Feb 24, 2019
    4
    First mistake I made was playing this game after just finishing the GORGEOUS and super engaging Metro: Exodus.
    Mistake B was expecting this game to be anything more than a cheap Destiny 2 Rip off. Because that is exactly what it is. The only thing I personally like better about Anthem than Destiny 2 is being able to fly. The gunplay and general Javelin mechanics feel barely a step above    First mistake I made was playing this game after just finishing the GORGEOUS and super engaging Metro: Exodus.
    Mistake B was expecting this game to be anything more than a cheap Destiny 2 Rip off. Because that is exactly what it is. The only thing I personally like better about Anthem than Destiny 2 is being able to fly. The gunplay and general Javelin mechanics feel barely a step above WARFRAME in quality, which is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable.
    I had may expectations very high tbh, for a game with so much potential. Sorry for lazy and shallow review but just isn't worth the energy. I honestly was just not expecting a cheap Destiny 2 money grab..
    RIP BioWare.. another studio slain by the Grim Reaper that is EA
    The only redeeming factor throughout this experience was playing through Origin Premier..    … Expand
  40. joewat64
    Feb 24, 2019
    2
    This game has been a huge disappointment. I was looking forward to this game for two years, When I played the demo I thought its just a demo. I honestly thought the launch would be better. Was I ever wrong. There are still bugs even after the day one patch. The game is BORING and leaves you feeling like there is something missing. This game is also NOT for solo players. You must have aThis game has been a huge disappointment. I was looking forward to this game for two years, When I played the demo I thought its just a demo. I honestly thought the launch would be better. Was I ever wrong. There are still bugs even after the day one patch. The game is BORING and leaves you feeling like there is something missing. This game is also NOT for solo players. You must have a group. If you try to do any high end content in this game solo you'll rage quit within minutes. Maybe they will get it back on track.....who knows. I'm going back to Destiny. Later… Expand
  41. tabbs
    Feb 24, 2019
    4
    Played close to 40 hours of the game to see if it ever got better... and it did not. Missions are repetitive with little variation, dungeons are anticlimactic, and the main storyline seems cheesy and uneventful. Its fun at first to figure out what suit you like the most and what abilities you like as well - but once that is over and you feel like the game is extremely lackluster. OverallPlayed close to 40 hours of the game to see if it ever got better... and it did not. Missions are repetitive with little variation, dungeons are anticlimactic, and the main storyline seems cheesy and uneventful. Its fun at first to figure out what suit you like the most and what abilities you like as well - but once that is over and you feel like the game is extremely lackluster. Overall not worth the money.… Expand
  42. Clumsyform
    Feb 24, 2019
    2
    Mass Effect 76 features a good soundtrack and visuals, let down by frequent loading screens, excessive grind, valueless loot, a pale shadow of a story, only two Javelin customisation options unlockable in-game, dumb enemy AI removing any tactical appreciation of the stunning terrain and of course bugs at launch.

    This is an obvious cash-grab, a shell of a game, unfinished yet charging    Mass Effect 76 features a good soundtrack and visuals, let down by frequent loading screens, excessive grind, valueless loot, a pale shadow of a story, only two Javelin customisation options unlockable in-game, dumb enemy AI removing any tactical appreciation of the stunning terrain and of course bugs at launch.

    This is an obvious cash-grab, a shell of a game, unfinished yet charging you full-price plus overpriced micro-transactions. What EA has done to Bioware is unforgivable. Warframe is a free alternative with a wealth of unlockable content and open worlds without loading screens, I'll be playing that.    … Expand
  43. Rocharox
    Feb 24, 2019
    0
    This game is a complete mess. Controls are weird, there are random bugs that crash the whole game. The weapons miss even at point blank...
    Then, if you ever manage to make it work, you get to see how much of a mobile game this is.
    Paid progression, click x times on something to make another thing... It is downright boring.
    The worst AAA game in a long time.
  44. luzarius
    Feb 23, 2019
    2
    Anita Sarkeesian's brand of sex negative third wave feminism has hit this game extremely hard.

    The Witcher series had beautiful, sexy & charismatic women (Triss, Yennefer, Ciri) in addition to normal, plain & average looking women. [character art] - Anthem has the ugliest women NPC's I've ever seen in a game. There isn't even one sexy woman in the entire game. The character art    Anita Sarkeesian's brand of sex negative third wave feminism has hit this game extremely hard.

