Anthem

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3707 Ratings

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  1. inZa
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    Firefall rip-off. Better graphics, worst gameplay, less content and microtransactions in 60$ game. And tons of bugs, like every single part of the game is bugged somehow! I am very disapointed. I hoped for Firefall successor.
  2. baby2236
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    bugs,travamentos,lag,loads demorados.vale 50,00 reais no maximo.EA e´uma merda de publicadora.que va a falencia porra!
  3. 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 :(
  4. D3NGZ
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    cool flying but everything else is simply awful.

    - barren non existent story. - the worst mission design by a AAA dev maybe ever. - loading screens ( and not just long but how many you have to endure ). - writing of a 4 year olds. - full of bugs. - massive downgrade from the E3 Trailer ( in game gameplay they said ). - fort tarsis is so empty and boring, it feels like a ps3 era    cool flying but everything else is simply awful.

    - barren non existent story.
    - the worst mission design by a AAA dev maybe ever.
    - loading screens ( and not just long but how many you have to endure ).
    - writing of a 4 year olds.
    - full of bugs.
    - massive downgrade from the E3 Trailer ( in game gameplay they said ).
    - fort tarsis is so empty and boring, it feels like a ps3 era town.
    - stupid ai, spongy enemies.
    - bad loot.
    - Andromedas combat with added flying basically.

    and just to remind you after Andromeda people said "dont worry the A team is working on Anthem"
    now andromeda was mediocre at best but this somehow feels worse. to me this feels like the B or C team. Bioware you shot Mass Effect in the back of the head for this? pff what waste of time. DO NOT BUY.    … Expand
  5. tclarke
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    I want to say Anthem does a good job at being a beautiful game. That were my love for it ended though. Sitting countless minutes at load screens over and over again just to get a discount message.
    This game has a lot of problems from enemies being boring bullet sponges to the hub world being a lifeless area. The gun play is okay nothing to hate, but nothing to love either. This game being    I want to say Anthem does a good job at being a beautiful game. That were my love for it ended though. Sitting countless minutes at load screens over and over again just to get a discount message.
    This game has a lot of problems from enemies being boring bullet sponges to the hub world being a lifeless area. The gun play is okay nothing to hate, but nothing to love either. This game being a looter shooter we deserve better. There is nothing really in the end game that grabs you and feed that hunger to get that next, to get that peace of armor, or to get the gun everyone is talking about. I really hope in a couple months we will see great change in this game but i'm worried that some of these problems aren't just fixing we can get in updates. Some problems are design problems that are at the core of the game code. so lets hope Anthem can live on, but for me i am out.    … Expand
  6. TheFirm34
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    This is an unfinished, not fun, super grindy and a recycle machine. It might look nice, but that is it. This is an alpha more than a full release, and I have no idea what the 60$ is getting you. Compare this 60$ game to something like Red Dead 2 or Horizon Zero Dawn, is that fair? No, because they are not even in the same reality. DO NOT BUY THIS
  7. Wilson_75
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    The game is absolutely beautiful and the movement mechanics are fantastic. But overall, this is just a shockingly bad and hollow game. In fact, this is a "javelin showcase", it is not a complete game. Definitely NOT worth buying.
  8. StanislavKH
    Mar 12, 2019
    1
    as I see all positive reviews from users which have no bugs ? because I can't play anymore in this bugged game, 3 hours of playing: all free missions bugged, few disconnects from servers, I don't want to see loading screens all time instead playing. Bye Anthem. (PS4)
  9. Beliskner
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    A failure of planning and execution of core facets of the game leading to a product with small glimmers of hope, underneath a crushing mountain of issues, many of which may never be able to be fixed, even if they wanted to.

    In any other case, leaving Bioware to their own devices for 6 years would be a fantastic idea yielding a truly special product. What we got, however, was a    A failure of planning and execution of core facets of the game leading to a product with small glimmers of hope, underneath a crushing mountain of issues, many of which may never be able to be fixed, even if they wanted to.

    In any other case, leaving Bioware to their own devices for 6 years would be a fantastic idea yielding a truly special product. What we got, however, was a monumental disappointment to those hyped for the game, and those long time fans of Bioware, who have come to expect a level of quality and polish from the studio, and certainly weren't expecting such a mess    … Expand
  10. ElCucuy
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Corporation of evil (EA). Stop speculating on a good Bioware's name, just do what you have already done many times, close Bioware. This company actually died in 2012, it now remains to arrange it officially.

    I pray to computer gods so that no longer one worthy team will be purchased by you. EA, as reapers of the mass effect, you devour good developers, sucking all of them alive, and    Corporation of evil (EA). Stop speculating on a good Bioware's name, just do what you have already done many times, close Bioware. This company actually died in 2012, it now remains to arrange it officially.

    I pray to computer gods so that no longer one worthy team will be purchased by you. EA, as reapers of the mass effect, you devour good developers, sucking all of them alive, and leaving nothing behind.    … Expand
  11. Imperius147
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    pros:
    - graphic but.....

