Anthem

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3707 Ratings

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  1. Dave-W
    Jul 17, 2019
    6
    Updated 17/07/2019 - I have dropped my original score by a couple as I havent logged in for a while as there are still issues that haven't been resolved yet and little comms from the devs. If they make some decent changes and fixes I will be happy to pickup the game again and adjust my review accordingly. Unfortunately I will be waiting for some big news on the net about the game before IUpdated 17/07/2019 - I have dropped my original score by a couple as I havent logged in for a while as there are still issues that haven't been resolved yet and little comms from the devs. If they make some decent changes and fixes I will be happy to pickup the game again and adjust my review accordingly. Unfortunately I will be waiting for some big news on the net about the game before I can be bothered to try again.

    Original Review------
    All I can say is i'm enjoying playing the game, the combat is fun and the world is a nice size and looks amazing. There are so many javelin build options and different loadouts can be saved which keeps me wanting to try different play styles. So far I cant see why the game has such a low score. Yes there are things that can be improved like some of the UI and tweaks to the loot but these so far for me have been far from game breaking and things they have said they are working on to get the balance right.

    i've probably got about 50 hours in so far of mostly solo play and still feel like I have allot of hours left to play. Also during that 50+ hours I've had 1 audio glitch and lost connection once which is no where near as bad as other games I own that no one moans about. Allot of bad reviews seem to be from when the game was in early access and the game has had allot of patches since then and the team seem to be hot on updates.

    There have also been many suggestions from the community that they have liked and want to implement in updates, so the game has even more to look forward to. I just think its sad that most games have big day one patches and patches after release to fix issues and they dont get loads of crap about it but for some reason everyone seems to be wanting to jump on the hate train for EA and Bioware.

    Just to add as well about the hate train, which is happening, I have watched allot of youtube videos which have been full of hate for things that had already been patched before their video was
    even made, or things that are not true and just internet rumours stating they are fact with no sources to back it up.    … Expand
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. StellarKane
    Jun 26, 2019
    1
    Buggy, shallow trash ruined by loot boxes ......................................
  5. 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
  6. Joker_14_pt
    Jun 18, 2019
    1
    Jogo horrível não comprem senão vão fritar as vossas ps4 nem free game deveria ser
  7. kingshark69
    Jun 13, 2019
    6
    parto dai punti di forza del gioco:
    un sistema di movimento pazzesco, veramente bello volare, schivare, correre e saltare, tutte azioni che ti faranno sentire onnipotente.
    secondo punto, grafica spettacolare, talmente bella e belle le ambientazioni con queste caverne e queste cascate, che ho preferito lockkarlo a 30 FPS per avere i dettagli a ultra piuttosto che giocarlo a 60 tutto a    parto dai punti di forza del gioco:
    un sistema di movimento pazzesco, veramente bello volare, schivare, correre e saltare, tutte azioni che ti faranno sentire onnipotente.
    secondo punto, grafica spettacolare, talmente bella e belle le ambientazioni con queste caverne e queste cascate, che ho preferito lockkarlo a 30 FPS per avere i dettagli a ultra piuttosto che giocarlo a 60 tutto a low.
    ora però passiamo al bagno di sangue, partiamo dal presupposto che con tutti i difetti il gioco piace anche se le bestemmie sono a portata di mano.
    crash, microlag e freeze continui, nonostante la mia build fino ad ora non abbia mai avuto problemi a reggere settaggi a ultra a 60 su altri titoli, figuriamoci a 30 FPS ( parlo di una 1060 overclockkata e un i5-6600k overclockkato a 4,5 GHz).
    ci sono stati momenti in cui non avevo neanche bisogno di chiudere il gioco perchè crashava.
    mentre poi va avanti a 30 FPS frezza per qualche millisecondo o lagga durante i caricamenti delle zone o, ancora, mentre spawnano i nemici.
    sono comunque cose che possono essere sistemate con degli aggiornamenti e spero lo facciano perchè è snervante così l'esperienza.
    quasi dimenticavo, la CPU spesso sale sopra gli 80 gradi,anche se non in maniera continua, e non va bene.
    cercando un pò sul web ho capito che non sono problemi solo miei, quindi traggo che l'ottimizzazione sia pressocchè assente.
    passiamo alla lore e alla storia principale.
    in un mondo così si sarebbe potuta sviluppare una storia mozzafiato...e invece... e invece hanno creato una storia che non lascia il segno e che non ricordi manco alla fine, poco impatto tanta roba e poco tempo per spiegarla, spero che in futuro con i DLC facciano di meglio.
    in quanto a ripetitività, criticata da tutti, vorrei spezzare una lancia a suo favore, i giochi così alla fine hanno la necessità di essere un pò ripetitivi alla fine si basano unicamente sul loot in endgame ed in parte è giusto che si facciano un pò sempre le stesse cose (prendi destiny, i raid ogni settimana, i cala la notte ecc), almeno la storia ha una buona varietà delle situazioni di gioco.
    le armi sono poche e le loro skin sono, classe per classe, identiche o quasi anche se magari hanno effetti e spari differenti.
    avrei gradito qualche armatura in più per diversificare il proprio strale da quello degli altri e non solo le 2 o 3 per classe che ci sono attualmente, forse ne usciranno altre in futuro, speriamo...
    il negozio dovrebbe essere più reattivo, non voglio aspettare 6 mesi per poter vedere oggetti nuovi e acquistare qualcosa di diverso dallo standard.
    insomma gli do un 6 di incoraggiamento, perchè come tutti gli RPG è un gioco in divenire che può crescere e migliorare nel tempo, arricchendosi di nuovi contenuti e migliorando l'esperienza.
    spero che questo 6 diventi un 8 o un 9 fra qualche mese e non un 4, gli voglio dare fiducia poichè ho sognato questo gioco da quando sono uscite le prime indiscrezioni e mi dispiace stia morendo così.    … Expand
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. stonedpixel
    Jun 8, 2019
    5
    Anthems beautiful visuals and novel flight mechanics are not enough for us to recommend it at this time. It consistently fails in every metric to bring the player any sense of accomplishment or gratification. Anthems potential to recover from its rough launch is hampered from Bioware's inability to listen to its community or to make good on promises made. Spending seven years inAnthems beautiful visuals and novel flight mechanics are not enough for us to recommend it at this time. It consistently fails in every metric to bring the player any sense of accomplishment or gratification. Anthems potential to recover from its rough launch is hampered from Bioware's inability to listen to its community or to make good on promises made. Spending seven years in development and having almost no depth or content is a dramatic contrast to its previous releases. This is the same developer that brought us the classic series Mass Effect and Dragon Age. We have to wonder if its time for Bioware to take a step back and reevaluate its corporate philosophies and business practices. Anthem is like a wise old man with loose bowels. It might appear that he is deep in thought but in reality, he is merely crapping his pants.

