Evolve

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4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 975 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 538 out of 975
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  1. Brendan3D
    Mar 2, 2015
    1
    I felt compelled to write a review for this as it was so disappointed. My girlfriend got me Evolve on the PS4 as a late valentines day gift, she knew I was quite excited about the concept of it and the reviews on IGN and others were really good.

    But after playing the game for just over 2 hours it became unbearably repetitive. In just 3 hours and I was bored of the whole concept of the    I felt compelled to write a review for this as it was so disappointed. My girlfriend got me Evolve on the PS4 as a late valentines day gift, she knew I was quite excited about the concept of it and the reviews on IGN and others were really good.

    But after playing the game for just over 2 hours it became unbearably repetitive. In just 3 hours and I was bored of the whole concept of the game.

    No real skill involved in the first person element. And as the monster you just simply run and away from the humans until you in a position to attack them once you have fully evolved.

    In my option in needed to me much more close quarter fights when the monster is small, with the map opening up more as it evolves bigger with more several stages and more incentive to at least confront the humans or at least tactically get past them i.e you have to go through a small area somewhere they have set up traps.

    As a human its very boring to chase after the monster for 20mins and he just runs away then fully evolves than you get to fight.

    The first person elements don't really involve any skills and its very unrewarding. I feel gutted my Mrs's had to throw money in the bin as the trade in value is terrible (probably because everyone else is getting rid of it too).

    You have been warned.    … Expand
  2. Bigbangrex
    Apr 10, 2015
    1
    Evolve is a massive cash cow and a disgrace to gaming, it has anti consumer practices like day 1 DLC and a "PC Monster race edition" that adds nothing but more DLC, this game feels really empty without all the DLC and paying EXTRA to get features THAT WERE IN THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE is bullsh*t.

    Now that's out of the way how about the gameplay? Well it's decent at best, it gets very    Evolve is a massive cash cow and a disgrace to gaming, it has anti consumer practices like day 1 DLC and a "PC Monster race edition" that adds nothing but more DLC, this game feels really empty without all the DLC and paying EXTRA to get features THAT WERE IN THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE is bullsh*t.

    Now that's out of the way how about the gameplay? Well it's decent at best, it gets very repetitive very quickly as the game only features one gamemode, YES I know there's more, but the only gamemode that anyone plays is Hunt while the others are never touched. Playing as the monster is kinda cool, but it should have been in first person, so I had an idea who I was killing. Playing as the hunters was boring for me because all of the characters feel like carbon copies of other FPS classes, except the Trapper who is unique.

    The story? It's terrible ESPECIALLY THE ENDING, and the game has next to new character, all of the characters are all bland and boring.

    The graphics while amazing, you do need a powerful PC for it to run on max settings, overall the world of Evolve looks great!

    Overall Evolve is a massive cash cow and a disgrace to gaming, plus I predicted that this game would suffer the same fate as Titanfall in my steam review, "Hyped with lots of DLC, dies within a month" and I was right, right now in the time of this review the original Killing Floor had more players (And it's dieing because of Killing Floor 2 and the lack of new content) then Evolve, that's a joke, like this game and it's precious DLC life support.

    Whenever you see 2K publish or Turtle Rock Studios develop a new game, just remember they shat out this massive lazy cash cow, and don't fall into the same trap, especially 2K, they love chopping up content and selling it as DLC, look at Borderlands 2, the Pre-Sequel and the Sid Meier's games, look at all that DLC they sell, and it's getting worse.    … Expand
  3. Rikchell
    Apr 10, 2015
    1
    Its a repetitive game, have few players on PC. Has the most overpriced DLCs i've already seen. And to get even worst, the balances that had happened don't fiz the bugs, but always nerfs the hunters and makes the mosnters even more overpowered. So...Don't worth buying this.
  4. barry2680
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Evolve is like a kiss on the cheek and a knee to the nuts. The gameplay while fun, is repetitive and the game is severely lacking in content. To make matters worse the 'base' game is a whopping £35, the price you'd expect a AAA game with a lot of content to be. The 'base' game is severely lacking in maps and characters, but wait! for a mere £25 you can unlock the 'full' game adding in aEvolve is like a kiss on the cheek and a knee to the nuts. The gameplay while fun, is repetitive and the game is severely lacking in content. To make matters worse the 'base' game is a whopping £35, the price you'd expect a AAA game with a lot of content to be. The 'base' game is severely lacking in maps and characters, but wait! for a mere £25 you can unlock the 'full' game adding in a few more characters and monsters. (some that aren't even in the game yet (yes this game isn't finished and they expect you to pay full price for what is essentially still a beta))

