Valorant

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4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3892 Ratings

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  1. Meesvdg
    Jun 9, 2020
    9
    Even though people are devided about the graphics I love them. The game is a lot like csgo but at the same time not at all. Its way easier and more forgiving.
    What i really like about valorant are the frequent updates and communication between players and devs. The game is not perfect but what did you expect, its a brand new game. But it has a great team of devs behind it and i expect    Even though people are devided about the graphics I love them. The game is a lot like csgo but at the same time not at all. Its way easier and more forgiving.
    What i really like about valorant are the frequent updates and communication between players and devs. The game is not perfect but what did you expect, its a brand new game. But it has a great team of devs behind it and i expect that they are gonna keep adding great content fix some annoying bugs and start to polish this already good game.
    But by far the biggest con is the the horrendously intrusive anti-cheat. I get why they are using it but it if you are using a kernel anti-cheat it has to be effective, but it just isn't.
    Overall great game but needs polishing and they really need to improve the anti-cheat    … Expand
  2. bmendez
    Jun 9, 2020
    10
    It’s not a copy of cs:go. It’s even better. Valorant is a very nice game. And you can have a lot of fun if you play with friends
  3. Ugur_Bey
    Jun 9, 2020
    9
    I think game is good
    game likes
    CS:GO + overwatch

    if you like CS:GO or overWatch
    Play this!

    That's all :D
  4. PrimordialSlash
    Jun 9, 2020
    5
    TLDR: Game is fun and has a nice character design and good graphics, BUT you need to ignore horrible server stability (at least in LATAM at the moment), tons of bug, bad balance choices, bad teammates you have to deal with for 50 min and ignore that is a very rushed game that was definitely not ready to come out from beta leading to the bad server stability, bugs and when the server justTLDR: Game is fun and has a nice character design and good graphics, BUT you need to ignore horrible server stability (at least in LATAM at the moment), tons of bug, bad balance choices, bad teammates you have to deal with for 50 min and ignore that is a very rushed game that was definitely not ready to come out from beta leading to the bad server stability, bugs and when the server just wants to say F U.