    cons:
    - loading screen
    - graphic downgrade
    - copy paste NPC ME:andromeda body and face animations
    - boring story and missions,,,this is from bioware writers?rly? where are quality side quests form Dragon Age and Mass Effect?
    - stupid AI
    EA DESTROY NEXT DEVELOPER STUDIO
    R.I.P.
    Westwood Studios
    Pandemic Studios
    DreamWorks
    Maxis
    Visceral
    Bioware
  12. Thoresu
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Wouldn't recommend it to anyone
    I was really looking forward to this game. But it isn't even half finished yet. Played it for more than 10 hours and honestly.... That's it I'm bored with it. There's nothing to do the story is awful the shooting is not too bad but the enemys are boring and actually have the dumbest AI ever.
    Wouldn't recommend it to anyone
  13. Jefedemuchanina
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    I got it through origin premeir i beat the story abunch of contracts and 2 strongholds in 11 hours playtime i was also level 17 so the people saying it took over 30 hours to max level are the people who just stare at rocks to drag out play time to justify a purchase. The game is hollow boring and runs absolutely awful 30-60 fos with settings turned down on a water cooled 1080 at 1440p. TheI got it through origin premeir i beat the story abunch of contracts and 2 strongholds in 11 hours playtime i was also level 17 so the people saying it took over 30 hours to max level are the people who just stare at rocks to drag out play time to justify a purchase. The game is hollow boring and runs absolutely awful 30-60 fos with settings turned down on a water cooled 1080 at 1440p. The gameplay itself is awful you grt no gear worth a damn from the campaign and the first end game mission you get is to do 100 public events 25 contracts 25 strongholds and 25 quickplay missions which are mostly strongholds. Thats just step one of four bioware made a AAA mobile game basically stay far away… Expand
  14. defix
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Barely worth the 15 bucks for Premium. Uninstalled after 5 hours.
    If I want a looter shooter I'll just play Warframe,
    Good bye BioWare, was nice knowing you.
  15. ProjectCupid
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    we got promised such a great game, instead we get a cooked down, plain version of a game that literally just sends you in loops just to keep you busy, instead of creating challenging endgame content, they just added bullet-sponges that magically one hit kill you and lack every sense of AI as enemies, they literally just stand there, waving at you, doing nothing while you are busy emptyingwe got promised such a great game, instead we get a cooked down, plain version of a game that literally just sends you in loops just to keep you busy, instead of creating challenging endgame content, they just added bullet-sponges that magically one hit kill you and lack every sense of AI as enemies, they literally just stand there, waving at you, doing nothing while you are busy emptying your next 2-5 magazines, right in their faces. The AI does not seem to care that it gets hit. The endgame is unrewarding and feels as if it is more as an annoyance than fun to play. On the higher difficulties, weapons become useless and only way to kill grandmaster enemies becomes combo skills, then running for cover, waiting for cooldown to go off, shields to recharge and then go for a combo skill again, rinse and repeat, this is literally the only thing you can do to complete grandmaster tiers, there is no style, no fun, nothing.

    The game looks beautiful, it feels nice to play it, the mechanics could do way more, but Bioware is not even using all its potential, instead it just stays in the same circle, not delivering anything special for Anthem. Not to mention the gamebreaking bugs that just ruin the whole experience.

    List Issue, they always said they will never have loot boxes in their game, ... They are adding Vanity Chests soon that get you one free key each day for completing daily and you can use that to open a chest at the end boss and 'share' your loot with the team, so yes, loot boxes are coming to Anthem, just with another name and the excuse that they do not give out duplicates, while in the end of the day they are still lootboxes.

    As a long time fan of Dragon Age, Mass Effect, i feel used and offended, left in hunger for a good game that i could finally play again. Thinking they spend 6 years on this game, is even more depressing, what have they really done the last 6 years on this game? It seems more like it was just sitting there for years and then build last minute and over hyped.

    Not a spoiler, but during the end credits it came to me how less names were mentioned inside the development compared to how many 'QA testers' they had, its as if the game was made by a team of 12 people in total, the content also feels like that. It is not worth your 60 dollar/euro. please save yourself the pain and wait for Bioware to or fix these issues or you spend it on another game that deserves it more than this game.

    I really wanted this game to work out, i really loved Bioware for their previous games, but this one is    … Expand
  16. eustrat1017
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Унылая беспонтовая гриндилка. После такого ведра помоев Dragon Age 4 уже не нужна. Хороните bioware прямо сейчас. Без панихиды. Скорбеть никто не будет.
  17. DarkDoom
    Feb 27, 2019
    1
    Скучная, однообразная гриндилка. Нудятина прячится за хорошим графоном. Своих денег явно не стоит. EA душит свои подразделения короткими сроками, и результат на лицо.
  18. 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
  19. robthezombie
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Boring and lackluster guns
    Boring and short story
    Boring and unimaginative missions Boring and infinite load screens Boring and empty open world Boring and plain cosmetics Anthem feels and plays like a $20 Early Access game made by a sub-par Dev team. When I heard about Anthem back in 2017 I was excited for Bioware to redeem themselves and prove that the mass effect trilogy wasn't    Boring and lackluster guns
    Boring and short story
    Boring and unimaginative missions
    Boring and infinite load screens
    Boring and empty open world
    Boring and plain cosmetics
    Anthem feels and plays like a $20 Early Access game made by a sub-par Dev team. When I heard about Anthem back in 2017 I was excited for Bioware to redeem themselves and prove that the mass effect trilogy wasn't the last good thing they had...At first I wanted to blame the corruption that is EA. After finishing the story, playing numerous side missions, and interacting with the citizens of Tarsis I have come to conclude that this poorly optimized Alpha is as much Bioware's hotdog water as it is EA's. It's a shame that a beautiful world can feel so dull and lifeless. Ill give it a 1 for effort    … Expand
  20. Semsko
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Very lacklustre. For a game that had so much promise, all it has been able to do is continuously break them. This game is far from groundbreaking with boring characters, lame interactions and just a general all round feeling of 'meh'. The [very grinding] action is plagued by massive amounts of on-screen clutter, especially when fighting numerous enemies which I am also not a fan of. ItVery lacklustre. For a game that had so much promise, all it has been able to do is continuously break them. This game is far from groundbreaking with boring characters, lame interactions and just a general all round feeling of 'meh'. The [very grinding] action is plagued by massive amounts of on-screen clutter, especially when fighting numerous enemies which I am also not a fan of. It truly is just such an eye sore. Huge numbers flying around showing the damage, health etc.

    0 Tolerance for unfinished games. EA continues to run rampant, destroying all good things for the love of money. They will never learn.

    0 Tolerance for the MASSIVE graphical downgrade that has been unveiled since the 2017 reveal... Games companies need to learn that this deceitful use of misleading advertising needs to stop.

    My lack of trust in EA continues to be well founded. Skip this game. Do not support EA. They don't care what the reviews get, all they understand is money, so don't give it to them. Perhaps then they will begin to learn.

    Sad.    … Expand
  21. pjw84
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    shocking load times, always having to set the game. the match making is really poor;; the part is always breaking up. shame,i wanted it to be good.
  22. Hurricheck
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Metacritic should really do smth with this 10-s from accounts with single anthem review.
    Looks really funny - 75% of positive user reviews are from accounts w/out any other reviews)
    For my part - the issues spotted at the vip-demo remain actual, I'd recommend to purchase it at half price (or even at 1/4). Or wait till BioWare will fix all the stuff and bring any enjoyable content there.
  23. Michael9173
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    I hoped that EA will take up the "mind" and do something good.. Pre-ordered... Naive.... Issued a refund as they left... The game is elementary could not connect to the server. Bravo....
  24. CosmicStrudel
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Anthem is a backhand slap in the face to anyone who spent real money on the game. Missions are literally a broken record of fetch quests and protect the objective scenarios, weapons are boring and unimaginative, and the story is abysmal.

