APB: Reloaded

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  1. vova22379
    Jul 14, 2022
    2
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  2. Jabbawockee
    May 6, 2022
    2
    I used to enjoy this game from time to time with friends, but there is a striking lack of content once you really have invested a few hours into it. Ram raiding, mugging, or arresting criminals are all neat concepts in theory, but are surface level features that get boring with time. The city of APB Reloaded is fun to explore, but when the best part of your game is the backdrop it takesI used to enjoy this game from time to time with friends, but there is a striking lack of content once you really have invested a few hours into it. Ram raiding, mugging, or arresting criminals are all neat concepts in theory, but are surface level features that get boring with time. The city of APB Reloaded is fun to explore, but when the best part of your game is the backdrop it takes place in - it really tells how flawed your game design is.
    I haven't even discussed the game's multiplayer yet and there is little need to, it is unbalanced and forgettable - not to mention pay to win.
    This game seems to have died off some time ago, and I can't say what it was in its current state was anything worth preserving.    … Expand
  3. theklensi
    Jan 20, 2022
    0
    this game sucks, you will only find tons of golden 255R who have tons of donate and will be sure that they will be griefing you no matter who you are, this game is so horrible like you can miss whole mag but your enemy could kill you from ntec from 80m with some legendary permament weapon, most toxic community and tons of lags. dont play it
  4. BalthizarSparda
    Dec 11, 2020
    0
    This game i boring af after 10 minutes and you can't even complete the tutorial
  5. Srak
    Jun 19, 2019
    0
    Want My Honest Opinion. Don't Play This Game At All. The Game Is Very Very Bad.
  6. x3sty
    Jun 2, 2018
    0
    The game has been taken over by 'Liberal Orbit'. (((Matt Scott))), typical commiefornian, has done nothing but show deceit and incompetence. The new community manager is a fat, ugly Serb who is totally slow, unprofessional, and lacks expertise. Wise choice!

    After a month of acquisition nothing has been done, other than false hope and promises. No ETAs, no concise details. The    The game has been taken over by 'Liberal Orbit'. (((Matt Scott))), typical commiefornian, has done nothing but show deceit and incompetence. The new community manager is a fat, ugly Serb who is totally slow, unprofessional, and lacks expertise. Wise choice!

    After a month of acquisition nothing has been done, other than false hope and promises. No ETAs, no concise details. The anti-cheat(s) have been completely shut off, allowing for the influx of hackers from approximately 15% of the playerbase to at least 25% or more at this point (full on snapping, walling, aimlocking ragehackers), which at this point makes the game quite unplayable. The servers are also extremely unstable. 'Liberal Orbit' would rather side with these cheaters and neglect the players who have spent thousands of hours and dollars in this game. And they sit idly by, even with a team of GMs that could be spectating and AT LEAST issuing temporary bans until their so called 'Battleye' is implemented (which was BTW """3/4 done""" 2 weeks ago, makes no sense how it wouldn't be done yet).
    At this point the previous owners and community manager, Tiggs, had more promise and actually did more. On the forums you will find themselves apologizing for not knowing what they are doing, or not having enough staff. When you try to bring the truth to light, the whiteknights will get hysterical since they are mindless sheep and gullible like no other community.

    The future does not look bright. The neglect continues. This game is meant to be dead...
    Comments are disabled for this review.    … Expand
  7. AdrianStefan
    Mar 20, 2018
    0
    A game which is buggy and full of hackers! If you want to try a free to play game do not try this one.Waste of time, boredom and p2w.
  8. Mjr_REAPER
    Feb 19, 2017
    2
    I played many games Free to Play. It is well known that there is no perfect game but this game is one of the worst games that exist in this world. Well the game has an interesting system of being a police officer or a criminal, we have a curious editor to create the form we have the opportunity to create their own clothing, graffiti, painting, car, etc. It looks quite interesting, and suchI played many games Free to Play. It is well known that there is no perfect game but this game is one of the worst games that exist in this world. Well the game has an interesting system of being a police officer or a criminal, we have a curious editor to create the form we have the opportunity to create their own clothing, graffiti, painting, car, etc. It looks quite interesting, and such is, however, what is fishing without a hook of the whole matter:

    - Poor optimization game
    - Sometimes textures do not load in time
    - AI is just stupid
    - Driving model is a nightmare
    - Physics or rather the lack of it does not add charm but it is sometimes funny
    - Shooting in this game is to scattering bullets all over the place
    - Detailed texture offend poor quality, for example dashboards in cars
    - Categorical bugs and errors game
    - The prices of weapons, vehicles, etc. can knock on the knee compared to the cash acquired in the game
    - Lack of balance first weapons that the player can earn are useless, hopeless modifiers as giving the player an advantage over the other causes that fighting is often for just the one player at a disadvantage
    - Friendly fire is not bad, but when you are in one team with a complete moron who kills you or other members of the team without reason is annoying
    - P2W unfortunately, the game pushes us to buy a premium to have a mass bonuses and buy items, weapons, etc. for real money
    - Matchmaking is fatal if not nightmarish often looks for players who have experience are much higher, for example, the player with the bronze game against players who have gold

