Fury (2007)

 PC
User Score
4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 38
  3. Negative: 19 out of 38

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  1. JamesT.
    Oct 20, 2007
    2
    This game is not an mmo, it has a lobby with 3 instanced pvp arena game types. There is no world pvp pve or what have you, It's a simple versus game like every other online game except fury has a glorified lobby which you can move in. It would be like making a graphical lobby instead of a text based one for diablo 2 or tf2 and instead of browsing games in a browser you left click an This game is not an mmo, it has a lobby with 3 instanced pvp arena game types. There is no world pvp pve or what have you, It's a simple versus game like every other online game except fury has a glorified lobby which you can move in. It would be like making a graphical lobby instead of a text based one for diablo 2 or tf2 and instead of browsing games in a browser you left click an npc in a graphical lobby and browse them there then call them mmorpg and mmofps, I think not. The games graphics look washed out, might have something to do with the unreal 3 engine so i can see them being improved once the engine gets a fix. The game play is complex and confusing at best with fotm builds running supreme, The skill is finding the fotm build or having a friend tell you it.… Expand
  2. circuitbreaker
    Nov 8, 2007
    3
    Pros: Great concept, devoted, responsive dev team. Cons: The game. Specifically, the graphics, the gameplay, the UI, the lag, the queue times, the myriad technical issues, the ridiculously complex proliferation of skills and gear, et cetera. Tested since Alpha. Tons of potential. None of it utilized. Simply not ready for release -- too many bugs, too little optimization. I'm the Pros: Great concept, devoted, responsive dev team. Cons: The game. Specifically, the graphics, the gameplay, the UI, the lag, the queue times, the myriad technical issues, the ridiculously complex proliferation of skills and gear, et cetera. Tested since Alpha. Tons of potential. None of it utilized. Simply not ready for release -- too many bugs, too little optimization. I'm the target audience for the emerging CORPG genre (also a long time GW player), but the game is just premature. Pointlessly large and complex lobby is not fooling anyone -- not a meaningful persistent world, which is fine. But why 700 artificers and repairmen and skill trainers for the same skills? Too many issues resulting in too low a population to really flourish. New players are pretty much destined to get ganked by the few experienced clans remaining -- not enough people to allow the matchmaking system to really work.… Expand
  3. DisAppointed
    Oct 19, 2007
    2
    This game is Dead on Arrival. So many mistakes have been made with the marketing and release of this bug ridden half game its not funny. Not enough content, overly complex archetype skills that are just the same thing with a different color X 4000. What could have been a good PVP game turned into a cheap knock off of GW pvp and WOW arena done very poorly. Horrible user interface, This game is Dead on Arrival. So many mistakes have been made with the marketing and release of this bug ridden half game its not funny. Not enough content, overly complex archetype skills that are just the same thing with a different color X 4000. What could have been a good PVP game turned into a cheap knock off of GW pvp and WOW arena done very poorly. Horrible user interface, unbalanced skill sets, and the worst implementation of the unreal engine ever. For all the resources this pig eats up, it runs like crap and looks nowhere near as nice as the screenshots they advertise with. Its not an MMO its a Mistake.… Expand
  4. TurdburgerI.
    Oct 23, 2007
    1
    Horrid Bug Ridden mess. Game gets so stale so fast. DOnt waste 50 on this unless you are made of money. I don't see this lasting a year. Game play is really not that special at all. Its just wow arenas with GW skill sets and a horrible small playerbase. This is a stinker. Any fanboy who tells you its amazing just wants you to waste your hard earned cash on this so they dont feel like Horrid Bug Ridden mess. Game gets so stale so fast. DOnt waste 50 on this unless you are made of money. I don't see this lasting a year. Game play is really not that special at all. Its just wow arenas with GW skill sets and a horrible small playerbase. This is a stinker. Any fanboy who tells you its amazing just wants you to waste your hard earned cash on this so they dont feel like the lone village idiot. Oh yeah and you can buy gold direcvtly from the developeres...i guess even the chinese farmers think this is such a stinker its not worth farming in.… Expand