    On launch, Anthem is plagued with bugs, immersion breaking loading screens and possibly the worst UI layout I've ever encountered in a game. There's no    Anthem is a backhand slap in the face to anyone who spent real money on the game. Missions are literally a broken record of fetch quests and protect the objective scenarios, weapons are boring and unimaginative, and the story is abysmal.

    On launch, Anthem is plagued with bugs, immersion breaking loading screens and possibly the worst UI layout I've ever encountered in a game. There's no ping system, and even the ability to set waypoints is entirely non existent.

    Fort Tarsis is desolate, sad, and boring. The handful of NPCs scattered throughout the fort are horrifically insufferable, with awful voice acting and even more atrocious animations. It's like trying to have a conversation with a Chuck E Cheese animatronic.

    On top of all this, they have the audacity to throw microtransactions into this pile of garbage, trying to squeeze every last penny out of anyone they can. It's a blatant middle finger to the fans and shows that whoever approved this decision clearly doesn't care about providing you with quality content; they just want to make their investors happy.

    The only reason I'm even giving this game a 1 rating is because the art department absolutely nailed their job. Even though the world of Anthem severely lacks variety in it's biomes, the world is beautiful and the mech suit designs are superb. Well done to anyone that had a hand in the artistic direction of Anthem, you've done a wonderful job.

    In conclusion, Anthem is up there among the worst video games I have ever played in my life. I never thought I'd live to see the day where a looter shooter game was worse than Destiny 2 at launch, but BioWare have done the unimaginable.

    Edit: Please note that EA playing a part in the creation of this game has absolutely nothing to do with my review. I think the game is trash because of the content, mission variety, story, NPC design, bugs, and so on.    … Expand
  25. Gunshot_HK
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    This game is really not fun at all, many bugs, no excitement in game-play. This is the first PVE game that will make me fall asleep. "Best" Game Bioware & EA. If you want to sleep, play anthem. For sure will feel sleepy after few games. Waste of talent.
  26. crystal-dolphin
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    The game has good visuals and voice overlay but the overall story behind it is lacking and boring. You don't get a sense for the characters and it replicates too much from other syfy games and stories. This is a bad combination of Gears of War, Iron Man, a touch of Destiny, and the movie Avatar. This game was not ready to be released. It leaves a lot to be desired but no dynamic to make upThe game has good visuals and voice overlay but the overall story behind it is lacking and boring. You don't get a sense for the characters and it replicates too much from other syfy games and stories. This is a bad combination of Gears of War, Iron Man, a touch of Destiny, and the movie Avatar. This game was not ready to be released. It leaves a lot to be desired but no dynamic to make up for the dull content.… Expand
  27. AXSwift
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Anthem is an entertaining and delightful experience the first couple hours. Flying feels great and the combat was very interesting. Unfortunately, the thrill of flying was surpassed by the boredom that the world and narrative inspired within me. I could not have cared less about the plot and only a handful of NPC's made me care about what they were telling me. Fort Tarsis felt like a cryptAnthem is an entertaining and delightful experience the first couple hours. Flying feels great and the combat was very interesting. Unfortunately, the thrill of flying was surpassed by the boredom that the world and narrative inspired within me. I could not have cared less about the plot and only a handful of NPC's made me care about what they were telling me. Fort Tarsis felt like a crypt instead of a main hub and the inability to run through it was infuriating. My playthrough quickly turned into: "let's pick the dialogue option that appears to be the shortest so i can get back to playing."

    Combat did become repetitive rather quickly and the lack of life in the world did not help the matter. I cannot help but look at the E3 trailer's world and compare that to the world that was delivered and i keep thinking that I would much rather be playing on that map. The one we received feels like it could have been procedurally generated since it looks barren, identical, and poorly crafted. I enjoy Warframe, Destiny, and the division and hoped to add this to my stable of favorite games but sadly that will not be the case. Here's to hoping they fix the majority of the problems in the next year or two.    … Expand
  28. Lexiel
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    The flying is fun, but everything else feels sub-par at best compared to the competitors. If you've played Mass Effect Andromeda, you've played Anthem without the flying. Just like Andromeda, Anthem is technically not ready for market release, or even full price release. The story is very short and hangs quickly upon getting through first third, turning into repetetive grind, showingThe flying is fun, but everything else feels sub-par at best compared to the competitors. If you've played Mass Effect Andromeda, you've played Anthem without the flying. Just like Andromeda, Anthem is technically not ready for market release, or even full price release. The story is very short and hangs quickly upon getting through first third, turning into repetetive grind, showing what's really there. The optimization is severely lacking, considering it's a Bioware game, it's very disappointing story and character wise. The idea that you walk around the "hub" on your own, in first person without being able to fully customize your Freelancer makes it really hard to form any sort of connection to.. Well, yourself. For a game that's been supposedly in the making since Mass Effect 3, it feels more like free to play early release buy-in closed beta, rather than fully fledged AAA release. It's the truth you could say the same about Destiny 2, but Destiny 2 ran far better, played better, didn't have so many technical issues, and if we are to use the comparision, it took Destiny 2 120$+ to get to a game people really like. As far as the microtransactions go, they're poor as well. The prices are on par with Warframe, but one has to keep in mind that Warframe is a Free to Play game, and the skins that are around 8$ in the store now are only Epic quality, leaving Masterwork and Legendary qualities to be imagined as what will they cost. 20? 30? Who knows.

    As far as the lore goes, you might feel really lost. I found it incredibely hard explaining to my partner, after sinking in 40+ hours through Origin Acess, having finished both Story and Endgame on Grandmaster I, what the game is actually about. The story behind the enemies, or behind the good guys, I suppose it's all there in the Codex for you to read, but in my honest opinion that's far from alright story telling. I doubt anyone would have any issues explaining what Geth are after Mass Effect.

    Both me and my partner had huge expectations for the next "Bioware game" and were met with massive disappointment. Even me, as someone who sank over 300 hours into Destiny 2, 300 into Division and over 2k hours into Warframe, I just can't see the spark that'd keep anyone going in Anthem. You can't craft anything you don't own and didn't extensively use, leaving you with hundreds, if not over thousands crafting materials that you can't really use aside "re-rolling" gear.

