Evolve

 PlayStation 4
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4.3

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 937 Ratings

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  1. Dounet
    Sep 5, 2023
    9
    Evolve is a game realy great but there is no person who played the game so this is not great.
  2. filipmai7x
    Apr 16, 2023
    9
    Evolve is a great game. The monster fells incredibly powerful if played correctly and the hunters fell like they all have there important role that if they fail to fulfill then they'll lose. Just beware of the keyboard warriors bellow about to complain that a game has dlc. It's a shame that 2k abandoned the game 9/10
  3. 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...
  4. 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.
  5. MetaRogue
    Jun 10, 2021
    6
    Evolve sports a unique premise, but one that comes with certain limitations. As a multiplayer game, it succeeds at what it aims to achieve, but as a single player experience it leaves much to be desired.

    By far and large, Evolve establishes a narrative concept that is ripe with potential. In the opening cutscene, we're treated to character interactions and banter that are exceptional in    Evolve sports a unique premise, but one that comes with certain limitations. As a multiplayer game, it succeeds at what it aims to achieve, but as a single player experience it leaves much to be desired.

    By far and large, Evolve establishes a narrative concept that is ripe with potential. In the opening cutscene, we're treated to character interactions and banter that are exceptional in the quality of how they're written, establishing complex characters and relationships in its limited running time. At this point I was absolutely impressed with what the writing team had accomplished, and I would've loved to have seen more backstory and developments throughout a fairly lengthy story-based campaign. Unfortunately, however, Evolve is primarily a multiplayer experience and lacks a traditional story campaign, which is a huge missed opportunity in this regard.

    Foregoing said story campaign, Evolve features some tutorial missions that provide a small glimpse of what its campaign could've looked like if the development team had committed the time and effort into it. I enjoyed these brief moments of promise and further lamented the decision not to flesh out Evolve's relatively impressive universe with a fully fleshed out narrative. The game also has an Evacuation mode that kind of tells a story based on your performance in missions, but it's basically just playing multiplayer modes with bots and a loose narrative context.

    Evolve shows promise in its combat and gunplay - my favourite aspect being that all hunters have jetpacks which makes traversal SO much fun. Unfortunately, this is where the fun ended for me. Maps are vast and well designed in terms of environments and verticality, but are mostly populated with creatures that aren't much fun to fight. What further compounded this lack of enjoyment was that no matter how well I tracked or attempted to catch up to the monster, I just simply couldn't catch up in time before it reached it's maximum level. When I did find it, I got crushed every single time.

    One thing I did look forward to with Evolve would be trying out all 12 of its different hunters, but 8 are gated by the game's progression system which is egregious in the extreme. To unlock the other 8 hunters, you must play multiple matches using the four different hunter archetypes (i.e. Assault, Medic, Support, and Trapper) and level up all of their 3 unique abilities (to maximum, presumably). Once you have done this, you unlock the next hunter tier in whichever class you've committed the most amount of time to and must repeat the process to unlock the last hunter in that class. In theory, this sounds achievable, but in reality its an exercise in futility. What undermines this system is that the amount of points you receive at the end of every match is far too little to make meaningful progress and the amount of points required to level up each skill is far too great. And considering that Evolve's gameplay loop isn't that fun to begin with, everything becomes a tedious waste of time.

    If Evolve featured dedicated single player content, then it could've been a better overall experience and thus, a better game. Instead, it's sticks to multiplayer guns and ends up being a lesser experience with a lot of wasted potential.    … Expand
  6. 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.
  7. Jimmie_MCGuffin
    Aug 22, 2020
    8
    Evolve is the perfect hunting experience.

    Also, when do you see a good asymmetrical shooter. Never.
  8. Professorfett
    Apr 21, 2020
    6
    Evolve is the evolution of Left for Dead. Ok, ok I just had to get that out of my system, but anyways hello my fellow video game monster B-rod is here again with another review. Evolve another four player co-op game that only works if you and your team work together. I have some gripes with this game so let us get into it.