    The game looks like an undercooked steak does not taste too good. APB is unfinished look like Beta. Terminally game is a waste of time, but has the potencial but which has not been used and is unlikely to be. This title receives 2/10 of me because I wanted to give willingly 0 but the game is not so broken to get 0    … Expand
  9. Roke_
    Feb 16, 2017
    3
    kinda cool backstory but terrible world design, no game play at all, the driving is terrible and awful interaction with NPC's, players and the environment itself.
  10. LeeFoo
    Dec 10, 2016
    4
    A very trashy game with a trashy community probably made by trashy developers who understands that profit before gameplay is priority. The premium users will always be able to shoot and kill you first regardless of who shot first. There are several thousands users that do not speak English or understand English yet you provide servers for them and none join. The threat level is a joke,A very trashy game with a trashy community probably made by trashy developers who understands that profit before gameplay is priority. The premium users will always be able to shoot and kill you first regardless of who shot first. There are several thousands users that do not speak English or understand English yet you provide servers for them and none join. The threat level is a joke, GOLD, SILVER, BRONZE. You will be mixed with users above higher skill levels / or max than you. Servers will disconnect you from time to time. I still can't believe that hackers exist in this day, this game is old. The majority of the weapons in-game is absolutely trash in comparison to others, why develop. why model weapons that no-one will use?
    - All facts.    … Expand
  11. Kemar
    Jul 8, 2016
    0
    Toxic Community, Many cheaters who are never banned, Awful Customer Support, moderators who act like they are God and P2W basically. My ingame name was Kemar, I was unfairly banned and as a result of that ban which I was unable to protest, I lost 660 hours of my life and 100 dollars............ the moderator (TIGGS) then proceeded to insult my cousin, call him a scammer and disregard allToxic Community, Many cheaters who are never banned, Awful Customer Support, moderators who act like they are God and P2W basically. My ingame name was Kemar, I was unfairly banned and as a result of that ban which I was unable to protest, I lost 660 hours of my life and 100 dollars............ the moderator (TIGGS) then proceeded to insult my cousin, call him a scammer and disregard all subsequent msgs we sent her. Please google all the bad reviews for this game before playing, please see how bad the customer support it, they are taking all of our money and dont give a **** We pay their bills but they give us little to no support.....do not play this game, its awful.… Expand
  12. Captain_Chaos
    Jun 22, 2016
    0
    3/20/2016: This was one of the most broken and unfun games ever when it first released commercially. It was supposed to be the online Grand Theft Auto (A concept with its own set of problems... I'm looking at you, GTAV) I kept thinking while playing the beta and the release that it was going to improve... and it never did. I was almost happy it had shut down. So what do they do? Resurrect3/20/2016: This was one of the most broken and unfun games ever when it first released commercially. It was supposed to be the online Grand Theft Auto (A concept with its own set of problems... I'm looking at you, GTAV) I kept thinking while playing the beta and the release that it was going to improve... and it never did. I was almost happy it had shut down. So what do they do? Resurrect THIS game's smoldering corpse as a free, pay-2-win game, rather then some actual fun game like Auto Assault. Here's a quick rundown.

    Pros:

    + Very involved character creation and customization of clothes and vehicles. A large amount of the game's hype was based on this.
    + Actually managing to run over an enemy player is very satisfying.

    Cons:

    - No AI enemies whatsoever. Entire game is PvP.
    - Completely flawed mission structure. Players take missions from NPCs and at any point thereafter, can have players of the opposing faction matched against them. The opposing team's entire job is to grief the players that accepted the mission so that they get substantially less rewards. If you manage to complete a mission without being matched against anyone, your reward is so reduced that it is not worth your time. There is no other alternative. Your entire purpose in this game is to prevent the players of the other faction from enjoying the game.
    - One of the worst communities of any shooter ever. Griefers, racists, wallhackers, aimbotters, whiny little kids, trolls, tryhards... you name it. The criminal faction seems to contain a disproportionate number of these individuals compared to the enforcers.
    - Aforementioned character and vehicle customization is hamstringed by the free-to-play system. You are limited to a very small number of art layers per vehicle or article of clothing unless you pay.
    - Shoddy controls and wonky player movement. The closest analogue I can think of is Gunz: The Duel, only without the Matrix-style jumping and dodging.
    - Extremely shallow mission objectives that involve walking up to level architecture, pressing a button and waiting for an interaction circle to fill. Boring. Unless your objective is to kill players of the opposing faction, which actually isn't any more fun.
    - Progression system that ensures that even players who don't buy cash shop items can still be better then you even if they actually aren't.
    - Weird hitboxes on players and level architecture. It's often possible to see a player and not actually be able to hit them.
    - Obnoxious "whack-a-mole" flow to most gunfights.
    - Terrible damage model typical of most modern shooters. If they see you first, you're dead.
    - Actually running someone over is almost impossible. Godawful vehicle controls, simultaneously unresponsive and slippery.
    - You cannot harm anyone that is inside a vehicle directly unless they poke their heads out to shoot at you. Except...
    - Vehicles have ridiculously little health and you have very little time to get out of them if they are about to explode.
    - Hilariously inept matchmaking system readily susceptible to teamstacking by major player clans.
    - Shooting from vehicles feels stiff and your aiming radius is limited, and some weapons cannot even be used this way except from the side door of a van.
    - Easily exploitable camping areas, coupled with extremely powerful sniper rifles.
    - Login queues and frequent latency issues.
    - Cash shop with blatantly more powerful weapons and perks then what is available through normal play.
    - Arena mode is an absolute mess of visual clutter and boxes in the vein of some Call of Duty maps.

