Global Agenda

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 357 Ratings

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  1. IliaG
    Feb 1, 2010
    4
    I was pretty excited at first, but it looks like yet another disappointment. As a MMOFPS it seem to have both fps and rpg elements below average. Character customization is rudimentary. Combat fails to be exciting. Various mission objectives are too much alike. Maps are very plain. GUI is very raw and unfinished. I have not tried PvE aspect, so can't comment on that. Oh and of course I was pretty excited at first, but it looks like yet another disappointment. As a MMOFPS it seem to have both fps and rpg elements below average. Character customization is rudimentary. Combat fails to be exciting. Various mission objectives are too much alike. Maps are very plain. GUI is very raw and unfinished. I have not tried PvE aspect, so can't comment on that. Oh and of course HiRez is following the latest trend of releasing a game without basic features like friend list, voice comms test, private matches, character upgrades, channel and guild management, but with "innovative" subscription model. On that note: having tried AvA in beta I am totally underwhelmed and can't really see why would anyone pay 15$/months for it. Overall it is not terrible, but kinda pale and unexciting all around. I guess I expected a sci-fi version of GuildWars, and instead got MW2 without adrenaline filled combat.… Expand
  2. PithHelmet
    Jan 20, 2013
    0
    Don't even bother. On top of the fact that I did not like this game for what it was advertised (It is not an MMO, more like a third person Team Fortress 2), the developers have abandoned it. The last patch was September 30th 2011. Very few people play it as well anymore.
  3. C.L
    Feb 9, 2010
    2
    A lower-than-average game. PvE (Player versus environment) has the most repetitive gameplay in GA and has the most poorly designed AI I have ever seen in a PC game. Fight against some enemies, fight the occasional mini-boss, fight the main boss which has the intelligence of a yoghurt pot. I'm not over exaggerating, the AI is completely f****** dumb and barely challenging. The only A lower-than-average game. PvE (Player versus environment) has the most repetitive gameplay in GA and has the most poorly designed AI I have ever seen in a PC game. Fight against some enemies, fight the occasional mini-boss, fight the main boss which has the intelligence of a yoghurt pot. I'm not over exaggerating, the AI is completely f****** dumb and barely challenging. The only challenge is staying alive as the boss shoots the floor and wonders around aimlessly. PvP is also very repetitive. There are 4 game-modes, 3 of which require either standing on a point to capture it or pushing the cart (Like in TF2) to the point. This game fails to include the bare basics of any FPS - Capture the flag (Not CTR), Death Match, team death match and so on. Classes are poorly designed. Medic, Robotics (Think of the engineer from Tf2), Assault (Heavy from TF2), and Recon (A Spy - Sniper from TF2). Medics rely on assaults, assaults rely on medics, medics rely on robotics and robotics rely on Assaults. Recon is literally useless unless you sacrifice the sniper abilities for some bombs which are pitiful at destroying robotic emplacements. AvA, or, conquest as it's called is purely exclusive PvP. It is solely take and hold with some maps that aren't available in regular PvP. Hi-Rez are going to charge monthly JUST for this. Yeah, as if I'm going to pay 20 USD a month to play on 3 maps with the same game mode over and over. After level 19, the useful unlocks have been unlocked; after that there's nothing to look forward to other than the next skill point or some new armour / helmet. Oh by the way, the armour and helmets don't affect you in any way other than changing what you look like. I hate how underdeveloped this game is, over half of the in-game shops are closed as the ideas were scrapped and the content removed. Don't listen to the other reviews! This game is only fun for the first 20 levels of each of the 4 classes, after that it WILL get boring and will seem to be a waste of money and time. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.… Expand
  4. JonathonR
    Feb 17, 2010
    2
    This game is just not good on any level. No world to explore. No loot to find. It's a poor shooter, it's a poor mmo. The muched hyped agency vs agency (clan vs clan) is nothing more than 4 different PvP capture point maps and a 2D hex map to keep track. Don't waste your money.
  5. Niklas
    Feb 19, 2010
    3
    Cant see how they market this game as a mmo. As someone said above, its a fps with a small 3D lobby with a few shops (that doesnt really sell anything of value). Played this game for 1 week, got bored after 3 days because the extreme lack of content. The pve part is very shallow and you runt through those maps in perhaps 10 min. The pvp part is fun for the first few days as you level up Cant see how they market this game as a mmo. As someone said above, its a fps with a small 3D lobby with a few shops (that doesnt really sell anything of value). Played this game for 1 week, got bored after 3 days because the extreme lack of content. The pve part is very shallow and you runt through those maps in perhaps 10 min. The pvp part is fun for the first few days as you level up and gain new abilities but after about half the levels you stop getting new abilities and "talent points". Overall the game feels very unfinished, far from a full price game and more like a budget 50% off game. And on top of that , they want you to pay a subscription för £10 a month to play the main parts (where even paying the initial cost seems to much for what you get). Anyway, lets hope they release some patches with more maps/game modes (atleast something) or this game will crash n burn soon.… Expand
