Evolve

 PlayStation 4
User Score
4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 937 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 266 out of 937
  2. Mixed: 157 out of 937
  3. Negative: 514 out of 937
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  1. IngrownMink4
    Sep 1, 2022
    1
    Juego terrible. La apuesta de 2K Games tenía buena pinta en los eventos (E3) pero cuando salió al mercado se vió que el juego era aburrido, incompleto y mal desarrollado. En definitiva, un desastre...
  2. arostislavna
    Dec 1, 2021
    2
    Somewhat fun game when it lasted, failed to keep anyone interested in the long-term. Obscene al la carté DLC practices (aside from the death of the game) makes this is the worst thing I have ever purchased. Ever.

    Should have been free to play.
  3. sergio123456
    Aug 22, 2020
    2
    El peor juego que he jugado en ps4 con diferencia, juego aburrido, gráficos malos, no existe modo campaña prácticamente y el online desapareció hace mucho, simplemente un desastre.
  4. Berik
    Dec 12, 2018
    4
    If you like games where you can use tactics, have a fair balance between players and enjoy every second... don't play this game.

    This game deserves the name Walking Simulator, considering this is how you will spent 90% of your time. You will be chasing after the monster player, which could go on for 20 minutes or even longer, at which point he/she will be level 3, and you will die    If you like games where you can use tactics, have a fair balance between players and enjoy every second... don't play this game.

    This game deserves the name Walking Simulator, considering this is how you will spent 90% of your time. You will be chasing after the monster player, which could go on for 20 minutes or even longer, at which point he/she will be level 3, and you will die inevitably. The balance between monsters and hunters is way off, as some hunters are clearly defenceless in some cases. As the medic you'll be the most valuable player, but it won't mean anything is your teammates don't defend you.

    This is the game that managed to promise and deliver emptiness like Destiny did. It has no single player, a tacky fake campaign and just 4 modes. Apart from Hunt, no one even plays the other ones.

    The good points: Graphics are excellent, and bugs are very rare. Probably because the game is so empty of meaning.

    And finally, the DLC is just pathetic. Trying cram in paid skins in a game you already paid 60 bucks for. Absolutely shameless.

    This game was a massive disappointment, and just a lazy attempt at making a game in general. I felt cheated out of my money. I rate this game bad, it gets a 4/10.    … Expand
  5. Barnes1987
    Mar 8, 2017
    3
    Pretty poor in all departments. I played this for one day and never turned it back on again, Complete waste of money, Would not recommend even for free.
  6. drlowdon
    Sep 2, 2016
    4
    I had high hopes for this game when it was announced but mixed to poor reviews put me off purchasing it on release. Seeing it going cheap a few months back my brother and I decided to give it a try, unfortunately it turned out that those less than stellar reviews where right.

    The concept itself, a team of hunters with different abilities attempting to track down and kill a monster, is    I had high hopes for this game when it was announced but mixed to poor reviews put me off purchasing it on release. Seeing it going cheap a few months back my brother and I decided to give it a try, unfortunately it turned out that those less than stellar reviews where right.

    The concept itself, a team of hunters with different abilities attempting to track down and kill a monster, is potentially a good one but in this case it simply doesn't work. After an overly protracted tutorial mission my brother and I joined up with a few other random players online and then spent the first few games running around in circles trying to keep up with the monster before eventually being killed by its final evolved form. Hoping it was just down to our lack of experience we pushed on but many missions later it was the same old story, basically run around in circles of 15 minutes until the monster is fully evolved and then stand there firing bullet after bullet hoping to kill it. Occasionally we'd win, but either way every mission just played out in almost identical fashion and within a few days we'd both lost interest.

    Maybe if you could find a regular group of five people to play with you'd get more out of it but my experience with the game was a frustrating and short live one.    … Expand
  7. sirveaux
    May 9, 2016
    0
    UPDATE: This game is dead.