    We give Anthem a 5.3/10 which places it in the category of “Atrocious”.    … Expand
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Reinbark
    Jun 5, 2019
    6
    So like most I was lukewarm to the idea of Anthem. I had hope that it could be good but other than that I was not really too hype for it. So thankfully I wasn't super disappointed by it.

    However it is simply boring. I played with a group of friends for roughly a combined thirty hours. The story was interesting and it was a really beautiful game for sure! The game play was neat but    So like most I was lukewarm to the idea of Anthem. I had hope that it could be good but other than that I was not really too hype for it. So thankfully I wasn't super disappointed by it.

    However it is simply boring. I played with a group of friends for roughly a combined thirty hours. The story was interesting and it was a really beautiful game for sure! The game play was neat but ultimately it felt a lot like bullet soaking. There was a lot of 'variation' to abilities and guns but it ultimately just felt like a knock off version of Destiny.

    You walk everywhere in between your 'quest grabbing and talking' you do a lot of 'flying' to your locations and it just felt slow. If you play with your friends then you have to also wait for them which could really burn a lot of mins if someone goes afk to get a soda or something along those lines. While that's not a fault of the game it still make things just slow and monotonous. Getting good gear is well I'm sure you've heard about how that is by now...

    If you just want to kill time and play with friends then go for it I guess.    … Expand
  14. 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?
  15. 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
  16. chazden
    May 24, 2019
    5
    Very beautiful game but still feels incomplete as far as the market and endgame content goes. The market has nothing appealing and rotates inventory rather infrequent. Expect to get about 45 hours of worthwhile gameplay :(
  17. 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 :(
  18. Elex
    May 24, 2019
    0
    Nice Roadmap you got there, hope it doesnt completely derail ..oh it already has..cool
  19. Elmund
    May 19, 2019
    0
    Absolutely cr*p and soulless , failed miserably. Game has no direction & EA have done it again
  20. kyzaghan
    May 19, 2019
    5
    The graphics are really nice. Animations are very good quality. BUT Anthem does not have enough content. LACK OF PVP MODE!!! Anthem does not push players to cooperate with each other. Performance issues are frustrating. AS A RESULT, Anthem couldn't meet my expectations for now. For me, Anthem is failed.
  21. Theformidable
    May 17, 2019
    5
    Anthem is a very pleasant game to look at and the combat for the game is very enjoyable with all the different skills for each class.
    The game's story is very bland, predictable and doesn't really draw you in enough to pay attention sadly.
    Where i think the game truly suffers in its in lack of end game content. Once you reach the max level the only new content open to you is a difficulty    Anthem is a very pleasant game to look at and the combat for the game is very enjoyable with all the different skills for each class.
    The game's story is very bland, predictable and doesn't really draw you in enough to pay attention sadly.
    Where i think the game truly suffers in its in lack of end game content. Once you reach the max level the only new content open to you is a difficulty option to raids you've already done, nothing new.
    Anthem could've been amazing with its graphics and fun combat but the game feels very unfinished, feels like you're paying $60 for a Beta version of the game.    … Expand
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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 ...
  27. 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
  28. SpleenSplitta
    May 2, 2019
    5
    I played the beta and felt average about the game so I bought premier and started playing on the 15th.

    First impressions the game is the best looking I have ever seen, after a while you start seeing some bugs but not game breaking, clunky character models in combat, glitched boss loot and the long load times of 40 seconds plus. At this stage of the game its would be a 4 or a 5 rating.    I played the beta and felt average about the game so I bought premier and started playing on the 15th.

    First impressions the game is the best looking I have ever seen, after a while you start seeing some bugs but not game breaking, clunky character models in combat, glitched boss loot and the long load times of 40 seconds plus. At this stage of the game its would be a 4 or a 5 rating.

    22nd day one patch was released and it improved every thing in the game, all issues that i had encountered all fixed even with 10-15 sec load times, bioware also just released a road map for the game with all free dlc. It takes other devs longer for these things.

    The cosmetics in the game can be earned with in game currency just like other AAA titles out there with option to spend real money.

    If the improvements keep coming this game will be an easy 9.    … Expand
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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.
  33. 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
  34. 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.
  35. 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
  36. 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.
  37. Nastia
    Apr 18, 2019
    6
    It's not horrible, people are being over dramatic. Flying is fun, shooting is solid. Characters and face animations are enjoyable, you dude-friend-partner is cute and funny and pretty well written. Graphics are great, scenery is amazing. Bugs I encountered were not that annoying, except for one game breaking indeed where mission wouldn't proceed 'cause of the closed cave entrance. ButIt's not horrible, people are being over dramatic. Flying is fun, shooting is solid. Characters and face animations are enjoyable, you dude-friend-partner is cute and funny and pretty well written. Graphics are great, scenery is amazing. Bugs I encountered were not that annoying, except for one game breaking indeed where mission wouldn't proceed 'cause of the closed cave entrance. But again it wasn't something groundbreaking. Many bugs are found in many games, it's not something to rile me all up. Content is lacking, yea, but again, exploring and running around gives you smth fun to kill time on while dev team rolls out those sweet updates.
    There is only one unacceptable and unforgivable crime this game commits. It becomes boring.
    After around 4-5 hrs of gameplay I found myself staring at the map and realising I just don't want to choose the next mission. The magic just suddenly ran out when I saw how much I have to grind to move further. I was lvl 13 or smth and it just was no fun at all. I didn't even care for story anymore, that was what that awfully unimaginative grind mechanics did to me. I'm sorry Bioware, I love you and I tried to love this game.    … Expand
  38. 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
  39. 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.
  40. Skyneweris
    Apr 14, 2019
    9
    Демо версия Anthem показала проблемы с серверами, но релизная версия впечатлила меня графикой, неплохим сюжетом и прекрасным миром. Не знаю почему на игру вылился весь этот хейт. Немного подкачала оптимизация, а сервера починили.Как по мне игра прекрасна. Желаю BioWare успеха и былой славы.Демо версия Anthem показала проблемы с серверами, но релизная версия впечатлила меня графикой, неплохим сюжетом и прекрасным миром. Не знаю почему на игру вылился весь этот хейт. Немного подкачала оптимизация, а сервера починили.Как по мне игра прекрасна. Желаю BioWare успеха и былой славы.
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. Wendras
    Apr 11, 2019
    9
    Anthem is great game with a big potential. Sure there are problems...