    So £60 for a game that's not even finished, severely lacking in content, day 1 DLC and even still £35 for the 'base'(stripped down) version. Don't give these people your money, this is everything that's wrong with greedy publishers trying to milk you like cattle. Show them you are not a mindless animal and don't purchase this milking product!    … Expand
  5. popqazguy
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Not enough content to be worth $80. Simple as that. Check out the store page for yourself. Its a game that milks its customers. Wait for the game to be the inevitable GOTY bundle, vote with your wallets, and stop letting game companies think these kinds of business practices are fine.
  6. lexgamer
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    Ok, so the game is fun, aside from really requiring a group with headsets.

    All the DLC, monsters, hunters, skins plus an actual campaign, would be about enough content for a 60 dollar game, but as it is, you pay 60 for the game, 15 for one of the next monsters, I'd assume 15 for the 5th monster, 6.99 for each set of monster skins, and like, what was it, 3.99 for the weapons skins    Ok, so the game is fun, aside from really requiring a group with headsets.

    All the DLC, monsters, hunters, skins plus an actual campaign, would be about enough content for a 60 dollar game, but as it is, you pay 60 for the game, 15 for one of the next monsters, I'd assume 15 for the 5th monster, 6.99 for each set of monster skins, and like, what was it, 3.99 for the weapons skins (basically types of things normal games just have, being withheld on day one behind a pay wall), plus 25 bucks for the next 4 hunters, then i'd guess half that for the last 2 hunters. and THAT'S assuming you only buy all the bundles, it's more individually.

    Listed like that, you're looking at nearly 200 bucks for all the content that would maybe be worth 40-50, total joke.

    At least it's fun like I said, so if you already bought it like me, silver lining?    … Expand
  7. TheDahaka
    Feb 14, 2015
    0
    A boring pile of overhyped horse crap, that will have its player base die faster than Titanfall. Feel free to throw your money away if you must have this game. Feel free to throw even more away with tye countless micro transaction options it offers.
  8. velvetmeds
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This game is very boring. Once you have played 10 minutes, you've played all of it. There's no variation, the DLC practices are an abomination and there's not enough content. There are already plenty of good online FPSes out there, this is just another one saturating the market, completely unecessary, no reason to buy this over any other. Avoid it.
  9. ThePCStandard
    Feb 15, 2015
    0
    First thing first. I don't own the game. Here is why......

    $85 of DAY ONE DLC!!! They took a meat cleaver to this game. Cut out most of the content to sell in top of the $60 entry fee. It sets terrible a precedent for future games.

    If you purchase this or like this you're enabling the death of gaming as we know it.
  10. badatvidyagames
    Nov 6, 2018
    0
    jesus christ, boring garbage, I cant fathom while anyone would rate this positively
  11. frankie-Z
    Feb 14, 2015
    0
    bought it and was treated to $130 worth of DLC not included in the game..
    the game is a DLC scam ..
    gameplay is maybe 5 there's no campaign no real replay after about a day ..
    Just Turtle Rock cashing in on the name they had after making L4D ..
    Scam game is a scam
  12. murtle52
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This is greed at it's worst. If you can't have a halfway decent revenue model for your game without pissing off literally almost ALL of the community then what was the point to begin with?
    Oh yeah, console drones ARE that dumb.
  13. Takeda
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This is EA level of stupidity in regards to DLC, and the unnecessary fracturing of a complete game, all for the sake of the almighty dollar.