    The Witcher series had beautiful, sexy & charismatic women (Triss, Yennefer, Ciri) in addition to normal, plain & average looking women.

    [character art] - Anthem has the ugliest women NPC's I've ever seen in a game. There isn't even one sexy woman in the entire game. The character art direction is so bad that it completely destroyed any fantastical escapism. The NPC's look like people I'd see at Walmart and Walmart is the last thing I want to be thinking of when playing an escapist video game.

    [story] - The story is very mediocre and is brought down by the casual idle conversations you have with the random NPC's. Those casual convos don't have any impact on the story, it's just "hey, how you doing buddy? You good? I'm good, cool, cya." After a while you begin to dread talking to the NPC's because the conversation goes no where most of the time. In other Bioware games every conversation tend to contribute to something meaningful, but in Anthem it doesn't.

    Your character is extremely emotional, cranky and complains all the time. He acts like an emotional soy boy constantly and it's VERY annoying. You can't play as a bad ass and instead you're constantly kissing everyone's butt, I hate it. I hate Tarsis and want to see it burn to the ground. I WISH I COULD SIDE WITH THE DOMINION. I bet all the hot women have sided with the Dominion and Tarsis is just filled with rejects & social outcasts.

    [gameplay] The combat is fun. The best part of the game is being outside of Tarsis. I hate Tarsis so much. The characters look so god damn ugly I just dread going there. Okay, combat. Combat is fun, but it has the potential to get repetitive very quickly. After about two weeks I'll be bored of this game. So if $60.00 is worth two weeks of play time, go for it, but I'd wait until the game is $5.00 like Battlefront II.

    [microtransactions] - I never buy stuff through micro transactions.

    [graphics] - The frostbite engine is nothing short of amazing. The graphics are outstanding.

    [environmental art & armor art] - The art direction for the environment's are beautiful & captivating. The javelins & weapons have beautiful art.

    [tarsis bar] - The city of Tarsis has a bar. The bar is filled with the ugliest women i've ever seen and there's no good bar music. In every Bioware game the night club and bars always had good music, but this is the worst bar I've ever seen in the history of Bioware games.

    [brothel] - THE GAME HAS NO BROTHEL, WTF?! There should be a brothel with tons of hot & sexy tarsis babes showing off the frostbite engines physics. Physics you ask? YES, BREAST & BUTT PHYSICS.    … Expand
  45. RemakerID
    Feb 26, 2019
    0
    Игра поломана, неготова, сыра и однообразна. Пропадает звук, вылеты, зависания - проблемы демки не исправлены. ВЫ ИДИОТЫ BIOWARE!
  46. TheGamingDuck
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    This game is so bad and so broken. No shared loot, no fun at all, the best mission was just a WHOLE FRICKIN CUTSCENE with NO PLAYABLE MOMENT! This is unacceptable. All missions are just reused game mechanics from previous mission. Too repetitive and too boring. The loot quality is bad and the loot system is broken. You can't even find enough money to craft a legendary item. Weapons statsThis game is so bad and so broken. No shared loot, no fun at all, the best mission was just a WHOLE FRICKIN CUTSCENE with NO PLAYABLE MOMENT! This is unacceptable. All missions are just reused game mechanics from previous mission. Too repetitive and too boring. The loot quality is bad and the loot system is broken. You can't even find enough money to craft a legendary item. Weapons stats are RNG and completely useless. I'm so sad that 6 years of development could create this empty and soulless game. That's why Mass Effect Andromeda died? Sad so so sad.… Expand
  47. WhatsUpDoC
    Feb 24, 2019
    4
    I keep seeing positive reviews saying "I don't understand why the game is receiving so much hate..the game just came out, it will get better..." Well the reason why I'm hating is this...I actually found the game fun at first but then I realized that the game just wasn't complete. Now that wouldn't be a problem, necessarily, if it were free to play (a la Warframe). However this game is atI keep seeing positive reviews saying "I don't understand why the game is receiving so much hate..the game just came out, it will get better..." Well the reason why I'm hating is this...I actually found the game fun at first but then I realized that the game just wasn't complete. Now that wouldn't be a problem, necessarily, if it were free to play (a la Warframe). However this game is at AAA pricing and took 5+ years in development and my response to their sentiment is simply No...if a publisher releases a game at full AAA price the game should meet its potential at launch. It's like releasing a Marvel Movie with 60% of the CGI finished and saying ..."It's only JUST being released, {movies} like this u have to give time" after you paid full price for it already...Not acceptable, glad i only paid for the trial. Bad First Impression.… Expand
  48. 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.
  49. Idahoan
    Feb 24, 2019
    2
    Pros:
    -Pleasing graphics, particle effects, etc
    -Combat mechanics work well, particularly squad combo mechanics -Animation is superb Cons: -For a game which claimed to capture two things: great story-lines, and customizeable loot driven progression. It FAILED both -The background lore and story setting is AMAZING, but is entirely undelivered on by any of the current quests. I was    Pros:
    -Pleasing graphics, particle effects, etc
    -Combat mechanics work well, particularly squad combo mechanics
    -Animation is superb