    But it will be solved.
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. suzer
    Apr 6, 2019
    0
    I feel like they stole my money. Probably the worst game i've played last 2 years.
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. Hack
    Apr 5, 2019
    5
    An "Iron Man" looter shooter should have been a blast, but they managed to make it very dull.

    First off I will say the game does have a couple of good points, visually it's very nice and the gunplay is enjoyable and I personally liked the story which a lot of people didn't, but that's about it. The biggest problems I have with the game are performance, lack of loot, boring loot, lack    An "Iron Man" looter shooter should have been a blast, but they managed to make it very dull.

    First off I will say the game does have a couple of good points, visually it's very nice and the gunplay is enjoyable and I personally liked the story which a lot of people didn't, but that's about it.

    The biggest problems I have with the game are performance, lack of loot, boring loot, lack of content and the emptiness of the world. Compare the map of Anthem to say The Division 2, which is massive, full of life and filled with stuff to do, all whilst not requiring loading screen after loading screen like Anthem. Division 2 is actually the game I switched to after Anthem and it's better in every regard, I just wish it had came out first so I wouldn't have wasted £40 on Anthem.    … Expand
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. Miniqiqi
    Apr 4, 2019
    3
    I am a simple person, when I play a game and constantly see loading screen, I downvote it.
  53. 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
  54. RiftSilver
    Apr 3, 2019
    5
    While there is some fun to be had here, Anthem is a hollow shell of what it could be. Between the severe bugs I encountered trying to go through basic game functions, to the lackluster Fort Tarsis and shoehorned story, Anthem feels more like a conglomerate of untested ideas than it does a full fledged game.
  55. 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
  56. miw
    Apr 3, 2019
    8
    According to Origin I have logged about 350 hours on this game by now, and I still find it fun, although I am certainly hanging out for some more content. It is probably a game that you nibble at for a few tens of hours every quarter than a staple you play every day.

    Pros - The graphics! - Ace gameplay mechanics and fun combat. - Diverse set of javelins which each require a different    According to Origin I have logged about 350 hours on this game by now, and I still find it fun, although I am certainly hanging out for some more content. It is probably a game that you nibble at for a few tens of hours every quarter than a staple you play every day.

    Pros - The graphics!
    - Ace gameplay mechanics and fun combat.
    - Diverse set of javelins which each require a different playstyle to succeed.
    - Great customisation options for javelin look
    - Fantastic platform to build upon.

    Cons - even after 3 major patches some quality of life issues remain.
    - No stats page
    - It is a co-op game but there is no good way to add someone you just played with
    - GM3 combat is probably too easy.
    - Enemy scaling is mostly by health. This makes it a bit boring at times at high levels.    … Expand
  57. 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
  58. 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
  59. 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
  60. 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
  61. 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
  62. 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 ****
  63. ubeguysmiley
    Mar 28, 2019
    5
    The graphics are great, the gameplay is good, the weapons feel unique enough and movement throughout also feels good. The lack of story is disappointing and the constant change to the loot drop system is frustrating. It appears as though a large amount of options (armor, vinyls) will be locked behind loot boxes because there was a significant amount of diverse content in the alpha, packThe graphics are great, the gameplay is good, the weapons feel unique enough and movement throughout also feels good. The lack of story is disappointing and the constant change to the loot drop system is frustrating. It appears as though a large amount of options (armor, vinyls) will be locked behind loot boxes because there was a significant amount of diverse content in the alpha, pack capacity MW/Legendary drops are borderline non-existent. It was great when they bugged the loot drop system. Even with 10 MW drops you might have only kept 2.

    Feel incomplete, would only recommend if free-to-play (like Warframe)    … Expand
  64. Jeagr
    Mar 28, 2019
    5
    tl;dr - A very pretty, but very boring game. Not worth the time it takes to load. Out of the 6 RL friends that I started playing with, only one is still playing.

    I really wanted to love this game, and I gave it a full month of 3-4 hours daily play before I wrote this review. But this game is just dead at this point. It's like the Game Designers and the Game Developers are on two    tl;dr - A very pretty, but very boring game. Not worth the time it takes to load. Out of the 6 RL friends that I started playing with, only one is still playing.

    I really wanted to love this game, and I gave it a full month of 3-4 hours daily play before I wrote this review. But this game is just dead at this point. It's like the Game Designers and the Game Developers are on two different continents, meeting for maybe 10 minutes a day to flesh out what needs to be added or fixed. And then they get stoned and forget what the problems originally were.

    Now don't get me wrong, the original vision was awesome, and they really nailed the feel of flying through the game like Ironman...but that uniqueness only lasts a short time before you realize the mechanics are broken, the quests and missions are just not worth the time it takes to do them, and each patch just seems to make things worse.

    For the past 4 days I have logged in daily to give the game another go, and I end up logging out within about 20 minutes...just not fun anymore, and not worth my time.    … Expand
  65. 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.
  66. 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.
  67. ensonar
    Mar 26, 2019
    5
    Game cycle is repetitive, story is boring and cliche. Graphings is amazing, but the world feels empty and not interesting to explore.
  68. 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
  69. 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?
  70. 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.
  71. GiantMoth
    Mar 23, 2019
    5
    It's not a perfect game, but it's not terrible, either.

    It's always best to start on a positive note, so I'll begin by saying that I really like the setting. It's beautiful -- and, in fact, it's rooted in fairly hard science-fiction. There's no faster-than-light travel without time dilation, there are no humanlike aliens that just happen to speak English and are not vastly    It's not a perfect game, but it's not terrible, either.

    It's always best to start on a positive note, so I'll begin by saying that I really like the setting. It's beautiful -- and, in fact, it's rooted in fairly hard science-fiction. There's no faster-than-light travel without time dilation, there are no humanlike aliens that just happen to speak English and are not vastly technologically superior to humanity, and there's little-to-no arbitrary space magic.

    In Anthem, humanity has spread through the galaxy and, on at least one colony world, has come across the remains of a vanished, godlike Elder Race. The ruins and relics of these Godlike Engineering projects are capable of causing all sorts of world-shaking catastrophes and events, and are hotly contested by different human factions, and a race of aggressively hostile insects that link together to form humanlike bodies. Your mission is to protect the free human outpost from the harmful effects of the ruins and relics, assist your faction's discovery and R&D efforts, and prevent particularly powerful relics from getting into the wrong hands. It's simple, it's straightforward, it doesn't insult my intelligence too grievously, and it works well overall. (That the insects and vanished Gods are really VERY alien is a nice touch.)