    This is honestly one of the worst games I've ever played. Stay away. Almost any other free-to-play game would be worth your time.    … Expand
  13. bigsilverhotdog
    May 1, 2016
    0
    I called this one in 2011 with my original steam review:

    "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SOMEONE THINKS PEOPLE WILL PLAY EPIC FAIL RUBBISH FOR FREE AND PAY MONEY FOR PREMIUM EPIC FAIL RUBBISH"

    Was I right? Of course I was right.
  14. alva5174
    Mar 20, 2016
    0
    Where to start i guess
    pros:
    good concept you choose to be a cop or a criminal creating your character is nice i really enjoyed that. customizing your car and clothing is nice too. i like arresting criminals, thats fun but you die when your about to arrest them, the animation takes enough time for another ciminal to kill you, but still i like arresting when it happens. Cons    Where to start i guess
    pros:
    good concept you choose to be a cop or a criminal
    creating your character is nice i really enjoyed that.
    customizing your car and clothing is nice too.
    i like arresting criminals, thats fun but you die when your about to arrest them, the animation takes enough time for another ciminal to kill you, but still i like arresting when it happens.
    Cons
    expensive to buy good weapons and modifications. $$$$$
    i agree that the physics with the driving is ridiculous, i couldnt drive a car straight thats how bad i was.
    the players in this game, most if not all hate the fact you die often
    Not very many team players
    players that claim to help you may get upset when they lose 5 games in a row with you as a beginner but some are helpful
    Be prepared to be called noob often or something else.
    when higher levels group up with you, sometimes they abandon you before or during the mission which really upset me. i'm the type that if i lose hey ill give it a good effort, i didn't leave a group because there was a bronze or beginner, but that's just me. some people are way over their head with winning only mentality.
    your own team mates kill you because either you are dying to much or because they are childish.
    when you finally are good, you get accused of being a hacker, its like the salem witch trials sometimes.
    the hitbox is ridiculous, there is not headshot, nonexistent. basically you die if you get your fingers shot,,,basically
    the missions are cookie cutter, same thing, you raid , protect. If crim, you raid, brake into things, blow up things, etc,
    rockets, people with rockets like to ruin your day
    its NOT a fair fight, people who are gold de threat to bronze and enjoy themselves in the bronze district as well as silver. so Even fights are nonexistent.
    Things that people say are very sexist. masochist.
    hackers are not banned and when they are they make a new player and do it all over again.
    people tell you to get good and they are hacking and that pretty much upset me. a hacker thinks they are better than me because they use and manipulate the game so they win with little to no effort and claim to be good anddd then gloat and tell others to get good, yea i don't know what to tell ya.

    In the end i played this game last year and played it again for a couple weeks. and its the same thing. bad all around. if you want a game that makes you feel bad for being the cause of losing missions by "team players" this game isn't for you. i did make it to silver and rank over 180 but you have to put up with everything to get by to level. in the end everyone likes winning and hardly anyone loses without being sore about it. its fun for a while then its just terrible, . and sometimes the missions are on the opposite of where your at so by the time you get there, people are all dead and gone. this game is riddled with hackers and the community is pretty bad. Prepare for alot of lagggggg. good concept but bad execution. and little respect for the gaming community in respects to hacking and fair fighting districts.    … Expand
  15. Darkmark
    Aug 28, 2015
    0
    A perk that gives immunity to vehicle damage?!?!?!?!? YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE APB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  16. Ge0vane7
    Jan 4, 2015
    4
    Graphics, layout and good gameplay but the server is very fault, sometimes it takes more than 15 minutes to find a party. Although there are two factions on both servers the number of criminals is devastating. And PVP is unbalanced exponentially. The missions are repetitive. Anyway everything you do in the game, in addition to missions very very boring, is to destroy everything thatGraphics, layout and good gameplay but the server is very fault, sometimes it takes more than 15 minutes to find a party. Although there are two factions on both servers the number of criminals is devastating. And PVP is unbalanced exponentially. The missions are repetitive. Anyway everything you do in the game, in addition to missions very very boring, is to destroy everything that crosses your path.… Expand
  17. Tayto
    Sep 21, 2014
    2
    I really wanted to enjoy this game, I really did. But the issues of instability, rubberbanding, FPS dropping to single digits even when I can play this game at 60 FPS easily, and a playerbase that's perpetually angry drove me away.

    Planetside 2, a horribly optimized game runs better than APB:R. Now that's saying something.
  18. Utilizator
    Aug 19, 2014
    3
    After having played this game for 3 years and put over 1000 hours into it. I can say for certain that this game is a fundamentally flawed broken unfinished piece of sh!t, no one wants to play this game and FOR A GOOD REASON.

