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  • Summary: Paladins is a free-to-play game that combines a rich fantasy setting with the fast action of a team-based first-person shooter.

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  1. May 31, 2018
    88
    Paladins shouldn’t be seen just as the free alternative to Overwatch but, instead, should be praised as one of the best multiplayers nowadays. A great and addictive game that will surely entertain every kind of player thanks to its accessibility and well-developed mechanics.
  2. May 29, 2018
    85
    Fun & complete, this is a free-to-play-heroic-shooter that allow the player to enjoy thousands of hours of shoots, magic and customization. Great job, and also in constant expansion.
  3. May 15, 2018
    84
    Working on top of the strong and fairly balanced foundation of a free-to-play hero shooter, Paladins’ capacity for experimentation is its greatest strength. Even after over 300 hours of exhilarating battles and strategic planning, champions continue to find a way to offer new gameplay experiences.
  4. Jun 1, 2018
    81
    Paladins is a very solid hero shooter, with a great core gameplay and very good ideas. You can try it for free and its business model is not abusive at all, so we recommend you give it a try.
  5. CD-Action
    Sep 27, 2018
    80
    A solid, enjoyable hero shooter, varied and polished. Yes, it does have a lot of Overwatch DNA, but in some areas it’s more advanced than Blizzard’s game (e.g. wide range of adjustments you can make to adapt your character to your playing style) and it’s free. [08/2018, p.62]
  6. May 30, 2018
    78
    A product capable of guaranteeing many hours of fun. And this, after all, is more than enough.
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  2. Negative: 33 out of 118
  1. May 24, 2018
    10
    este juego por su complejidad, ademas han habido actualizaciones que vuelven mas entretenido este titulo
  2. Nov 30, 2021
    10
    Es un buen juego, muy entretenido, ideal para cuando llegas del trabajo o de la universidad candado y buscas algo para despejar tu mente,Es un buen juego, muy entretenido, ideal para cuando llegas del trabajo o de la universidad candado y buscas algo para despejar tu mente, partidas no muy largas, intensas y con variedades de campeones, talentos, barajas e ítems que hacen jugarlos de manera diferente, tiene sus errores, no es perfecto pero es mi juego favorito. Expand
  3. May 16, 2018
    10
    Paladins is a free to play hero shooter that isn't pay to win in anyway, the only things you can buy with real money are crystals and thePaladins is a free to play hero shooter that isn't pay to win in anyway, the only things you can buy with real money are crystals and the battle pass, you can get awesome looking skins with them. The battle pass system works like Fortnites battle pass and has plenty of skins. With crystals you can buy chests which include different skins or you can potentially buy the skins for some crystals. You earn plenty of crystals in daily logins.

    Now for the game-play, i have been playing Paladins for over a year and a half and I still am not bored with it. You can change your whole champion with the Cards and Legendary system. You create loadouts for your champions and you have 20 cards which you can choose from which you can change however you like,the loadouts contain 5 cards of your liking, they can be leveled up to the max level which is level 5 or you can have them at level 1 but with all your 5 cards combined they have to have 15 levels. The cards are completely free once you unlock the champion.In every match you have an item shop which you can buy 4 Items from the selection of 16. The categories are as follow:Defensive,Healing,Utility and Offensive Items, the credits needed to purchase these cards are earned in the match you currently are playing and depends on how well you are doing you get more credits and can buy more items and upgrade your already purchased items to make them even stronger.
    To unlock a champion it only takes some gold which you earn while playing the game and completing daily quests, don't worry it isn't grindy at all i have stacks on stacks of gold like literally i have 2 Million gold in the game and the most expensive champion costs 60K gold. All of Paladins champions deal tons of damage and do their role fantastically, the supports aren't just some heal bots they actually help the team with their healing, crowd control and their lethal damage. Everything feels viable and its true that almost all of the champions are viable but balancing a game can never be accomplished but Paladins is so close to perfecting it for both casual players and the pro players.

    I haven't spent a single penny in the game and I have the same advantages as the people that spent a 100 dollars on it. I have plenty of skins because of the generous crystals earned daily logins that they offer.

    Every game has its downs and Paladins doesn't have many but still has some, which are various bugs and glitches but they can be fixed in future patches and they are trying their best with fixing as many as they can every patch, in the newest patch they fixed around 20 bugs which are many because they tend to update every 2 weeks to fix balancing and bugs and every 6 weeks they have an update which adds new champions, new events, heavy bug fixes and many gorgeous skins.
    Paladins can be run on potato computers and still get good fps. The graphics are very fantasy like and immerse you into its world. Even if you have a very high end computer Paladins still looks very beautiful on maximum graphics and the FPS is at the maximum limit on my medium computer.

    If the Paladins team keeps going at this pace and maintain their aggressive updating their game would become one of the best hero shooter if not the best, obviously they have Overwatch to compete against but both of them are very different and people might like Paladins more than Overwatch and vice versa.

    I prefer Paladins over Overwatch because in Paladins you can completely change your whole champion the way you want to play it and you can counter play everything from crowd control, healing, damage taken and more and more with the help of the item shop and with the help of the Cards and Legendary system you can customise your whole deck to counter a specific set of enemies. You can store up 5 loadouts per champion which is plenty.
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  4. Jul 13, 2018
    8
    It is an interesting and entertaining game, but I do not like that they have removed the cards, I feel that it lacks more valance with someIt is an interesting and entertaining game, but I do not like that they have removed the cards, I feel that it lacks more valance with some characters, sometimes I feel the game a little empt Expand
  5. Dec 4, 2021
    6
    Decent game. Very unbalanced. Map design is OK but could be a lot better. Cool cosmetics, lots of champions
  6. Dec 17, 2020
    3
    the game used to be good but since 2018 with the game breaking bugs, chaos of a matchmaking in ranked (example: i was in Gold II but mythe game used to be good but since 2018 with the game breaking bugs, chaos of a matchmaking in ranked (example: i was in Gold II but my opponents are always Diamonds and Plats while my teammates are Bronze and Silvers like wtf?), unbalanced roster, and most of all the uncaring developers. why bother spend money for every battlepass? the amount of money the players spent for the battle pass is literally more than enough to buy Overwatch. Overwatch right now is in it's best shape since 2017, the roster is balanced, little bugs, matchmaking in Comp is nice and the best one is that Blizzard cares for it very much, they listen to the player's feedback, they always try their best with balancing now and try to not make power creeps like before, although the anti cheat system is a bit crap. Meanwhile Hi-Rez is using Paladins as a cash grab game. They never cared for the game, they never fix any game breaking bugs, their balancing is absolute garbage, they only focuses on making cosmetics and female champions for looks, and worst of all is that the players still sucks the Devs's dicks and won't stop! I mean being loyal is fine, but the Developers are literally sucking the money out of the players like mosquitos sucks blood from humans. i- i- i just can't. I quit back in 2018 but came back and nothing changed. the way Hi-Rez fixes the game is the same as putting a band-aid on a broken arm and they still get money from the players. just buy Overwatch, like seriously just do it. Expand
  7. Dec 14, 2019
    0
    Worst matchmaking ever made. No bugfixes, only new skins. Population never growing this way. In one year the game dies. Hi-rez CEO shold sellWorst matchmaking ever made. No bugfixes, only new skins. Population never growing this way. In one year the game dies. Hi-rez CEO shold sell his company as soon as possible. Expand

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