    Interestingly, the humans of Anthem appear far more technologically developed and sophisticated than the humans of Mass Effect, which leads me to believe that we're some thousands of years in the future. And, also, it is quite clear that the fragments of the Elder Race have accelerated human development -- which also seems to be the case for the bugs!

    The setting's art, like its background story, is solid. The art direction is not as inspired as it was in Mass Effect 1, and it's not as varied as many other games are, but it's polished to a high gloss, it looks damn good, and there are flashes of brilliance.

    (The visual focus here is "Modern Sci Fi" -- whereas the original Mass Effect was "1970s retro-futurism." For this reason, Anthem might seem less original -- as though you've seen it all before. You have. But, nevertheless, it's really well done, at least in my own estimation.)

    And the music is quite good, too. Not as good as Mass Effect, on the whole, but a couple of the tracks -- "Ancient Mysteries" and "Outlaw Ambush" -- have a unique sound that fits the setting perfectly.

    So, from an overall aesthetic point of view, I think that the game does extremely well.

    The game's mechanics are fun. Bioware have nailed the jetpacks; the four combat suits all feel very different; the gunplay is not bad. If you're familiar with Mass Effect Andromeda, you'll be familiar with the gunplay here -- but it's much better in Anthem. The sniper rifles, in particular, are infinitely better in Anthem than they were in Andromeda.

    And then there are the combat powers... Suffice it to say that the Storm exosuit is particularly fun to play. The elemental powers make you feel godlike -- quite literally like a Greek God -- and it offers a unique experience that I've never encountered anywhere else.

    So I think that there's a really solid foundation here. And the game runs very well on my two-year-old laptop with a GTX 1060.

    But there are many issues and annoyances:

    - Loading screens everywhere. So much ink has been spilled on this point that there's no need to write about it further.

    - The fact that playing with other people, in missions or freeplay, is a horrible experience. I wish that I could either (a) play with AI bots, or (b) just play solo without being penalized for it. Instead, I played all of the missions in Single Player mode, which made the game far harder, I got fewer equipment drops, and I earned less experience.

    Simply put, Bioware should make single player less painful. As things stand, it really is a sort of punishment... but STILL better than playing with other people. Online co-op is an even greater punishment.

    - Mission design is laughably bad. It's almost too repetitive to be believed.

    - The user interface is nearly as bad as the mission design.

    - Equipment drops and inventory management don't really make sense. You can't figure out what items you've just picked up -- let alone equip them -- until you're back in your base and the mission is finished.

    - The crafting system is totally opaque, to say the least.

    - The entire notion that you need to play in a team doesn't mesh with the story or lore of the game! In fact, the campaign ONLY makes sense if you play in Single Player mode! This was a major annoyance.

    - The sound design in general is sub-par.

    That's it.

    Ultimately, I believe that most of these annoyances can be fixed, and that the game's foundation is a very solid one. But it could have been released in a much better state, and some of the interface and mission design choices really make you wonder what the game's QA testers were doing.    … Expand
  72. Alora
    Mar 22, 2019
    2
    This game looks beautiful. The enjoyment stops there as you begin to realize it's a broken mess where the devs have made the loot so terrible to grind for that even a classic loot fiend (D1, D2, WoW, and others) like myself cannot find any enjoyment in the grind. If there were less bugs the game would be ok but many missions are unplayable and session ending bugs can be found every singleThis game looks beautiful. The enjoyment stops there as you begin to realize it's a broken mess where the devs have made the loot so terrible to grind for that even a classic loot fiend (D1, D2, WoW, and others) like myself cannot find any enjoyment in the grind. If there were less bugs the game would be ok but many missions are unplayable and session ending bugs can be found every single play session, multiple times. Truly a disgusting waste of potential.… Expand
  73. russian_pueblo
    Mar 22, 2019
    1
    This has been one of the most boring experience I have EVER had, this Is exactly what "Live Services" Is about, delivering an unfinished product for a full price. The gameplay is fantastic, the world Is beautiful and the javelins make you feel like Iron Man, however, there Is no soul In this game, It Is unoriginal, recycles content, no In-game content to be excited for and most of all It'sThis has been one of the most boring experience I have EVER had, this Is exactly what "Live Services" Is about, delivering an unfinished product for a full price. The gameplay is fantastic, the world Is beautiful and the javelins make you feel like Iron Man, however, there Is no soul In this game, It Is unoriginal, recycles content, no In-game content to be excited for and most of all It's just so boring and lifeless. It's clear that It's trying to be Destiny, as It has 80% of the same mechanics but still falls short to even scratch the surface of a good shooter-looter game. Maybe when the game Is finished It can be something amazing as It has the potential, but at this moment it's bastardized by EA's greed and stupidity.

    Update: After watching the live stream on March 6th I have to lower my score, during the live stream more bugs came to light, devs were unprepared, did not talk about promised content and every answer was "maybe In the future", "maybe In the future patch" or "we don't have a timeline for that" and my favorite "help's us by creating a Reddit post on how to fix the game" this was truly pathetic.

    - LVL 1 weapons and gear Is stronger than any Master Work weapons(2nd strongest weapons In the game)
    - The damage Indicators are cosmetic and do not relate to the actual damage you do
    - The content that's In the game Is about It, the rest of the content with be variations of the same missions that are In the game
    - The devs did not bother on fixing GM2 and 3 strongholds with "we will fix it in the future patch"

    Overall: Ths game Is a scam, DO NOT BUY! If you do want to play It, get $15 Origin access and that will be enough time to beat the game, including getting all end game activities and Items.    … Expand
  74. DarokPhoenix
    Mar 21, 2019
    0
    They got so much money from us and gave us so little for it. A shame. Players all over the world, do not let them rip you off! The bath in the money and mock you now with apologies. Please do not buy such games anymore and set a sign.
  75. AnthemSucks
    Mar 20, 2019
    0
    loots system sucks, hours of grind to get the same items including legendary which leads to waste of time even at g3
  76. Fanonymous
    Mar 19, 2019
    3
    Anthem has been such a let down. It's a game that just tried to be too many things at once. I think the biggest problem is that it took what was Bioware's strength, a single player game, and tried to make it into a multiplayer co-op RPG loot shooter ala Borderlands. Along with a microtransaction game ala Free2Play. And finally an Open world exploration game ala most MMO or Single PlayerAnthem has been such a let down. It's a game that just tried to be too many things at once. I think the biggest problem is that it took what was Bioware's strength, a single player game, and tried to make it into a multiplayer co-op RPG loot shooter ala Borderlands. Along with a microtransaction game ala Free2Play. And finally an Open world exploration game ala most MMO or Single Player Open World games. All rolled up into one ugly ball of confusion.

