Valorant

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4.8

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 3892 Ratings

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  1. Honesty101
    Aug 14, 2020
    0
    The main selling point for Valorant is the revolutionary anti-cheat system, which promises a cheater free enviornment for players. It works by accessing your process list and it sees everything that goes on in your system, but sadly the anti-cheat doesn't work, as there are plenty of cheaters in the game to ruin your experience. If the anti-cheat blatantly doesn't work, then it can meanThe main selling point for Valorant is the revolutionary anti-cheat system, which promises a cheater free enviornment for players. It works by accessing your process list and it sees everything that goes on in your system, but sadly the anti-cheat doesn't work, as there are plenty of cheaters in the game to ruin your experience. If the anti-cheat blatantly doesn't work, then it can mean only one thing: Tencent is collecting and selling your personal information. The game it self is a cheap and poor ripoff from Counter Strike and Overwatch with a very cartoonish design, trying to mash two popular games into one big mess, minus all the good things the original games had, such as; recoil control, fast paced gameplay, competitive element and various dynamics of gameplay. The hitboxes must be the worst in FPS history. There are only two hitboxes, head and everything else. Combine that with terrible weapon balance, no recoil and you get the ability to cheese through enemies with couple of shots. It takes 0 skill to kill in this game. Even pistols feel like sniper rifles at range, just like every other weapon. No penalty for weapons in various ranges. Even COD which is considered to be the king of casual FPS has range penalties, this game apparently does not. The map design is terrible, it's clear the devs stole few map design concepts from CS and somehow made it worse. There is no strategy available in maps, just rush one or the other point, there are no alternatives. Character and skill design is the worst part of this game. They bring no utility to this game. Shooting skills through walls, ice wall and smoke an area every time, consider how both teams can do this. In the end you get a clunky mess on your screen, often wondering what in the world is going on until you get killed through the smoke by pre-fires in 3 shots. Even when you're dominating few games with positive K/D/A it doesn't feel rewarding, there is no incentive to make plays or clutches as you know you'll be killed in 3 shots by someone blindfolded pre-firing a corner. Take CS in comparison, you can do 1v5 clutches based on jukes, aim, enemy aim, smokes, flashes, rotation and still come on top victorious because the map design allows you various approaches to situations. You'll never see that in Valorant, because the game is bad and those playing it should feel bad. In a nutshell, Valorant is a poor attempt to make competitive FPS casual, at which Riot failed miserably. This game will die once the hype around it disappears.… Expand
  2. kochamboga
    Aug 14, 2020
    10
    valorant jest smiesnzy i w sumie jest badziewny hehe
    bede sie modlil za ich dewelporeow
    amen
  3. Drumstix360
    Aug 13, 2020
    2
    This game feels like playing with a nerf gun. The mechanics are a straight ripoff from CS: GO. Shooting feels like shooting a nerf gun because the recoil is almost nonexistent in this game. This game is made for noobs who can't play CS: GO. I hate this game because it is owned by Riot Games which is owned by Tencent which is a Chinese company that buys videogames companies and makes theThis game feels like playing with a nerf gun. The mechanics are a straight ripoff from CS: GO. Shooting feels like shooting a nerf gun because the recoil is almost nonexistent in this game. This game is made for noobs who can't play CS: GO. I hate this game because it is owned by Riot Games which is owned by Tencent which is a Chinese company that buys videogames companies and makes the game worse, most of their mobile games are chock full of mobile transactions and they are notorious for stealing data. The sound effects sound like shooting a nerf gun and the game is very unrealistic. The only difference between this game and CS: GO is that they wanted to make money that's why they renamed the "C4" the "Spike" so companies to sponsor this game .… Expand
  4. NotNikki
    Aug 12, 2020
    0
    This game is slow as it can get after i buy go to site i have to wait another 20 sec the gameplay is boring if you don't want to camp this game is not for you honestly if i camped more i would get more kills and thats boring af
  5. aNickname
    Aug 12, 2020
    0
    (08/12/2020)
    First of all, I want to mention that I have 5000+ hours on CS GO and 4 months experience in VALORANT. Yes, I think everybody agree that this game is fun. It's way better than CS GO. I will analyze the game as in competition mode. Before even launch the developers said that they want to eliminate "Peeker's Advantage" and I don't think it's possible. They tried few things but    (08/12/2020)
    First of all, I want to mention that I have 5000+ hours on CS GO and 4 months experience in VALORANT. Yes, I think everybody agree that this game is fun. It's way better than CS GO. I will analyze the game as in competition mode. Before even launch the developers said that they want to eliminate "Peeker's Advantage" and I don't think it's possible. They tried few things but all of them just ruined the game. They decreased character movement speed. They ruined run to stop recoil. Some times my shots aren't registering due to these "fixes" but what fixed? NOTHING. They just ruined the game. There is even no spraying in the game. You started shooting in the head or you are dead in this game. I will just list the rest of it or this review will be boring.
