Anthem

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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3707 Ratings

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  1. Tixxi
    Mar 1, 2019
    0
    Я думал что графика будет как в E3 но EA меня обманули, да контента очень мало
  2. sipti
    Mar 8, 2019
    0
    The idea of this game is really nice but the game have a lot of bbug and continiusly crash and freeze. for now is an early acess maybbe in a few month can be a beta but i think that the budget for this game was 30% development and 70% pubblicity.
  3. JAGUAR10
    Feb 27, 2019
    0
    Why is gaming the only industry where you do not get a completed product?? This is becoming totally unacceptable!!! Would you buy a car but have to wait a month to get the tires? Would you buy a computer but have to wait a month to get the keyboard? NO and NO!! All this "but wait for the patches, etc. is not acceptable. Was hoping Bioware would get their S**T together after MEWhy is gaming the only industry where you do not get a completed product?? This is becoming totally unacceptable!!! Would you buy a car but have to wait a month to get the tires? Would you buy a computer but have to wait a month to get the keyboard? NO and NO!! All this "but wait for the patches, etc. is not acceptable. Was hoping Bioware would get their S**T together after ME Andromeda but NO!! EA is to blame using the Frostbite engine and not letting Bioware do what they were good at. Single player RPG's with a great story and interesting characters. All this games as a service is crap!!… Expand
  4. VegasKeVa
    Feb 27, 2019
    4
    What... am I supposed to wait months or a year for a complete game full of interesting content and a story? Sorry, thumbs down.
  5. KidRob
    Feb 26, 2019
    0
    Nobody is calling software developers and publishers out for the blatant fraud they are guilty of and nowhere is this more evident than in EA/Bioware's "Anthem". At E3 2017, Bioware showcased actual "in game" content footage and presented that to the audience and the public at large as proof of what this game features. NONE of that actual footage is found in the released game.Nobody is calling software developers and publishers out for the blatant fraud they are guilty of and nowhere is this more evident than in EA/Bioware's "Anthem". At E3 2017, Bioware showcased actual "in game" content footage and presented that to the audience and the public at large as proof of what this game features. NONE of that actual footage is found in the released game. EA/Bioware had demonstrated a clear example of defrauding the public, yet nobody seems to have the courage to call it that. Why? Why is it that the software entertainment industry is allowed to defraud the public. If this kind of behavior was perpetrated in the BUSINESS software industry, EA/Bioware would be sued out of existence for deceptive marketing and outright fraud. Anthem gets a GIANT ZERO from this game critic, and for the record, I've been playing video games since the release of "Pong" in July of 1975.… Expand
  6. Idare
    Feb 27, 2019
    0
    The only fun thing about this game are the reviews pointing out all of the failures of this poor application.
  7. 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.
  8. will2357
    Feb 25, 2019
    8
    The gameplay is quick, incredibly fun, and quite varied by class and load-out choice. As this is a game as a service, the roadmap for new content/end game/cataclysms looks interesting but uncertain.

    Unfortunately, for a Bioware game, the main story presentation is pretty rough so far. Some of the short stories and side quests have fantastic writing, characters, and twists, but the    The gameplay is quick, incredibly fun, and quite varied by class and load-out choice. As this is a game as a service, the roadmap for new content/end game/cataclysms looks interesting but uncertain.

    Unfortunately, for a Bioware game, the main story presentation is pretty rough so far. Some of the short stories and side quests have fantastic writing, characters, and twists, but the presentation and interaction are very limited.

    Also, I had a ton of bugs in the "demo"/beta weekends, but most have been resolved.

    Overall, I think this is a very fun game with limited content and story at the moment.    … Expand
  9. Eliitti
    Feb 25, 2019
    3
    Waste of your time and money there are better options out there such as Warframe and Destiny 2.
  10. 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
  11. VallejoMach
    Feb 27, 2019
    3
    Boring, generic, uninspired, dull and lacking in creative vision...and then there's the technical issues.

    If you play this game for the first 4 or 5 hours then you might easily be mistaken into being impressed. Visually there is much that is quite stunning, at least superficially, but beyond the smoke and mirrors what finally unveils itself to the player is a shallow, vapid and    Boring, generic, uninspired, dull and lacking in creative vision...and then there's the technical issues.