    The story is too confounding to be figured out in the few cutscenes and interactions, it's clear it was supposed to play out over a much longer period in a Single player style like Mass Effect. It intends for you to discover things in the open world, but instead just becomes a tedious grind of collecting, killing and stumbling onto events that rarely make sense. There is nothing in the open world to cause random groups to play together, but you must be in a group to explore the open world. It's just confusing and arbitrary.

    The NPC's and the city is wooden and un-animated. It feels like a museum rather than a living place. None of the NPC characters are interesting, and they deliver dialog only when required and are otherwise just there to remind you that they exist.

    Bioware has insisted that the changes from the 2017 and even 2018 play examples at E3 were necessary to make the game playable. But in every instance, they took features away. Rather than under promising and over delivering they did the exact opposite. Demoing a gorgeous open world full of dynamic creatures and places you would want to see and interact with. Instead, we get a beautifully rendered, but barely living world that leaves us asking what went wrong.    … Expand
  77. MonsieurJallong
    Mar 19, 2019
    0
    La verità è che non è necessario essere un Game Designer per accorgersi delle criticità e delle "pozzanghere di merda" che costellano il gioco. Il gameplay è solido, divertente e appagante e l'ambientazione è da togliere il fiato; soprattutto con la possibilità di esplorarla con il proprio Strale anche in verticalità, nonostante il mondo di gioco appaia senza vita al pari di unaLa verità è che non è necessario essere un Game Designer per accorgersi delle criticità e delle "pozzanghere di merda" che costellano il gioco. Il gameplay è solido, divertente e appagante e l'ambientazione è da togliere il fiato; soprattutto con la possibilità di esplorarla con il proprio Strale anche in verticalità, nonostante il mondo di gioco appaia senza vita al pari di una raffigurazione pittorica di natura morta; bella, si, ma senza vita. La trama e la lore tutto sommato sono interessanti ed incuriosiscono, nonostante il modo con cui viene presentato il tutto al giocatore sia fin troppo artificioso e le missioni siano TUTTE identiche ed estremamente noiose. Ma uno Shooter Looter che per farmi equipaggiare e testare armi & Co. mi costringe a finire la missione, ritornare in fucina, tediarmi (frantumarmi i coglioni) con 4-5 schermate di caricamento e matchmaking è pura follia. Ma vogliamo parlare dei crash continui (gioco su pc) dovuti alle più disparate motivazioni? Imbarazzante. E le schermate di caricamento ovunque, persistenti ed onnipresenti all'interno del gioco? Senza contare bug e glitch "selvatici" che saltano fuori quando meno te lo aspetti che nemmeno Zubat in una fottuta caverna. Vorrei inoltre che gli sviluppatori mi spiegassero l'utilità della mappa: non si può utilizzare alcun tipo di marker, né vi è segnato alcunché; nessun evento, nessuna indicazione, niente di niente. Forse con l'acquisto del gioco avrei dovuto pensare a procurarmi anche bussola e sestante? Infine vorrei chiedere dove sono i contenuti di endgame. Sembra quasi che non si siano presi nemmeno la briga di finirlo questo prodotto. Ci hanno venduto un gioco a prezzo pieno in cui delle meccaniche sono state pensate male, sviluppate peggio e nate morte ed alcuni aspetti tecnici del gioco sono degni delle prime fasi di una beta se non di un'alpha.
    CONCLUSIONE: Bene, ma non benissimo.    … Expand
  78. Glew
    Mar 18, 2019
    3
    The flying and combat mechanics are excellent. Everything else about the game is absolutely horrendous. Game breaking bugs occur every few minutes whether it's someone getting disconnected, hard crashing, getting stuck behind a wall, losing audio, ect. Without the option to reserve the session slot, or que privately, this means the whole party has to back out and endure multiple loadThe flying and combat mechanics are excellent. Everything else about the game is absolutely horrendous. Game breaking bugs occur every few minutes whether it's someone getting disconnected, hard crashing, getting stuck behind a wall, losing audio, ect. Without the option to reserve the session slot, or que privately, this means the whole party has to back out and endure multiple load screens to retrieve their team mate. Quickplay simply doesn't work. Stronghold bosses don't reward very good loot, and so most players leave before the boss, meaning 95% of the time you que a stronghold you get dropped onto a boss and miss out on all the loot and the fun of doing the actual content. Loot drop rates are wildly affected by several mysterious factors such as group item level, %luck stat on gear, and whatever loot tables are active on the given day, and it changes every week seemingly for the worst. The developers are anything but transparent when it comes to how the games systems work and more than likely it's because the developers don't know how they work. When the game doesn't crash and you're actually able to play it, the combat is very fun! When loot doesn't drop that fun starts to wear thin. When loot does finally drop and it's completely useless garbage that fun turns to rage and disappointment. The severe lack of content, unpolished interface, and cookie-cutter story are not enough to carry this game. It's a fantastic tech demo, but it is truly a terrible game.

    TLDR:
    Combat Mechanics - 9.5/10
    Literally everything else - 2/10    … Expand
  79. Sonatix
    Mar 17, 2019
    4
    Nice flights, good combat system, good open world design (graphic design is good, but gameplay is bad). Boring and repetative missions, lack of content, boring and not interesting loot system. For 1 week if you will play couple of hours after work, you will see whole content, after this you will uninstall this game.
    This is another failure of Bioware, I would like to know what they were    Nice flights, good combat system, good open world design (graphic design is good, but gameplay is bad). Boring and repetative missions, lack of content, boring and not interesting loot system. For 1 week if you will play couple of hours after work, you will see whole content, after this you will uninstall this game.
    This is another failure of Bioware, I would like to know what they were hoping for by releasing such an empty and raw product.
    Andromeda was a "mistake", but with Anthem it became clear that the studio had chosen the wrong direction and it was time to change something.    … Expand
  80. ItcItd
    Mar 17, 2019
    6
    Finish the main story and currently on level 26. The game is beautiful and gameplay is by all means fun although it get repetitive due to the design of the missions which consists of fly from point a to point b, kill some same enemies which does not have any AI, collect something or solve some simple puzzle by turning some knobs.