    Apb has a huge potential to be something great, It has the hands down best customization any game ever made has to offer. You can create your own cars and clothing    After having played this game for 3 years and put over 1000 hours into it. I can say for certain that this game is a fundamentally flawed broken unfinished piece of sh!t, no one wants to play this game and FOR A GOOD REASON.

    Apb has a huge potential to be something great, It has the hands down best customization any game ever made has to offer. You can create your own cars and clothing and truely be anything you want to be with little limitation. But on the gameplay side of things, while the the idea behind the gameplay and the missions and all that stuff is solid, the fundamental design flaws prevents it from living up to that potential. On top of that, the game is littered with many bugs, imbalances and, serious client side and crippling server side performance issues. And most importantly, this game attracts and empowers a lot of duchebags to do maximum duchebaggery, they are like the soul of APB (and not in a good way)

    So what are these fundamental game design flaws?

    Map designs that do not take into account what this game is about and how it is played, players love exploiting the flawed map designs to cheat and the mission by placing items on high up unreachable places and obstructing or destroying the only way to get there, making the whole mission invalid and granting them an automatic win. Or putting the item in a car and circumvent the speed penalty for doing so by just pushing the car with another car and driving on the part of the map that is impossible to intercept.

    Mission designs that give no consideration to the locations or nonsensical objectives that dont take into consideration the nature of the game. For example, investigating an ATM in a middle of an open 80-150m space with no cover and surrounded by sniping positions. Or pointless objectives that are impossible for one of the teams to do, like stopping a car from going through 3 unspecified checkpoints on random locations on the map. Some mission objectives are placed in locations that greatly favor one of the teams.

    Almost all missions in this game require you to camp the objective, the whole game is based on camping and some combinations of map locations and mission objectives make it impossible to finish some missions because the enemy team is camping some roof top that has only one way up with guns pointed at it and is too high to be sniped.

    Theres also weapons that dont belong in this game, Such as the OSMAW rocket launcher that makes any semblance of a balance in this game, hit rock bottom.

    No one will ever fight fair, they will use every dirty trick in the book, any given opportunity to cheat the mission and will have no mercy for your rank 25 noob as.s.

    They will be rude and obnoxious about it, they will message you without provocation just to insult you during or after the mission when they won it. The forum community is just as rotten.

    I also have to mention the broken matchmaking that throws low level beginner players against high level duchebags that have unlocked every possible balance breaking gear and know every possible game exploit and are not ashamed to use all that to stomp the low level new players that dont have jack sh!t unlocked. The more game breaking gear is, the higher level locked it is, making sure that people who dont need it to win the mission have it and people who could really use it dont, witch tips the scales to a 90 angle between both sides.

    If you have no job and live in your mom's basement, even you will find this game to be the biggest grind fest ever conceived, if you do not have a sh!t bucket nearby, this game is not for you. Even with premium, be prepared to put at least 400 hours to get on a level playing field with the rest of the players or your as.s will be stomped every mission you do. You will get 90% grind and 10% actual enjoyment before you get to a point where you have all the necessary gear unlocked and can start playing the game just for fun.

    If all of this wasnt enough, G1" is "working hard" to add all kinds of new and exciting ways to be an **** in the game. Such as the "car surfer" character mod that allows your character to ride on top of a car and fire any bul.lsh!t weapon you want at your opposition who is chasing you and blowing up their car, eliminating every little remaining chance for the enemy team to get their hands on that item you are running away with like a **** instead of fighting, throwing out the last remaining bit of fairness and balance out the window and ensuring the victory for your team.

    A car surfing OSMAW **** on top of a car with other cowboy hat duchebags is like a cherry on top of a stinking sh!t cake. It is the symbol of everything that is wrong with this game.

    i also forgot to mention, the gun play is a joke, there is no proper bullet collisions with map objects, making you hit invisible forcefields and random objects you arent even aiming at, your weapons lock up and dont shoot if you pressed shoot a tiny bit too soon after you finished climbing a ladder or getting out of the car. There is no such thing as hitboxes for body parts or headshots or any of that modern stuff, the whole player is one big hitbox (usualy bigger than the player model so they can kill you without even touching you. The servers run on a 40ms (idea conditions - also never) tick rate that effects the gun play, and other aspects of the game. This means things only happen every 40ms, you can feel this delay the most when you are driving a car or pressing F to do an action, you can also see the shots you fired at lets say a car, hit it after some delay. This is kind of a problem to the gun play, you get the kill or not depends a lot not on your skill but on factors like if your shots are at the beginning or the end of that 40ms gap, witch is also greatly effected by crippling server side lag issues. It also seems that some people are favored by the server over others, they are so called lag armor users or people that kill you faster than the max fire rate of the weapon they are using. Its different from person to person, i guess the server somehow lines up people in a specific order when it processes information coming from them. There is also a big problem called ghost shots, its when you shoot but for whatever reason the server doesnt register any of your shots.    … Expand
  19. Ragegoat
    Jul 11, 2014
    1
    APB was a great game that died in economic fail. Then some other people bought it and turned it into the worst form of pay2win game. Paying players run around with golden guns which are far superior to anything else the game offers, completely ruining the (previously fairly good) balance of the game. Since a four-vs-four competitive multiplayer game will suffer greatly from bad balancing,APB was a great game that died in economic fail. Then some other people bought it and turned it into the worst form of pay2win game. Paying players run around with golden guns which are far superior to anything else the game offers, completely ruining the (previously fairly good) balance of the game. Since a four-vs-four competitive multiplayer game will suffer greatly from bad balancing, this intentional bad balancing will ruin it for everyone, probably even the guy with the golden gun. Steer clear of this!… Expand
  20. cylian3
    Jul 7, 2014
    3
    It is truly a shame to see a wonderful concept of a video game to turn rotten thanks to a few block-headed developers and producers that seemingly want the game to go under for a second time with their nail-point pushing of Armas Marketplace/Paid premium advantages, temporary in-game items and now years of ongoing yo-yo'ing server stability issues.