    The coin flow for unlocking cosmetics is pretty much just like Fallout 76 atoms. You finish one-time challanges to achieve maybe 60-70k coins and then it halts into a daily/weekly/monthly grind, which can be as tedious as killing 500 enemies from each faction, doing X amount of "World events" that you can't track on map, or other silly things.

    Also, there is no text chat whatsoever. No pinging enemies or location for other players. No sticker system ala Monster Hunter World. No waypoints for map. If you literally can not talk like me, you're left dead in the water, aside maybe trying to animation-wise Wave in morse code what you mean to others.    … Expand
  29. Spauk
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Its one repetive dull mess of a game. It has several technical problems, but those are the least of its problems. Story is non-existent, despite people saying otherwise. A bunch of random voice lines in combat and a few cutscenes does not = a story.

    The classes are uninspired and dont progress at all. You start strong and funnily enough pretty much get weaker as the game goes on, but    Its one repetive dull mess of a game. It has several technical problems, but those are the least of its problems. Story is non-existent, despite people saying otherwise. A bunch of random voice lines in combat and a few cutscenes does not = a story.

    The classes are uninspired and dont progress at all. You start strong and funnily enough pretty much get weaker as the game goes on, but hey.. atleast your numbers go up I guess.

    It looks pretty good visually, so ill bump that 0 up to 1 just to be generous.    … Expand
  30. Chemman314
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    The developers of Anthem created a visually stunning world. However, the positives for the game end there. The game was released unfinished in that it lacks a great story, meaningful end game content, and a large array of post-game challenges. Additionally, the intended grind of the game is made more unbearable by the incredibly slow loading screens.
  31. crazyking321
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    one of the most boring games that is more like a movie having to listen to people going on about stuff nobody cares about what fills so slow, this game is probable one of the worst AAA games i have played in the last couple of years counting fallout 76.
  32. wesico
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    the only good thing about this game is graphics, and everything else is broken.... i feel the loading time is longer than the game play time, I am runing it on ssd and i7 4790k. pretty much no end game content, you can finish it in 1 day.
  33. Solarus
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    Anthem is a mediocre AAA game . Is incomplete/ boring game that was develop in 6 years ? No update will help this game. The game look pretty and have great textures and passable fighting mechanic. One of the mayor problems is that the game continue to have to many loading screens. The Core history of the game is not engaging. You will not care about the history of this world. TheAnthem is a mediocre AAA game . Is incomplete/ boring game that was develop in 6 years ? No update will help this game. The game look pretty and have great textures and passable fighting mechanic. One of the mayor problems is that the game continue to have to many loading screens. The Core history of the game is not engaging. You will not care about the history of this world. The decision you will make in this game will not affect the campaign at all. It was great idea poor executed !!!… Expand
  34. cactusgaming
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    Game doesn't even launch - can't even get to the main screen because pop-up says I don't have the most updated driver. Which is complete nonsense because I have the most up-to-date one from AMD's direct website. How can I rate a game anything else besides a 1 because I can't even LAUNCH it? Seriously Bioware? Maybe put less effort into those fancy costumes and time into the marketing andGame doesn't even launch - can't even get to the main screen because pop-up says I don't have the most updated driver. Which is complete nonsense because I have the most up-to-date one from AMD's direct website. How can I rate a game anything else besides a 1 because I can't even LAUNCH it? Seriously Bioware? Maybe put less effort into those fancy costumes and time into the marketing and more into, I don't know, making the game actually WORK?… Expand
  35. hardcoregamer42
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    Those people who gave this a positive review I guarantee you are not actual gamers or are just posing as "gamers". The problem is we are getting reviewers from people who know nothing about games or haven't played alot. I have played every triple A game you can think of and indie game since Doom/Descent on MSDOS.

    This game is boring, unfinished, and just pure crap. It is so empty, the    Those people who gave this a positive review I guarantee you are not actual gamers or are just posing as "gamers". The problem is we are getting reviewers from people who know nothing about games or haven't played alot. I have played every triple A game you can think of and indie game since Doom/Descent on MSDOS.

    This game is boring, unfinished, and just pure crap. It is so empty, the story, the city, the character development/face is just horrible. Really pathetic considering its coming from Bioware. Their diversity hiring is probably not helping them (just go research andromeda) Warframe is comparable to this (Not sure why ppl omg you can't) ITS A LOOT 3rd person shooter with the same grindy mechanics except that its actually FUN. What about Borderlands 2? Even the presequel and all its dlc is much better than this. Im glad I only paid $15 for this crap. I spent 80 hrs on Anthem and have maxed out all of it and built all of my javelins (beat the campaign in much less time not counting the loading time) 80 hours in Warframe even in the beginning wouldn't even get you kitted, warframe is FREE btw and has x10 the amount to do. I don't care if people say its brand new IP, the fact is its a big company, they have resources, years of experience but they release this crap? They designed this crap also for controller/console I swear, it is not intuitive at all for PC, where Warframe is. This game doesn't deserve anything higher than a 5, I'm glad to see real gamers jump in to show what Anthem really is.

    I'm really sad to be honest, i wanted this game to do good but its just another lazy triple A game release.    … Expand
  36. Offshoresho
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    The reason i gave it a low score is that me and another 1 friends are experience connection issues and the day one patch did not fix this. Bad release and intended buyers should wait until this game is really is fix.

    1. Connection problems during gameplay, after discussion with npc, after mission is completed and signin to the game. Why release a game that isn't ready to be release    The reason i gave it a low score is that me and another 1 friends are experience connection issues and the day one patch did not fix this. Bad release and intended buyers should wait until this game is really is fix.

    1. Connection problems during gameplay, after discussion with npc, after mission is completed and signin to the game.

    Why release a game that isn't ready to be release and the years they took to develop the game. The Gameplay itself is good but not great.

    Connection Problem Simulator.    … Expand
  37. slymilano
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    A game that is 20% of the way there in almost all relevant categories. It is repetitive as hell, twice as worse than the original Destiny 1 at launch.

    Not only that, the game is fundementally broken at the gameplay-loop level. It's just not fun to shoot and play, and when by some miracle you get into a groove and start coaxing some enjoyment out, the game slams you with loading screens    A game that is 20% of the way there in almost all relevant categories. It is repetitive as hell, twice as worse than the original Destiny 1 at launch.

    Not only that, the game is fundementally broken at the gameplay-loop level. It's just not fun to shoot and play, and when by some miracle you get into a groove and start coaxing some enjoyment out, the game slams you with loading screens either by ending your mission or teleporting you to team mates.

