Anthem

 PlayStation 4
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3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1416 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 356 out of 1416
  2. Mixed: 134 out of 1416
  3. Negative: 926 out of 1416
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  1. hybrid10118
    Feb 22, 2019
    7
    not a bad Game but Neither a masterpiece, as of now, the fun factor makes up for 90% of the Score.
    i honestly can't get enough of that Iron Man feeling. weapons are neat and pack a Punch and animations are great only issue is the Story.. can't get involved... nothing is hooking me in..
    - Graphics - Beautiful - Sounds - Pretty good - World - Beautiful - AI - Need improvement - Fun -    not a bad Game but Neither a masterpiece, as of now, the fun factor makes up for 90% of the Score.
    i honestly can't get enough of that Iron Man feeling. weapons are neat and pack a Punch and animations are great only issue is the Story.. can't get involved... nothing is hooking me in..

    - Graphics - Beautiful
    - Sounds - Pretty good
    - World - Beautiful
    - AI - Need improvement
    - Fun - Awesome
    - Story - Abysmal
    - Loading time - Coffee break long... (i can't imagine the time i'd loose if my PS4 didn't have an SSD)
    - Variety - halfway there.. it's missing some activities.. at some point it get repetitive.
    - SFX - wow...

    i do recommend the Game but i'm looking for more, i'm anxious to see what Bioware will release as new content since as of right now it feels like it's a Canvas halfway painted but with some great potential.    … Expand
  2. syansor
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    the patch changed **** nothing about the performance, still a true loading simulator.
  3. CnCRivals
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    Not sure what all the hate is about. Tons of fun, will only get better over time.
  4. Cr4zyMonkeyBoy
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    This game is awful. It is filled with bugs. I have fallen through the map and gotten stuck multiple times in the base. It also has really bad optimization. I'm playing this with and rtx 2080 and get really bad fps drops. It goes down to 0 fps and takes a little while to come back. Also when flying in the open world the fps will rarely go above 30. Anthem is the only game my PC can't run.This game is awful. It is filled with bugs. I have fallen through the map and gotten stuck multiple times in the base. It also has really bad optimization. I'm playing this with and rtx 2080 and get really bad fps drops. It goes down to 0 fps and takes a little while to come back. Also when flying in the open world the fps will rarely go above 30. Anthem is the only game my PC can't run. BF5 i can run at everything set to ultra and get a constant 140 fps. Getting back to anthem the story is also really bad and the characters are forgettable. The quests are also really boring as most of them are the same thing just in a different location. If you watch the reveal trailer and compare it with the actual game they are nothing alike. I wanted this game to be great but its not. Hopefully bioware can improve this game. It needs a lot of work but if they do it this game could become great.… Expand
  5. Ex2face
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    Охрененно красивая игрушка, да контента мало, но играется отлично. Скоро завезут доп сюжетку, квесты, подземелье и рейд. В принципе хорошо что контент решили растянуть, так будет казаться, что в игре есть свой таймлайн. Сложится впечатление, что мы живем вместе с героями, что в игре что то происходит помимо.Охрененно красивая игрушка, да контента мало, но играется отлично. Скоро завезут доп сюжетку, квесты, подземелье и рейд. В принципе хорошо что контент решили растянуть, так будет казаться, что в игре есть свой таймлайн. Сложится впечатление, что мы живем вместе с героями, что в игре что то происходит помимо.
  6. Amrien
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    For those of you bashing a game rather than showing constructive criticism, shame on you.
    Anthem was recently released and I expect bugs and issues, rather than bash the game for it, tell the developers and also this is the first time I've even seen this much clarity from a development team. Time is what this game needs, as of now it's a C, with room to improve and become an A or even greater.
  7. SensualSanta
    Feb 22, 2019
    8
    Just a quickie for those few people that come to metacritic for actual reviews:

    The Good * Flying and parkour * Javelin customization. All the suits actually feel and handle different. * Tight controls * Atmosphere and artistic design is top notch once again. * Events on freeroam. The Bad: * Loading times pretty much destroy the immersion * Walking in the city is s    Just a quickie for those few people that come to metacritic for actual reviews:

    The Good
    * Flying and parkour
    * Javelin customization. All the suits actually feel and handle different.
    * Tight controls
    * Atmosphere and artistic design is top notch once again.
    * Events on freeroam.