    * There are too much corners in maps which makes harder to 1v5
    * Operator(Awp) is too strong in the game. It's so hard to counter them with agents don't have smoke or flash.
    * Optimization is so bad. I usually get 200+ frames while nothings going on. Then 5 attackers pop to site with bunch of skills then it's around 80 frames.
    * Spray transfer is just a luck.
    * We are forced to play this game 16:9. Changing it to 4:3 doesn't stretch characters. Only UI.
    * Queue times are so long. You can't find a game when you are 5 pre and immortal+ rank less then 15 minutes.
    * Sounds are a joke. You hear the enemy in front of you then he just appears from the other directions.
    * Many more...
    In a nut shell, it's a fun game but it can't compete with Cs go. Except they fix those issues    … Expand
  6. f4lken
    Aug 9, 2020
    0
    VALORANT is Over hyped ,Overrated,Unbalanced,Fortnite+CS+over watch, i played for 3 days just to check what all the hype is about.
    AND YES CS IS STILL BETTER !
  7. Metacritic90909
    Aug 9, 2020
    0
    Just play CSGO instead its better lmao. CSGO has better gunplay more maps and less 12 year old's
  8. GabFire
    Aug 9, 2020
    2
    Que bela porcaria!
    Mais uma vez Riot Games e Tencent Games trazendo um jogo ''gratuito'' para nós consumidores felizes jogarmos nos nossos tempos de liberdade das obrigações do Mundo. Vergonhoso a forma como a Tencent trata jogos eletrônicos, tem que ser muito burro para gostar de jogos como Valorant, League of Legends, Free Fire, e outras porcarias.
  9. DonLukese
    Aug 9, 2020
    0
    Jogo pobre, jogabilidade horrível, além de prejudicar o PC, mal otimização, e Anti Cheat porco, nem de graça está valendo jogar este game. Decepção total.
  10. RIPH00
    Aug 9, 2020
    5
    Valorant in my opinion is a decent/ok game. It has its ups and downs and I am mainly going to talk about its downs. The special abilities are broken and to me each gun has a bunch of randomized numbers in terms of damage. For instance, I was using a judge shot a player in the face didn't die. Next round I change my weapon one of the enemy player has a judge one shots me. What I am tryingValorant in my opinion is a decent/ok game. It has its ups and downs and I am mainly going to talk about its downs. The special abilities are broken and to me each gun has a bunch of randomized numbers in terms of damage. For instance, I was using a judge shot a player in the face didn't die. Next round I change my weapon one of the enemy player has a judge one shots me. What I am trying to say is that the game isn't necessarily balanced especially with the map designs. I feel like valorant has potential to be great but it has many flaws and I feel like the developers shouldn't have released the game in this state. If you want a competitive game to play while in quarantine I wouldn't recommend putting your time into valorant. Just my opinion on the game.… Expand
  11. mesutyavuzx
    Aug 8, 2020
    6
    Riot'un, Oyuncuların hevesi kaçmadan paralara doyalım diye Beta'dan buglarla beraber çıkardığı FPS oyunu. Oyun güzel hoş eyvallah da.. biz karşımızda rakiplerle oynamak istiyoruz, oyunda buglarla değil.
    Bir de atış sistemi başta aşırı saçma, zor geliyor, yeni başlayan biri için hani şey olayı var ya Scope takip ediyor kurşunun gittiği yönü yani ne kadar Sprey yaparsanız silah sabit    Riot'un, Oyuncuların hevesi kaçmadan paralara doyalım diye Beta'dan buglarla beraber çıkardığı FPS oyunu. Oyun güzel hoş eyvallah da.. biz karşımızda rakiplerle oynamak istiyoruz, oyunda buglarla değil.
    Bir de atış sistemi başta aşırı saçma, zor geliyor, yeni başlayan biri için hani şey olayı var ya Scope takip ediyor kurşunun gittiği yönü yani ne kadar Sprey yaparsanız silah sabit kalmıyor gidiyor kurşunun yönüne doğru gerçekcilik bakımından güzel bir detay ama FPS oyunlarına yakışmıyor bence scope kullanımı bu yüzde oyunda bayağı az.    … Expand
  12. poopoohead
    Aug 8, 2020
    7
    Man, This game is great and addicting but **** me i hate it. I played 5 rounds of comp and finally got promoted, only to lose it after one lose. If they fixed this it has potential to be a good game.
    SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKE
  13. joewheat
    Aug 8, 2020
    0
    The game play doesn't feel exciting at all and the community is toxic it could even be worse than fortnite
  14. Lowfiguy7
    Aug 6, 2020
    4
    This game is like being in a abusive relationship and you keep coming back to it, but never gets any better. Sounds like you should just switch to csgo. I agree the movement and recoil in this game are fked. People think they are so good to because they can hold an angle with an awp. I have no idea why riot would add RNG to a competitive FPS game, maybe that's how guns works in real life?This game is like being in a abusive relationship and you keep coming back to it, but never gets any better. Sounds like you should just switch to csgo. I agree the movement and recoil in this game are fked. People think they are so good to because they can hold an angle with an awp. I have no idea why riot would add RNG to a competitive FPS game, maybe that's how guns works in real life? Once you think about it, Riot just wants to get into the fps genre to push skins. Do you really think $100 + dollars for skin bundles is fair? Honestly, why would they release the game now and not later? To take advantage of players staying at home due to covid. Simplicity works in a MOBA. Riot took very simple idea (csgo) and made it too complex. Bra, there are like how many agents with 4 abilities, do the math.… Expand
  15. jaeble
    Aug 6, 2020
    0
    Game graphics worse than the 2009 game, gun sounds like shooting BB bullets, a sloppy world view of superpowers shooting, a dumb rank matchmaking system, etc.
  16. ILoveYukiNoHi
    Aug 6, 2020
    1
    After 2 months playing this game, there are 3 things why i can tell this game is kinda ****
    1. **** rank and match making (Imagine being the only gold with a bunch of iron/bronze vs 3 silvers and bronzes)
    2. **** aiming system (you aim for headshot but sometimes it will count as bodyshot) 3. If you have a short disconnection, you will have to exit the game and then enter back in instead    After 2 months playing this game, there are 3 things why i can tell this game is kinda ****
    1. **** rank and match making (Imagine being the only gold with a bunch of iron/bronze vs 3 silvers and bronzes)
    2. **** aiming system (you aim for headshot but sometimes it will count as bodyshot)
    3. If you have a short disconnection, you will have to exit the game and then enter back in instead of just wait in the lobby for reconnection.    … Expand
  17. IXA
    Aug 5, 2020
    5
    Valorant is an attempt at uniting players from all sorts of games; not only those from the fps genre. That being said, the game definitely caters more towards players who are willing to pick up a game in their spare time and go back to it when they feel like doing so. In other words, it's a lot more casual of a game than it was anticipated to be, especially after having been pit againstValorant is an attempt at uniting players from all sorts of games; not only those from the fps genre. That being said, the game definitely caters more towards players who are willing to pick up a game in their spare time and go back to it when they feel like doing so. In other words, it's a lot more casual of a game than it was anticipated to be, especially after having been pit against games like Counter-Strike and Overwatch, Valorant definitely comes across as a game with too low of a skill ceiling to be taken as seriously as many of the other big fps titles.… Expand
  18. frogigy
    Aug 4, 2020
    0
    Ranking system is one of the worst I have ever seen. Anti cheat is extremely intrusive and also extremely useless. Not as a joke it is an actual chinese rip off of counter strike. I have seen better mobile FPS games than this.
  19. MikeyDragon
    Aug 4, 2020
    0
    Copy CSGO mixed with Apex legend literally out date game released in 2020. BTW be careful with the Chinese malware
  20. Matthewyazici
    Aug 4, 2020
    2
    Vuruş hissi sıfır, Karaktterler ilgi çekici değil bir çoğu firmalardan alıntı yapılarak oluşturulmuş karakterler. Haritalar bir düzen için de değil. Online oyunlar çöptür. Oynamayın.