    It's a mish-mash of half-baked ideas, very poorly executed. We've been through this song and dance before with Destiny 1, but this is so much worse.

    The one story and characters are rage inducing and you find yourself skipping dialog to just get the hell out of Tarsis and fight using your javalins.    … Expand
  38. God-Tyr
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    This trend of releasing half done games has to stop ... if I were to sum up anthem in 2 words it would be boring and repetitive ... if you don't mind doing terrible boring things for terrible upgrades you might enjoy this game
  39. melidere
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    There are moments of brilliance in the game but very few.... I think out of 10 hours maybe like 10 minutes was awesome, but the game immediate crashed on me...

    Also, the game performs terribly on my system which has a i5-6600K (not very new but not that old) + RTX 2080Ti and I get 50fps.... wtf?
  40. Emacs25
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    I am a victim of a hype: I was looking for not so boring game, preferably single player (last ones I liked were Doom, Battlefront 2 single user campaigns, Battlefield 1 single user campaigns — I am not playing their multiplayer versions as I prefer War Thunder to waste my time online).
    So, I was seeing these “best 2018 PC games” and spotted Anthem as it was something new for me: jet    I am a victim of a hype: I was looking for not so boring game, preferably single player (last ones I liked were Doom, Battlefront 2 single user campaigns, Battlefield 1 single user campaigns — I am not playing their multiplayer versions as I prefer War Thunder to waste my time online).
    So, I was seeing these “best 2018 PC games” and spotted Anthem as it was something new for me: jet packs, exoskeletons – looked intriguing. Also, any complicated equipment means restrictions in the real life and this means tactics or at least different skills for different kind of equipment . I love tactics, so I was looking for the game and even made a pre-order.

    My expectations were high so the reality was underwhelming: this equipment hardly needs any kind of skills. And game creators obviously believe grinding is fun. It is not for me.

    Refunded.    … Expand
  41. droproctor
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    A beatifull world, that is void of contnent, the quests are repetitive, increase in dificulty is done not by introducing new enemies or improving their tactics, but by infalting their numbers. This game might be "good" in a year, but as of now, it's a glorified concept demo
  42. paper1258
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    its not good, boring shooter looter feels like a bad version of war frame which is a free-to-play game.
    anthem breathes and feels like EA- a fast cash grab with micro transactions, i used to stand for ea and actually tried to look at the good side of things but anthem is most differently not helping ea nor the gaming industry to improve,
  43. Harcas
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    Can not believe it ... A game with so much potential ... Being that bad optimized and finished. And High Price
  44. Genaros
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    Since the begging, watching the beta gameplay videos, I suspected that the game was good enough to be true. Indeed that came true. The game is just about aesthetics and loading screens, nothing else. What a shame.
  45. Febfourteen
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    As of today, whoever went to Heart of Rage farming infinite chests already had full of masterwork loot, I see no reason to do any dungs in the future.
  46. DragonWolfGhost
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    Despite Anthems appeal at first glance, that first glance can easily turn rotten. The same suffers an unfinished feeling and almost like Bioware weren't putting 100% focus on this game while EA was.
    The graphics are only saved by lighting until you take a closer look and soon how muddy and lackluster they actually are. Animations seem smooth enough have a very floaty feel like everything    Despite Anthems appeal at first glance, that first glance can easily turn rotten. The same suffers an unfinished feeling and almost like Bioware weren't putting 100% focus on this game while EA was.
    The graphics are only saved by lighting until you take a closer look and soon how muddy and lackluster they actually are. Animations seem smooth enough have a very floaty feel like everything is actually sliding. The flight mechanics while simple and enjoyable leave little in the light of creating complexity for more experienced players. Probably the biggest problem I've had with the game is its way to simple. Bioware is famous for simplicity mixed with complexity like in their previous Dragon Age games. However any chance at complexity in the game is tossed aside for single button gameplay. A lack of content also creates a boring repetitive nature that shows its cracks as early as the first mission.
    Overall Anthem feels uninsipired and lazy which is probably how Bioware was given they delayed the game 3 times. 1/10    … Expand
  47. Babygoats
    Feb 23, 2019
    1
    While it is fun at the beginning, it quickly grows to complete boredom. The loading screens are completely unacceptable, run of the mill fetch quests, same old hunt quests, same of everything we have already seen and done. There is nothing original (except the flying suits or mech anyone?) and in its current state, it should be a hard pass for everyone. Please save your money.
  48. videobob
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    *Note: It is NOT your job to "balance out" the score. If you want to give it a 5, but think the score is too low, so you give it a 10, then that is not ok, and is abuse of power. You have no right to have more of an opinion than anyone else. Give it a 5, and if people agree with you, it will be a 5.
    At first, it seems like the game has a lot of potential. And for the first hour or so,    *Note: It is NOT your job to "balance out" the score. If you want to give it a 5, but think the score is too low, so you give it a 10, then that is not ok, and is abuse of power. You have no right to have more of an opinion than anyone else. Give it a 5, and if people agree with you, it will be a 5.
    At first, it seems like the game has a lot of potential. And for the first hour or so, it's great. However, the cracks quickly show after that.
    The combat, while fun for a while, is repetitive, and lacking in many tells and features that make other looter-shooter games fun to play. For example, enemies rarely make sound, so they can just sneak up behind you unknowingly. Shielded enemies, which you must get behind to attack, can turn on a dime, ruining your strategy. Those are just a few things wrong with the combat.
    The dialogue fares no better. It never feels like any of your choices matter, and it rarely helps you learn about the world, or the people who inhabit it.
    The open world, while visually stunning, is always the same environment no matter where you are. Everywhere looks the exact same. However, I can praise the verticality of it, as that is something I wish more games did.
    The loading times are atrocious. I can make myself a sandwich in the amount of time it takes to load anything.
    Do I even need to bring up the Tombs mission? It's simply a way to pad out the game length by forcing freeplay. And by making all of the requirements to complete it specific per player, like "open x chests", and it doesn't count if a teammate does it, it completely goes against the very nature of these kinds of games.
    The game is an unfinished mess. And don't say "Patches will fix it". Patches cannot fix problems that are so deeply rooted in the design of the game. It may be able to shave seconds off of loading times, or fix bugs, but the game is how it is. No amount of new content will change that.
    The live service model was always a terrible model for a game. Not only asking players to buy unfinished slop, but then creating artificial addiction by constantly adding content, rather than creating engaging gameplay.
    I will never be supporting any live service game again.
    Also, looks like EA has their bots out, in hopes to raise the score.    … Expand
  49. xDexter89
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    Nothing like advertised. No content. No proper story. No proper nothing. People are gonna ditch this game and bioware is gonna get ruined by EA.
  50. DreamerNeon
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    An absolutely shallow mess that somehow left the studio. I got it through Premier, so those 15€ hurt a little less, especially because I got to play Darksiders 3, but I can't imagine the disappointment of someone who got it for 60€ or more. From being disconnected every minute while in the hub, being disconnected at the reward screen and losing all the loot, being disconnected in the hubAn absolutely shallow mess that somehow left the studio. I got it through Premier, so those 15€ hurt a little less, especially because I got to play Darksiders 3, but I can't imagine the disappointment of someone who got it for 60€ or more. From being disconnected every minute while in the hub, being disconnected at the reward screen and losing all the loot, being disconnected in the hub without even making it to the Javelin after Day 1 patch, to not being able to launch the game AT ALL after the second patch. Origin counter says I've played the game for 20 hours, at least 10 of those were looking at loading screens, the gameplay itself is as basic as it gets and you've seen everything after you finish the first mission. The mission variety doesn't exist, the same as the enemy variety. Combat consists of shooting your gun while waiting for cooldowns. The movement itself feels nice and fluid, but after witnessing all of the garbled mess the game is, the only thing moving were my bowels.
    The most common in favor arguments seems to be that we should wait for updates and give it a chance; I'm on a subscription here, I already paid 15€ to not be able to play it, and from what I've heard they're planning to release new content IN ACTS, meaning you're withholding new content from a game THAT HAS NONE already in order to artificially prolong the subscription module. People are also comparing this to Warframe, and if we hammered down on Warframe at it's initial state it would never have gotten where it is. I've played Warframe from closed beta, besides it was FREE the whole time, and I can confidently say that Warframe had more to do in its 4th month of development, compared to this apparently being in development for 6+ years.
    All in all, I think people would give this game less sh*t if they just pulled it off the market and came back in a year with everything in it included that was supposed to be there in the first place.    … Expand
  51. Terron2
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    Microtransactions, releasing unfinished games, DLC nickel and diming, franchise whoring, development hell, and then writing off franchises because they failed due to their own actions. Thats what EA has been known for for the past decade and it is the same with Anthem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    It is almost as if Bioware has run out of ideas.    … Expand
  52. xeromanu
    Mar 2, 2019
    1
    There is NO 'HATE'. only 'FACT' & 'CRITICISM'
    childish fanboys have to admit it.
    nice graphics... thats all.
    but, a lot of system problems, bugs, boring quests, meaningless gears.
    I can't believe bioware spent 6!!!! 6 years on this handsome garbage.
  53. TheGamingDuck
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    This game is so bad and so broken. No shared loot, no fun at all, the best mission was just a WHOLE FRICKIN CUTSCENE with NO PLAYABLE MOMENT! This is unacceptable. All missions are just reused game mechanics from previous mission. Too repetitive and too boring. The loot quality is bad and the loot system is broken. You can't even find enough money to craft a legendary item. Weapons statsThis game is so bad and so broken. No shared loot, no fun at all, the best mission was just a WHOLE FRICKIN CUTSCENE with NO PLAYABLE MOMENT! This is unacceptable. All missions are just reused game mechanics from previous mission. Too repetitive and too boring. The loot quality is bad and the loot system is broken. You can't even find enough money to craft a legendary item. Weapons stats are RNG and completely useless. I'm so sad that 6 years of development could create this empty and soulless game. That's why Mass Effect Andromeda died? Sad so so sad.… Expand
  54. Astralalone
    Feb 24, 2019
    1
    Flying around like Iron Man is great and all but it doesn't detract from the truth.