    The Bad:
    * Loading times pretty much destroy the immersion
    * Walking in the city is s l o w
    * Loadout cannot be changed during a mission, not even the guns
    * Story is there but for it to make sense you need to read library of Alexandria worth of codex entries.

    In conclusion: Good space cowboy parkour shooter with nice visuals. If that strikes your fancy you should get it.    … Expand
  8. baby2236
    Feb 22, 2019
    3
    jogo mal feito.vale no maximo 50 e pronto.EA so lança jogo porcaria.tinha que falir essa porra.
  9. Akilae
    Feb 22, 2019
    9
    First game I bought on release day on my PS4 since....Ok, first game I bought on release day and at full price. Enjoying it so much. I'm only into the game a few hours but I did play during the open weekend. I understand if people with more experience and a higher expectation of the game might judge it lower. This is my personal judgement of the game so far.

    Great Gaphics / Good Sound /    First game I bought on release day on my PS4 since....Ok, first game I bought on release day and at full price. Enjoying it so much. I'm only into the game a few hours but I did play during the open weekend. I understand if people with more experience and a higher expectation of the game might judge it lower. This is my personal judgement of the game so far.

    Great Gaphics / Good Sound / Confusing Home Base...it's kinda quiet...who cares. I wanna fly. / Story...Ok / Awesome Gameplay!

    I would give it a 10 but need more time to see the negatives I heard about it. I doubt I would rate this lower than a 7.    … Expand
  10. Matttwidale
    Feb 22, 2019
    9
    TLDR:
    Load times are not that bad (i am on PS4 pro if that matters). Think most complainers have been playing on early access before the day 1 patch.
    Compelling story opener which will unfold in the coming months Great VA and feel for the world. Been playing for a few hours now and don't see what everyone is complaining about. Yes the load times are a bit longer than im used to but i    TLDR:
    Load times are not that bad (i am on PS4 pro if that matters). Think most complainers have been playing on early access before the day 1 patch.
    Compelling story opener which will unfold in the coming months
    Great VA and feel for the world.

    Been playing for a few hours now and don't see what everyone is complaining about. Yes the load times are a bit longer than im used to but i don't know if just that the day 1 patch has improved them a lot but they're not that bad. might be waiting 90secs secs to load back into Freeplay.

    The only 2 complaints i have is not being able to play freeroam solo for gathering crafting materials and admittedly the being pulled forward because of aimpatient random team member is annoying.

    Otherwise a compelling story opener, great voice acting, so much fun to fly around and try and pull off combo's with friends.

    I have a healthy distaste for EA practices but to be fair people have to remember this is not a single player campaign RPG where you get a beginning, middle and end. It's an ongoing story which will unfold over months.    … Expand
  11. Mooncalfian
    Feb 22, 2019
    1
    One thing that won't be "fixed in future": the ABYSMAL story and characters.

    Listen, bugs don't bother me much. SJWs don't bother me at all. Loot problems and gameplay problems only bother me a little. What I care about in a **** BIOWARE game: story, characters, lore, choices, consequences. And these things are awful in Anthem. Absolutely awful. If you're complaining about bugs    One thing that won't be "fixed in future": the ABYSMAL story and characters.

    Listen, bugs don't bother me much. SJWs don't bother me at all. Loot problems and gameplay problems only bother me a little. What I care about in a **** BIOWARE game: story, characters, lore, choices, consequences. And these things are awful in Anthem. Absolutely awful.

    If you're complaining about bugs you're sending the wrong message. Youre saying that story matters less than bugs, in a Bioware game. It doesn't.

    If you liked KOTOR or Jade Empire or Mass Effect 2 or Dragon Age, don't buy this. I knew it would be like this, the very second they announced they were going online with it.    … Expand
  12. nuven
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    Абсолютно нормальная игра. Сделал предзаказ после альфы, кстати а отличие от демо не было вылетов и оптимизация была абсолютно нормальная, консоль при этом не уходила на взлет.

    Поиграл в релиз, все хорошо, все устраивает, нытья не понимаю. Самое оно чтобы вечером после работы не загружая голову не разбивая геймпад об стену поиграть.    Абсолютно нормальная игра. Сделал предзаказ после альфы, кстати а отличие от демо не было вылетов и оптимизация была абсолютно нормальная, консоль при этом не уходила на взлет.

