Immortals Fenyx Rising

 Xbox Series X
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 295 Ratings

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  1. Dom007
    Feb 13, 2021
    5
    This game is alright but it doesn't do anything new or great. The world design is good but theres no real desire to explore it because everything including its environments are so clustered together and forgettable. It's soundtrack is decent but nothing special. It's side content is boring and typical Ubisoft standard. It's art style is nice but not really as effective as it should be.This game is alright but it doesn't do anything new or great. The world design is good but theres no real desire to explore it because everything including its environments are so clustered together and forgettable. It's soundtrack is decent but nothing special. It's side content is boring and typical Ubisoft standard. It's art style is nice but not really as effective as it should be. It's combat is one of its strengths and very similar to Assasins creed but could do with being more unique. It's Vaults/ puzzles are tedious and too long and worst of all its story is totally ruined by stupid unfunny humour and unlikeable characters. This was my biggest issue with the game because of how badly it was executed.
    Overall it's just an underwhelming game. This game takes many things from breath of the wild but ubisoft unfortunately doesn't understand why they where so unique and effective in the first place. It's overall just an unimpressive breath of the wild clone that as of writing this review is mostly forgotten about and hardly being talked about. It's a shame because I really was looking forward to this game. It just didn't impress me.    … Expand
  2. BradMorgan
    Feb 1, 2021
    6
    Beautiful and colorful world. Engaging gameplay with a lot of fun puzzles. But like every Ubisoft game it is not fun for the long run. Long cutscenes are needed to make sense of the story and missions were extremely repetitive.
  3. Filmanwalt
    May 7, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It took me 20 hours and got 510 gamerscore. It was played on the Series X.

    story

    Charming story about the Greek gods and the final boss Typhon. You play Fenyx, a great character who is chosen to be a heroine. In the course of the story you have to deal with various Greek gods (Aphrodite, Athena, Ares etc.) and have to get back their essences to hunt Typhon, as this is almost all people etc. also the crew around Fenyx (you are on Shipwrecked at the beginning) petrified.

    The whole thing is told by Prometheus and Zeus, who are sometimes more, sometimes less wrong with their humor. Some dialogues were really hard at the limit or even over it. Often I could just roll my eyes. At this point it should be said that the game's clientele is also intended for younger people, even if Aphrodite in particular often makes clear allusions. Has also been classified from the age of 12.

    The story is lovingly told and has been okay so far, but is by no means pulling out any trees. The whole end of the game (final battle, sequences afterwards) was really great again.

    Graphics / glitches

    The whole thing is kept in a comic graphic style and is often pretty to look at. The open world is at least as lovingly designed and also very, very colorful. The characters look excellent, as do many of the different weapon, mount, and armor skins.

    I haven't had any glitches or anything negative. Everything went smoothly and without any technical problems.

    Gameplay

    I played on the hard difficulty level and basically never had any real problems. The game is kept very simple in its gameplay and, especially in combat, does not have a lot of depth. But I enjoyed fighting the most, by far the most. I combined skills with each other, threw opponents into the air and tried again and again to push the combo numbers up. That got me in the mood.

    The boss fights and individual elite opponents were also very nice from the style of play, but I have to say that the opponent's variance in particular left a lot to be desired. That was just not enough for me. Also, some boss opponents (or most of them?) Didn't drop a loot, which was kind of a shame in the game.

    I enjoyed using many of the abilities, including phosphorus and its healing spell, which is basically indispensable.

    But now it comes: The game has unfortunately robbed me of a lot of motivation and fun due to the other game mechanics. Most of the puzzles were very simple but incredibly boring. Often very monotonous shifting of things, which sometimes didn't work so well in terms of control technology and was very frustrating (e.g. the Athena vault, my goodness that was terrible).

    The vaults would have been a lot more fun for me personally as battle arenas (not all but at least half of them, by far not all of them, but until then found a pure action vault, except for these intermediate bosses (they were very cool)). These are of course personal preferences, of course. This gathering of resources was also extremely demotivating. I would have preferred a classic experience system or a combination of both. Because all these many stations, typical of Ubisoft, on the open world map could not motivate me in any way, which is why I no longer paid attention to numerous dungeons, health bars, resources, etc. It just wasn't fun unfortunately.