    The neglect of this game by the    It is truly a shame to see a wonderful concept of a video game to turn rotten thanks to a few block-headed developers and producers that seemingly want the game to go under for a second time with their nail-point pushing of Armas Marketplace/Paid premium advantages, temporary in-game items and now years of ongoing yo-yo'ing server stability issues.

    The neglect of this game by the creators has to be the biggest I have ever seen besides the one in Dota 2. Early attempts to connect with the community was promising with the TMC being announced (Test Monkey Crew) whereas a select few out of thousands of applications from the community were chosen to spearhead testing and feedback of test versions of APB. Alas, the "plan" was very quickly shut down due to a huge lack of planning/structure.

    Live, actual communication between the crew and It's leader (Jared Parks) had to be done through scraped-together Ventrilo/Teamspeak servers that was supplied by members of the crew themselves and the way they reported bugs changed about 3-4 times under the lapse of a month, varying from sending emails to report sites to using special forum sections. It mostly consisted of everyone sending group emails which caused massive waves of spam, the traffic from a non-busy hour being enough to fill maybe 2-3 pages of hotmail's email list within an hour.

    Times and plans for actual testing (You had to do it with everyone else with maybe 30-60 minutes notice on beforehand) was made up and changed frequently. Needless to say me knowing all this, I was a part of the hand-picked elite team and thus, when I say GamerFirst's ability to organize and create proper communication is putrid, It's an understatement.

    There has been promises on their blog that a revamp of the game's outdated Unreal 3 Engine is under way but seeing the active and current years of neglect, I don't see the likelyhood of G1 getting back any of the respect they've lost to be very big.    … Expand
  21. CallybreX
    Jun 23, 2014
    0
    Nice Game, but Punkbuster is GOD for them. And they do not lift Banns which are actually false positives.

    The Concept is nice : Enforcers against Criminals, but Enforcers are Gangs like the Crims. So the Chaos starts in the Streets of San Paro.

    So my Review gives just a one.
  22. slumpy
    May 15, 2014
    4
    APB:reloaded; the promise and shell of great beginnings seldom finished. You can almost see the diamond in the ruff here... Unfortunately it falls several feet short of actually hitting the mark.

    THE GOOD - Graphics, are pretty decent, especially for a game advancing in age running on an older version the Unreal 3 Engine. - Customization, hands down the best I have ever seen in    APB:reloaded; the promise and shell of great beginnings seldom finished. You can almost see the diamond in the ruff here... Unfortunately it falls several feet short of actually hitting the mark.

    THE GOOD

    - Graphics, are pretty decent, especially for a game advancing in age running on an older version the Unreal 3 Engine.

    - Customization, hands down the best I have ever seen in any game, ever.

    - Game play is decent, like every kid's game of cops and robbers made into video game form. So, it's not bad, if a little repetitive.

    THE BAD

    - despite the graphics being somewhat decent the old engine they use does not support many common features, such as dynamic lighting. Which often leave the game feeling a little too.... "plastic". Not really a big deal, however.

    - Most of the customization is locked behind a pay wall.

    - Outside of extended character and car customization the monthly "premium" fee does not grant the customer anything of value.

    - One trick pony. Quite simply once you've been through one series of missions, you've been through every mission you ever go through in APB.

    - P2W one of the few legitimate cases of there actually being a culture of "pay to win". Many veterans will assert that these weapons are simply convenience "side grades" which, if true, really begs the question why every premium player rocks non-stock ARMAS (in game store) only weapons.

    - Matchmaking is nonexistent. Although players are separated into three main brackets (Gold, Silver, Bronze) and several sub-brackets in each "league". At least that's the official story. In practice the matchmaker seems to match anyone and everyone for no apparent reason regardless of their league bracket. this mainly results in "Golds" farming silver shards and using the excuse that "their are no gold districts" -- Which, mind you, is true, but only because (literally) every gold is farming silver districts. basically their arguments fall flat on their face. Also be prepared for the fact that most people in the gold league are clans operating in 3 to 5 man premades "PUG"stomping silvers.

    This, in my estimation, is the games biggest downfall as it breeds resentment amongst newer players as they are mercilessly stomped by these "PUGstars". Many will cite the frustration of fighting against far better equipped and much more experience opponents as their primary reason for leaving the game.

