New World

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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 929 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 91 out of 929
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  1. skittlebrew
    Oct 5, 2021
    0
    Bought the game only to discover that the server that all my friends were playing on is already full 4 days after launch. The devs claim that free server transfers will be available soon, but have been vague on timing and whether or not you will be able to transfer into a full server. Got a refund after an hour of playtime.
  2. Matty1212
    Oct 6, 2021
    0
    Garbage game do not buy.

    This game is soulless. Entirely bland and does absolutely nothing new. Give this game just a little bit of time and you can tell it was only made to make money, theres nothing of substance to it ,no passion, no love.... It's almost as if amazon put more money into promoting the game than they did creating it.. Story is empty , combat is atrocious and clunky. The    Garbage game do not buy.

    This game is soulless. Entirely bland and does absolutely nothing new. Give this game just a little bit of time and you can tell it was only made to make money, theres nothing of substance to it ,no passion, no love.... It's almost as if amazon put more money into promoting the game than they did creating it.. Story is empty , combat is atrocious and clunky. The quests are so far apart you spend more time running to them than actually doing them. Everyone looks exactly the same , they couldnt be bothered to make any characters unique. They couldnt even give you a swim animation you literally walk on the bottom of the river... ffs.

    Bought the game. Waited in que so long I couldnt return it after I found out how bad it was.. F    … Expand
  3. malefo666
    Oct 13, 2021
    0
    Queues, all-day patches (~100MB patch took ~10h), small world, nothing special, game will die in few months.
  4. Pyrok
    Oct 13, 2021
    0
    first long queues so you cant play a game, cant get a refund becaouse queue time was too long for steam to get a refund

    now 10h maintanence in eu prime time

    it would be acceptable for small indie comapany with like 1-10devs not multimilion company with thousents of servers, new tehnologies and other stuff amazon is doing
  5. bagger288
    Oct 7, 2021
    1
    Boring gameplay. Big but absolutely dead world. Repetitive quests. Clumsy combat that turns PvP into clown fiesta. All player characters looks like clones. No content. Poor optimisation - game runs bad even on high end PC.
  6. sex69
    Oct 5, 2021
    0
    Don't play this game.. your graphics card will **** faster. My graphics card is **** And it's not a fun game.
  7. KarolN
    Oct 7, 2021
    3
    I'm not judging playability, just pure idea of combining magic and colonial era things, big big no from me.
  8. inqus
    Oct 13, 2021
    1
    Провал года. По всем тестам было видно и понятно что будут огромные очереди ибо 2000 человек на сервер это очень мало. И за год НИЧЕГО не сделали с этим... А могли бы сделал сразу больше серверов и систему удержания места при вылете с сервера или из очереди.
    Обещали сделать трансферы, прошло 3 недели и ничего. Да и очереди уже пропали почти, люди массово бросают играть.
    Квесты так же    Провал года. По всем тестам было видно и понятно что будут огромные очереди ибо 2000 человек на сервер это очень мало. И за год НИЧЕГО не сделали с этим... А могли бы сделал сразу больше серверов и систему удержания места при вылете с сервера или из очереди.
    Обещали сделать трансферы, прошло 3 недели и ничего. Да и очереди уже пропали почти, люди массово бросают играть.
    Квесты так же рандомно разбросаны, в одно место можно по 5-6 раз сбегать и это очень сильно бесит.    … Expand
  9. zenjorako
    Oct 14, 2021
    0
    does not have Russian localization
    There are languages Portuguese, French, Polish, but wait ... the Russian-speaking community has more than 300 million people and there is no Russian localization. Thank you, bought, looked, returned.
  10. gamgam
    Jun 22, 2022
    0
    Bad PvP. Bad PvE. Broken bans. Also, come on, it's Amazon trying to break into the gaming arena. GL after this Amazon; the public no longer trusts you.
  11. BaBka_YaGGa
    Oct 8, 2021
    0
    Каличный, донатный трэш от амазон, на кого эта масса рассчитана остается загадкой.
  12. DedNazgul
    Oct 3, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wonderful queue emulator. Stood for a day, never went in. I took the money, which I advise everyone.… Expand
  13. Obadiah_Jenkins
    Sep 6, 2023
    4
    This game could have been good, but it just didn't make it. It was fun at first, until you started to see through the veil. It feels like an unfinished cash grab, very repetitive endgame, not very innovative for a new MMO. It's sad as it had such a cool concept.
  14. wolfaust
    Feb 6, 2023
    4
    New World is attractive as an immersive and player-driven economy MMORPG that can be playable as open-world PvP and where players can be in constant conflict. However, the failure of Amazon Games in Crucible is also can be seen here, too.

