Paladins

 PC
Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Areajugones
    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. IGN Spain
    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. IGN
    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.
  5. Vandal
    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.
  6. 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]
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  7. Everyeye.it
    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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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 495 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 309 out of 495
  2. Mixed: 102 out of 495
  3. Negative: 84 out of 495
  1. Skillam
    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.    … Full Review »
  2. PlushyKitten
    Aug 14, 2018
    0
    Here's my personal experience with "Hi-Rez Studios" and "Easy Anti-Cheat" and "Paladins" as a whole. I first joined the game a few days agoHere's my personal experience with "Hi-Rez Studios" and "Easy Anti-Cheat" and "Paladins" as a whole. I first joined the game a few days ago after getting a little bored of Overwatch and as I progressively played and unlocked some content with my decent aim from all my experience in games like this one... I proceeded to buy around $82.00 worth of extra content however from this moment on was down hill. After spending a lot of hard earned money on this game I wanted to show off my new content in training mode with fellow players in which we all face AI bots. I had a really good round I was having a blast but my Bluetooth Xbox One remote (The one I use for most the games I play on PC) started to die and usually when that happens while playing any game on my system it causes a memory leak or some kind of heavy glitch that takes down my FPS and crashes the game till my batteries are replaced. Long story short the game crashed after my controller died well I thought no biggie I'll just re-log like I do every time my controller crashes a game... well I re-log and come back to a big fat banned screen their anti-cheat had detected the glitch as a cheat and banned me right as it happened! I was not upset right off the bat however I was instantly concerned about my account and sent in a support ticket explaining what happened, after a few days they hit me back with some generic message almost auto like response explaining how I cheated and I was banned for breaking the rules. I was very frustrated at this point because they not only sent me a generic response but they also flat out ignored my concerns with what was going on. I thought okay I will try to find another way to contact them so I headed to the Paladins Reddit Discord server and contacted a few employees only to be told to send in another support ticket... I went ahead and filed another support ticket with Hi-Rez and got the same automated message saying I was banned for cheating. I continued to search for one last bit of hope so I had a private discussion with a Hi-Rez Steam Discussions admin, who had validated mine and others concerns with this games anti-cheat and told me to send in a support ticket. I sent in this final ticket explaining yet again what happened and got the same exact generic automated response. I never cheated. This is a honest review of my experience with Paladins and this company, This is also not a public ban appeal discussion I'm not trying to get un-banned anymore however I would suggest you switch to Steams anti-cheat system because others all over the web are expressing the same issues with "Easy Anti-Cheat".… Full Review »
  3. WESTdeen
    May 16, 2018
    10
    I have been playing Paladins ever since June of 2017 ( OB 51 i believe ) and i cannot describe how much of a roller coaster Paladins has beenI have been playing Paladins ever since June of 2017 ( OB 51 i believe ) and i cannot describe how much of a roller coaster Paladins has been in my life until its launch. It is true that Paladins had rough Open Beta Patches, and it is true that it also had questionable monetization, but with the help of the community, Paladins has become better than ever with a fair monetization model (that is one of the best for F2P where you can unlock everything by simply playing the game ) while maintaining at its core a VERY fun game. that is unique from its other competitors.
    What makes Paladins' game play so fun and deep is its Cards Deck Building where you can change a Champions playstyle depending on the deck you have chosen made of 5 cards out of 20 and 1 talent out of 4.
    A support champion like Pip would choose Mega Potion Talent to focus more on healing while he would choose Catalyst Talent to increase his explosives' dmg turning him into a Flank.
    A Front line like Ash can choose Fortress Talent to increase the size of her shield making her a point tank, Battering Ram Talent to grant her a 90% dmg reduction upon using her Dash charge making her perfect for dive comps that messes up the enemy's team backline and get information and get away safely., or Slug Shot Talent turning her into a long range backline sniper.
    A Damage like Drogoz can choose Fusillade Talent making his direct rockets deal more dmg encourage skill aiming, Combustible Talent where his Fire Spits punishes the enemy for grouping up with wide explosions, or W.R.Y.M Jets Talent increasing his jets speed making him a hybrid of flank and dmg that can dive.
    A flank like Zhin, can choose Guil Talent to make his Ult a guarantee kill that he can use to get rid of important targets like Front Lines in the beginning of a round, or Yomi Talent making his every third shot have infinite range and increased dmg granting him a better poke dmg, Retaliation Talent making his counter ability last more thus turning him into a literal Front Line, or Smolder Talent that makes him regenerate health during his billow ability making him a self-sufficient dive flank.
    These are only 4 out of 32 champions that all have unique abilities, talents and card decks, which is exactly what makes me comeback into paladins everyday for the past year. Don't let others discourage you from enjoying Paladins, grab some friends and have some quality time.    … Full Review »
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