    The story of Evolve is a simple one. This colony on some planet    Evolve is the evolution of Left for Dead. Ok, ok I just had to get that out of my system, but anyways hello my fellow video game monster B-rod is here again with another review. Evolve another four player co-op game that only works if you and your team work together. I have some gripes with this game so let us get into it.

    The story of Evolve is a simple one. This colony on some planet lets just call it Endor for **** and giggles. Endor has been infested with these monsters that can either shoot fire, turn invisible or have weird black magic powers, and they are just wrecking everything they see. You can either play as a monster and do objectives like destroy the powerline, kill the hunters, breed minions, or destroy a star ship. Playing as the monster is amazing but it takes so long to unlock the next kind of creature that it's not something I want to keep playing as. I much prefered playing as a hunter. Playing as the hunter is just fantastic. Anyways the story is only about an hour and a half long, which I think is **** I understand it will let me change the levels I play and it can have different outcomes. Even so that only adds up to maybe 4 hours of the same story with different outcome. There is one opening cutscene and one ending scene so if you were expecting to get to know the hunters, well prepare for the Left for Dead experience.

    The graphics look great in this game. The maps which consist of desert, forest and swamps all seem very detailed and partly alive. The monster design looks like miniature Kaiju from Pacific Rim, nothing wrong with that but the default monster reminds me of that. The sound design is meh. There really is no score, and the dialog is mindless and repetitive. The level with all the extra background noise does help feel like the location is infested with creatures.

    The gameplay is fun for the first four hours, but I don't expect anyone to love this game in the same way Left for Dead was. In Left for Dead the maps stayed the same, but shooting hundreds of zombies with friends was fun. Now hunting the monster is fun too but you repeat the same **** over and over and over. Trap, shoot, chase, trap, shoot, chase. This game is just no fun by yourself either. Your AI partners suck unless you are the monster then the hunters are fairly relentless on finding you. With other player that know what to do the person playing the monster tends to just get their ass kicked right out of the door. Of course the opposite effect when hunters haven't the slightest idea how to play as their class. The hunters consist of a medic, assault, trapper, and support. I do love how each class has to do their job for success. I personally loved playing as the trapper, and I would suggest to newcomers start with assault because their job is to just shoot the creature. The biggest problem with the online is finding a match I don't know if the servers were **** or if just no one was playing this game week one but I would sit for about five minutes just waiting for a match to start.

    Overall the game is very similar to Turtle Rocks Left for Dead. With a few exceptions; every class plays very differently and teamwork is key. The monster player can take on all four players if they level up quickly. I didn't hate the game but these games aren't for gamers like me who enjoy single player experiences. I say if you liked Left for Dead and I mean played for hours upon hours of it or if you have a buddy who owns this game definitely give this a shot. For the rest of you maybe, maybe rent this to see if this is for you. I give this a 3/5. It didn't do anything horrific, I don't believe in a few months that this will have any sticking power. I leave with a question. Will Evolve be a beloved as Left for Dead?    … Expand
  9. 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
  10. McCoyPauley
    Sep 13, 2017
    5
    A game of admirable ambition that fails to deliver the goods.

    The concept of Evolve, of a team of player-controlled Hunters taking on a player-controlled Monster in asymmetrical multiplayer bouts, is a great one. That's why it's such a shame that Evolve stumbles like it does. First and foremost, the gunplay is really quite floaty, and lacking in visceral punch and feedback. This is    A game of admirable ambition that fails to deliver the goods.

    The concept of Evolve, of a team of player-controlled Hunters taking on a player-controlled Monster in asymmetrical multiplayer bouts, is a great one. That's why it's such a shame that Evolve stumbles like it does.

    First and foremost, the gunplay is really quite floaty, and lacking in visceral punch and feedback. This is an aspect taken for granted in many of the top shooters of the day, and it sticks out like a sore-thumb in Evolve. The Hunters are relatively well-designed, most with unique and interesting tools at their disposal. Unfortunately, the weak gunplay renders a lot of these cool ideas moot.