    - Hacking. Is reportedly quite a prevalent issue in the game. granted, most "hackusations" (as the community likes to put it) are the result of particularly skilled players running all over PUG's. However, there are and will always be readily available hacks to anyone who cares to look for them. They are not hard to find. I have no idea just how widespread the hacking issue is -- But my impression is that it's not that bad, though by no means a total myth.

    - Server stability. has long been an issue, long before G1 took the reins. Unfortunately this has not changed since then and is unlikely to ever be "fixed".

    - Dwindling population. This game is hemorrhaging players like a hemophiliac stuck through the gut with a long sword. Ultimately this results in mainly the PUGstompers lingering around while newcomers quit for greener pastures.

    CONCLUSION:

    The games base shows a lot of potential, however, G1 has shown little interest in realizing that potential. Opting, instead, to use APB as a platform with which to sell clothes for people to play virtual dolls.

    That said, it boats a truly impressing and outstanding character customization system that puts even the best MMRPG's to shame. If there's one feature in APB that will keep you coming back, its designing your character and cars. I simply cannot extol the awesomeness of this system enough.

    Gameplay is decent enough, and the game is worth a romp considering its pricetag ("F2P"). I would recommend checking it out simply because it is free. It will definitely take a week of your life before you grow bored of it.    … Expand
  23. AngryBadger
    May 10, 2014
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The character customization was absolutely beyond anything I have ever seen in a game and the graphics are decent; so, as much as I would like to, it would be unfair to give it a 0. Yes. that's pretty much the only good I see in this game. I can trick out my character and car for hours on end, making it stand out from the rest; but what good is that if the game is unplayable 80% of the time? You're probably asking yourself, "What does that mean?" Well this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjn8Hm--eMk should explain most of where the problem lies - in APB:R's NetCoding and G1's Servers; it's complete ♥♥♥♥. I'll admit I don't have the best internet, but this game makes me feel like I would be less frustrated than if I were to have no internet connection at all - it's that bad. If you're not getting disconnected every hour or two, you're probably looking like this right now: http://imageshack.com/a/img843/1781/sw1u3.jpg
    If you're lucky, you'll get a two - three hour "grace period" where instances like the video and picture doesn't happen (as often). And believe you me, that was one of the happiest moments of my life. Oh but it doesn't stop there..if this isnt bad enough, your first impressions of this game will be greeted by login errors and server crashes! Want more? Well here's something that will make you want to quit. You're in one of your "grace periods" and happily decide to K (ready) up for a mission in a bronze server. The mission starts and look who is on the other team..silver threat players. Seems legit right? Turns out all of them are deathreating gold threat players, happily stomping on your team because "Hue, dhers liek, noe 1 in da g0ld server, huhee.gg n00bz". What I found funny was that if all these deathreat rejects were to stay their threat and go into their own server, it wouldn't be quite as "empty" now would it? If that short little story was "TL;DR" for you, the basic knowledge floating around is the fact that the matchmaking is flawed; VERY flawed and the "good" players take full advantage of it. You'll see yourself facing players who are a higher threat and 100+ ranks higher than you - on a regular basis.