  5. SimonC.
    Nov 30, 2007
    1
    Tried the game, and it's an awful mess, MMO??? ahah the only massive thing in this game is the number of bugs and issues.. The graphic reminds of a year 2000 game (poor ut3 engine!).. Population is so low that is almost hard to play a game and you will spend most of your time in a queue..waiting and waiting.. There are only few hardcore players playing the game... the ones who gave Tried the game, and it's an awful mess, MMO??? ahah the only massive thing in this game is the number of bugs and issues.. The graphic reminds of a year 2000 game (poor ut3 engine!).. Population is so low that is almost hard to play a game and you will spend most of your time in a queue..waiting and waiting.. There are only few hardcore players playing the game... the ones who gave this orrible game a 10.. They are trying to recruit some more players.. i can kind of understand since it should be boring to play against each other all the time. Do yourself a favour and spend the money on something else.… Expand
  6. DanG.
    Jan 4, 2008
    0
    This game is so bad they had to can 90% of the staff because they had so few sales. ANd it word of mouth is so aweful that they disabled the user responses in their forums and deleted all the threads so new potential scam victims wouldnt be scared off.
  7. JhonM.
    Nov 1, 2007
    1
    I wouldn't call this a game... more like a buggy laggy not working demo. sound is horrible when it works, unless you have a supercomputer graphics is a joke, its a shame to see the unreal 3 engine treated in this way. besides this the game is very repetetive and boring after a while... stay away!!
  8. JeremyS.
    Nov 21, 2007
    0
    This game is horrible All the professional reviews that rate it below 50% (which is the vast majority of them!) are completely accurate. The one or two others who rated it above 50% are from sources of questionable integrity which have a habit of artificially inflating review scores of horrible games due to advertising dollar or other corporate considerations which are not at all related This game is horrible All the professional reviews that rate it below 50% (which is the vast majority of them!) are completely accurate. The one or two others who rated it above 50% are from sources of questionable integrity which have a habit of artificially inflating review scores of horrible games due to advertising dollar or other corporate considerations which are not at all related to the quality of the game. For example, one professional review site which gave the Fury game a 65% score, also gave Master of Orion III -which was almost universally considered to be trainwreck (as is Fury!), - a 92% score. That score was artificially inflated by at least a 52% margin, so by applying a necessary realism standard to the Fury score from the same site, instead of the 65% score for that review clearly Fury should be worth merely 13% (65% minus the 52% artificial score inflation margin). Using knowledge like this it isn't hard to see that if all reviews about Fury were done by honest, credible reviewers, then there would be an average score for Fury of no more than 40%. So if you see a tally of average professional reviews scores of Fury scoring anything above 40%, do not believe it because that number is far too high to accurately reflect the quality of the game Fury. Thankfully, the *majority* of professional reviewers out there are honest and have integrity, and have very plainly laid out the facts that Fury is a horrible game for all smart game fans to be warned away before flushing their money down the drain by buying Fury. Fury is a very bad FPS game with melee weapons instead of guns, that pretends to be a MMO. Which it definitely is not. Think of a very badly made end-user created modification of Quake III Arena that barely runs, and only has a few mundane levels in it. And that's the entirety of the product. Then take away all of Quake III Arena's great gameplay and replace it with total crap gameplay instead. Take away the guns, and replace them with melee weapons. The end result you get from doing all that is pretty much the same thing as Fury. The only reason the metacritic user score for this game occassionally fluctuates slightly above 4/10 is because some of the (very few) players of Fury artificially inflate the score with bogus 10/10 ratings and ridiculously praiseful comments in the hopes that some poor saps will be hoodwinked into buying this very bad game. Probably in hopes that the servers don't go offline a few months down the road due lack of any incoming revenue due to hardly anyone ever buying this game. I can't say I blame the hardcore Fury players for trying to prevent that from happening even if it requires getting into the morally gray area of painting a very misrepresentative picture of the game to hoodwink new players into making a bad purchase decision. BUT, if *you* are the poor sap shelling out $50USD+ for this trainwreck, you will NOT be a happy camper if you let them trick you into doing that. Out of desperation (and because there is nothing else whatsoever good to say about Fury), some of the hardcore Fury fans who cast fake votes and write fake reviews claim that although Fury is crap now, it will magically become a good game with some future patches. We all know that is impossible. If a game at it's core, is total garbage, as Fury is, then trying to gloss over it with some shiny coats of paint can never ever fix the core issue that it is garbage in the first place. The late great Chris Farley probably said it best in the classic movie "Tommy Boy": "If you want I can take a crap in a box right now and write GUARANTEED on it, but all that means is that you have got a guaranteed piece of crap". Fury may by worth buying for a select