    Read the forums on 2k's website. Go, google 2k Evolve forums, and you'll see that someone posts... maybe once a month. Go to Steam, look at the stats, 161 people playing during PEAK times on Steam. Less than 200 people playing worldwide... at peak times. Let's move onto WHY it is dead: Director says its going to be free to play, franchise gets transferred    UPDATE: This game is dead.

    Read the forums on 2k's website. Go, google 2k Evolve forums, and you'll see that someone posts... maybe once a month. Go to Steam, look at the stats, 161 people playing during PEAK times on Steam. Less than 200 people playing worldwide... at peak times.

    Let's move onto WHY it is dead:
    Director says its going to be free to play, franchise gets transferred to 2k. They claim there will be no DLC at release. Okay... $200 DLC at release

    Bad broken poorly executed gameplay. Bugs, bugs, bugs. Invincible shields, spawning as a random critter incapable of attacking. I've fallen through the ground countless times.

    Each update makes the game worse, as if they had a complete game that they took parts out, polished the rest, and with every piece they put back, new issues arise. I especially dislike how the framerate can sometimes drop to 1 for no reason... on a console. The acknowledged bug list went two months after release without being updated. This is the most critical time to let the community know you're working hard on bug squashing, instead the bug list went completely ignored... for two months. Please tell me how they're supposed to fix bugs if they're not even acknowledging them. It gets worse...

    And you're like, well the game is only a year old, surely they're going to keep working on it... No. Just no, because Turtle Rock has already begun hiring for a new unannounced IP that will NOT have anything to do with Evolve. A year later and the developers have already abandoned this game.

    I spent $85 on this game at release, $60 for the game and $25 for the season pass, not including tax. Three months later I traded it into Gamestop for $8. The cashier said, "I'm surprised you lasted this long".
    I bought a box of cat litter and I watched my cat **** into it. This is Evolve.    … Expand
  8. mikepango
    Mar 9, 2016
    1
    Absolute trash, no content what so ever. I was really hype for this game when it came out but it was just so lackluster i wanted to punch someone. I blame this on the developer and more on the publisher.
  9. bayliss1992
    Jan 31, 2016
    1
    Got this game on sale through the PS store, WOW, I have to say I am so disappointed, reading all the critic reviews about this game I was expecting something a lot better, after playing through all of the confusing and boring tutorials I finally got into the multiplayer and within 20 minutes I was sick of the game. The mechanics of the game are so confusing and the game is way too frantic,Got this game on sale through the PS store, WOW, I have to say I am so disappointed, reading all the critic reviews about this game I was expecting something a lot better, after playing through all of the confusing and boring tutorials I finally got into the multiplayer and within 20 minutes I was sick of the game. The mechanics of the game are so confusing and the game is way too frantic, also to add insult to injury the amount of content in the game doesn't even justify the sale price. It should be a permanent 10 dollar game at most!… Expand
  10. matrinox
    Jan 23, 2016
    3
    A 4.4 user rating a 76 critic rating? IGN gives it 9/10. But honestly, this game has very little to it. The story sucks but it's about multiplayer, right? The multiplayer is only fun if everyone you play with are competent or friends. If a single player does not know how to play the game, it falls apart. The monster is bad? Game ends in a few minutes as they expose themselves too easily.A 4.4 user rating a 76 critic rating? IGN gives it 9/10. But honestly, this game has very little to it. The story sucks but it's about multiplayer, right? The multiplayer is only fun if everyone you play with are competent or friends. If a single player does not know how to play the game, it falls apart. The monster is bad? Game ends in a few minutes as they expose themselves too easily. Bad medic? Good luck surviving.

    To top it all off, the price point should be more closer to $15-$20 or maybe even reworked as a free to play. It's just not that varied and enough content to be worth it. Even though playing with friends is still a lot of fun, that's a lot of money to get everyone involved. And like I said, it's not enough to have 3/4 cause you're playing dice with the last player.