    Graphically, the game is very drab. I'm cool with a dark atmospheres, but the environments of Evolve just feel dead, and lacking imagination. The game is far from smooth, performance-wise, and framerate can be an annoyance.

    Nowadays, in 2017, it can be difficult to find online matches, making the purchase of the game at any price a very questionable decision. The highly-publicized DLC controversy certainly didn't help in this regard. Even so, Evolve is not as bad as many would have you believe. It's not a good game -- even less so now with annoyingly-long matchmaking times -- but neither is it a complete abomination. It's a game brimming with good ideas that just weren't executed upon. Overall, it really feels like the game was rushed out-the-door.

    Had a sequel been greenlit, I'm fairly certain the developers would've delivered a game worthy of Evolve's launch-hype. Unfortunately, with the disaster that was the launch and reception of Evolve, we may never see the promising ideas of Evolve realize their potential.    … Expand
  11. badgerryan19
    Jun 19, 2017
    6
    oh boy where to start on this one. A cool idea on paper, but brought to the game format it doesn't really work. The game can be fun yes and when you are playing with a good team to take the monster down it is, but that fun lasts for maybe 1 to 2 weeks at the most.
  12. 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.
  13. KayVen17
    Jan 3, 2017
    5
    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln    Deutsche Review - Kritik

    Der folgende Test ist in 5 Kategorien zusammengefasst. Diese 5 Kartegorien ergeben die Gesamtpunktzahl von 0 - 100 Punkten. Um einen passenden Userscore zu geben wird auf oder abgerundet. Bei 84 Punkten ergibt das einen User Score von 8. Bei 86 einen von Userscore von 9. Falls eine 85 kommt entscheide ich ob ich es eher positiv oder negativ nehme. Regeln verstanden?
    Dann sind hier meine Punkte.

    Mein persönlicher Score = 47/100
    Mein User Score = 5/10    … Expand
  14. El-Stresso
    Nov 5, 2016
    7
    With 5 friends to play with this game is funny, but if you are playing this alone you are going to have a bad time. Because with friends you can talk to each other and play as a team, but when you are playing alone and if one of your teammates are afk or decides to abandon the team you are going to have a bad time. Because a bot is going to take over if a teammate leaves, and sometimes theWith 5 friends to play with this game is funny, but if you are playing this alone you are going to have a bad time. Because with friends you can talk to each other and play as a team, but when you are playing alone and if one of your teammates are afk or decides to abandon the team you are going to have a bad time. Because a bot is going to take over if a teammate leaves, and sometimes the bot can be good, but most of the times the bot are retarded. I can only recommend this game if you have 4 or more friends to play with.… Expand
  15. 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
  16. DarkReaperV3
    Jun 29, 2016
    5
    No puedo creer que no se esforzaran por hacer algo mejor, le dieron mucha promocion para que al final entregaran un juego medianamente bueno. recomiendo solo rentarlo pues pasar un buen rato y luego terminas aburrido.
  17. 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
  18. Syense
    Mar 10, 2016
    10
    One year later, the lasting appeal has now worn thin, but Evolve still stands as a solid, unique, team-based shooter that hits more marks than it misses. Overall, 8/10
  19. 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.
  20. Termin8ter
    Feb 22, 2016
    5
    Evolve has some good ideas, it really does. The idea of one Monster going up against 4 other hunters, each with their own unique skills and abilities, is a breath of fresh air, with Call Of Duty run'n'gun multiplayer dominating the charts. Evolve really encourages a sense of teamwork, similar to Battlefield. And it was developed by a team that knows how: Turtle Rock Studios, the guysEvolve has some good ideas, it really does. The idea of one Monster going up against 4 other hunters, each with their own unique skills and abilities, is a breath of fresh air, with Call Of Duty run'n'gun multiplayer dominating the charts. Evolve really encourages a sense of teamwork, similar to Battlefield. And it was developed by a team that knows how: Turtle Rock Studios, the guys behind Left 4 Dead. But unfortunately, the problems outweigh the benefits. First off, the gameplay is repetitive as hell, you'll spend hours chasing after the Monster, only to be told that the Monster is all the way on the other side of the frikkin map, so you have to run all the way over there, then you finally find the Monster, and you and your team, unload lead into it, trying to whittle it's health down. Then, suddenly the Monster will run away, forcing you to do it all again!! Secondly, There is a S@# ton of DLC, and the worst part is, it's not even GOOD DLC!! At least Titanfall and Destiny offer us DLC that is worth the money, and adds to the experience, but not with Evolve. In Evolve, you pay 40$ for a gun that is colored blue!! WOW! Thirdly, there is no Campaign, no story, no explanation for what the hell's going on!! F@# this game, only buy this game if you are a HARDCORE Left 4 Dead fan, and even then, you'll still get bored and tired of it after 2 or 3 hours. For the rest of us, there are TONS of better multiplayer games on the market.… Expand
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Spaidi
    Jan 9, 2016
    10
    Best underestimated game, full of action, hunting, tactics and good fun.
    I have met good friends in this game, we play together everyday.
    Must have every player
    Sorry of my bad English
  24. RPGaymer
    Dec 7, 2015
    9
    I am genuinely surprised by the negative reviews I am reading here. Before I buy a game I inform myself what it is supposed to be and what I can expect from it. And let me say - my expectations have been met fully. I bought this game late after its release, so for the 25 bucks it cost me I have a lot fun with it, some of my friends bought it as well and playing it together is just a blast.I am genuinely surprised by the negative reviews I am reading here. Before I buy a game I inform myself what it is supposed to be and what I can expect from it. And let me say - my expectations have been met fully. I bought this game late after its release, so for the 25 bucks it cost me I have a lot fun with it, some of my friends bought it as well and playing it together is just a blast.