few people who enjoys *receiving* sadomaschochistic pleasures. I have faith in the intelligence of you readers of this review therefore I won't even define that word for you because I know you are smart enough to understand it on your own. If you are *not* one of the select few who enjoys *receiving* sadomaschochistic pleasures, then you will be guaranteed to regret your purchase of Fury. I also know that you all are smart enough to see past the few fake reviews of Fury and recognize them for what they are. Sometimes when someone wants a game to be really good, he can inadvertently close his mind to the reality that all the game is, and all the game will ever be, is a worthless piece of trash. Most people never have, and never will buy Fury. That is why there are very few players, and zero good feedback about the game from anyone, anywhere, other than a few hardcore Fury players. It is possible that once in a while someone will be suckered into buying the game based on one of those few fake reviews or fake votes thats artificially lift the score above 4/10. But no one likes feeling like a sucker by buying a crap, almost-dead, likely-soon-to-be-dead game. *You* don't wanna be the one guy suckered into buying the game and then finding out afterwards that there is hardly anyone else playing it, it doesn't run on your system in a playable state, there is barely any content in the game yet the little content that is there is crap, and the game has no future whatsoever. Do not let this happen to you, you know you are smarter than that. :) When you *don't* waste your money on Fury, the intelligence of humankind wins the day.… Expand
  9. PVPwnage
    Nov 4, 2007
    0
    Very Bad game. Incredibly laggey. Horrible frame rate issues. The alternative "run it in low render if you want to play" is a cop-out excuse for not being able to code it right. Too many bugs. Too many bugs. Too many bugs. Very poor implementation of Unreal 3 engine. The programmers probably don't understand how to code with it properly...probably just graduated from Devry i Very Bad game. Incredibly laggey. Horrible frame rate issues. The alternative "run it in low render if you want to play" is a cop-out excuse for not being able to code it right. Too many bugs. Too many bugs. Too many bugs. Very poor implementation of Unreal 3 engine. The programmers probably don't understand how to code with it properly...probably just graduated from Devry i guess...only thing that can explain all the lag, stutter and the myriad of graphical issues ranging from step clipping to texture loading. Environments are uninspired...half the objects like rocks and steps are floating off the actual terrain, round pillars have invisible square corners that stop you dead and require repeated mouse clicking to get moving agin. Horrible horrible spin till you vomit camera retargeting on ability use, collision detection that will make you scream when it stops you cold in your tracks on even a simple step when you should be able to run over them...incredibly annoying. Lagging into a game after 2 minutes to find you are dead...sitting in a que for 10 minutes to play a 2 minute game...who thought this crap up? In terms of game play, its a button masher plain and simple. Anybody who tries to tell you its skill based is trying to fluff their own ego and are confusing skill with slapping 4 keys and jumping around. The user community is trash too. They dog every review on the game because the rest of the world just doesnt understand Fury. heh. According to them every commercial review is biased or is giving Fury a negative rating because Auran didn't pay for advertising...kind of paranoid is you ask me. What they should be doing is reading the riot act to the devs for releasing a boring, depth lacking, bug ridden, lagtastic, resource pig of an uninspired Guild Wars pvp ripoff. What do you get when you take everything out of guild wars except the skills and 3 pvp arenas and then implement it as badly as possible? Fury. Ugly character design. A whole bunch of armor models...and a whole bunch of ugly ugly helmets...and no hide helm option. One of the worst skill management clutterflucks ever designed. Incredibly annoying interface. Horrible chat system. Jeez how did this thing every make it out of QC. This game is going to be history in 6 months. Servers will be shut down and nobody, not even the in denial fanboys like Tenet LotD who will do there best to pitch this travesty as the second coming of electronic battleship will be playing. This is a crap game. The Gamespot review is spot on. I would have given it a 3 but i am giving it a zero to counter the fanboys who come in here and give this game a 10 knowing full well this game is a disaster and doesn't deserve anything above 4 or even a 5 if you are being generous. Anyway, as evidenced by the incredibly low sales, non existant internet interest and super low in-game population, nobody is buying the manure Tenet and other 10 rating fanboys are trying to sell. Game buyers are too savey now adays. They know when a game is reviewed horribly and suddenly a bunch of 10s show up in the reader reviews that they are plants planted by devs or fanboys. btw, there were so many complaints and "I Cant get this game to work" threads in the tech help forums they shut them down and are now "feeding all tech issues through their customer service" so that you know, nobody knows that there are problems. Ofcourse if you have a problem with this game they just tell you its your computer/connection/imagination and that everyone else runs it fine. You know when they say "reformat your hard drive and reinstall windows" that they are hoping you give up and go away with your complaints.… Expand
  10. FuryBetaTester
    Oct 26, 2007
    0