    So lacklustre single player content, basic multiplayer, and unvaried gameplay results in a game that should've been a free to play title with incoming content. Kind of like a beta (think Natural Selection) game, IMO.    … Expand
  11. homer4president
    Nov 18, 2015
    3
    Turtle Rocks 'Evolve' creative director Robb Phil stated "When Evolve hits the shelves; none of the DLC will be done". "However, Evolve launched with 44 DLC packs not included in the season pass... Each of these packs totaled over $130!"
  12. kuletzki
    Nov 10, 2015
    2
    Nice graphics and all but my eyes strained for trying to stomp those bug like hunters. No campaign nor practice mode and load times are really slow. Gets boring after a while.
  13. reviewer2015lol
    Nov 7, 2015
    4
    What the hell just happened? This game is tedious, repetitive and so boring with absolutly no story and a terrible pogression system. NEVER buy this game. It Wil destroy you if you are a fan of games with lot of content.
  14. ablemorghon
    Oct 1, 2015
    3
    This game is as mediocre/poor as most of the user review say. Looks good, but handles poorly and lacks content and replay value. The game mechanics seem old, outdated and sluggish.

    Specially the monsters are disappointing in this game. Only 3 monsters to chose between from the start!
  15. ujinroth
    Aug 10, 2015
    3
    On the paper this game is a killer, when you play it, u realise the game play is too much limited to not be repetitive on average 15/40 minutes match time length, as well the huge maps offers not enough interactions with the hunters, which could be for example: destructible parts of the rocks/buildings. All you fell in this game is an annoying loading balance on every little things u do,On the paper this game is a killer, when you play it, u realise the game play is too much limited to not be repetitive on average 15/40 minutes match time length, as well the huge maps offers not enough interactions with the hunters, which could be for example: destructible parts of the rocks/buildings. All you fell in this game is an annoying loading balance on every little things u do, beginning with the jet pack, have you been annoyed with Red Dead Redemption's horse game play ? Here it's worse, because u'll be blocked down cliffs more than once, for a long time. The trap system is a confession of an unfinished, undecided game play, seated between two chairs, it doesn't assume the promise of the big maps (already said: not enough interactions with it). To end it, the frame rate is too low, and the hit box is seriously too approximate.… Expand
  16. nicko212
    Jul 7, 2015
    2
    evolve is the biggest waste of $70 i will spend for the rest of the year, played it for about 2 hours and after it just became boring a repetitive, the graphics are nice and the game play is smooth but evolve just becomes boring after a couple hours.

    save your money this game was bust
  17. Ivan1989
    Jul 4, 2015
    4
    Evolve is the biggest let down of 2015 and in gaming in general. The game suffers from serious pacing issues, making allot of the matches boring within 5 minutes. No campaign, no substance to gameplay, no originality with the monsters and most of all, no fun. The game is clearly lacking in content, turtle rock studio have clearly created a free to play game and charged you full price forEvolve is the biggest let down of 2015 and in gaming in general. The game suffers from serious pacing issues, making allot of the matches boring within 5 minutes. No campaign, no substance to gameplay, no originality with the monsters and most of all, no fun. The game is clearly lacking in content, turtle rock studio have clearly created a free to play game and charged you full price for it. The game has the most shoddy DLC practices I have seen. Turtle rock studio will never get a cent from me ever again. They and their game, evolve SUCKS, with a capital S.

    The only positive thing I can say about this game, its not a broken game at least. If it was, this game would get a 1, not a 4.