    If you play this game for the first 4 or 5 hours then you might easily be mistaken into being impressed. Visually there is much that is quite stunning, at least superficially, but beyond the smoke and mirrors what finally unveils itself to the player is a shallow, vapid and extraordinarily tedious experience. Customization is weak and limited, weapons are generic and gunplay is functional at best and lacks the power-fantasy feeling that other looter games provide. Then there are the loading screens, bad UI with menus and menus and loading between even basic features as swapping equipment. The central hub is lifeless and tedious to navigate and not a patch on what was shown in earlier gameplay footage and has been severely downgraded.

    Missions are generic and have little variance. The story is, quite frankly, laughable and despite what Casey Hudson said about players able to make choices in the game none of them matter. All dialogue options are bland and have zero consequence on the outcome. The loot is actually terrible and does not create any sense of excitement or generate any enthusiasm to continue the pursuit of new gear in the way that looter-shooters must achieve. After 70 hours or so you may easily find that you do NOT even have enough credits or pieces to craft a single masterwork and the desire to continue pounding away on the extremely limited endgame content dissipates as a result.

    The game is not finished. There can be no argument otherwise and the fact of the matter is that this has become a practice from publishers that simply cannot be allowed to continue. Releasing bare bones shells of games with a 'roadmap' and a promise to fix it eventually is simply unacceptable. Let us not forget that you are paying FULL price for almost nothing at all...it is not as though they release a quarter of a game and ask you for a quarter of the money. Currently the game deserves no more than a 3/10. It is functional for the most part and parts of it do look very nice but there's nothing there to keep you interested and even if content is added at a later date this game will struggle to recover from it's empty, soulless start.    … Expand
  12. Poohzhunny
    Feb 26, 2019
    8
    The game is great. Gameplay is fantastic, graphics are phenomenal, and the storyline is good (it’s early, so it’s a tad short, but that’s normal at this stage). The devs are extremely responsive and whatever issues were identified during early access have almost all been addressed or have fixes in the works. Don’t listen to all the negative anti-EA bandwagon. Do yourself a favour and tryThe game is great. Gameplay is fantastic, graphics are phenomenal, and the storyline is good (it’s early, so it’s a tad short, but that’s normal at this stage). The devs are extremely responsive and whatever issues were identified during early access have almost all been addressed or have fixes in the works. Don’t listen to all the negative anti-EA bandwagon. Do yourself a favour and try it.… Expand
  13. Sonorpearl
    Feb 25, 2019
    0
    Anthem is the most gorgeous loading simulator...
    After every mission, you have to wait way too long.
  14. 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
  15. Zephyrghost
    Feb 25, 2019
    2
    the first 48 hours of binge-playing Anthem, was fun as the verticality presented in the game gives players a new sense of satisfaction and gameplay. But, honestly, when I kept on playing, it's just a repetitive, lazy mish-mash that is just plain boring. Missions are broken down into 2 things: defend a spot, or collect **** That's it. The campaign's ending was a huge killer to the narrativethe first 48 hours of binge-playing Anthem, was fun as the verticality presented in the game gives players a new sense of satisfaction and gameplay. But, honestly, when I kept on playing, it's just a repetitive, lazy mish-mash that is just plain boring. Missions are broken down into 2 things: defend a spot, or collect **** That's it. The campaign's ending was a huge killer to the narrative and is such a letdown. Everything about its gameplay is BORING and utterly repetitive. Once you get past the "honeymoon stage", you realise that the game is just made up of NOTHING.

    At the town, known as "Fort Tarsis", I ended up just trying to quickly escape that horrid place as it is lifeless, soulless, and its just something you want to avoid.

    Loading times are intolerable and dreadful, and almost every area you visit, there's a load screen.

    I gave Bioware so much promise, and I had so much anticipation. It saddens me that my children will never be able to experience the games of yesteryear that gave my generation so much joy.