    Cheers and good luck from Canada.    … Expand
  24. Spaddelhater
    Apr 22, 2014
    2
    This game is **** Before anybody starts flaming that I am noob or anything, I have wasted over 600 hours, 150$+ in this game and I am gold threat.
    I first started playing this game about 3 years back. The max rank at that time was 195. I was in love with the game, it was so much fun at first. So I started getting into it. Soon I realised that this game was and is far from beeing balanced.    This game is **** Before anybody starts flaming that I am noob or anything, I have wasted over 600 hours, 150$+ in this game and I am gold threat.
    I first started playing this game about 3 years back. The max rank at that time was 195. I was in love with the game, it was so much fun at first. So I started getting into it. Soon I realised that this game was and is far from beeing balanced. I will cover EVERY aspect I hate about this game right here, so lean back and let's get on to it.
    First: About 2 years ago the performance of the game DRASTICLY got worse. This is because (and APB offically admited this) they don't know their game. They changed a couple of codes around and **** up big time. They had no backup data whatsoever and screwed the game over completly. Irepairably. They want to fix it with an engine, but still it will take at least a year for this to come out. These lagspikes are crappy annoying as hell. If you are in a 1v1 fight you loose or win countless times not because of skill, but because of mini-lags that either you or the opponent has. A better computer changes NOTHING. It's just the way the game is programmed. This is fueled by server-lags. My record ping in one match was 1500 and I have really good internet and a download-rate of about 2MB per second. This is something UNACCEPTABLE. Most of the times the servers **** up, they could get better servers, even people offered to give away their gaming-pcs to be servers for this game, but for some religious reason or anything the APB developers don't accept that. Maybe it's too complicated for them to set up new servers.
    Next thing: Weapon balancing. NEVER IN THE HISTORY OF THIS GAME HAS ANY WEAPON BEEN COMPLELTY BALANCED. The oca-Nano is still imbalanced as **** percs are crap, they now managed to ruin the Colby completly to render it useless and a SHAW > everything. I had bronze-guys kill me with a SHAW, why? Well, I came to them from behind started firing my tommy-gun and what do they do? They turn around slowly and POOM. Spray n Pray, kill. This game is about 15% Skill, 40% weapon choice and 45% hoping that the server doesn't lag. I had a pause of one year and this was the first thing I saw in this game. A year ago the same thing was with the Whisper. And it's still dang-strong. I don't even wanna mention the ACES, this is propably the most ridiculous gun I've seen in the entire game so far. Kill time of about 0.000002 Seconds, without Spray n Pray to say the least. That **** needs such a BIG nerf.
    Another thing that is still crappy: P2W. There is no REAL P2W but there is a: P2 be a douche, P2 level faster, Pay for EVERYTHING. The only thing missing is that you can buy the easter-special grenade launcher on ARMAS for 500$ and then I would be done with this game. The guns on ARMAS cost around 20-60$, depending on if ARMAS thinks it's gonna sell well or not. These guns are sometimes even ARMAS-only guns like the CR5 or the ACES. I don't understand why people think it's justified to put those guns on ARMAS only. And btw: The online-shop is the ONLY place in game where you can get a weapon for lifetime. Don't even bother wasting your money there, it's just gonna get you nothing!
    Next up: Physics. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are crappy as hell. No proper physics allowed in this game.
    Now, my favourite part: Matchmaking. I get onto my criminal account (R141) and I get called as backup. I have a trainy and a bronze in my team, and then me, the goldie. Against? Correct: 3 Maxed out Golds. The game doesn't allow my team to call any more backup. So WP APB, this is a fair matchmaking. Couldn't be much worse, could it? They at least managed to get a proper definition of bronze-silver and gold through the points, though it's not really stable. I have a friend who switched from gold to silver and back for 74 times now, I am not ****ting you. This is so ridiculous. I don't even want to say anything else to that.
    This game is not just that noob unfriendly if it comes to matchmaking. If you start the game first time you will get into a server, be on auto-ready and automatically recieve a mission. Noobs don't even know what missions are or they are too ****ing braindead to realise that they are not supposed to shoot the green-guys but the red ones. And most of the time noobs don't see through a ton of flashy stuff that they even GOT a mission. So WP APB again, noob friendly like a competitive Counter-Strike server for CS noobs.

    Conclusion: Try it out if you don't think I am telling the truth. The first 100 hours are really fun to play. I started playing 2 weeks ago again and the first week was actually pretty fun to get used to everything and so on. But now, I am catching myself raging about all the **** this game still contains. And I haven't even mentioned mission-running or the cheat-system punkbuster which doesn't do **** and causes trouble at any give occasion. All in all, not worth more than 2/10 points.    … Expand
  25. crayven
    Apr 6, 2014
    0
    Alright so played this thing in 2011 when it went "Free to play" ( you'll see why the quotes later ) and go bought by G1.
    Played it for about 5-6 months until the amount of hackers and P2W ( the real side of their so -called free to play ) guns made me ragequit after i maxed all contacts.
    Back then i read the reviews here, thought to myself...they are pretty mild compared to reality, and    Alright so played this thing in 2011 when it went "Free to play" ( you'll see why the quotes later ) and go bought by G1.
    Played it for about 5-6 months until the amount of hackers and P2W ( the real side of their so -called free to play ) guns made me ragequit after i maxed all contacts.
    Back then i read the reviews here, thought to myself...they are pretty mild compared to reality, and there sure are a lot of 10 for a horrid game, but i didn't bother making a review about it.

    2014 - i went it to try again the game.
    Conclusion?
    It's the same cesspool i have left but now WORSE.

    Oh where to begin...
    First of all the game now freezes and stutters like crazy because it keeps loading and loading your memory with every design on cars, characters etc until eventually even my 16 Gb RAM rig died...it just DIED. It froze and then blue screen.
    Second, the car driving is miserable, they still have their "innovative" server-side driving, this means you are basically piloting the Mars rover ( with the same reply time as the **** rover ).
    Basically i was bouncing from wall to wall while driving while my ping was - supposedly - 30-45ms.
    I dare not imagine how it is for those of you with higher pings.

    Thirdly, the physics, dear GOD the physics.
    Cars flip over like they are made of jelly, suspension is inexistant and basically every sharp turn is a potential side-flip even if you are driving at 5kmph and turn sloooowly.
    Hitboxes remain the same idiotic "ghost zones" - meaning if you have a small character, shooting ABOVE YOU ( in the air ), you will take damage as if your character's head would still be there.
    Since the game tries to make hit boxes equal ( more likely they were too lazy to design a variable one ), your hit box "signature" in the game is that of FAT **** whose ass is visible from half a mile even if you play a midget.
    Of course this tends to be super abused by experienced veterans like crazy.

    Doors cannot be opened normally, but only kicked in - which locks your character in a stupid animation for 2-3 seconds, enough for the guy on the other side to do some lead surgery on you.
    Ugh...what else..missions..oh yeah

    Missions are your basic go here, kill them, get item, deliver, or a combination of these.
    The "lore" is a joke, it's basically some psychopaths waging a goddamn war over 20$ or someone;'s dog , or some other stupid **** like that.
    Nobody looks.