    First of all, I'm pretty sure they didn't consider any of the feedback from players in the Closed Beta and Open Beta. They may have read it, they may    New World is attractive as an immersive and player-driven economy MMORPG that can be playable as open-world PvP and where players can be in constant conflict. However, the failure of Amazon Games in Crucible is also can be seen here, too.

    First of all, I'm pretty sure they didn't consider any of the feedback from players in the Closed Beta and Open Beta. They may have read it, they may have reviewed it, but they did not find it worth applying it to the game. Because, instead of many features given feedback, they continued to progress on the roadmap that the company designed in-house. However, as a game developer company, you are offering this game to players, not stakeholders. To the players!

    It made almost all players happy with the PvP Scaling System in the Closed Beta. Not Level, but just using skills wisely and wise character builds were important. However, they changed PvP Scaling due to a few narrow-minded players who think that MMORPG games are only level-oriented. Now that there is no PvP Scaling or reduced illogically, these narrow-minded fellows, thanks to their high level, are looking forward to taking away the pleasure of players who activate PvP for low-level-only Faction Missions. This is a very sad situation; Imagine it.

    The launch was not as grand as promised; Amazon Games has flooded EU servers from all over the world because (maybe) of the vulnerabilities in their servers and because they didn't release the game all over the world at the same time. Currently (September 28th, 2021), as EU players, we have been waiting for more than 5000 or more people (sometimes less) in the queue for hours... Sometimes the queue never changes! We need bigger servers, not new ones.

    Last laugh combat mechanics... PvE combat mechanics fail incredibly. I’ve been playing MMORPG for centuries (irony), and I’ve never come across such a failed combat mechanic. Stagger does not work properly, some creatures and animals do ridiculously large and irrelevant damage. Bears, for example, are neither staggered nor stunned. After one attack, they make the third and fourth attacks in a row on the second line. These are bears, not boxers.

    First, you should have looked at how animals and creatures in other MMOs work. It was very interesting that you developed such a mechanic, which I can’t even name, while there are tons of successful and unsuccessful examples around. Like Last Laugh, every creature strikes the final blow even as they die.

    Quest designs are constantly repetitive. Extremely illogical and not at all creative. Especially after 24+ missions, you understand this lack of creativity and irrationality more clearly. You interact with the same NPC to do the quest in the same region at least 5 times. The reward is not satisfactory at all.

    There are 4-5 different creatures in the whole game, and all of them were poured into the game by Amazon Games by copy-pasting the whole map, just by changing their stats, as if they were pouring salt on the food. The interior design of the buildings, the interior design of the forts, in fact, everything in the game is copied-pasted everywhere in the same way. I have never seen this much laziness! It's a shame!

    The game is in its first phase of extended open beta, not the full version. Almost everything is broken!

    Now, on the bright side, players who want to "just" enjoy the PvE content of the game can still do so. The balance of the game's content, world, story and builds against PvE looks very good. However, don't do PvP Faction quests alone or even with five friends! Join a Company and do it with teams of over 20-30 people.

    Am I still playing the game? Yes. Mostly, PvE.

    Good luck to you all true, dear and understanding PvP - PvE players!    … Expand
  15. Lufia
    Jul 7, 2023
    0
    This could be a great game but the inventory mechanics and the issue with gold is just bothering me to much. I am constantly full and can not store my items. Not sure why realy every game is using the same annoying mechanic. ( small inventory / storage / weight ) Systems. Also the balancing is just like every mobile game is. Easy at the beginning and you get one shot at the end.
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70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 35
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  1. Games.cz
    Nov 30, 2021
    60
    An MMORPG with great potential - but there’s so much work to be done. It is, however, already highly addictive for those who are patient and forgiving.
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  2. Gamer.nl
    Nov 22, 2021
    65
    New World is an mmo that could be straight out of 2010. It hardly adds any new ideas to the genre and therefore feels dated in content. The faction system offers interesting possibilities for wars between players, but is not yet balanced. New World demands a lot of time from its players, but does not actually give anything in return that we have not seen before. Graphically, everything is fine, and although the game has microtransactions, they are only of a cosmetic nature. There is no subscription: for the entrance fee, the entire base game is open to you.
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  3. MGG Spain
    Nov 22, 2021
    80
    New World is such a large MMO that we will have to spend our time in the vast world of Aethernum. While some mechanics or functionalities don't have much of a place nowadays, it has other things that seem to me to be genuine and cutting edge in terms of massively multiplayer online development.
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