  21. DrRperson
    Aug 4, 2020
    3
    To be honest, I had some significant moments in this game. I will drop a point for not being able to play in VM. Another point goes down for heroes and their design. Like come on, my dead grandma could have more impact on game than some heroes. Rainbow six siege is where you should have got heroes and their balancing. You have all these high-tech equipment, but balancing guns is out ofTo be honest, I had some significant moments in this game. I will drop a point for not being able to play in VM. Another point goes down for heroes and their design. Like come on, my dead grandma could have more impact on game than some heroes. Rainbow six siege is where you should have got heroes and their balancing. You have all these high-tech equipment, but balancing guns is out of reality for Valorant. I was like "Are you for real?" When I tried some of the guns. I will drop 4rd point for dumbest map designs I saw since 1960s Soviet city planning.I will drop another point for one of the worst graphics style. I would rather watch hitler's beard for 5 hours than these graphics. Lastly the anti cheat is far worse than what they promised. It is very dangerous to even try a kernel 0 anti cheat from makers of LOL. Idk how I even got this much craziness in my head to try something risky from Riot games. It doesn't even work. 3 out of 6 games had cheaters. Better than csgo? hell yeah. Acceptable? hell no.… Expand
  22. MrDubey
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    Oh My god the maps are the biggest cluster **** there is. Servers are not present for South Eastern Asia (one of the biggest CSGO market). End up getting 80-120 ping for any game.... Gameplay is slow af.... Matchmaking is trash....ranked system is so broken....Too many corners to peek to ever be able to focus on real gameplay.... Every game is like ..."Oh...There's another corner you canOh My god the maps are the biggest cluster **** there is. Servers are not present for South Eastern Asia (one of the biggest CSGO market). End up getting 80-120 ping for any game.... Gameplay is slow af.... Matchmaking is trash....ranked system is so broken....Too many corners to peek to ever be able to focus on real gameplay.... Every game is like ..."Oh...There's another corner you can camp at" Action lasts for about 20 seconds in a 1:40 min round....Lag compensation is garbage....The AWP or the operator is broken....


    Oh And Riot.... Delete Raze    … Expand
  23. qLucifer
    Aug 3, 2020
    1
    How to explain it in a nutshell. Besides that the details of the game leave to be desired. It adds a toxic community +a great chance to find people who use cheats. Riot tried to expand into another market, but he has a lot of work to do before he makes Valuable a pleasant game to play.
  24. Lapoon
    Aug 3, 2020
    2
    Game physics/functions feel exactly like CS Source ( i never played it when it came out but did so last year) and/or Chinese/Korean CrossFire; primarily the movement such as slowing after the jump ( if u don't land the Bhop). There are many innovative functions such as buying for teammate but overall had a bad experience. The more I play, the more annoyed I get with the abilities. I guessGame physics/functions feel exactly like CS Source ( i never played it when it came out but did so last year) and/or Chinese/Korean CrossFire; primarily the movement such as slowing after the jump ( if u don't land the Bhop). There are many innovative functions such as buying for teammate but overall had a bad experience. The more I play, the more annoyed I get with the abilities. I guess it's just me being a die-hard CSGO fanboy… Expand
  25. Ariegan
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    The game is full of smurfs. It is unplayable and you are literally f*cked from match 1. The worst matchmaking I have ever seen and the game is balanced as sh*t. Not recommended. Pure cancer game. You might enjoy 5-10 matches but then the game gets frustrating, annoying and pathetic.
  26. SpaghettiBro438
    Aug 3, 2020
    4
    Valorant è l'apoteosi dei giochi fatti male, se non avete una connessione a terabit non provateci nemmeno, costante packet loss da 15 a 50%, in un gioco competitivo non possono succedere queste cose, prima di farli uscire i giochi bisogna che li fate come devono essere fatti, consiglio vivamente a chi vuole provare il genere counter strike finchè non metteranno a posto valorant.
  27. JIMOTAKIU
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. RIOT trush game hack and hack RIOT trush game hack and hack RIOT trush game hack and hack RIOT trush game hack and hack… Expand
  28. KGoldstone
    Aug 3, 2020
    2
    I don't recommend valorant. A lot of HUD problems, assist count is not valuable, etc.
  29. BunnyGirlSenpai
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    Valorant really does not stand out with other FPS games in the same category, while it was released later that the gameplay and systems are not too special to be a game icon. Slow, boring, smooth but somehow bulky, guns feel eye-catching are words to describe Valorant.
  30. Titman69
    Aug 2, 2020
    3
    this game tilts me so hard it makes me go to a forum an dwrite a **** review displaying how tilted i am am this gam eright now firts of all thy ranked mathmaking makes me want to throw up cuz of the skill diffirence between players in a match can be very big and either im wrecking or im being wrecked and also the community is almost worse than that of league cuz when i do get wrecked mythis game tilts me so hard it makes me go to a forum an dwrite a **** review displaying how tilted i am am this gam eright now firts of all thy ranked mathmaking makes me want to throw up cuz of the skill diffirence between players in a match can be very big and either im wrecking or im being wrecked and also the community is almost worse than that of league cuz when i do get wrecked my team always goes u are so stupid, how are u this rank?, and instead of actually teching me some of the knowledge theyve picked up which would give our team a higher chance of winning btw, they just like to **** on ppl instead and i am **** done with these kinds of competetive games im **** done… 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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