    Thanks EA for yet ruining another brilliant company.    … Expand
  16. coltheiter
    Feb 26, 2019
    3
    Lack of content, the quest presented at E3 does not exist in the game, very repetitive. Describing in other words... is like a Ferrari without the engine to get out of the garage
  17. GoboLebowsky
    Feb 26, 2019
    1
    A pinnacle in mediocrity.
    And bad design philosophy.
    And bad video game making.
    A pinnacle in bad.
  18. 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.
  19. Espee
    Feb 27, 2019
    3
    I'm giving it a 3 as only 30% of the game is enjoyable. The rest is utter garbage.
  20. atmac
    Mar 1, 2019
    0
    Do Not Buy!!!! I'm a fan of fps, open-world and online games, so I figured I'd give Anthem a shot. Amazingly, I couldn't get past the first, warm-up mission. I gave it four tries, and was booted out four time, citing loss of the online connection. (I'm on a ps4, and play Destiny 2 and GTA 5 Online, with only an extremely rare significant connection failure.) Each time Anthem booted me out,Do Not Buy!!!! I'm a fan of fps, open-world and online games, so I figured I'd give Anthem a shot. Amazingly, I couldn't get past the first, warm-up mission. I gave it four tries, and was booted out four time, citing loss of the online connection. (I'm on a ps4, and play Destiny 2 and GTA 5 Online, with only an extremely rare significant connection failure.) Each time Anthem booted me out, it returned me all the way back to the game set-up/initialization, after a significant loading time. This is absolutely hopeless. It's amazing to me that they would put out a product that is so unimaginably poor. The game is completely unplayable. Unfortunately, I had pre-purchased it, before all these actual-user reviews had started stacking up. If you read this, please heed the warning!… Expand
  21. Slevin310
    Feb 25, 2019
    5
    This game is getting destroyed not only in reviews but by sales. I think the reason is the fact this is BioWare. A name that usually represents greatness in story telling, immersion and atmosphere. KOTOR, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, Dragon Age and Neverwinter Nights. I know this is EA's Bioware but that name isn't usually slapped on Triple A schlock like this. And that's exactly what it is.This game is getting destroyed not only in reviews but by sales. I think the reason is the fact this is BioWare. A name that usually represents greatness in story telling, immersion and atmosphere. KOTOR, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, Dragon Age and Neverwinter Nights. I know this is EA's Bioware but that name isn't usually slapped on Triple A schlock like this. And that's exactly what it is. Triple A schlock. It's not the worst game ever. It's not great. It's meh... but the execution is what really makes me disappointed. BioWare can't do a Destiny style co-op game. You can't have high paced online action and story. You just have 4 people sitting around bored listening to dialog saying "come on already" the two styles clash so poorly together I'm surprised the game strongly recommends NEVER doing solo missions. Maybe the story might come across better if people weren't speed running missions and emoting in front of "important" critical story moments. But I doubt it.

    And this game commits the biggest sin of "BECAUSE BIOWARE" I've ever seen. ME: Andromeda had some issues in this regard but that game fits what BioWare is about. We have dialog options that literally serve NO purpose. They have absolutely no effect on characters, missions don't change based off them... you don't even get a different reaction based on what you say. I tested it when my progress was reset during the trial. I picked all the different "dialog options" and the characters said the same thing with maybe an extra "well" or "yeah but" then the rest was the same. Why are they there? BECAUSE BIOWARE.

    Factions make no sense... you don't pick one, you level them all up. There's no real difference between them. I've played this game for days now and I for the life of me can't tell the difference between them. Or why I level some up by doing certain things? Why are they there? BECAUSE BIOWARE.

    Optional NPC dialog that usually provides some backstory or become interesting threads are just "Oh you're a freelancer cool... blah blah blah freelancer honor" what was the point of that? Was that supposed to immerse me into this city's people or... maybe give civilians something to do? I don't know but it's there to waste time BECAUSE BIOWARE.

    Nothing fits well. High paced action will literally grind to halt so we can get a cutscene of our character doing something. Just our character.... not my 3 other friends I did the mission with. Like Destiny does... you see your friends in some scenes in Destiny. But here they might as well not exist in my story. Where do they go during cutscenes? Into their own personal cutscene where my character isn't in. Why? BECAUSE I actually don't know. Why this game literally forces co-op on you to do NOTHING with it in the story makes no sense. It wants to be an immersive story driven game but forced co-op doesn't make sense.