  6. MorganB
    Feb 24, 2010
    3
    The game just feels like it was released a year too early. The concept is ok, and the game is fun for a few hours but rapidly becomes fairly repetetive. It has a fairly low skill ceiling as an FPS and being completely unrewarding as a MMO. Plus do not be fooled by any tags on Steam or elsewhere suggesting it is an RPG. It is not in any traditional sense.Even the level progression and loot The game just feels like it was released a year too early. The concept is ok, and the game is fun for a few hours but rapidly becomes fairly repetetive. It has a fairly low skill ceiling as an FPS and being completely unrewarding as a MMO. Plus do not be fooled by any tags on Steam or elsewhere suggesting it is an RPG. It is not in any traditional sense.Even the level progression and loot unlocking is fairly weak as you can max out quickly and there is no content reward for doing so. The nearest comparison would be an FPS like Counter Strike with the RPG mod. And to make matters worse the standard PvP game only lets you form teams of 4 even though its 10v10. So unless you want to become fairly devoted and do AvA you are left with a fairly forgetable experience that just feels half done. In the end, it just lost any "fun" factor after a few hours. Its a stocking filler. A 10 dollar pickup game. If this game is remembered in 5 years, it will be for all the wrong reasons.… Expand
  7. Philip
    Feb 8, 2010
    2
    The short: This game offers very little content for your money and is also extremely unpolished. I saw its potential, but the game has yet to deliver on any level. The Long: This game is a 3rd-person shooter, not an MMO RPG--do not let the advertisements mislead you. There are essentially only 5 maps for PVP, about 6 for PVE, and 3 for AVA. All of these maps are terribly constructed, The short: This game offers very little content for your money and is also extremely unpolished. I saw its potential, but the game has yet to deliver on any level. The Long: This game is a 3rd-person shooter, not an MMO RPG--do not let the advertisements mislead you. There are essentially only 5 maps for PVP, about 6 for PVE, and 3 for AVA. All of these maps are terribly constructed, redundant, look horrible, and run even worse unless you have a decent computer. Voice communication is unreliable in the game; you'll experience random crashes for no reason; and the user interface is shoddy and unfriendly. At the time I'm writing this, classes are horribly imbalanced--groups of medics can stay alive almost indefinitely. Additionally, the class skill trees are very poorly constructed and mostly offer lackluster boosts to your abilities. These ingredients result in very little customization, and the game has already adopted cookie cutter builds that seem to work better than others. Also, personal heroics mean very little in this game, so individuals who like to run into groups and try to gun them all down are going to be sorely disappointed. And what's more, the most destructive tactics in the game take nearly no skill to execute--sentries, extremely high damage AoE poison, grenades, and robo drones come to mind. The monthly fee content consists of 3 maps that are laid out exactly the same that you will be playing indefinitely. These are constructed just as poorly as the rest of the game. Couple this redundancy with the fact that you need a large Alliance in order to hold a presence on the PVP maps, and that the game presently favors 'zerg' rushing over player skill (including personal skill) and you have a very unrewarding game to play that is most definitely not worth your $10-15 a month.… Expand
  8. Kouta
    Jun 18, 2011
    3
    I was finished with this game with in 6 days, the game is nice and fun but once you get level 17, the game slows down to a near stop, repetitive is a normal thing in games these days but this game takes it to a whole new level, once you hit level 17, 18, the only things you can do is dungeon missions, over and over and over, getting very and I mean very little exp for them, even if youI was finished with this game with in 6 days, the game is nice and fun but once you get level 17, the game slows down to a near stop, repetitive is a normal thing in games these days but this game takes it to a whole new level, once you hit level 17, 18, the only things you can do is dungeon missions, over and over and over, getting very and I mean very little exp for them, even if you have a paid account, it'll take you a week, week and a half, to get all the classes to a level 17 or 18 and it'll take you just as long to get to level 19, 20 if not longer, doing the same thing over and over and over and over, there is only a couple hands full of real missions, where you load into a world where players run around freely doing real missions, the rest is PVP, PVE, normal boring sad attempt at extending the game play, Crashing, wow, this game is very unstable, I've yet to play one day yet where I didn't crash at the very least 2 to 3 times, so basically after you've hit level 17, the game boils down to, shoot your way to a boss, kill him, get very little exp, do this three times, each boss/map changes slightly, then do it again and again until your a level 18 and either keep doing that or try to kill three new bosses, pretty much the same just a bit harder or try your best a player vs player or capture flag, the normal generic player vs player game modes, nothing worth wild, have a paid account and you might level slightly faster but not fast enough to be worth the money.