    I played the game since launch and after a few patches    Finish the main story and currently on level 26. The game is beautiful and gameplay is by all means fun although it get repetitive due to the design of the missions which consists of fly from point a to point b, kill some same enemies which does not have any AI, collect something or solve some simple puzzle by turning some knobs.

    I played the game since launch and after a few patches the loot has gotten better with more better equipment dropping but to be honest all the weapons and equipment are almost the same and the added stats or bonuses are pretty "meh". 15% ammo pickup, 5% repair pickup and some generic stats...compare to games like The Division, this seems laughable but I could be wrong because I haven't got any legendary gear yet even after finishing the story.

    I saw alot of people complain about the loading screen but to be honest it isn't really that bad although there is quite a lot of loading screen from 10 sec to 30 sec. It is not game breaking but just seems unnecessary and still bearable.

    Bugs is probably my only concern for this game because of its mechanics. Loots collected during game will only registered after completing the game and going back to the completion menu. There are times where finishing games will not go back to completion menu or in the middle of the mission you will be disconnected from the server. It is pretty frustrating seeing all the loots you got just disappear. Met with a few game breaking bugs where I just fall into an endless pit and never was able to finish the mission. Even the last mission the whole team was stuck behind a door mid way fighting the boss and we all have to quit.

    Well everyone is saying Bioware makes great story and decision making game but sad to say I skipped most of the story here because it is pretty boring and nothing memorable.

    All in all, I think a normal person will still enjoy this short game and don't expect the loot to be like borderland or The Division. Anthem is designed to be itself, and if play it without expecting it to be anything other than itself, you will not be disappointed but is it worth your $60? I would say yes if you have no other games to buy and no if you wanted to buy The Division 2.    … Expand
  81. FabioBiza
    Mar 17, 2019
    1
    A complete waste of precious time and money. The game has tons of bugs, glitches and the endgame is terrible! It fells like i'm playing a early acess or alpha game, it's a shame for BIOWARE and EA. Dont, i repeat, DONT BUY THIS GAME !
  82. GamerLegend10
    Mar 16, 2019
    9
    It's true that it started with a lot of problems and there still is a lot to fix but at least bio-ware is listening to the community and addressing bugs and fixes for them and that's what I like about the devs, They listen to us and are giving us constant updates to improve the game.
  83. dromethegod
    Mar 16, 2019
    0
    Complete waste of time. The one reason I even buy games from companies like Bioware is for their storyline. But this! This is the worst game I have ever played in my life. I'd rather play a noob indie game developer first game than to play Anthem.

    It's sad to see what Bioware is becoming.
  84. biloko
    Mar 16, 2019
    2
    Good mechanics and gameplay but other than that Anthem is clearly an unfinished game at alpha stage at best. There are so many basics features missing, so many game breaking bugs (alpha stage). At the moment nothing can save this game except the game mechanics and gameplay.
  85. TheDook
    Mar 16, 2019
    4
    I originally rated this higher thinking the game was rough and the issues may be ironed out. That might still be the case, but the game just isn't fun enough to keep playing until they fix it. The gameplay is pretty decent, but there's too little of it. The missions are short, and you have to slowly wander around their dumb town talking to empty NPCs to get the next mission. It just feelsI originally rated this higher thinking the game was rough and the issues may be ironed out. That might still be the case, but the game just isn't fun enough to keep playing until they fix it. The gameplay is pretty decent, but there's too little of it. The missions are short, and you have to slowly wander around their dumb town talking to empty NPCs to get the next mission. It just feels like a chore to get to the good stuff. I hope they make the game better, and maybe I'll try again in 6 months.… Expand
  86. MrHoots
    Mar 16, 2019
    6
    This is a flawed game, the game is riddled with bugs and god awful loading times (even on a top tier M.2 drive) but it is by no means a bad game. The people complaining that the game is repetitive should be ignored on the grounds they clearly have no understanding of the concept of a looter based game.

    The game does the important parts well, and with how masterworks and legendaries    This is a flawed game, the game is riddled with bugs and god awful loading times (even on a top tier M.2 drive) but it is by no means a bad game. The people complaining that the game is repetitive should be ignored on the grounds they clearly have no understanding of the concept of a looter based game.

    The game does the important parts well, and with how masterworks and legendaries change up the gameplay it feels closer to a Diablo game than Destiny, Division or Warframe (games, I'd like to point out, which all were deeply flawed experiences on launch.)

    I will say this, I don't think you should buy this game yet - definitely try it on Origin access if you're curious - but don't write the game off yet, there's still a lot of potential here, and being a looter shooter the two things the game does well are loot and shooting, so it's not as bad as the bandwagon hoppers will have you believe. I'll throw in a list of my personal pros and cons to close this off!

    The pros:
    - The expedition gameplay is fun (Fort Tarsis is trash)

    - Masterwork and Legendary loot feel special to get (I'm a Destiny fanboy but less than 10% of the exotics in that franchise feel better than a bog standard legendary, some even feel worse)

    - The world is a lot more interesting than you first give it credit for, it's easy to dismiss it as a generic rocky landscape but keep an eye on your cortex.

    - Many of the characters, even the more irritating ones actually have personality. (None of that relying on Cayde-6 to be your only three dimensional character)

    - Voice acting is a cut above all other games in this genre... Mostly ¬_¬

    - The boss fights, while bullet spongey, actually have mechanics and feel like actual bosses.

    - The game in the grandmaster difficulties is challenging, but not obnoxiously so.

    Cons:
    - It is incredibly buggy, even after the day 1 patch.

    - No in-game text chat (and the voice chat isn't particularly good.)

    - Titans are some of the least fun creatures to fight in video games, ever. Bioware decided that tedium and challenge are one and the same.

    - The expedition selection UI is horrendously archaic, and clunky.

    - Until you get to endgame and start getting masterworks, guns are kinda trash (DISCLAIMER: THIS DOES CHANGE WITH MASTERWORKS, GUNS AREN'T PERMANENTLY TRASH)

    - Fort Tarsis is so sluggish and bland, it feels like it belongs in a different game, coming out of missions into that is quite jarring.    … Expand
  87. VirarNeeda
    Mar 16, 2019
    0
    It's Destiny 2 except you can fly around (sometimes).
    This is not a compliment.
  88. Konigkampfwagen
    Mar 16, 2019
    9
    I really don't know why so many people hate this game so much because Anthem is one of the most fun games I've ever played in a very long time! It's fun, it's exciting, you don't shot each other you co-op, It's a huge 3D sandbox, lot's of stuff it's going on all the time, etc etc. Why do so many player complain? Try it man, it won't let you down! (I'm from Sweden and English is not myI really don't know why so many people hate this game so much because Anthem is one of the most fun games I've ever played in a very long time! It's fun, it's exciting, you don't shot each other you co-op, It's a huge 3D sandbox, lot's of stuff it's going on all the time, etc etc. Why do so many player complain? Try it man, it won't let you down! (I'm from Sweden and English is not my native language so excuse me if there is some grammatical errors etc.)