    But it's not all bad. The Javelins are fun to control, flying and combat is amazing. Some boss battles are really fun and challenging. There is fun to be had here. But I can't believe I'm saying this... Destiny 2 did it better. There's more stuff to do. Characters have their own special role. The Javelins aren't different from each other and feel extremely similar all except the Colossus. And Destiny 2 goes "blah blah blah hand wave story now go kill stuff!" Here it's go kill a few things but ONLY a few things... cause you have to listen to 5 minute long conversation then get the next objective marker. Kill a few more things wait for dialog to be over and then the objective will finally come in on the map. Rinse repeat then the mission is over before you know it.

    So it would be a 7/10 as it's fun but not good. However the game crashes and freezes every hour! Literally the EA servers can't handle this game. Friends drop out of missions at least twice every time. And it's like this on PC, Xbox and PS4. This game is so unstable half my friends decide to stop playing through a mission cause they can't stand being kicked so often we just end up playing something else.

    This isn't BioWare... it's EA's BioWare. And it shows.    … Expand
  22. Bonebreaker
    Mar 2, 2019
    2
    Honestly i cant understand how anyone can pay the full price for this game. Sure it looks nice but allready the open Beta showed how boring this game will become after a few hours. Did they realy think they could motivate enough players to stay in a game with so little content when there are competitors like Destiny, the new Division 2 or even Warframe (witch is free2play) for pc?

    I    Honestly i cant understand how anyone can pay the full price for this game. Sure it looks nice but allready the open Beta showed how boring this game will become after a few hours. Did they realy think they could motivate enough players to stay in a game with so little content when there are competitors like Destiny, the new Division 2 or even Warframe (witch is free2play) for pc?

    I realy like Bioware, but come on 6 years of development (if its true) for this? This has to be a joke even Fallout 76 can keep players longer busy than this game.    … Expand
  23. StrayKitty
    Feb 28, 2019
    5
    This is Full-price beta test.

    A Beautiful world, attractive action, and flying robot, this is a positive element.
    But due to frequent bugs you can interrupt your adventure and also the loading time is very long, it will be kept waiting frequently and induce stress.

    Recently I was forgotten that the presence of UBISOFT stands out, but again I could recall EA as EA.
  24. kein3lust
    Mar 2, 2019
    4
    - The npc dialogs are boring, just not good at all.
    - Fort tarsis is just a village not a place to explore like i was thinking.
    - Loot system after level 30 are a shame - Loading screens for everything - Transportation party is horrible - Bad customization - Strongholds and some quests just broken - DC all the time, lost good partys because of the disconnection and server error -    - The npc dialogs are boring, just not good at all.
    - Fort tarsis is just a village not a place to explore like i was thinking.
    - Loot system after level 30 are a shame
    - Loading screens for everything
    - Transportation party is horrible
    - Bad customization
    - Strongholds and some quests just broken
    - DC all the time, lost good partys because of the disconnection and server error
    - Freaking incomplete game for a full price!

    Good points
    - Good Graphics
    - Good Scenario
    THATS IT!    … Expand
  25. lostcauz707
    Feb 26, 2019
    4
    I made this account just for this review. Repetition, complete deflation of excitement, the most shallow loot pool that's ever existed with generic skins and generic enemies with a flat story just screams Bioware isn't Bioware anymore. These are the people who made Dragon Age Origins, almost without a doubt the most perfected 3rd person RPG experience ever on a story side and ME:2, theI made this account just for this review. Repetition, complete deflation of excitement, the most shallow loot pool that's ever existed with generic skins and generic enemies with a flat story just screams Bioware isn't Bioware anymore. These are the people who made Dragon Age Origins, almost without a doubt the most perfected 3rd person RPG experience ever on a story side and ME:2, the most perfected overall RPG experience possibly ever made before The Witcher 3.

    Evidence of another instance where the company who publishes the game want's the consumer to know what they should want. The backlash by EA and Microsoft telling people that they don't know what they want when we have had a standard set by great games like BL2 back in 2012. Then again they took time away from giving the consumer what they want to spend precious dev time for microtransactions in a full price experience without giving a worthwhile experience.