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

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

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

    DO NOT BUY!    … Expand
  55. Yaweigh
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    No soul that you would expect from the name Bioware but all of the minimum effort you expect from EA. Absolute minimum game design essentially no evolution or progression and overpriced. This is a $9.99 game IMHO. You can put lipstick on a pig, but I'm not kissing it. This game is the pig in that analogy.
  56. hetocir
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    Looks nothing like the E3 demos, weapon variety is terrible and I maxed out my character in 3 days not worth 60 dollars. Now the game just tells me to fight the same enemies over and over again and the same dungeons
  57. FurioSSx
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    Great gameplay , awesome graphics and that`s it .

    Story line is ok`ish , but endgame and loot is broken and not fun to play at all.

    I`ve just wasted 60$ thats all.
  58. aMeisterlampe14
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    They flying,graphics and base mechanics are fun and well done. The rest ist pretty much a disaster. I dont understanbd how you can pay 60€ for a Game that is in a Beta-State. If you want to play the "Endgame Mission where you have to do Quickplay MIssions for, you will learn pretty quickly that most of the MIssions you are joing bugging out. This is just one of many other things thatThey flying,graphics and base mechanics are fun and well done. The rest ist pretty much a disaster. I dont understanbd how you can pay 60€ for a Game that is in a Beta-State. If you want to play the "Endgame Mission where you have to do Quickplay MIssions for, you will learn pretty quickly that most of the MIssions you are joing bugging out. This is just one of many other things that doesn't work with this game. It can be an okay to good game if the price would be right.

    I can just suggest to wait at least 6 more Months and if EA didn't closed this Game by then... go ahead and spent your hard earned money on it.    … Expand
  59. Punisher88
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    The game is pretty. That's all it is. There is a stupid amount of load screens, many of the mechanics are incredibly poorly designed and thought out. The game is extremely grindy, full of terrible roadblocks to keep you from progressing too fast, the game can actually spoil itself. At a low level you can be brought into late game missions that will spoil what little story there is for you.The game is pretty. That's all it is. There is a stupid amount of load screens, many of the mechanics are incredibly poorly designed and thought out. The game is extremely grindy, full of terrible roadblocks to keep you from progressing too fast, the game can actually spoil itself. At a low level you can be brought into late game missions that will spoil what little story there is for you. At the end game you only have 3 simple missions as the "endgame content" that are just rehashed versions of previous missions. There's very little customization options, the city hub you go to feels completely dead, any signature bioware tropes like deep characters and conversation trees. Theres a few places where you can choose what you say but it doesn't do anything to change the story or anything. Terrible game. Bioware needs to go back to making great games like dragon age, mass effect or knights of the old republic.… Expand
  60. ArcPlasma
    Feb 25, 2019
    1
    It's jarring and baffling to have non-futuristic weapons in far future sci fi games. It took Bioware 80 months to develop the game and the combat consists of basic assault rifles from 1990 with flying light mech suits.