    Lets put it this way, if you dont really care about bad teamates which you will find by the bunch is a fun game. game is not that good or bad. Con: riot used a kernel (VANGUARD) with the intend of no hackers. There are still hackers so if you dont wanna have the slightest chance that tencent is selling your info dont download it. Meh: Game could really use some balance. Pros: game really rewards skill, its still lets skillful than csgo since utility is far more precise without the requiere of hard setups, Ex: csgo requiere you to calculate strength angle and position of throwing a molotov, if you play brimstone you can point and click a huge smoke with insane range. Con: The biggest Con of this game is honestly poor management, Riot rushed the release god knows why after a really short period of beta, all bugs are far from fixed, there are really insane bugs like standing on the top of the map, weird camera and dron glitches that lets you see though the map etc. But the WORST of everything are the servers, im a player from LATAM, servers are super super unreliable, game is playable if it decides its playable basically. If you play in Lan you might get sent to the server from LAS spiking you 200ms for no reason. Server kicks you out if you have a bad connection, not if your internet is bad, it disconnects you because its decides you get the bad connection of the match. You can get send to LAS even if you are from the top of LAN even on shooting range at random since you can literally go in a practice math aka shooting range you get 240ms, leave and try again 150 ms, lets try again 80ms, oh now I can play, enters unrated match 215ms and you know you are on the wrong server when you use a VPN lets say to the US/Mexico since LAN sided server is there and you get 30 less ping, but on the matches when you for no reason have 200+ms than you should you VPN to Chile and voila you get 50ms less even when you should never really be playing so far from your normal server. Lets not even mention that on first day of release everyone was waiting to play but the servers where so far from good they just kicked you from the match (on every server) because they werent ready. Also from experience the game yous decides you will have lag this match, I have the exactly same plan from the same internet provider as from the friends I play with, we all play games at 80 ms to 100ms (CSGO, League, OW, Cod etc) and here sometimes I have 250ms when they get 80, sometimes is another friend, sometimes is 2 of us or sometimes we get that and get sent to another server for 300+ms making you wish you were dead since you literally just came out of a spike rush game to test ping and you had 80 so you decide to go to unrated and suddenly you 5 get 300ms and the entire enemy team has 20 to 50 and your are stuck there for 50min with no way to surrender and definetly cant win since it is a tactal shooter and duels are decided on who peaks or who gets the first headshot, which can be donde as fast as you see someone if you are good but your bullets are getting registered in the server 100 times slower than the enemy. Game was definitely rush out for some reason be it the fear of it losing hype, the need for money to come in now or just they didnt care. As for any other region I dont know how stable your severs are but LATAM are really bad, 1 week after release and they are still trying to fix connectivity issues. If you hate spaghetti coding (as you have experienced from league) this is no different. Ex: you know you can wall bang people, its a common feature in most shooters, but did you know in VALORANT you can wall bang ANY wall no matter how thick it is or your weapon IF you hit their hands. you cannot wallbang to any other body part just hands this way, why you ask? well welcome to riot games coding. Game is and will continue to be infested with bugs and they fix the most game breaking ones but sometimes they can even do so (looking at you Invisible nunu bug in league). I swear that if riot balance and programming teams where as half as good as their design/graphic design team this game would be an 8 or 9 but no that will never happen with riot games.    … Expand
  5. PnuTTT
    Jun 8, 2020
    4
    Its just CSGO but much much much much much much much much much much much worse.
  6. Ashmail
    Jun 8, 2020
    3
    Пошел в игру, так как была обещана какая-то хитрая система по срезанию пинга, но результат не удивил пинг 150. Как-то был и 300, когда на азиатский сервер кинуло. Проблема в том, что живя на дальнем востоке нашей страны почти ни в одну игру онлайновую играть невозможно в виду пинга в 2-5 раз больше, чем у противника.
    Так что проект не стоит внимания лично для меня. 3 за попытку.    Пошел в игру, так как была обещана какая-то хитрая система по срезанию пинга, но результат не удивил пинг 150. Как-то был и 300, когда на азиатский сервер кинуло. Проблема в том, что живя на дальнем востоке нашей страны почти ни в одну игру онлайновую играть невозможно в виду пинга в 2-5 раз больше, чем у противника.
    Так что проект не стоит внимания лично для меня. 3 за попытку.
  7. Striker87
    Jun 8, 2020
    1
    I seriously dislike how this game was built: from optimization and net code to how it's being marketed, as well as how invasive its anti-cheat is. FPS dips well below 30 FPS on my hardware, I'm experiencing constant connection issues and the worst of it all is just how I can't redeem my battle pass rewards. So thanks, Riot Games, but no thanks. I'm not touching it ever again.
  8. Rafa_Mendes
    Jun 8, 2020
    4
    Tentou pegar referencia de vários jogos e ficou totalmente sem identidade o jogo é chato as habilidade não são relevantes e não deixa o jogo mais interessante. Acabou de lançar e parece que ainda esta no começo de um beta com pouquíssimas opções de jogos
  9. lazyweeb23
    Jun 8, 2020
    2
    Okay, my complaints are going to be harsh, so brace for impact.

    My first complaint is very obvious, as the games take way too long when you get steamrolled because the punishments for exiting a match early is a one-hour queue punishment. Not only that but even when you lose, and get steamrolled in the process, you have to suffer for 13 rounds of pure enjoyment. I have a total of 60    Okay, my complaints are going to be harsh, so brace for impact.