    Pathetic.
  14. m500ario
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    Out of the box and the game already doesn't work. It's riddled with DLC so you can see where the developer's priorities lie. I feel cheated. There's already nearly a page of DLC on the steam store page that adds up to $85, much more than the core game itself.
  15. hooner
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    Feck you and your DLC money grabbing bullsheet. Just release a game and we'll buy it like in the old days. C0cks. more words more words more words.more words more words more words.
  16. Newfr
    Feb 18, 2015
    0
    Sadly you can't edit reviews on metacritic so i have to write a new one. Why i'm doing it? Basically i feel that i have to make some clarification of my position after i saw TotalBiscuit's video about DLCs and Evolve.
    So ok, at the moment we have 2 types of DLCs in Evolve: skin packs and unlocks. I'm strongly against both of this types of DLCs. Why? Ok, let's start with skin packs. I have    Sadly you can't edit reviews on metacritic so i have to write a new one. Why i'm doing it? Basically i feel that i have to make some clarification of my position after i saw TotalBiscuit's video about DLCs and Evolve.
    So ok, at the moment we have 2 types of DLCs in Evolve: skin packs and unlocks. I'm strongly against both of this types of DLCs. Why? Ok, let's start with skin packs. I have nothing against em in F2P games. It's basically "i like this game and want to support developers while look cool so this is an ideal solution". Yeap, i agree with that. But not in full price games. I don't get this TB's argument that "well, some devs have nothing to do in the end of dev circle so they make skins and **** that will be sold to you". So i miss the point when development circle became my problem. Maybe i'm old or something but i remember times when character skins or additional (secret) characters were unlocks (for some in-game achievements) and absolutely free. And now it's DLCs! And i must be ok with that? No, thank you. Everyone who said "oh, it's nothing! It's just a cosmetic things" miss the point that most of people who disagree with that have. Yes, i can buy it or not, that's not affect anything. But my point that AAA devs sells you less and less as a "complete game" every year and milk cash from you for thing that were free before. Especially now, after so much AAA titles turn out to be complete disasters.
    Now to unlocks. This one is simple. You can't trust developers with this one. It can be ok and you can unlock everything just by playing a few hours or that can be practically impossible (or require insane amount of time). Again why not to make every option available at the beginning? Oh, some people like this rank progression system and rewards each level? No problem! Make that skins as rewards, not DLCs. Everyone is happy. Except devs not concern with our happiness any more. Just about how to get into our wallets.
    You see, now devs take away things from you. One thing at each step, PRing that hard as some good thing. And i see some people are very happy with that. Like mod support. Sure there is no mod suport in Evolve. Otherwise who will ever buy your DLC if you can simply mod all that skins/characters/monsters into the game? And let me remind you that a lot of great games appear as mods: Team Fortress, DotA, Counter-Strike, Natural Selection, DayZ, The Stanley Parable and so on. A lot just stayed as mods. Now we more and more denied of that.
    And this glorified "12 unique hunters"? Oh come on, this is a skip plus locked set of weapons. Let's see, in Battlefield 4 (game with it's own huge problems) there are over 100 weapons to choose from and over 40 gadgets. Combine that with various attachments and scopes. Can you imagine how much "unique hunters" can you possibly make out of that? Can't you see that this "12 unique hunters" actually is just "less customization"? Why are some of players are so happy about that? I can't get it.
    In one point i agree with TB totally. Yes, Evolve is mediocre product and deserve 5 or 6 out of 10 if not all this DLCs/pre-order **** Just so happen due to poor PR and/or marketing that Evolve make it boil out for a lot of people. So no, not only Evolve is guilty in that regard but yes, i believe did a lot of things wrong (tons of day one DLCs, pricing of the game and DLCs and etc). So i believe it's ok to rate this game at 0 to send a message to game developers/publishers that we don't want **** like this at all. You can agree with that or not, i'm fine in any case. Just remember that attacking personalities and saying that everyone who doesn't agree that Evolve is wonderful are "trolls", "rage kids" or something speaks badly about you not the person you are attacking...    … Expand
  17. TheSmog
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This game gets old fast. Extremely repetitive and a shallow game for 60$. Don't waste your money, this game will cost less than a gourmet hamburger in a few months.
  18. Dop
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    I'm playing this with a friend that was dumb enough to buy this and developers/publishers should be ashamed of this garbage. The "game" itself is 60$ + Hunter DLC+Monster DLC+More DLC = around 180$ is the actual price. They probably cut the game to make this or is years apart of being a full game.