    Despite all that, the game has a lot of potential, Graphics are acceptable, though could use some work, animations seem good, action is acceptable though VERY repetitive, that would be alright, if there was six time the number of bad guys currently in this game.

    If I had to list the number of things this game need to really hit it off here is that list.

    1. First of and for most, add more world maps like Sonoran Desert Zone, a lot more, at the very least, 25 more, 55 if you really want to make the game worth wild.
    2. Raise the level cap to 80 to 120, adding more skills.
    3. More armors, more weapons, more well, every thing.
    4. NPC that actual speak, instead of having to read, Live played this and haven't read on mission's info just clicked accept and followed to the area marked on the map, I'd stay and listen to what the NPC said if the spoke.
    5. until above is added, lower the price from $20 to $10 and more then cut the prices of bonus packs or triple the length of they last.
    6. More crafting.
    7. more missions then just shoot your way to the last room and kill some bid dud, some boss.
    8. Add more missions to Sonoran Desert, at the very least, 15 more, though 25 is a better number.
    9. The ability to earn agent points with out having to spend real money.

    What would make the game better but is not completely needed,
    1. more classes.
    2. vehicles or a whole new level of jetpacks.
    3. more color choices, more shades of colors in the creation of your charr.
    4. More hair choices.
    5. Base creating that you only have to worry about NPCs attacking.
    6. Zombies, that's nearly a requirement these days for games and I'd love to shoot me some zombies in GA.


    I haven't read to much into it but it sounds like this game is not even near done, though if it is, then you might as well stop now and throw it away and start over and only release it after you've added what I've said above.

    I say, its worth playing for those first two weeks, after that, your just hanging on, hoping they release a HUGE patch, that's what I'll be doing, the game has enough potential to keep me waiting for something more but I'll wait to spend any money on this game until the nearly double the content this game currently has.    … Expand
  9. YasinMusic
    Jun 19, 2011
    0
    Worst ever download from steam. After I register to play I was put in a que for 40mins and still could not play the game unless i paid for elite pack!
  10. SixDasher
    Jun 21, 2011
    0
    The game would have potential, if servers weren't always full and you were not forced to buy every upgrade. Free game, yeah right. Can't believe Steam is pushing this game.
  11. Omegasas
    Sep 30, 2011
    1
    This game is HORRIBLE!!!!! The worst developed MMO I have EVER played.
    I have beta tested games that have hundreds less bugs.