    My first complaint is very obvious, as the games take way too long when you get steamrolled because the punishments for exiting a match early is a one-hour queue punishment. Not only that but even when you lose, and get steamrolled in the process, you have to suffer for 13 rounds of pure enjoyment. I have a total of 60 hours on the game, and I had fun for about 1 hour. The problem that runs rampant on this game, is that its been overhyped to the point of pure disappointment. I've played games like CS: GO and even Overwatch when they were being hyped up, and those were fun because you could actually relax in the game, but Valorant was hyped, that it didn't even live up to the bare minimum. The game's guns also are broken. Somehow, the guns were just CS: GO guns, and then ruined. There is an unbalanced factor to the guns, as some guns for the value, get way too much, where other guns are not even worth buying, where the mechanics are messed up, as its too easy, and not enjoyable to gamers who have played first-person shooters in the past due to this. The agents also mess up the game, some characters can just straight up destroy you, where other agents suck so much, that its a wasted investment. Its a bootleg Overwatch and Cs: Go only meant to live on life support after 2 years.    … Expand
  10. LostInParadise
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    Its slowing down your PC. Very slow gameplay, not stable servers. It will not kill CS:GO believe me.
  11. Dapaalet
    Jun 8, 2020
    5
    The game feels empty. The maps are mediocre, weapons are not balanced. Overall, it is a slow and boring game.
  12. Noctics
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    Juego aburrido, la peor copia de csgo y overwatch, es como si sacaran lo peor de cada uno y lo juntaran. Totalmente aburrido de ver y jugar, no lo recomiendo.
  13. remo1981
    Jun 8, 2020
    10
    I tried it as a cs:go gamer. Very nice....and no problems to play, because gameplay is similar.
  14. 4lleyezonme
    Jun 8, 2020
    3
    even I fully agree it's 90% a copy of CS, I don't care about that.
    But it just isn't a good game. Graphics are horrible imo, heroes are unbalanced, and I got bored after 2 rounds. It's a game for you if you like cartoon-ish graphics and if CS is too hard and competitive for you. Recoil is much easier than in CS, it is much slower than CS and movement feels kinda clunky (you can't b-hop,    even I fully agree it's 90% a copy of CS, I don't care about that.
    But it just isn't a good game. Graphics are horrible imo, heroes are unbalanced, and I got bored after 2 rounds. It's a game for you if you like cartoon-ish graphics and if CS is too hard and competitive for you. Recoil is much easier than in CS, it is much slower than CS and movement feels kinda clunky (you can't b-hop, etc.) compared to CS. And yes, the CS community is toxic but the Valorant community seems to be even worse.

    So for people who just wanna play the game once a week for 2 hours, this is for you. If you wanna play a competitive and hard game go for CS.    … Expand
  15. Vage
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    I want to remember that we are in 2020, this game feel so old and is out only from 5 days.
    Is a complete garbage, you can get killed with only one SHOT, how this can be competitive?
    The graphics is old, maps are rectangle polygon, the movement is super slow and the abilities are so annoying and static.

    0, because I can’t go MINUS.
  16. Ironsunz
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    It's boring, no speed, no momentum, just walking. The maps are just rectangles
  17. OfficialYung
    Jun 8, 2020
    8
    I don't understand the hate. This game isn't perfect but it's a good game.
    It's not cs:go. It's not Overwatch.
    Some issues but overall I like it and that's from someone that hates Riot.
  18. RomperStomper
    Jun 8, 2020
    1
    No momentum. No violence. Snoozfest. And while snoozing, Tencent collects your data via the backdoor malware rootkit called "anti-cheat" Vanguard. :) Good times this 2020 is.
  19. Fyendo
    Jun 8, 2020
    3
    This game feels unfinished and lacks variety. It's like someone reskinned CS-GO and threw in some random power ups that don't really fit. I played a few rounds a day for a few days during the beta and uninstalled and have had no desire to go back to play it again.
  20. Rogues
    Jun 8, 2020
    1
    It's like Counter Strike but in boring. Why would somebody play something like this?
  21. Squattingnev
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    Over a week since release still not received paid for battlepass rewards or free hero unlocks. Random recoil patterns. Just a bad attempt at csgo
  22. flinto
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    Just a cheap mimic to counter-strike. Not even as good as cs1.6. Stupid on all fronts.
  23. Kl4y
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    Just another FPS game made only to win money. The game is just a boring copy of CS:GO and Paladins where kids play rankeds beliving they are "pro gamers". Won't play the game until there is a gamemode that doesn't feel like a waste of time.
  24. rhiel94
    Jun 8, 2020
    5
    Some say it's a mix of overwatch with cs go, but honestly there's no way to compare, the game is fun to a certain extent but doesn't deliver anything new to the fps market, but the most important thing is that it's not good to shoot with the weapons just like in other popular games, just don't convince.
  25. lejou123
    Jun 8, 2020
    10
    there's no worse than fan-boy. No:

    for me the game is good with flaws but will get better over time.
    the opinions against these games are really ridiculous you feel the frustration of the cs:go players.
  26. Mylin
    Jun 8, 2020
    10
    People are so dumb that they dont understand that the character has to be slower than cs:go simply because the maps are smaller. + the game has no cheaters, different from cs:go, 128 ticks servers, nice shot reg.
  27. Nmftbll08
    Jun 8, 2020
    2
    Where's the violence, speed and momentum??? This game is a snooze fest! This is what is being hyped? Wtf happened to the game industry?
  28. Duyanh
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The inferior version of csgo and overwatch. The only good thing about it is that valorant is free and easy to get used to . The way bullets go out is **** , map pools is limited and some agents are way better than others . I can not remember the exact years that riot needs to make this game but they still can not solve the biggest problem : afk , just like league of legend. In conclusion , if you want to play a fps game , there are a lot of way better choices.… Expand
  29. nedving7
    Jun 8, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Поиграл я в это чудо игру, только из-за того, что пестрят новости VALORANT убийца CS:GO, прямой конкурент. В CS я играл более 10 лет и вот как года 2-3 не играю, максимум часов 50 в год. Но смотрю разные турниры. Я от чистого сердца, радовался, что появилось что-то на уровне CS:GO и может с этой дисциплиной конкурировать. Что-же VALORANT может дать, сыграв одну игру, мне достаточно было оценить это производство Riot, а оценивал я на уровне конкуренции с CS:GO.

    Графика:
    В VALORANT это плюс и минус. Плюс тут в сторону производительности на слабых ПК. Жирный минус это графика на уровне tf2, играешь будто в пластмассовый пластелин, очень блекло, уныло, надъедает спустя пяти раундов.

    Карты:
    Сыграл я всего лишь на одной карте, но было достаточно оценить пустоты всей этой карты. Отсутствие интерьера, отдельных деталей и прочих мелочей. Да я сужу по одной карте, так как уверен, что на остальных все так же. В общем от карты уже тошнило как от графики после пятого раунда. Карты примерно такие же как и в CS 1.6, такие же пустые. Но CS 1.6 вышла тогда, когда многих еще даже в планах не было.

    Оружие:
    Просто отвратительное, что когда либо видел. Отрисовка оружия просто ужас, будто стреляешь из картонного, уровень игр от мэйла.ру, где также выглядит оружие. Говорят, что физика стрельбы как в CS:GO, не верю. Физика стрельбы намного проще в VALORANT, но это картонное оружие, которого ты не чувствуешь. В общем здесь минус.

    Перки, скилы:
    Не знаю даже как оценить, но скажу так: без них игра умерла бы на стадии ЗБТ

    Подведу итог:
    Не защищаю CS:GO, а наоборот хотелось бы реального конкурента. VALORANT больше подойдет игрой для школьников и для тех, кто в CS так и не смог реализоваться. Вот основная аудитория этой игры. Riot хорошая компания и надеюсь они в будущем поменяют движок, доведут до ума. А пока это просто скучная пустышка.    … Expand
  30. Aaradorn
    Jun 8, 2020
    3
    The beta was okay, nothing special really, it reminded me of CS GO mixed with abilities. The map design was bad and the graphics were a joke. The anti cheat is basically china's backdoor into your system and the game play overall is laggy, buggy and the servers are pretty unstable. It's a cool experience if you're done with CSGO or overwatch but you will quickly switch back to those gamesThe beta was okay, nothing special really, it reminded me of CS GO mixed with abilities. The map design was bad and the graphics were a joke. The anti cheat is basically china's backdoor into your system and the game play overall is laggy, buggy and the servers are pretty unstable. It's a cool experience if you're done with CSGO or overwatch but you will quickly switch back to those games after about a week. The game just isn't there yet. It has a lot of potential it just needs a LOT more work. Everyone review bombing should stop either way, this game is not a 10/10 game and not a 0/10 game.… Expand
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Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 42 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 42
  3. Negative: 1 out of 42
  1. GameMAG
    Sep 12, 2020
    80
    Valorant has a high-quality and clean release without any problems. The game will definitely please fans of the competitive FPS genre. The eSports potential of the shooter has only become established over time, and the first tournaments are already planned. However, a high entry threshold requires serious skill training. But this only makes the game more interesting.
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  2. GameStar
    Aug 7, 2020
    86
    At first, this looks like just another Counterstrike clone. But there’s more depth and variety, despite the lack of content.
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  3. KeenGamer
    Jul 29, 2020
    80
    Overall, Valorant is a great game to play if you're a fan of first-person shooter strategy games. But it is also something that someone without experience with games like CS:GO can enjoy and pick up quickly. The Agents are, for the most part, balanced, and the planned addition of more should keep the game fresh. The overall style doesn't really land and the sound design needs to be fixed.
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