    Yes - it doesn't have story line and all the modes basically come down to the "4 guys hunt a monster" theme, but that's what this game is about and it is fun. True, it may get a little repetitive at times, but I just don't see it as a game you will be playing ten hours a day (even though I could, given the right friends to play it with).

    What do I love about it:
    ++ Finally this is a shooter where you don't have to shoot people, instead you have to cooperate with them. And it really is fun to actually put those coop mechanics into action. Also its not just shoot and kill, this is really about hide and seek, about cooperating and communicating. Something I have been missing in a lot of games so far.
    ++ The cooperation idea: I love how the group is supposed to work with its 4 classes. Once you figure out what everyone is supposed to do, it's cool. And the different characters you can pick from each class add a nice variety and feel to the game.
    ++ the characters are not just skins you wear as a player, they are nice characters with a personality and personal feel to them.
    ++ the graphics and environments are just great, I love the arenas and the creepy feeling they give me
    ++ the entire hunt and capture the monster gameplay is fun
    ++ playing as a monster is also an interesting feature

    +++ The option to play with less than 5 players. Honestly I bought that game because my husband and I were looking for a coop game that we two could play alone with our two PS4s. Star Wars battlefront left us very disappointed as there was only one mode with 4 arenas that would allow that. With evolve I wasn't quite sure if this was gonna work. But the game easily stacks up the party (and the monster) with bots, so you can play all by yourself, the way YOU want to. This is what I love about games, if the devs allow the players to play how they want. Also the feature, that you can switch to another bot and take control over him may be a small one, but I find it awesome, playing with my husband, being able to switch between the classes how I see fit at each situation. Nicely done!

    - - + + The only thing I have mixed feelings about are the dlcs. On the one hand side I think its great if a game is that good, that the devs would keep working on it to add more variety to it. On the other hand it feels wrong to buy a game, then see all the possibilities there are, but being forced to spend more money in add ons than into the original game to get all the content.

    Overall if you are looking for a coop game that is not just the classical shooter, but needs you to think a bit outside the box of a classical shooter - get it.