    Hi-Rez Studios you should be embarrassed to put your name on such a terrible game, I will forever be cautious when purchasing a game that has anything to do with you.
  12. suneater
    Dec 17, 2012
    1
    Hi-Rez abandoned this game in favor of working on Tribes:Ascend, which they in turn abandoned to work on SMITE, which will also probably get dropped for GA2. Everything about this game is at best average. Athough they advertise it as a MMO, everything is super instanced including the single hub town making it feel more like TF2 in space with a visual lobby. PvE content consists of tutorialHi-Rez abandoned this game in favor of working on Tribes:Ascend, which they in turn abandoned to work on SMITE, which will also probably get dropped for GA2. Everything about this game is at best average. Athough they advertise it as a MMO, everything is super instanced including the single hub town making it feel more like TF2 in space with a visual lobby. PvE content consists of tutorial zones, timed instances where higher difficulties yield better rewards for completion, and hourly raids which were survival against waves and then a boss. PvP matchmaking was really terrible and the gameplay was basically TF2 with less hats. No updates for over a year and then the devs sent out a survey email about a GA2, effectively killing the game.… Expand
  13. HangedMan
    May 8, 2011
    1
    The "persistent world" everyone keeps talking about is very small. You can walk end to end in minutes. The single player missions are either fedex quests or kill X number of mobs. After 16-17 level, the game becomes a waiting room for multi player maps. In other words, it's NOT an MMO. If I wanted to play 4x4 PvP, there are MUCH better choices out there. There just isn't any contentThe "persistent world" everyone keeps talking about is very small. You can walk end to end in minutes. The single player missions are either fedex quests or kill X number of mobs. After 16-17 level, the game becomes a waiting room for multi player maps. In other words, it's NOT an MMO. If I wanted to play 4x4 PvP, there are MUCH better choices out there. There just isn't any content for the game.… Expand
  14. staki69
    Jun 2, 2011
    0
    If you want to play a game that has VERY little content rips you off their premium "boosts" then this is the game for you. If you want to join one of THE WORST GAMES with the WORST playerbase then this is the game for you. If you want to mention another game to a friend in a private message they will chat ban you for forever no matter how much you have money you have spent as I was stupidIf you want to play a game that has VERY little content rips you off their premium "boosts" then this is the game for you. If you want to join one of THE WORST GAMES with the WORST playerbase then this is the game for you. If you want to mention another game to a friend in a private message they will chat ban you for forever no matter how much you have money you have spent as I was stupid enough to buy the game back when it came out and buy a booster. The playerbase is horrid a bunch of immature kids who just scream and cuss over the mic constantly and the city chat is filled with obscene language racial language and even much worse. If you are thinking about playing this game take my advice don't play it don't install it and for the love of god don't give them any of your money.… Expand
  15. Ansatsu83
    Mar 2, 2012
    1
    The game took a turn for the worst the moment hi-rez started to focus on tribes ascend, you can disregard my entire last review as it is now pointless. Everything about the game being skill oriented is now a lie, its all about the weapons which require zero skill. They upgraded every weapon that had zero skill to use to being the best weapons. All of the previous, skill oriented, weaponsThe game took a turn for the worst the moment hi-rez started to focus on tribes ascend, you can disregard my entire last review as it is now pointless. Everything about the game being skill oriented is now a lie, its all about the weapons which require zero skill. They upgraded every weapon that had zero skill to use to being the best weapons. All of the previous, skill oriented, weapons in the game now no longer have meaning. In other words they made the weapons that require you to aim to be worthless (except the snipers) and the ones that do not require you to aim to be deadly. I hate to say this but they defined it as a "player skill" oriented game, this is no longer the case after the game went free to play.