    To be honest there is some server problems now end then but the same thing with other online game as well right? All the issues and glitches have been fixed with patches and I've never seen them. People have misused the game true the glitches and then show others how to do on YouTube. That have spoiled the game a million! They have been banned and then scammed the game and produced "feel-sorry-for-me" videos. Take the punishment and shut the *** up b***s!!
    I've met no other problems what so ever and just had fun man.

    Now to some pros and cons:

    + Graphic is excellent but you have to have a potent PC
    + The sound really good and add to the story
    + The Music is OK
    + The story line is a little bit confusing first but give it some time just like The Elder Scroll
    + The combat system is very good
    + Easy to handle the gear
    + Very easy to "get started"
    + The environment - how cool isn't the environment
    + Choose between missions and free-play
    + Go by your self or with others which are more rewarding

    - Some server error problems now and then
    - Sometimes repetitive missions
    - Enemies AI in the beginning are to easy but not later    … Expand
  89. aidan0
    Mar 16, 2019
    4
    edit: after patch 3, this gets a 4, too many new bugs...

    it's a 6, not a 0 not a 10. Just a 6. I've seen my share of bugs and load times, but it's manageable. The wait time at the load screen is not the problem, the amount of load screens are the problem. 3 screens to the get to the next misson/contract/change gear or whatever... unacceptable. Story is not great, because you don't    edit: after patch 3, this gets a 4, too many new bugs...

    it's a 6, not a 0 not a 10. Just a 6.
    I've seen my share of bugs and load times, but it's manageable.
    The wait time at the load screen is not the problem, the amount of load screens are the problem.
    3 screens to the get to the next misson/contract/change gear or whatever... unacceptable.

    Story is not great, because you don't get a sense of travel or story flow.
    There is this super critical thing we need to do, oh wait let me do a contract first....
    Just load into the mission and race to the next way point, if you lag behind, you'll be loaded to your group's location. This is bad for story immersion.

    Voice acting and side stories, just NPC speaking, are nice.

    I've played 45 hours and I'm done, there is nothing to do anymore.
    I've only played for 10 days...
    Sure I could gear out another jav, but what's the point...
    Grandmaster 3, hahah, no....
    Free play exploration is all that's left, but why do it at all?
    There is no incentive to do any/all the feats... no cool gear or something.

    You can grind for the in-game currency, you don't have to buy, but there is nothing to buy anyway. I'm sitting on 140.000 coins and I haven't found anything good to spend it on.    … Expand
  90. CW55
    Mar 15, 2019
    10
    Just a couple of opening thoughts. The amount of negetive reviews for this game are staggering and very unfounded. I see people complain and make a big deal out of little things in this game that they tolerate in other much lesser games. Loading screens have happened since the very first great games. Go back to Mario64 if you dont want a loading screens. Idk, maybe it makes people feelJust a couple of opening thoughts. The amount of negetive reviews for this game are staggering and very unfounded. I see people complain and make a big deal out of little things in this game that they tolerate in other much lesser games. Loading screens have happened since the very first great games. Go back to Mario64 if you dont want a loading screens. Idk, maybe it makes people feel good to spit on a peice of art. Or maybe they are just hired trollers.
    Now the good stuff. First off the ideas that come to life and the size and beauty of the open world is exciting. No other game has ever been like it. The world feels like way Avatar would be. The javelins are painstakingly detailed and every movement in flying, sprinting, walking, and fighting looks amazing. The creatures feel and move realistic.
    Fights and battles feel punchy and great. It is fluid and it keeps you on your toes, dodging, floating and flying to new cover or screaming down from the sky like a crusading angel raining firey death on an army of bugs. You are in a battle suit and when you use supers, the enemies feel it. Animations are perfect, you can really feel your armor. It is well balanced though. Get too carless and the giant alien ape will smash you into pudding like a 3000ton gorillia should.
    The characters are individuals and well rounded, they dont feel generic. The battle banter feels good too, it makes you smile when your charcter makes the bad guys irritated. The conversations in Fort Tarsis are amusing and adds some flavor to the world that Bioware has built. It is a fronteir fort and it feels like one. While Fort Tarsis can feel a bit slow collecting missions there it is ridiculous to throw the game away for it.
    There are a few glitches and frame rate drops here and there but time will take care of that. It is already a very, very finished game. A little bit of tweaking and Bioware will have it down pat. Since it is an online only game maybe the issue is with internet connection. After all a phone line probably just wont cut it. From my experience, if you have reliable internet it plays great. From the sheer quality of the game i could see how bad internet would ruin your day.
    This is really an amazing game. IMHO it is way better than Mass Effect which everyone loved. Anthem really does blow Destiny out of the water, sorry. Anthem is super open world, you are not contantly stuck in a tiny room or on some little path. Anthem has jet pack armor that actually feels like jet pack armor. It feels really real, not cartoony. Mechanics work great and there are no pvp criers nerfing your favorite guns and armor when you need to hit that really hard boss level.
    Do yourself a favor, dont listen to anyone. Be your own person, have your own opinion, and decide for youself that you like the game. Buy it and have a blast.    … Expand
  91. CCK_EMPIRE
    Mar 15, 2019
    1
    Great idea but simply boring and hollow end game experience. The inability to change weapons during game play, static picture for loading screens, no stats to see your build for synergies. Repetitive contracts missions (not the fun type of repetitive) No armor drops in game. Stupid store where you need to buy everything instead of having them as drops on higher difficulty levels. Story isGreat idea but simply boring and hollow end game experience. The inability to change weapons during game play, static picture for loading screens, no stats to see your build for synergies. Repetitive contracts missions (not the fun type of repetitive) No armor drops in game. Stupid store where you need to buy everything instead of having them as drops on higher difficulty levels. Story is half baked and pointless conversation choices.… Expand
  92. CashGame
    Mar 15, 2019
    0
    Not a lot of content, buggy, frequent load screens - the game needs another year until ready for the release.
  93. an3k
    Mar 15, 2019
    0
    The only good thing in this game are enemy encounters - but only if you don't suffer from one of the many bugs. The problem is that there are plenty of other games out there that deliver the same "wow, that was so close but looked amazing" feeling.
    The downgrade from E3 trailers and other marketing content is massive and doesn't just apply onto graphics but also gameplay. For example    The only good thing in this game are enemy encounters - but only if you don't suffer from one of the many bugs. The problem is that there are plenty of other games out there that deliver the same "wow, that was so close but looked amazing" feeling.
    The downgrade from E3 trailers and other marketing content is massive and doesn't just apply onto graphics but also gameplay. For example instead of having "no loading screens" you constantly have them. There is no "flow" because as soon as you're into it the mission you've done is over and you're forced to your Fort again.
    If they'd relabel Anthem to "Loading Screen Simulator" it would win the "GotY" award.    … Expand
  94. D4v1d
    Mar 15, 2019
    0
    The most buggy AAA game ever created. I have 20 years gaming and have never experienced gamebreaking bugs like in this seudo AAA game.