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

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

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

    This game is an astonishing disaster and a new low for sci fi.    … Expand
  61. GoboLebowsky
    Feb 26, 2019
    1
    A pinnacle in mediocrity.
    And bad design philosophy.
    And bad video game making.
    A pinnacle in bad.
  62. Johnsilvermight
    Feb 26, 2019
    1
    Bought this game for the great game showcase at e3 and found out it was nothing like it. Missions are repetitive and the loot is one of the most boring loot in any looter shooter. Even my friends have stopped playing so here i am alone in a game where there in nothing more to do after you are done with main story and end game content.
  63. xOnexEyedxWolfx
    Feb 27, 2019
    1
    Im giving 1 out of 10 because 90 percent of this game is looks. and 10 percent gameplay. Rediculous loading screens. please for the sake of the economy don't buy this game for 60 dollars. the ceos of ea are the MOST overpayed people of last year. why? because we keep feeding into their lies. bioware had a great vision but sadly, it got eaed! Ea has got to be the worst company as of nowIm giving 1 out of 10 because 90 percent of this game is looks. and 10 percent gameplay. Rediculous loading screens. please for the sake of the economy don't buy this game for 60 dollars. the ceos of ea are the MOST overpayed people of last year. why? because we keep feeding into their lies. bioware had a great vision but sadly, it got eaed! Ea has got to be the worst company as of now for gaming. I cannot believe they even still exist after this. gone are the days of good games. they give the minimum value product and that's it. we shouldn't stand for unfinished games. until we all boycott ea this will continue. if you enjoy the game good for you. I am not having fun at all. the loading literally is longer than the gameplay. what were they thinking? I could see maybe picking this up in 2020 for 10 bucks or maybe 20. mass effect andromeda is better than this! that being said remember what they showed at e3 compared to the crap we got? how is this even legal? I cannot believe the ceo of ea hasn't apologized for this absolute disgrace of a game. Angry Joe and his team made a beautiful review on this game you should check it out before you decide on wasting your money. might as well throw 60 bucks in the toilet! we as a community cant keep letting these companies do this and get away with it! Divison 2 will be way better than this. spend your money on that before this crap. if you like the art style and flying just download warframe its free and a much much better game than this. after reading this heed my warning. or dump 60 bucks in the trash. yes this game will get better in a year. but that's not fair to you on day one! try to tough it out until divison 2 drops. I promise you wont be disappointed. and don't forget angry joes reviews on this game.… Expand
  64. 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.
  65. tap037
    Mar 1, 2019
    1
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! While not a complete piece of garbage, its very close. The fact bioware learned NOTHING from their peers such as destiny and division over the years, the absolute non-existant endgame, garbage loot, retarded enemy AI, no stat page for min maxing you're gear to actually see wtf you are min maxing, ZERO map markers for freeplay, an absolute piece of crap tether systemDO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!! While not a complete piece of garbage, its very close. The fact bioware learned NOTHING from their peers such as destiny and division over the years, the absolute non-existant endgame, garbage loot, retarded enemy AI, no stat page for min maxing you're gear to actually see wtf you are min maxing, ZERO map markers for freeplay, an absolute piece of crap tether system that expects you and you're team mates to constantly be within hand holding distance, the lack of cosmetics when that is the one thing they have been leveraging on all this time (im not throwing more money on piece crap game ive already spent $60) , garbage story (and this is bioware we're talking about ), the sheer lack of weapon model variety, like seriously...this game is just absolute garbage from top to bottom, people who expect this game to get better pls be real, they took 6 years to make this steaming pile of human faeces. They will definitely not be able to turn it around. The fact the next real update is only in May shows how this game will actually shape up. Good luck keeping a player base for 3 months let alone 1 week with a game that has absolutely ZERO content, after the initial fun of flying wears off there is seriously nothing to do in this game as well as no point in doing anything currently in the game as the loot in this looter shooter is bullcrap, assuming you can get through the ridiculous amounts of bugs and loading screens in this 'Special K' of a game. Save your money. and play apex legends or warframe for FREE.… Expand
  66. qqvip
    Mar 2, 2019
    1
    Game is so boring, everything in this game is repetitive. Loading screen time is a joke in this game. The only positive is graphic and facial animations. This is a unfinish video game. What a shame Bioware.
  67. Grow
    Mar 2, 2019
    1
    Great visuals, great game play. Feels like you're riding a fast cool looking car driving smoothly and then you hit a speed bump and another speed bump and another and anothe, at its current state there is just too many annoying little issues, these issues just pile up and ends up ruining the entire experience.
  68. Brockheezy
    Mar 4, 2019
    1
    It's astonishing that this game was dropped in this condition after 6 years of dev time. My gaming brothers and sisters - live service games cannot be allowed to also be minimum viable games. Just because they plan on updating it in the future does not give permission to ruin the experience for all the early buyers and then hemorrhage your player based by the time you fix the damn thing.It's astonishing that this game was dropped in this condition after 6 years of dev time. My gaming brothers and sisters - live service games cannot be allowed to also be minimum viable games. Just because they plan on updating it in the future does not give permission to ruin the experience for all the early buyers and then hemorrhage your player based by the time you fix the damn thing. Look at Destiny 2, which has not recovered from its initial offerings. This game is bad and EA/Bioware should feel bad.… Expand
  69. Moufongo
    Mar 11, 2019
    1
    This is a joke of a game; honestly feels like a $60 free to play open beta, there's not enough content and it's plagued with bugs all over..... Wondering what happened to Bioware?? EA
  70. Qualia
    Mar 8, 2019
    1
    A grandiose testament to the power of depraved management, inadequate developers, and morally bankrupt yet high-horsed ideologues to destroy years of work and decades of legacy
  71. hotlook
    Mar 9, 2019
    1
    i7 4770 60% , rtx 2060 70% 16 gb and **** fps . worts port ever also bad game .
  72. AhBoop
    Mar 11, 2019
    1
    Had huge hopes for Anthem at launch. Now I just hope I get my 60 dollars back. I wouldn't pay more than 20 bucks for this incomplete trash. Has no company learned from "Sea of thieves" or "No mans sky"? -10/10
  73. Anfer
    Mar 13, 2019
    1
    Игра помойка помянем bioware игры сервисы это не для этой канторы, не одного плюса одни минусы
  74. 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
  75. 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 !
  76. 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?
  77. 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
  78. StellarKane
    Jun 26, 2019
    1
    Buggy, shallow trash ruined by loot boxes ......................................
  79. 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
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  82. 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
  83. 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.
  84. 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
  85. Typing
    Apr 10, 2020
    1
    This game is just a destiny wannabe. How the **** did you manage to **** that up EA? If in had to describe this game in one sentence it would be that it is the videogame equivelant of jurassic world. So much potential so shamefully wasted. I would rather be doing assasin's creed trailing missions than playing tgis piece of **** they dare call game.
  86. Joker_14_pt
    Jun 18, 2019
    1
    Jogo horrível não comprem senão vão fritar as vossas ps4 nem free game deveria ser
  87. Dungeon00X
    Nov 14, 2019
    1
    A "game" that like to show off lighting effects and background but that's about it. I tried to play the BETA, but was kicked out so many times I just gave up. Actually seeing the game play out, it's actually very bad. The deadly spiral of "Live Services" has shown that it's not only a business model that doesn't work, but they have to rush out an unfinished product to market just to getA "game" that like to show off lighting effects and background but that's about it. I tried to play the BETA, but was kicked out so many times I just gave up. Actually seeing the game play out, it's actually very bad. The deadly spiral of "Live Services" has shown that it's not only a business model that doesn't work, but they have to rush out an unfinished product to market just to get their return investment. A complete and total failure that may mean the end for Bioware, devoid of content and replayability that is an absolute joke, nobody should still be playing this game. The loot shower bug was the highest point of this "game" and EA knew this. Now I look at it on store shelves for $20 and laugh.… Expand
  88. Growup
    Oct 29, 2019
    1
    The content was a couple of months late that resulted in deleting the "road map" of what is coming in the game.
    It still has a lot of bugs. When they introduced/added Cataclysm in the game. Half of the people were stuck in infinite loading screens.
    The pre-order was 80$ to receive nothing. If you wanted to play the game earlier you needed a sub on origin. for 15$ aside of the 80$ that    The content was a couple of months late that resulted in deleting the "road map" of what is coming in the game.
    It still has a lot of bugs. When they introduced/added Cataclysm in the game. Half of the people were stuck in infinite loading screens.
    The pre-order was 80$ to receive nothing. If you wanted to play the game earlier you needed a sub on origin. for 15$ aside of the 80$ that you spent on the pre-order of the game, that slams you in the 95$ price range for a game that the people who purchased the game also was testing it and reported bugs that were fixed and some of them are still not fixed at this time.
    So, to resume, this game should be at the 10$ market price for what it's offering to the person that purchased this unfinished game that was too much jacked up in marketing.    … Expand
  89. MelkTert
    Jan 24, 2020
    1
    What's there to say? The game was made in a mess and a mess is what we got. The game is dull and full of money-grabbing schemes. At least it looks nice.
  90. honest_rev7
    Sep 24, 2020
    1
    Boring trash.