    Less than 100 players in any given channel at any given time does not make this an mmorpg/tps. The term MMORPG is defined by Richard Garriott (e.g. the terms creator) for ultima online as "Allowing hundreds to thousands of players to connect in a single, persistent, world." Hi-rez defines it by storing stats/characters on their server. What other game, which was one of the first to do so, but didn't have hundreds of players in a channel? Any guesses? No? Well its Diablo 2, which is not defined as an mmog. In other words hi-rez lied about this genre, no more than 20 players at a time in any given instance can be in the same mission, and up to 99 in a single city/free roam channel, this is not hundreds, or thousands, it means it is put into a false genre.

    There are better free games on the market, I paid 20 dollars for this game before it was free to play, there was almost no end game, just pvp end game, the same goes for now with one added end game raid zone and a new free roam/quest area. Big deal, its all broken gameplay mechanics developed by developers who have no idea how to fix it nor give a darn trying to. They are too focused on tribes ascend.

    My advise, do not waste the money, do not waste the hard drive space, do not try, it ended up in failure. I can relate global agenda to another game people know, another game that failed miserably due to lack of developer support. This game was known as Hellgate: London. Hi-rez would have gone bankrupt a long time ago if they were not receiving funding from the state of Georgia just to sit around screwing up their own products. But hey its their call on what they want to destroy since it is their Intellectual Property.

    I give this game a 1 out of 10 simply cause the graphics, albeit outdated, are still somewhat decent, everything else (including the company that made it) is garbage.

    Note: This is coming from a high level player with several characters max level who has given the game a year and a half to shape up, it has barely progressed at all, and when it did progress it was in the wrong direction.    … Expand
  16. HippieA
    Feb 17, 2010
    1
    This game isn't an MMORPG, it is an FPS with a 3D lobby. For FPS alone I might give it a 6 or 7, but it cost me $50 when looking for a new MMO and really made me mad. Calling this game a MMO is just pure marketing misdirection and sites need to stop repeating it.
  17. casperv
    Feb 19, 2010
    2
    Hmm well there is not much to explore in this game, as everyone else say i will say it again. you are stuck in a lobby and the only thing you can is just running around looking at the shops, and one thing that i think are really bad at this game is that the armor doesn't do anything, no strengh, no armor, no agility etc. please use your money carfully and see the trailers before Hmm well there is not much to explore in this game, as everyone else say i will say it again. you are stuck in a lobby and the only thing you can is just running around looking at the shops, and one thing that i think are really bad at this game is that the armor doesn't do anything, no strengh, no armor, no agility etc. please use your money carfully and see the trailers before buying the game.… Expand
  18. JamesB.
    Feb 22, 2010
    0
    Not a good shooter, not a good MMO (actually, the worst MMO). Global Agenda has a lobby. No world to explore, no real loot to gain, just 5 v 5 team fortress style (without the style) maps. Very boring. If it were $9.99 and had no monthly fee, I'd say.. just stay away. It's not worth playing if it were free. Glad to see they got all the developers out here rating the game. The Not a good shooter, not a good MMO (actually, the worst MMO). Global Agenda has a lobby. No world to explore, no real loot to gain, just 5 v 5 team fortress style (without the style) maps. Very boring. If it were $9.99 and had no monthly fee, I'd say.. just stay away. It's not worth playing if it were free. Glad to see they got all the developers out here rating the game. The reviewer was kind to give it a 5, but I guess overall, since he didn't have to pay for this pablum, a 5 is OK. So free - a 5. If you pay even a penny, a 0.… Expand
  19. Radei
    Dec 29, 2010
    0
    This game is just awful, I'll admit I was taken in at first by the cool looks and decent gameplay but after about 2 hours I was just mad. The PvP missions are just ridiculously bland and the whole system is lacking for the things that would make this a real MMORPG. If this game wasn't on sale in steam I would be extremely angry for the fact that I just wasted money on something I'd neverThis game is just awful, I'll admit I was taken in at first by the cool looks and decent gameplay but after about 2 hours I was just mad. The PvP missions are just ridiculously bland and the whole system is lacking for the things that would make this a real MMORPG. If this game wasn't on sale in steam I would be extremely angry for the fact that I just wasted money on something I'd never play. If you're an MMORPG fan looking for a new/exciting MMORPG turn around and run away. You might aswell buy a gun and repeatedly shoot yourself because that would be truely more fun than this POS....… Expand
  20. ThisOldThing
    Aug 14, 2010
    0
    Basically you're looking at a sci-fi wow clone with minus the persistent world. The game is a lobby for pve and pvp instances. You have seen and done this before and it's just as bad as you remember.