    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! ITS A DLC SCAM!!!!    … Expand
  18. Proctorious
    Jun 11, 2015
    1
    This game is a prime example of everything wrong with the game industry today, a boring game flooded with microtransactions and not much content in general, complete waste of £50, I'd rather play Cod: AW and Destiny for 50 hours than play Evolve and I hated both those games, Evolve left a funny feeling in my stomach of sickness, very disappointed as I thought it looked incredible at first
  19. hoppypoppy1
    Apr 13, 2015
    4
    I am a very optimistic gamer. I enjoy most games I play. However, I could not enjoy this game much at all. The graphics are decent enough but the gameplay is just awful. You chase a monster for about 10 minutes trap it, shoot it, slow it then repeat. I played for about 6 hours total before I returned it. Even playing with friends I wasn't satisfied. Maybe I would've been if I spent anI am a very optimistic gamer. I enjoy most games I play. However, I could not enjoy this game much at all. The graphics are decent enough but the gameplay is just awful. You chase a monster for about 10 minutes trap it, shoot it, slow it then repeat. I played for about 6 hours total before I returned it. Even playing with friends I wasn't satisfied. Maybe I would've been if I spent an extra $200 on DLC. Would not recommend.… Expand
  20. LinuxGuy
    Apr 12, 2015
    0
    If this game is played with friends then it is pretty decent. By friends I mean 4 other FRIENDS. Playing with randoms and AI is just boring and stupid. Avoid.
  21. Jay_Will
    Apr 7, 2015
    4
    I can some this game up in one word A DISGRACE!!!! How could you market this tedious repeatative bore-fest as a next gen shooter??? TurtleRock Studios should be got damn ashamed at this atrocity of gaming. This overhyped peace of trash is everything wrong with gaming these days. Even TITAN FALL has more variety then this game. Its a hunter vs hunted platformed and thats it. there is noI can some this game up in one word A DISGRACE!!!! How could you market this tedious repeatative bore-fest as a next gen shooter??? TurtleRock Studios should be got damn ashamed at this atrocity of gaming. This overhyped peace of trash is everything wrong with gaming these days. Even TITAN FALL has more variety then this game. Its a hunter vs hunted platformed and thats it. there is no depth,complexity or variety of gameplay. yea they have different modes but overall its the same freaking thing over and over and freaking OVER!!!! Don't even get me started of that B.S. dlc crap. Charging 24 dollars(the price of a full game) for a new set of soldiers and ONE MONSTER thats it??????? ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!!! This is next gen now!!! this game is so bland and lifeless(gameplay wise) that it EASILY could've been done on current gen VERY VERY EASILY. This is next gen everybody OVER HYPING EVERYTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO BUY IT. Then when the hype finally dies down and people come to there senses they realize...."Man this wasn't as good as I thought it was". DISGRACE TO GAMING is what this is. This BORING REPETITIVE PLATFORMER is one of the biggest disgraces I've ever seen in gaming. FRANCHISE MY ASS DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY AND TIME. I will admit when you fight these monsters it Is amazing and fun and as the Monster you feel like a badass!!! But....well thats it...even though there are different game modes the game feels the same. Acts the same.....IS THE SAAAAMME!!!! First Watchdogs,then Ac Unity,then Destiny....NOW THIS **** Right when you think 2015 was going to start out with a BANG we get this **** D-I-S-G-R-A-C-E!!!… Expand
  22. Karuzo
    Apr 7, 2015
    0
    Awful game, waste of my money, hyped up for no reason what so ever. I can not believe that it was released with such a mundane amount of content to the game.
  23. Asentha
    Apr 5, 2015
    0
    This game was such a let down. Definitely not worth the $60 that I paid for it. Within the first two games of I knew it was going to be boring and not much to do. It's the same repetitious gameplay as the monster. Run like hell in your first two levels and eat as much as you can, and become nearly unstoppable by the time you get to your final evolution. I was completely looking forward toThis game was such a let down. Definitely not worth the $60 that I paid for it. Within the first two games of I knew it was going to be boring and not much to do. It's the same repetitious gameplay as the monster. Run like hell in your first two levels and eat as much as you can, and become nearly unstoppable by the time you get to your final evolution. I was completely looking forward to this game and was dramatically let down.… Expand
  24. rtkiii
    Mar 30, 2015
    4
    I bought this past Saturday for a birthday present to myself and played it about 5 hours. While there were brief moments of greatness(Being a stealthy monster as human controlled players ran all around me unaware) those moments were brief and to me it became the same process over and over. Human players rush to the monster, fight monster, kill monster. If monster has a brief amount ofI bought this past Saturday for a birthday present to myself and played it about 5 hours. While there were brief moments of greatness(Being a stealthy monster as human controlled players ran all around me unaware) those moments were brief and to me it became the same process over and over. Human players rush to the monster, fight monster, kill monster. If monster has a brief amount of time he can level up to Stage 2 and beat humans. No need for stage 3 because it just never happened. this game had me excited for a bit but then just became the same old thing. We need ideas like this but executed in a completely different way...more variety needed. And let us create our players.… Expand
  25. thepepperdoctor
    Mar 21, 2015
    2
    I wanted to like this game. Oh man, I wanted to like this game. It has a great premise and had lots of potential. But there are simply too many things wrong with it. There is very little content, plus the parts that are actually entertaining and engaging are episodic at best. Even trying to connect to the multiplayer is beyond frustrating with players disconnecting when they don't get theI wanted to like this game. Oh man, I wanted to like this game. It has a great premise and had lots of potential. But there are simply too many things wrong with it. There is very little content, plus the parts that are actually entertaining and engaging are episodic at best. Even trying to connect to the multiplayer is beyond frustrating with players disconnecting when they don't get the role they want. But even so - why can there only be one of each character class (Assault, Support, Trapper, Medic) per team? I see absolutely no reason why players can't just choose their preferred class.
    Also: Day 1 DLC? You have got to be joking.