    Поиграл в релиз, все хорошо, все устраивает, нытья не понимаю. Самое оно чтобы вечером после работы не загружая голову не разбивая геймпад об стену поиграть.
  13. BlueSilver
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    After the D1 patch, the game runs quite well. Overall, a very good game. It´s a combination of 2 game engines. The missions are fun and in between there are enough video sequences.
  14. Indanu
    Feb 22, 2019
    9
    игра завораживает пока что своим красивыми миром, посмотрим что будет дальше
  15. Zisis151
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    What is this game trying to do exactly? A looter shooter without any sort of gear or weapon customization? Where are the cool looking weapons and armor sets in this LOOT BASED game? Where's the endgame? You have 3 instances once you reach max level and 2 of them are parts of the single player campaign that you've already been through and done. And why is there only 1 area to explore inWhat is this game trying to do exactly? A looter shooter without any sort of gear or weapon customization? Where are the cool looking weapons and armor sets in this LOOT BASED game? Where's the endgame? You have 3 instances once you reach max level and 2 of them are parts of the single player campaign that you've already been through and done. And why is there only 1 area to explore in this world? Such lazyness and lack of core content in this kind of game is just inexcusable. They give you the illusion of grinding for something but in the end you're not doing anything other than raising your damage numbers by 10 or 15. It actually buffles me how developers today think gamers are stupid enough to buy these kind of half assed works.

    Do NOT support this game.. It's time for these companies and devs to **** off permanently. And don't give me the **** ass excuse of "WiLliNG tO gIVe BioWArE ANotHer ChAAnce", because the people that made Bioware popular are long gone by now. The NEW Bioware has no talent at all and they showed this to us multiple times this gen, so please let go of your nostalgia. There's better talent out there and if you ask me, I'd rather have Bioware terminated and Visceral revived.

    P.S. Just look at how in a month from now EA launches the "|ive service" store and all the cool armor sets and weapons are being sold for 20$ each.    … Expand
  16. Criticzuck19
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Everyone on here trying to claim that the only reason this game is receiving hate is because it is an EA game is absolutely, obnoxiously naive. Where are people's standards? Anthem is a game in which you take place in an uninspired, undercooked, glitchy world. Of which you do the same thing over and over again and it never pays off to anything good. Is simply one of the most mediocre gamesEveryone on here trying to claim that the only reason this game is receiving hate is because it is an EA game is absolutely, obnoxiously naive. Where are people's standards? Anthem is a game in which you take place in an uninspired, undercooked, glitchy world. Of which you do the same thing over and over again and it never pays off to anything good. Is simply one of the most mediocre games ever made. Combat can only get a game so far. People seriously need to stop supporting these live games as a service. it is not okay for developers and publishers to release products which are essentially stealing from you. here's a thought, how's about you release a game that is finished and is incredible, and then updated and patch it to be even more amazing. Not this crap where we're getting mediocrity in the hopes that maybe someday it'll be good. Not great, not amazing, spectacular and definitely not worth your money or time. Make a product, complete it to its fullest potential. And then expand upon that idea. if anthem was released in this way it wouldn't be receiving any hate. Look at Apex legends. In the EA game that is getting tons of praise. Why? Because it actually is a good game. Unlike anthem. anyone who supports anthem, supports this idea that it is okay for gamers to receive broken, Messy, sad and under thought hot messes like anthem.… Expand
  17. Deletedi1
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    I dont care who the publisher is i care about how i spent my time. This one looks really promising though it has flaws like sadly allmost every game (exept Apex Legends) perhaps has at start. Its download times are big - but the story for me is interesting and the gameplay it self is huge +. Looking more from the updates too but still really a game worth to play and try.
  18. ravsamy
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    I don't like to give reviews on public space, but this time it's different because the game is receiving too much negativity, which it doesn't deserve, I played it on PS4 2014 base edition, the game didn't even crash once, there were no bugs and loading screen was fast.