    Where to begin. First do not listen to any of the reviews that give this game anything over a 5. Those 9s and 10s are from the fanboys on the Fury forums who are trying desperately to stem the negative press for this monstrosity of a half finished game. Listen, you work hard for your money, so don't throw it away on a thinly conceptualized game thats incomplete, poorly designed and Where to begin. First do not listen to any of the reviews that give this game anything over a 5. Those 9s and 10s are from the fanboys on the Fury forums who are trying desperately to stem the negative press for this monstrosity of a half finished game. Listen, you work hard for your money, so don't throw it away on a thinly conceptualized game thats incomplete, poorly designed and is constantly making excuses for why it doesnt work the way it should. If you go to the Fury forums you will see the fanboys screaming constantly about how even wow had problems when it was released. The Hubris of comparing this turkey to World of Warcraft is beyond comprehension. Horrible interface with one of the most cluttered and ungainly skill selection designs ever made. 400 skills times 10 ranks of each giving you 4000 skills...right...in actuality those 400 skills are across 8 archetypes and the majority of them are rehashed recolored variants of each other with a good bulk of them being throw away skills you will never use. Limited game types...only three arenas currently and none of them are very interesting or have long lasting appeal. If you are not in a clan forget Vortex or Elimination as you will just spend your time getting ganked. And Bloodbath, the only viable solo arena is hardly ever enabled due to bugs, lack of players and a host of other issues. The game is a time sink but unlike WOW where you time sink and grind for gold gear etc, this game actively tries to sell you in game gold via the developers. They have no shame, first they rip you off for 50$ for the game, then they try and rip you off for another 50 or so to unlock all abilities, charge you a monthly fee if you want to have extra rolls on loot or run faster in the lobby (and the game consists of one big lobby when not in the limited arenas), and then they try and sell you gold to let you buy the ridiculously overpriced items in game or skill levels if you havent bought the UAA. Oh yes you can also pay hefty amounts of gold to color your hair - 25g for blue. The game is bug ridden, lag is constantly a problem, and unless you have a supercomputer you are going to find this game practically unplayable. The nimimum specs listed are really a joke. you wont play the game like that. And even a lot of people with high end systems still experience lag and everyone experiences the many many bugs in this game. They keep saying oh we are fixing it changes are coming etc, but i heard the same thing during the 2 months of beta testing and the game was pushed to release with a lot of the bugs in place. They continually fall back on "well no game is perfect at release not even WOW." Well, i say, there is a limit to how many excuses you are allowed to make for why something is subpar and not worth purchasing. Look the fact of the matter is that this game which is based on the Unreal 3 engine is a resource hog, but unlike games such as BIOSHOCK which is also based on the Unreal 3 engine, this game is one of the worst implenetations of that engine imaginable. The graphics look horrible. The physics are choppy and highly suspect, the character animations are stale and jerky. And Lag only makes all of this even more annoying. You may wonder how the heck this game can use so much of your system resources but still look and play like crap...well...you are not alone in asking that question. Really had high hopes for this game, but its just a stale rip off of Guild Wars PVP, poorly designed, horribly implemented, and destined to end up in the bargain bin in 2 months and shut down in under a year. Its not complex, or skill based. Its a button mashing lag fest with Flavor of the Month builds dominating. The player base is horribly small and there is a reason...this game has turned a huge number of players off and has incredibly bad word of mouth on the street. Is all the bad press deserved? After betatesting this game for almost 2 months and playing it since release i can guarantee that its negative reputation and horrible owrd of mouth is very well deserved. If you just cant abide WOW any longer and you really want a fantasy pvp option, save your money for Warhammer or Age of Conan. If you waste your money on this you will only have yourself to blame.… Expand

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#72 Most Discussed PC Game of 2007

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Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 15
  3. Negative: 5 out of 15
  1. IGN
    65
    Fury never once grabbed us like other MMOs or arena shooters. We weren't compelled to keep queuing up for deathmatches, or sprint back to vendors to upgrade our equipment or skills. So while it's a competent game, we simply couldn't get into it.
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  2. Cheat Code Central
    62
    The Fury gives me a conflicting sense of agoraphobia and claustrophobia. It's likely that it may be more refined in the future, but right now it feels as though it's still a work in progress.
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  3. GamesRadar+
    70
    If you've been complaining about the lack of PvP in your MMO, this is a non-stop, complex and compelling game that offers a deep, intricate and layered PvP play. If not, Fury isn't likely to convert you from Player versus Environment to PvP in one sitting - but it's still a hell of a good time.
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