    If a movie was incomplete on release with a "promise crucial scenes and special effects would be added later" no one would watch the movie on release. Unacceptable in the video game market when the standards are trying to be set by the publisher and not the consumer.

    EA keeps pushing graphics as though they are the headliner to great games while Nintendo makes game of the year worthy titles annually on a handheld. Anthem is a weak experience on ground this company has treaded in before. It's the equivalent of Boyhood the video game. All those years of development, wasted.    … Expand
  26. Addidiivinci
    Feb 26, 2019
    4
    this game have boring and repetitive missions to a poorly balanced end-game difficulty for a looter shooter not good... but the bioware game play a la Mass Effect is still here.. cool combo nice gun play mechanic but the game lack of content and severe bug, server crash, random sound crash, wall and elemental glitch... dont buy wait
  27. CptFantabulous
    Feb 28, 2019
    2
    Played the game on the ten-hour free play and I was pretty disappointed by the game.

    -It can barely crawl above 40FPS on an i7/1070 rig no matter what settings I change. Which would be fine except I cannot lock the framerate to thirty so it is at least smooth -The cutscenes feel like a FMV game with NPCs wildly gesticulating into the camera whilst I stand in stony silence or add the    Played the game on the ten-hour free play and I was pretty disappointed by the game.

    -It can barely crawl above 40FPS on an i7/1070 rig no matter what settings I change. Which would be fine except I cannot lock the framerate to thirty so it is at least smooth
    -The cutscenes feel like a FMV game with NPCs wildly gesticulating into the camera whilst I stand in stony silence or add the odd one line remark.
    -The combat is 100% ok, nothing more nothing less.
    -It is buggy as hell, mission markers not updating being the most common problem I ran into
    -I'm not normally the kind of person to care about "downgrading" between trailers and the game but this game has one of the most blatant examples around. The hub went from the tight bustling place shown in the trailers to a mostly empty shell.

    Basically, when you have games like Monster Hunter: World that do everything this game does a million times better there is no reason to pick this game up for any amount of money or even waste your internet on downloading it.    … Expand
  28. Azohss
    Mar 1, 2019
    4
    este juego tiene un potencial increíble se siento muy bien manejar al personajes disparar o lanzar las habilidades pero es lo único bueno de este ya que recae en todo los demás... bug que pueden estropear tu experiencia por completo , a parte que te obligan a hacer misiones segundarías para poder seguir con las historia haciendo una especie de estrategia para darle mas vida al juego que aleste juego tiene un potencial increíble se siento muy bien manejar al personajes disparar o lanzar las habilidades pero es lo único bueno de este ya que recae en todo los demás... bug que pueden estropear tu experiencia por completo , a parte que te obligan a hacer misiones segundarías para poder seguir con las historia haciendo una especie de estrategia para darle mas vida al juego que al final les sale en tiro por la culata por que lo vuelve muy pesado y repetitivo ....ha y como olvidar la maravillosa tienda que es una completa estafa aparte de la gran falta de contenido que posee este titulo. me da mucha pene por Bioware no se que les a pasado a este compañía que hacia obras maestra como su saga tan reconocida como mass effect que relucía en todos sus aspecto y con una historia preciosa, pero se han dado un bajón increíble de calidad este ultimo tiempo… Expand
  29. EXO8964
    Mar 1, 2019
    2
    This is my first my shooter-looter in terms of committing myself to a grinding game aside from MMO.

    While Anthem does feature some strong entertaining features that make it somewhat enjoyable to play, it is heavily outweighed by all its current issues. As someone who played from the Alpha up the official launch, much remains to be resolved. I've sent them personally a message that it    This is my first my shooter-looter in terms of committing myself to a grinding game aside from MMO.

    While Anthem does feature some strong entertaining features that make it somewhat enjoyable to play, it is heavily outweighed by all its current issues. As someone who played from the Alpha up the official launch, much remains to be resolved. I've sent them personally a message that it would be better to delay a game till its polished rather than rushing a release filled with bugs.

    Regarding the story, it feels so cheesy and generic that there isn't any sense of accomplishment once you finish it. The promises of our choices having consequences in the game was simply a lie which is surprising for BW as they are known for bringing in some of the best rpg stories out there as someone who played more than once the trilogy of Mass Effect.