    Now to the apologist therapy group should be doing a simple math, before claiming that    I'm playing this with a friend that was dumb enough to buy this and developers/publishers should be ashamed of this garbage. The "game" itself is 60$ + Hunter DLC+Monster DLC+More DLC = around 180$ is the actual price. They probably cut the game to make this or is years apart of being a full game.

    Now to the apologist therapy group should be doing a simple math, before claiming that maps and game modes are "free".

    So to end this nightmare the game itself is a Poor Mp-Fps (titanfall,destiny both epic compared to this), in 3h/4h you can see everything the game has to offer and unless you can recruit 3-4 idiots to pay/play this quick cash grab, skip it or at least grab it on a sale for 20$ or less.    … Expand
  19. cfuvue
    Feb 28, 2015
    0
    A very incomplete and repetitive game. Games end in 5 minutes because of an inexperienced monster or games last longer than 25 minutes because the tracker doesn't know how to locate and trap the monster.
  20. wildemu
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Save your money for May so that you can support a real developer like cd projekt red that won't nickel and dime you left and right. This game has to fail in order to avoid a collapse in the gaming industry. I hope it bombs financially after reading quotes from the developer and publisher.
  21. paunch
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    This game costs $103 AUD in Australia ($79.99 USD in the steam store in AU) and there simply isn't enough things to do or long term replay value in my opinion to make it worth it.
  22. Showtyro
    May 19, 2015
    0
    I have been playing it during alpha and i liked it despite the fact that it felt more like a mod than a whole game. Anyway it was something new, mmorpg boss fighting with shooter like mechanics and i wanted to have it to my collection. Also it felt awesome that they gave the game to players for free to test rather than hyping us with screenshots and enhanced gameplay. So yeah, i wanted toI have been playing it during alpha and i liked it despite the fact that it felt more like a mod than a whole game. Anyway it was something new, mmorpg boss fighting with shooter like mechanics and i wanted to have it to my collection. Also it felt awesome that they gave the game to players for free to test rather than hyping us with screenshots and enhanced gameplay. So yeah, i wanted to buy it with all my heart! Then, when i went to buy it, i saw the DLC crap and turned around away from it. Now i went back to check it out, to see if they had any success with this dirty money milking scheme and all i could find was that there are 682 players online and that they "shipped out" (not sold) 2.5 million copies. Promising product, bad marketing - total failure. Just so you understand how much they failed with this one, most reviewers on steam did not play it for more than 5 hours. I have the options to review it on steam, since i have played it on Alpha and it says that the game is in my library, but when i try to post my review there, i get a red error message. They try to censor negative reviews as much as possible. Stay away from these people and their games. I will refuse to play this game even if it will go free and money will be given for playing it. It was a very upsetting experience. I hope this company will go out of business and out of gaming industry forever and serve as an example for everyone who tries to **** us like this.… Expand
  23. endertargaryen
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Day 1 DLC to actually have a complete game = -5 points.

    Other than that, it's a fun game for a few hours, then it's extremely repetitive. So review outside of DLC = 6/10, day 1 DLC = 1/10.