    Tl;dr - very good premise, very poor execution. Don't buy.    … Expand
  26. Maj3stic
    Mar 20, 2015
    0
    This game is a joke everyone has stopped playing it already (out less then 60 days). The wraith in the game is soo OP that people just quite. Developer is money hungry with crazy expensive DLC. This might be a good game at 9.00 USD.
    Good concept- R3tardded developer / corp pinheads / bean counters
  27. Dlindenberg
    Mar 18, 2015
    3
    When first started this game it was verry fun. First time playing this type of game. Good graphics and fun innovation for me. Afther playing couple of times it became boring and the servers don't work well. This makes me diapointed and a waist of money. Game was good for 10 hours. afther that it just became dull.
  28. Stevester718
    Mar 16, 2015
    1
    I love this game. Everything about it. Every experience is different and there are so many stories to tell about it. I simply don't get whey everyone is hating on it. I'm a big fan and being the mosnster and slaughtering 4 people is awesome. But so is being a hunter helping bring down a beast. No matter what anyone w
    Says I will ask ways love Evolve.
  29. Fat_Face_Rick
    Mar 16, 2015
    1
    By far the most horrible game I have played in a long time. I got suckered in by the hype and clearly paid-for reviews by game "critics" and made the mistake of buying this pos on psn so I can't sell it. The concept and graphics are cool on the surface, but this game is straight up GARBAGE. DO NOT BUY!!! You've been warned.
  30. Draxonic
    Mar 14, 2015
    0
    Instead of releasing half a game and charging us extra for the other half, how about releasing the full game? Didn't get my moneys worth. Took it back after a few days.
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Metascore
76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 16 out of 46
  3. Negative: 0 out of 46
  1. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Apr 22, 2015
    70
    An online experience of wildly fluctuating highs and lows that demands a lot but explains little. [Apr 2015, p.89]
  2. Play UK
    Mar 31, 2015
    66
    With the right people on your side, Evolve can be a surprising blast. However, get lumped with utter idiots, or the shoddy AI, and it quickly becomes very, very frustrating. [Issue#254, p.66]
  3. Edge Magazine
    Mar 30, 2015
    60
    At launch, it feels neutered, and far too inconsistent to establish a lasting dominance on the multiplayer scene. [Apr 2015, p.110]
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