    The graphics might look nice and great in this day and age but it is by war the worst optimized game which doesn't make use of your current computer hardware even with the latest parts. The E3 2017 demo still remains one of the most spectacular trailer I've ever seen. It's simply a bummer that the game was heavily downgraded up to its current state. From my understanding, a lot happened since then and new people joined into the development and made changes to it.

    The loot itself is a mess, the fact that they need the feedback from players to understand something so obvious makes me worry about what was going on during the development. There is no mini-map, no way to checkpoint on a map nor a text-chat.

    While their communication has been premium, the same problems have been expressed since the Alpha and are still present in this current version of the game which was also promised to be way better and have a lot of fixes but it just keeps having more problems whenever they add new patches. Only time will tell if Anthem will survive all this chaos.

    As someone who spent over 89 hours into the game, I'm starting to feel burned out as there is nothing rewarding about the grinding either. The rewards are simply vinyl which doesn't justify the high amount of grinding for it plus we're missing a bunch of gear variety pieces and emotes which they planned to sell via the vendor with coins and shards which is a bummer.

    I definitely do not recommend this game in its current state but it could be a fun ride for some of you out there. However, if you are a veteran gamer, be prepared to experience some of the worst and best-looking game ever made by BW.    … Expand
  30. nror
    Mar 1, 2019
    2
    I've never felt compelled to write a bad review for a game before, but there are just so so many staggeringly awful design decisions in this game.

    You've probably heard a lot of bad press about this game coming in and you're wondering if it's as bad as they say. It isn't. It's much, much worse. Gameplay is a disjointed mess, with the actual game broken up by a mandatory first-person    I've never felt compelled to write a bad review for a game before, but there are just so so many staggeringly awful design decisions in this game.

    You've probably heard a lot of bad press about this game coming in and you're wondering if it's as bad as they say. It isn't. It's much, much worse.

    Gameplay is a disjointed mess, with the actual game broken up by a mandatory first-person segment where you move at the speed of smell inside a too-large city to pick up quests and have pointless conversations. You can't spend any significant amount of time in your suit without having to return to this hub, which is hands-down one of the worst elements of the game. To get in or out of this area you have to sit through multiple loading screens that take roughly half a minute or more on even the best hardware.

    The suits and the movement mechanics -one of the only parts of this game to receive plaudits- are hampered by a frustrating overheat mechanic that prevents you from flying for more than a few seconds without crashing even outside of combat.

    You can't manage your inventory or customize your suit without sitting through two loading screens, one to get into the interface and one to get out of it. Both again 30 seconds or more.

    The suit gameplay itself has the potential to be fun but the enemies are dumb and there's little variety or challenge.

    The game feels at best half finished, if that.

    It will take monumental changes at a level that I don't think Bioware or EA will be willing to make in order for this game to be worth playing. At a minimum that will mean:

    -Doing away with Fort Tarsis or switching to a third-person view for these segments, speeding up your movement inside, and removing loading screens.

    -Removing the heat mechanic outside of combat entirely or making it a buff for those who elect to manage it rather than a constant frustration for those that don't.

    -Making it so that you can manage inventory and customize your suit without having to sit through 2-4 loading screens.

    Why is it unlikely these changes will be implemented? Because if you take away all the frustrating penalty mechanics and busywork to get missions or customize your suit it becomes much more apparent how little content there is in the game and how all of it is very one dimensional and sameish.

    Stay well away. This game needs at least another year of dev time.    … Expand
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#4 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019
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#4 Most Shared PC Game of 2019

Critic Reviews

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59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 76 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 62 out of 76
  3. Negative: 9 out of 76
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 15, 2019
    69
    After a while, suspicion sets in: perhaps EA doesn’t believe in BioWare anymore, and had them release not only unpolished, but basically unfinished product to cut losses and avoid another total rework. [Issue#237, p.44]
  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 20, 2019
    56
    If you want to see Anthem’s lush jungle and glistening Javelins, do it right away — this game is losing audience fast, and there’s almost nothing to do after the campaign ends. Or check it out on YouTube to save yourself some nerves and money.
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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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