    It was also a shame that a rather long vault was pushed open in front of the final boss. That got me out of the momentum to finish now against this villain

    The biggest drawback for me is the ENDURANCE GAME PLAY! I don't know how many times I've cursed this. I had the normal bars + 3 or 4 additional ones, because then I hardly made any more vaults and it still cost me so much nerves. None of this was a problem in combat, but as soon as I started climbing, jumping, sliding, etc., I was literally bubbling inside. From my point of view, that could have been left out completely, except in combat. Especially the ascent to the mountain top in the snow area was cruel. That really took away a lot of fun from the game.

    But to end with a conciliatory word: The different areas were well chosen and resulted in a nice overall picture in the open world.

    Conclusion

    Probably a great introduction to this action-adventure open world and the Ubisoft formula, especially for younger people. For me personally, the game just didn't work in some places and is still in the good range due to its charm with 6/10 wings (it didn't stop me either).    … Expand
  4. tom974
    Aug 1, 2021
    7
    Nice game, without being transcendant. It borrow almost everything to Assassin Creed and Breath of the Wild. Though it does some things better than the original works (better fights than AC, less frustrating survival mechanics than BOTW), it does fall short with mechanics which are here to artificially make the game longer (so many crests .. ) and break the narration. Nevertheless, theNice game, without being transcendant. It borrow almost everything to Assassin Creed and Breath of the Wild. Though it does some things better than the original works (better fights than AC, less frustrating survival mechanics than BOTW), it does fall short with mechanics which are here to artificially make the game longer (so many crests .. ) and break the narration. Nevertheless, the game is still nice, classic story but still entertaining.… Expand
  5. Duoraime
    Jun 24, 2022
    5
    It's passible, i guess. It's really hard to say more about game with so generic gameplay, story and look. It's just okay, nothing more
  6. samvais7
    Nov 14, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. while the first part of the game where you collected the four gods to fight with you felt fun and fresh, the second part of the game with the huuuuge climb to Mt. Olympus felt rushed and boring.

    combat system is basically assassins creed + flying so if you like that, the combat system is good. most of the puzzles were also pretty fun, although some of those included in the main story line felt pretty forced.

    immortals doesn't try to be anything too new or groundbreaking, but for the most parts it is an enjoyable game.

    points also for the commentary of Prometheus and that douche Zeus    … Expand
  7. Kafs29z
    Dec 4, 2021
    5
    Me sorprendi muchísimo, me costó un poco engancharme pero lo logro y ahora voy a estar enviciado
  8. Plhgi
    Aug 29, 2022
    6
    very long cutscene and the missions are not that unique or fun. could use more care for the game
  9. Captiosus
    Dec 7, 2020
    7
    I debated whether or not to write this but seeing so many critic reviews praise the game for a lack of bugs, I felt I needed to. Bug-free has NOT been my experience in the 15 hours I've played thus far. Playing on Series X, installed to the internal SSD, I've averaged a crash to dashboard every 1.5 hours of play. That's an average, not a hard and fast value; For example, I had threeI debated whether or not to write this but seeing so many critic reviews praise the game for a lack of bugs, I felt I needed to. Bug-free has NOT been my experience in the 15 hours I've played thus far. Playing on Series X, installed to the internal SSD, I've averaged a crash to dashboard every 1.5 hours of play. That's an average, not a hard and fast value; For example, I had three crashes to dashboard during the prologue alone. Two crashes happened while inside Vaults of Tartaros, which meant all my progress was lost for those entire puzzles. I've had Fenyx (and multiple enemies) get stuck in textures, fall through world terrain, and get (or be) hit when hitboxes are meters (in game) away. It's not as buggy as, say, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, but it's still loaded with bugs. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game on the expansion card -- the problems persisted.

    And this is all very sad to write because the game itself is so much better than Valhalla or Watch Dogs Legion. It isn't some grimdark affair. It's colorful and dense and full of great snark, sarcasm, and groanworthy dad jokes. The art is fantastic, the world is a joy to look at and run around in. The combat, when it's not buggy, is much more fun and fluid than ACV. The sound is great and the music is top notch. If not for the bugs, I'd give this a solid 9. With the bugs, however, especially ones that cause crashes and loss of progress, it's staying at 7 for now.    … Expand
  10. Turvok
    Dec 4, 2020
    7
    The game is solid. It obviously takes heavy ques from Zelda botw. It has great polish and is a good game all around. It misses the mark on one of the things that botw did so so excellently. The exploration, while the game is filled to the brim with stuff in most nooks and crannies. It doesn't have the same draw that Botw did. Making you want to know what is around thst bend in a way thatThe game is solid. It obviously takes heavy ques from Zelda botw. It has great polish and is a good game all around. It misses the mark on one of the things that botw did so so excellently. The exploration, while the game is filled to the brim with stuff in most nooks and crannies. It doesn't have the same draw that Botw did. Making you want to know what is around thst bend in a way that made you want to find out. It beats Zelda in that you actually dive underwater which adds extra layers of depth to the open world. The game is still terrific in many ways. The combat is decent if not a little on the repetitive side. I am enjoying the narration of Zeus and Prometheus. It runs silky smooth on my 8700k with 1080ti at a framelocked 60hz., and I have had 0 issues with bugs that I have yet noticed in about 5 hrs of play.