    The pvp gameplay is a clone of TF2. The pve gameplay is like GW/WoW (lobby for pug pve grinding + pve quest zone) Their idea of a persistent world in which players pvp (think PlanetSide) is    Basically you're looking at a sci-fi wow clone with minus the persistent world. The game is a lobby for pve and pvp instances. You have seen and done this before and it's just as bad as you remember.

    The pvp gameplay is a clone of TF2.
    The pve gameplay is like GW/WoW (lobby for pug pve grinding + pve quest zone)

    Their idea of a persistent world in which players pvp (think PlanetSide) is terrible. It has more in common with a boring chess game than an interactive 3d world.

    There are 4 class with 3 trees to specialize in. This allows people to spec their Medic for DPS. Once again we see brainless developers emulating bad ideas.    … Expand
  21. StuS
    Mar 16, 2010
    3
    I started out liking this game...it's a pretty fun shooter...until you play it for awhile and realize it has pretty much no MMO content. It's just PvP over and over again in small 'instance' like events with the same maps. Boring. You're either forced to sit in a dome world with nothing to do or you're in an instance doing pvp...there is nothing else to do. I started out liking this game...it's a pretty fun shooter...until you play it for awhile and realize it has pretty much no MMO content. It's just PvP over and over again in small 'instance' like events with the same maps. Boring. You're either forced to sit in a dome world with nothing to do or you're in an instance doing pvp...there is nothing else to do. Apparently the developers wanted to hurry up and get the game out and then start working on the stuff that will hopefully keep people playing. It was a poor strategy because this game needs a lot more than just a 'few tweeks' here and there...it needs a major overhaul if it expects people to play this game for months and not get extremely bored with it...and that's with the content they want you to pay for monthly. I'm really disappointed, especially with all the hype that surrounded the game.… Expand
  22. Someguy151015
    Aug 23, 2012
    3
    Excited at first
    Played
    Lagged like ****
    Played some more
    Account gets ban
    WTF???
    Rage quit.
    I don't know why people continue to play this (maybe it's their only game?), but it got boring extremely fast.
  23. JasonS
    Apr 16, 2010
    4
    Another fail game. Maybe once it drops in price and more maps and content come out it may be playable. However, the $15 dollar sub. is in no way worth the money, so I would only play it as any other FPS. Sad I was really looking forward to this game. Now I am angry I payed full retail price for this crap.
  24. jint3i
    Nov 21, 2011
    2
    One point for each day that the game held my interest. Maybe I just didn't get it? Or is it possible that it's because it plays just like every other MMO on the market? A whole heap of wasted potential.
  25. aKtivE
    Aug 24, 2013
    0
    0 just because this game was made by hirez one of the worst sh never see in my life, they bring a game and they let it going down slowly without giving any kind of support before ga now tribes, the worsty unbalanced game they did is smite and seems its going good but it still a unbalanced game.

Awards & Rankings

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#95 Best PC Game of 2010
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#27 Most Discussed PC Game of 2010
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#84 Most Shared PC Game of 2010

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Multiplayer.it
    Jun 1, 2011
    65
    Global Agenda is a good game, with some good ideas that may have been pushed harder by the development team to make it more than a simple hybrid. You will probably enjoy in the beginning and for some time, but the lack of original elements may lead you away from it quite soon.
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  2. GamingXP
    Jan 3, 2011
    78
    In the world of Global Agenda it's your turn to help the agency to fight the regime of terror: unit with the thousands of other agents and defeat the enemy in various multiplayer battles. And as long as you keep playing the game in multiplayer-mode, it's quite entertaining – but nothing more.
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  3. PC Zone UK
    65
    Uninspired levels. [Aug 2010, p.88]
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