    Don't buy.
  24. Enforcer122
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    Do game developers live in the real world these days? I have at max, 3 or 4 decent friends who will play a game with me. All of us, go to university, have lives, hobbies, jobs, families etc. When I do eventually get the chance to sit down and play a game for an extended period of time, which isn't often, the chances of all my friends being online at once for a long enough period to play aDo game developers live in the real world these days? I have at max, 3 or 4 decent friends who will play a game with me. All of us, go to university, have lives, hobbies, jobs, families etc. When I do eventually get the chance to sit down and play a game for an extended period of time, which isn't often, the chances of all my friends being online at once for a long enough period to play a game like this is absolutely slim to none.

    This game is so absolutely multiplayer, that you can almost forget the idea of playing alone. Playing with strangers in a game like this just never works out. Soon as I played it, I realised the game was a shell. If you wanted what was inside the shell you'd have to pay money for DLC and microtransactions. How they think they can get away with that is beyond me and unacceptable. Terrible stuff.    … Expand
  25. Type4101
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    How many times are we going to see forced day-1 DLC and microtransactions in a full priced game? Evolve costs $60 plus at least another $80 in extra purchases, and the extremely limited content is over before it begins, even with extra purchases. You'll see everything the game has to offer in an afternoon. No single player means pestering friends to buy and play the game at the same timeHow many times are we going to see forced day-1 DLC and microtransactions in a full priced game? Evolve costs $60 plus at least another $80 in extra purchases, and the extremely limited content is over before it begins, even with extra purchases. You'll see everything the game has to offer in an afternoon. No single player means pestering friends to buy and play the game at the same time you happen to be available (limiting the game to younger teenagers, mostly, as older gamers rarely can get four friends together for very long). Overhyped and underwhelming. Don't pay for this rip-off.… Expand
  26. dlopatnikov
    Feb 16, 2015
    0
    Dear publishers. Give me day-one full-content, full-length games. Leave your DLC and micro-transactions to yourself. Stop bs gamers. I'm fed up already.
  27. SoniqCZ
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Yet another reminder that pre-purchasing any game is a bad idea. I pity all the players who just see the score of 83 on steam thinking it is an awesome game and pay 50€ for this. 50€ for this is just a fraud.
  28. DanielCorfour
    Feb 13, 2015
    0
    I'm going to be honest. I haven't played the game. Like not even the Beta. But I'm still going to give it a score of 0, because of it's day-one DLCs. All the DLC-s combined cost 130$.... Got that?!

    One-hundred-and-thirty. Plus a base game of 60$. Even if the base game was the best and biggest game ever, it still would be unacceptable(by the by, according to some, it isn't. It's    I'm going to be honest. I haven't played the game. Like not even the Beta. But I'm still going to give it a score of 0, because of it's day-one DLCs. All the DLC-s combined cost 130$.... Got that?!

    One-hundred-and-thirty. Plus a base game of 60$. Even if the base game was the best and biggest game ever, it still would be unacceptable(by the by, according to some, it isn't. It's acceptable, but not that great)    … Expand
  29. leaveit
    Feb 11, 2015
    0
    Even if all the extra monsters and classes had been included in the $60 US release then it still would not have enough content. It's not like they had to write their own game engine. Time to hire a new business team.
  30. BladeRunner001
    Feb 10, 2015
    0
    Bad game...to much money for it,for dlc,for skins and others. Here's a tip...NEVER buy a game that already have "awards" when it has not been release yet. They will turn out like Destiny and other crappy "award winning games"
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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 39 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 39
  3. Negative: 0 out of 39
  1. Ten Ton Hammer
    Nov 1, 2015
    80
    Evolve is unquestionably one of the best multiplayer games to arrive in the last few years.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 19, 2015
    67
    When Evolve plays nice and doesn’t annoy you with technical problems, it is kind of fun, provided you play not more than one campaign a day. But, really, you can get the same fun in any decent f2p shooter. Like Team Fortress 2, for example.
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  3. Games Master UK
    Apr 9, 2015
    71
    Imbalanced and repetitive to a disappointing degree, but when it hits the mark it can be great. [April 2015, p.56]
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