    Matchmaking, oh boy did they **** up with this one..and they never fixed it.
    2011 i said matchmaking was a disaster.
    2014 - nothing changed.

    I still have my old enforcer, but i figured i'd try the game as a new guy - BIG MISTAKE.
    I think i did like 40-50 missions, all of them ( not 90% or 95% , but ALL ) were me with some silver guy VS an army of fully loaded maxed out character.
    And yes all guns do damage, so it IS possible to kill the enemies even with starter gun pretty well.

    But there are things that tip that balance.
    Deliver a car?
    They got a rocket launcher, you don't.

    Get the package?
    They got a fast car, you don't.

    And the list goes on with subtle ways to **** with you.

    The community is a dump...oh i'm sorry...i don't want to offend the DUMP.
    Plenty of russians who seems to think their language is the new global and expect you to know it, and if you don't yell at you ( in russian, for extra comedy ) for not doing what they said.
    A lot of players who don't even look at chat. I kept writing information about enemies and they were not even replying or doing what i said, just go in there, die , rinse, repeat.
    The forums are horrible. basically if you have ANY legitimate problem with the game the forum trolls' reply is "don't like it , get lost" and to make things worse , the forum MODERATORS are chiming in...saying the same thing.

    There was a whole PR disaster when it was found that several such moderators ( who by the way are allowed to play the game ) were hacking and/or covering for hackers by removing posts bashing them.
    So you can see how "unbiased" their forums are. Support is non-existent and i don't think G1 is to blame. I simply haven't FOUND a button to ask for support in game, so this is probably a RTW "feature" ( like many asian developed games, support is a foreign word it seems ) So far the only thing that is still good - and ironically keeps attracting me to the game is the amazing character creator, that no game has ever done before...and no game has done ever since. It's huge and i mean HUGE. Well, they managed to royally screw that one too. See, they release regular "patches" and in them you would expect them to fix bugs, right? But no, instead, more ARMAS crap. And yes as a F2P game they SHOULD do that, but NOT ONLY that. Main issues remain. Oh yeah it's also horrible overpriced - everything in the shop is sooo overpriced. Overall a superb character creator a good game does not make. And the rest is not a game it's masochism.    … Expand
  26. Slippylick
    Feb 28, 2014
    1
    I really tried to like this game. I remember hearing about it for the first time and was stoked. All in all the game sounds good and looks good on paper, but that's where the good ends. I have tried three times to get into and play this game but was met with garbage each and every time.
  27. JohnAbruzzi
    Feb 13, 2014
    2
    1. Game is full of lags
    2. Game is for pay to win ****
    3. Enormus amount of hackers(especially aimbots and damage increase hacks)
    4. If you tipe /fps in the square below it says you have normal ping but the game just lags and lags.
  28. 3dom
    Oct 2, 2013
    0
    Somewhat interesting gameplay cannot compensate toxic community, GMs supporting exploiters against normal players horrible game engine performance, blatant pay2win weapons.
  29. Aralvar
    Sep 26, 2013
    4
    I'm giving it a 4 because there are no permanent guns for Free Players. Otherwise, I might give it an 8 or 9. It's like GTA but in an MMORPG, which would be good if it weren't for the fact that all free players have to rent ALL guns besides the ones they start out with. No thanks.
  30. TheRubixGamer
    Jul 13, 2013
    4
    I think this game is awesome for a free-to-play game but there is one HUGE mistake that ruins the whole game, the matchmaking. Most PVP games work like this, levels 1-5 will fight each other and then 6-10 will fight each other and so on but APB Reloaded puts anyone against anyone meaning it could be a level 1 player vs a level 20 player. I had several games in row where I couldn't killI think this game is awesome for a free-to-play game but there is one HUGE mistake that ruins the whole game, the matchmaking. Most PVP games work like this, levels 1-5 will fight each other and then 6-10 will fight each other and so on but APB Reloaded puts anyone against anyone meaning it could be a level 1 player vs a level 20 player. I had several games in row where I couldn't kill anyone because it took about 3 magazines to take down one person and it only took 3 shots to kill me.

    The matchmaking system is extremely unbalanced and broken so unless you have some serious patience do not play this game.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Eurogamer
    Aug 7, 2012
    50
    This isn't a great game, it's not even a good game, but it is the closest thing we've got to a cops-and-robbers MMO - which is, I suspect, one of the all-time great video game concepts. One day, somebody's going to do it right, and they're going to become very rich indeed.
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  2. Gamer.nl
    Apr 28, 2012
    50
    Although APB has a few good ideas, the execution just isn't fun enough. It presents itself as an online Grand Theft Auto, but in its core is nothing more than deathmatch in an open world. Shooting isn't balanced well, and the number of missions is so limited that it becomes a bore really fast.
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  3. Eurogamer Portugal
    Feb 20, 2012
    60
    The immediacy of the game with fast missions and compact worlds allows constant action, which grants immediate satisfaction. However, it takes more than flowered shirts and deadly shotguns to create a committed relationship with the player.
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