    Cons:
    -For a game which claimed to capture two things: great story-lines, and customizeable loot driven progression. It FAILED both
    -The background lore and story setting is AMAZING, but is entirely undelivered on by any of the current quests. I was dumbfounded by how shallow the delivered story was given the incredible wealth of background lore they gave. It is nothing close to herioc
    -The loot system is shallow, obtrusive, and insulting. If you want anything interesting, "GIVE US MORE MONEY". 90% of the items you receive are trash and fail to have any useful statistics
    -The UI (on the PC) is garbage. You can dig through piles of menus and find nothing. It is bloated and clunky beyond belief.
    - The sound breaks 50% of the time I load a new screen, which is OFTEN.
    -Loading screens are abysmal. With the installation on a SSD, I spend nearly equal times in the loading screens and playing a mission.
    -More on loading. The "home" area is split between 3 different areas. WHY? And WHY are there loading screens between them.

    Everything about this game just feels wrong. They had fantastic combat, a great background story and lore, great graphics and animation, and then flopped the execution. This BARELY deserves a 2.    … Expand
  50. TheFirm34
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    This is an unfinished, not fun, super grindy and a recycle machine. It might look nice, but that is it. This is an alpha more than a full release, and I have no idea what the 60$ is getting you. Compare this 60$ game to something like Red Dead 2 or Horizon Zero Dawn, is that fair? No, because they are not even in the same reality. DO NOT BUY THIS
  51. Negolash
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    40 hours in. Story was decent, cutscenes and characters, lots of dialogues (does not exist in other looter-shooter games). Though endgame is lacking and repetative. I'd say 7/10, but will press 10 to negate 1's
  52. Astralalone
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    Flying around like Iron Man is great and all but it doesn't detract from the truth.

    This game is complete and utter garbage. Loading screens everywhere, a lackluster story, BROKEN PROMISES BY BIOWARE, no companions, no romance, no NOTHING! The graphics are great, combat is great, I'm okay with all of those things, but the loot is horrid, Grandmaster gives hardly any rares and I keep    Flying around like Iron Man is great and all but it doesn't detract from the truth.

    This game is complete and utter garbage. Loading screens everywhere, a lackluster story, BROKEN PROMISES BY BIOWARE, no companions, no romance, no NOTHING!

    The graphics are great, combat is great, I'm okay with all of those things, but the loot is horrid, Grandmaster gives hardly any rares and I keep getting KICKED everytime me and my friends reach the boss!

    DO NOT BUY!    … Expand
  53. 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.
  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. Joker_14_pt
    Jun 18, 2019
    1
    Jogo horrível não comprem senão vão fritar as vossas ps4 nem free game deveria ser
  56. kokopete
    Oct 20, 2021
    1
    An embarrassment for Bioware. A broken incomplete game, with Christmas tree on March.
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. Dom007
    Mar 28, 2021
    2
    This game lasted long. Two years and it's already dead with no future plans for it.
  60. 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
  61. txowina
    Mar 20, 2021
    0
    EA = compañia que se queda con tu dinero sin que tú recibas nada a cambio.

    EA lejos de mí.
  62. 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.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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
  66. 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
  67. ursiel
    Jul 18, 2023
    0
    Boi was I wrong about this game. lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  68. 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.
  69. 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.
  70. 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
  71. 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
  72. 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.
  73. 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
  74. 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
  75. 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
  76. 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.
  77. 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
  78. 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
  79. The_D4RknesS
    Jul 20, 2022
    0
    and mind blowing what is going on with this game selling for 1 cent lolololol
  80. 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
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  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.
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  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.
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