    I even canceled my Origin sub because I cant support anymore EA and his tyranny. Thanks for destroying my beloved Bioware.
  95. Ceridian
    Mar 15, 2019
    8
    I'm having an absolute blast with game! Flying in a jet suit and fighting/shooting is sooo satisfying! There are still some bugs at time of writing but nothing major. Sure there could be a bit more content, but it doesn't stop me having fun. Core game is brilliant and I don't usually play shooter / looters! This game sold me with its innovative approach (not a generic human shooting atI'm having an absolute blast with game! Flying in a jet suit and fighting/shooting is sooo satisfying! There are still some bugs at time of writing but nothing major. Sure there could be a bit more content, but it doesn't stop me having fun. Core game is brilliant and I don't usually play shooter / looters! This game sold me with its innovative approach (not a generic human shooting at another generic human).… Expand
  96. death83
    Mar 14, 2019
    6
    ok, this game is a mixed bag. Controls, like fighting, flying and the feel in general is very good. Story, content (stuff to do) , loot (weapons and items) and enemy variety are all lacking. There also need to be a stats page so you can see what effect a new item has, as of now it´s a bit of a gamble if one item is better than another. I am having fun playing but it is geting way toook, this game is a mixed bag. Controls, like fighting, flying and the feel in general is very good. Story, content (stuff to do) , loot (weapons and items) and enemy variety are all lacking. There also need to be a stats page so you can see what effect a new item has, as of now it´s a bit of a gamble if one item is better than another. I am having fun playing but it is geting way too repetetive. The same goes for the types of missions you can do all the same. Some missions with a story with some animated npcs or with short cinematics and maby escorts or something. I´ll go with the very original statement it has potential. score: 5-6… Expand
  97. jardon
    Mar 14, 2019
    2
    Got this despite seeing the bad reviews and thinking it cannot be that bad.... Well boy was I wrong - the game play is some what OK when you can actually play it the game has no proper plot and is a complete Destiny rip off .

    If Buggy game play /loading constantly and waiting to actually play is your thing then go for it! I wish i never wasted my hard earned money or time on this    Got this despite seeing the bad reviews and thinking it cannot be that bad.... Well boy was I wrong - the game play is some what OK when you can actually play it the game has no proper plot and is a complete Destiny rip off .

    If Buggy game play /loading constantly and waiting to actually play is your thing then go for it!

    I wish i never wasted my hard earned money or time on this terrible game! PLEASE save your money.    … Expand
  98. Potatologic
    Mar 14, 2019
    0
    **** piece of **** game pops up its advertisments everywhere and its annoying, i do not give a **** about this steaming pile of **** it needs to stop spamming ads everywhere.
  99. sidesteal
    Mar 14, 2019
    1
    Do not buy this game at the moment. The condition it was released in is appalling and shocking to say the least. Ben Irving (lead producer SWOTR and now Anthem) signed off on this release in its current state.

    Currently, it's more like an Alpha version at worst and Early Access at best - neither do game consumers a favor. Staggered releases - they distributed a spreadsheet showing    Do not buy this game at the moment. The condition it was released in is appalling and shocking to say the least. Ben Irving (lead producer SWOTR and now Anthem) signed off on this release in its current state.

    Currently, it's more like an Alpha version at worst and Early Access at best - neither do game consumers a favor.

    Staggered releases - they distributed a spreadsheet showing who can play and when. Pay for early access - a trend we hopefully will see the death of. So buggy, so very very buggy.

    Loading screens take forever and you can spend more time in a loading screen than the mission you load into!

    The overall experience is so poor I cannot understand how this would have been a release candidate. We've basically spent money on a game to help them test it out and fix it - real money.

    Ben Irving + Bioware + Dev Team: you should be ashamed of yourselves.    … Expand
  100. SirPyros
    Mar 13, 2019
    4
    I will preface this review by stating that I am a long time Bioware fan. I loved Jade Empire, Mass Effect series and Dragon Age series. I actually enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda, in spite of all of its shortcomings. However, no amount of goodwill that Bioware has garnered over the years makes up for the launch debacle with Anthem.

    I played the VIP demo and have been playing the game    I will preface this review by stating that I am a long time Bioware fan. I loved Jade Empire, Mass Effect series and Dragon Age series. I actually enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda, in spite of all of its shortcomings. However, no amount of goodwill that Bioware has garnered over the years makes up for the launch debacle with Anthem.

    I played the VIP demo and have been playing the game since the early release for Origin premier subscribers. I trudged through the lackluster story and grindy narrative missions. I really wanted to like this game. The gameplay was fun and the controls tight and responsive. The story's ending leaves room for growth, but it was certainly not Bioware quality.

    The quality of life design in the game is terrible. Loading times were unbearable until I moved it to my SSD drive. On top of that, bugs and glitches abounded. Yet. I was still willing to hope that patches would release fast enough to fix everything that was wrong.

    When I reached the endgame and starting grinding for loot is when the game's disastrous design really came to light. As of this review, there is still no stats page so you can see how much damage your current build should be putting out. This would make a world of difference, as whatever shadowy algorithm calculates a javelin's damage output is so incomprehensible, one has no idea whether new loot would help or not.

    Loot drop rates are abysmal. Many loot types don't even have all qualities implemented yet. Honestly, it feels like Bioware's GaaS model is to use early adopters as beta testers while they figure out how to make the game work. This may have worked 3 years ago before the market was saturated with other looter-shooters. However, today it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth and a feeling of being used.

    Bioware of old, how I loved you, how I miss you...    … Expand
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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.
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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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