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

    That first person interface is odd.

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

    Don't spend your money on this.
  91. kokopete
    Oct 20, 2021
    1
    An embarrassment for Bioware. A broken incomplete game, with Christmas tree on March.
  92. Ctag14
    Dec 12, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. By far worst game I've ever bought, biggest pipe dream in all of gaming. Played it launch week haven't touched it since… Expand
  93. AlbYSaN
    Jun 26, 2021
    1
    This could be one of my favourite game ever and instead it was been a shame.
    Promised updates never arrived, lack of content and remake stopped.
    For the rest (graphics, gameplay, etc.) magnificent game.
  94. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  95. Vaash
    Feb 23, 2019
    0
    This has the potential to be a good game, but probably in a year of content and patches. but for me, i think to drop $60 on a game with promise of future content isn't really a complete game. i would pay for a car and wait to get doors next month. so i wouldn't do it a game either. potential yes, i hope it does get good. but i would save the money now and buy it later when its on sale.
  96. lynannouilh
    Mar 2, 2019
    0
    Thanks for killing one of my most beloved game studio (aka Bioware). They now join Westwood, Maxis in the graveyard of Electronic Arts. I don't buy any game from this studio since ME: Andromeda & Star Wars Battlefront II, I'll keep it that way.

    BTW: I tried the game at a friends, it's sucked...
  97. lilkillpappy
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    EA is an evil corporation that wants all your money and doesn't care about art. Don't buy any EA games ever. This is one of the worst examples of EA games. A buggy looter shooter with zero passion or art, full of micro-transactions and grind. This is nothing more than an overly hyped slot machine.
  98. Chapa9dj
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Censorship on Metacritic once again, but here i am, re-posting the same comment.
    This is what happens when you release a half-baked game with no content and anything fun to do.
    Insane loading times, repetitive missions, boring cities.
    Downgraded graphics and very mediocre gameplay makes up for an unforgettable mediocre experience.
  99. Joe_Friday
    Feb 26, 2019
    0
    I refuse to believe that this grindy micro-transaction Destiny clone was actually made by the developers who created Mass Effect. I'll call it now - Anthem will be Free-to-Play before the end of the year. People won't pay for this lackluster game, the developers will have to pray that they sell enough loot boxes.
  100. Takeda
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Fun for about 5 minutes until you realize there is nothing more than what you start playing in the first 5 minutes. Derivative, repetitive and uninspiring. Load times are atrocious on an i7 8700 and 2080ti.
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  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    69
    After a while, suspicion sets in: perhaps EA doesn’t believe in BioWare anymore, and had them release not only unpolished, but basically unfinished product to cut losses and avoid another total rework. [Issue#237, p.44]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 20, 2019
    56
    If you want to see Anthem’s lush jungle and glistening Javelins, do it right away — this game is losing audience fast, and there’s almost nothing to do after the campaign ends. Or check it out on YouTube to save yourself some nerves and money.
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  3. PlayGround.ru
    Apr 8, 2019
    60
    It's obvious that Anthem didn't have enough development time, but had some great potential. It's a real shame, that everything turned out this way. Even now, the game can bring out positive emotions. Hasty climbers have sudden falls. No matter how ironic this proverb may seem, it's incredibly relevant for Anthem.
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