    Where it falls down is the in your face pushing of dlc and trying to sell skins for weapons and so forth. It makes it feel like a mobile game. It can be ignored. But it's there regularly. So far the vaults are relatively simple compared to the extremely clever Botw ones. But still enjoyable enough to warrant doing them.

    Ubisoft has simplified some things and made other more complex. It's more of a design thing and I feel some of it is done to push dlc and skins. If it wasn't for the in game store for purchases I would have made this a solid 8 maybe even a 9. If you enjoy Ubisoft games and don't mind the skin store you will enjoy this game. It's mostly family friendly from what I have seen although a few of the jokes may go over the head of the younger crowd.    … Expand
  11. Paradox112
    Dec 6, 2020
    5
    The game is a lot of fun. But as with all Ubisoft games, the performance is really bad.
    Ubisoft has to slowly rebuild their engine!
  12. MagisterJedi_66
    Sep 4, 2022
    6
    After 26 hours of playthrough, I had a logical question: why and who needs this game if there is a free analogue in the form of Genshin Impact?
  13. SuperkenGaming
    Mar 27, 2021
    7
    Immortals Femyx Rising
    Gods and Monsters
    Not to be confused ith the energy drink.. this is a video game… a video game that gets constant comparrisons to the liked of Zelda breath of the wild.. a game I’ve yet to play.. and I game I hope clicks with me more than this one… Zeus needs help, the greek gods are in trouble, all of the mortals are stone.. except for one of course.. you… you    Immortals Femyx Rising
    Gods and Monsters
    Not to be confused ith the energy drink.. this is a video game… a video game that gets constant comparrisons to the liked of Zelda breath of the wild.. a game I’ve yet to play.. and I game I hope clicks with me more than this one…
    Zeus needs help, the greek gods are in trouble, all of the mortals are stone.. except for one of course.. you… you creae your character and its off to helping zeus and the rest of the gods in this open world puzzle game… and if there weren’t such a large emphises on the puzzle part, this game as series has such great potential… for starters this world is beautiful, though there are crashing issues is you play in pretty mode vs the run better mode on the playstations 5… here youll be running around, collecting items to craft consumables, find gear, and collect shards to upgrade your gear and character, run around and complete tasks for the different gods and gain new abilities.. if it stopped there I would be fine, run around this opwen world with sections that feel and look different enough reperesenting each god you help… all while the game hilariously narrates for you… a real highlight… I could’ve loved immortals fenyx.. but its insistence to try and be a breath of a wild clones, sucked away all of its charm and left immortals fenyx risings feeling like a good.. yet soulless game… its cookie cutter, and what were left with if unfun combat, and boring drug out puzzles.. the vaults are half of the game and theyre just awful.. they have their moments of being fun brain teasesers… but these puzzles show up way too frequently in your 13 plus hour journey… and I dreaded them every time.. im not a big fan of puzzles in general… but when theres essentially puzzle rooms vs environmental puzzles, I hate it even more… just let me build up my charcters, sneak around, tame and kill things while my boy zeus makes awful jokes.. that’s all I wanna do… but fenyx rising sortve blows its load for me.. if you’ve played journey to the savage planet.. it’s the same kind of thing… youre smacked with charm, mystery and immersion.. and then everything else feels lackluster in ocmparision to the greatness the adventure starts with…
    While I can appreciate that this is objectively a good game that plenty will love… for me this was a game that kept throwing school work at me when all I wanted to do was play at recess… and once I get out to recess its like oh, its raining.. youre playing in the gym today, not the playground like youre used to doing.. meaning that this world is just a chore to even get around in.. the whole stamina whil you run, climb, swim, and soar thing can be fun if done right.. its not done right here.. its annoying and just makes traversal not fun.. . but I am again just speaking for myself.. for me the combat gt stale fast, the traversal becomes annoying fast, and the puzzles get annoying boring and overwhelming fast… what am I doing playing this?
    for a lot of people though theyre hearing this review being all like. Yeha this is what I want, imam buy this right now.. I get it.. tis a good game, just not for me.
    I give Immortals Fenyx Rising
    a 7/10    … Expand
  14. notifycritic
    Jun 22, 2023
    7
    Quando comecei a jogar fiquei extremamente empolgado principalmente por conta dos gráficos que são muito lindos, é o zelda da Ubisoft porém depois de algum tempo enjoei, o jogo ficou muito repetitivo.
  15. xaviar_nl
    Sep 24, 2022
    7
    This game was better than I expected (given that it is from Ubisoft). Enjoyed playing it, and the story is not briliant but certainly fits well in the game & the Greek Gods setting. The humor is a bit hit and miss, but they tried.