    I am really enjoying the game and I believe people need to give this game a chance. :)
  19. IIIALIKIII
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    Great game, worth every ruble spent. If you like to play with friends and have fun, definitely for you. Do not compare with other games such as Destiny or Division, Anthem is something else.
    Отличная игра, стоит каждого потраченного рубля. Если вам нравится играть с друзьями и весело проводить время, однозначно для вас. Не стоит сравнивать с другими играми типа Дестини или Дивижн, Антем    Great game, worth every ruble spent. If you like to play with friends and have fun, definitely for you. Do not compare with other games such as Destiny or Division, Anthem is something else.
    Отличная игра, стоит каждого потраченного рубля. Если вам нравится играть с друзьями и весело проводить время, однозначно для вас. Не стоит сравнивать с другими играми типа Дестини или Дивижн, Антем это нечто другое.    … Expand
  20. Sergio97costa
    Feb 22, 2019
    8
    It's not a masterpiece indeed, but it's fun to play! Great and very smooth gameplay with mind blowing graphics. The story...
  21. ROMIS
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    Ночью запустил игру. Ждал багов. Багов нет. Как так? Мне в рецензиях писали будут вылеты и баги. За 10 часов ниодного. Вот и верь теперь рецензентам.
    Как вернуть деньги? Багов нет и играть весело. Ужос. В дестини 2 баги были год, а тут патч выпускают. Это же ЕА. Мой мозг сломан    Ночью запустил игру. Ждал багов. Багов нет. Как так? Мне в рецензиях писали будут вылеты и баги. За 10 часов ниодного. Вот и верь теперь рецензентам.
    Как вернуть деньги? Багов нет и играть весело. Ужос. В дестини 2 баги были год, а тут патч выпускают. Это же ЕА. Мой мозг сломан
  22. Alexey23
    Feb 22, 2019
    10
    I created an account especially for this game. I believe people are unfair with this game, just because it is published by EA. To give this game a 1 score considering how astonishing the graphics are, and how much work was put into the shooting gameplay, movement animation, facial expresions of the npcs , battlesounds etc. Ofc the game has some issues, wich i hope they will be adressed to,I created an account especially for this game. I believe people are unfair with this game, just because it is published by EA. To give this game a 1 score considering how astonishing the graphics are, and how much work was put into the shooting gameplay, movement animation, facial expresions of the npcs , battlesounds etc. Ofc the game has some issues, wich i hope they will be adressed to, but the game is verry immersive and well done. Bioware has done great work. I hope they will fix the issues the game has atm. All of you who likes a third player shooter, do not miss this game. It worth the effort of being anoyed by bugs ita currently experiencing just for the graphics and gameplay.… Expand
  23. Burnouts3s3
    Feb 22, 2019
    4
    It's too little, too late.

    Bioware attempts to get into the loot and shoot genre only to have too little content and not enough quality control. -Only 3 Strongholds/Raids -In-game store for cosmetic items -Lack of optimization when flying around -Fort Tarsis being so small it makes Dragon Age 2's Kirkwall seem large by comparison -Lack of Roleplaying and dialogue options found in    It's too little, too late.

    Bioware attempts to get into the loot and shoot genre only to have too little content and not enough quality control.
    -Only 3 Strongholds/Raids
    -In-game store for cosmetic items
    -Lack of optimization when flying around
    -Fort Tarsis being so small it makes Dragon Age 2's Kirkwall seem large by comparison
    -Lack of Roleplaying and dialogue options found in other Bioware games
    -Story mode so lacking they padded it out with grindy missions.

    While customizing one of the 4 Javelins is entertaining for a little while, there's not enough there to justify a $60 purchase.

    If you have Origin Premiere, go ahead, but wait for a patch and more content before diving in.    … Expand
  24. Reed618
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    Unfortunately the patch did nothing to improve performance or loading screens.
    Launching with less content than most single player games and padding that content out with the god awful tombs quest this is easily the biggest disappointment in years.
  25. devilchao0
    Feb 22, 2019
    0
    This game really sucked, just an absolute disappointment. I'm gonna try to get a refund.
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Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 28
  3. Negative: 6 out of 28
  1. VGC
    May 2, 2019
    40
    There’s an intriguing game buried somewhere in Anthem, lying broken beneath its loot and structural frustrations like chunks of fossilised dinosaur bone.
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  2. Vgames
    Mar 16, 2019
    45
    Even if I ignore all the bugs, glitches and disconnects I had, Anthem is still, by and large, a mediocre game. The lackluster story, loot system and gameplay make this game one to pass on. At least in its current state.
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  3. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Mar 14, 2019
    50
    Though it’s one of best-looking titles on PS4, Anthem’s uninspired action and obsession with grindy tasks mean BioWare’s mechs aren’t on song. [Issue#160, p.83]
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