    If you don't know what it is and are looking for yet another shooter that lets you kill beasts and stuff - you'll be disappointed - because this is a coop game by nature, where the fun of hide and seek and cooperation comes first    … Expand
  25. 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!"
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. josh2367
    Nov 1, 2015
    5
    Evolve is an inconceivably amazing concept. A multiplayer shooter with four people on one team playing as monster hunters equipped with cool sci-fi weapons and gear, and one person on the other team playing as the monster. It sounds original, exciting, and fun. Sadly evolve is just original and not much else. Granted, I really enjoyed my first 2 to 3 hours with evolve, but before long theEvolve is an inconceivably amazing concept. A multiplayer shooter with four people on one team playing as monster hunters equipped with cool sci-fi weapons and gear, and one person on the other team playing as the monster. It sounds original, exciting, and fun. Sadly evolve is just original and not much else. Granted, I really enjoyed my first 2 to 3 hours with evolve, but before long the game gets boring and repetitive. The first thing I noticed was the fact that all the games maps, save for one or two, look the same. Apparently, there are only jungles on the planet evolve is set on. The second problem is lack of game modes, there's the main mode hunt, and then literally nothing. Add both of those things together and you will begin to understand why evolve gets boring pretty fast. Evolve also suffers from balancing issues, namely the wraith being close to unstoppable. I will never understand why the devs decided to add a monster that can teleport and turn invisible, to a game that's maps mostly consist of dark jungles. My only two compliments to the game are that the sound design is great and the way you level up is kinda interesting. Outside of that, however, evolve is a pretty disappointing game given how good the concept is.… Expand
  29. fusion_13
    Oct 12, 2015
    6
    Evolve is a game with a very good concept that is executed well but suffers from the lack of replay-ability and content. The hunter classes are diverse and fun, monsters are fun and interesting but are horribly balanced. There really isn't much to say about evolve because there isn't much of it to talk about. Overall evolve is extremely fun for a few hours but eventually becomes stale andEvolve is a game with a very good concept that is executed well but suffers from the lack of replay-ability and content. The hunter classes are diverse and fun, monsters are fun and interesting but are horribly balanced. There really isn't much to say about evolve because there isn't much of it to talk about. Overall evolve is extremely fun for a few hours but eventually becomes stale and repetitive.… Expand
  30. MADRICKY97
    Oct 9, 2015
    10
    WAIT A MINUTE !!!!! poor little boys , if you have ruined your money on skins stuffing and season passening ,you have dumbded youself , GAVE A ZERO TO YOU , and by the way read some reviews before spending your hard earned money on a game you dont know nothing !!!!

    And plus , on some freakin pulse you buy skins and stuffs , and then two days later you realized that it was a really bad ,    WAIT A MINUTE !!!!! poor little boys , if you have ruined your money on skins stuffing and season passening ,you have dumbded youself , GAVE A ZERO TO YOU , and by the way read some reviews before spending your hard earned money on a game you dont know nothing !!!!

    And plus , on some freakin pulse you buy skins and stuffs , and then two days later you realized that it was a really bad , bad move!!!! 150 box later and frustrated , you write this review !!!!!!!!

    You will need to learn the vertue of PATIENCE !!!!!!!!! Don t be impulsive and normaly think before you gave a zero to a game review.For myself i gave it 8/10 , but you force me to gave it a 10 with all those false impulse non-coherant reviews!!!!

    Today i bought the game and got it for 20$ , five hours of gameplay later , lots of laughs and fun with my kids , in one or two months i will bring it back and they will give me a 10$ back of my next purchase !!!!!!!!

    You know what i love about writing this review !!!!!!! I feel like i ve helped somebody that have lost all is pay at the grand casino of life !!!!!!! Poor little boys !!!!!! P.S. dont forget the magic word ,

    PATIENCE !!!!!    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

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#92 Best PS4 Game of 2015
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#20 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2015
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#45 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2015

Critic Reviews

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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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