    Near the end things do get rather repetitive however: there are a lot of things on the map to go to, but a lot of it is rather samey. A number of the vaults    This game was better than I expected (given that it is from Ubisoft). Enjoyed playing it, and the story is not briliant but certainly fits well in the game & the Greek Gods setting. The humor is a bit hit and miss, but they tried.

    Near the end things do get rather repetitive however: there are a lot of things on the map to go to, but a lot of it is rather samey. A number of the vaults are - I think - needlessly frustrating, but maybe you like challenges like that...
    Also, here's hoping that you like climbing things (and swimming...), because you are going to to that _a lot_. The Greeks already had boats, so why you need to actually swim? And the climbing bit is really grating after a while, especially as later levels have quite a lot of verticality, so there's no real escaping it.    … Expand
  16. bpurkapi
    Sep 14, 2022
    6
    Its a grind. The combat gets repetitive. The story is realllllly bad. Characters are not well voiced or acted. Its an ubisoft game through and through. Climb a tower to advance the game. Collect items to get upgrade points. Its open world, but the enemies and environments are essentially reskins. Enemies, there are about 4 different soldiers, 2 flying types enemies, 5 upper level bigs, 4Its a grind. The combat gets repetitive. The story is realllllly bad. Characters are not well voiced or acted. Its an ubisoft game through and through. Climb a tower to advance the game. Collect items to get upgrade points. Its open world, but the enemies and environments are essentially reskins. Enemies, there are about 4 different soldiers, 2 flying types enemies, 5 upper level bigs, 4 animal types, 4 legendary wraiths, and 1 main baddy.
    The Zelda breath of the wild theft is high but not well done. The levels that are akin to zelda shrines are realllllly a slog. They will burn you out late game and are a reason I almost didn't finish the game. They are not difficult but soooo repetitive. It took around 8 different puzzle stages to get to the last boss fight and they were all push the block or shoot the arrow through hoops puzzles done over and over again.
    The final boss fight is also just annoyingly tedious. You just need to spam your hits for like 30 min to win. Which kinda describes the game as a whole: spam hits, takes too long, story sucks.    … Expand
  17. nekliw96
    Oct 7, 2022
    7
    Destaca-se pela sua parte artística, que enche os olhos de tão bonito e fascinante, com uma jogatina fácil ( cara é a mesma coisa dos novos Assassin's Creed ) que só complica mesmo na parte dos puzzles ( quebra-cabeças ) que no meu ponto de vista, são mais chatos e longos e nada divertido de se fazer, sem contar a encheção de linguiça comum na família da Ubisoft, que só tá aqui praDestaca-se pela sua parte artística, que enche os olhos de tão bonito e fascinante, com uma jogatina fácil ( cara é a mesma coisa dos novos Assassin's Creed ) que só complica mesmo na parte dos puzzles ( quebra-cabeças ) que no meu ponto de vista, são mais chatos e longos e nada divertido de se fazer, sem contar a encheção de linguiça comum na família da Ubisoft, que só tá aqui pra prolongar ainda mais o jogo e muitas vezes irritar de tão chatas que são, porém irá cativar muito mais pelo seu humor e personagens carismáticos, em uma trama que mesmo não sendo séria ou profunda ainda sim tem seus méritos, por ser bem bacana, e bastante divertida, sendo esse o fator principal irá fazer completar toda aventura. No fim, Fenyx Rising é jogo bom, mas que se sustenta em uma formula já saturada que não apresenta nada novo, e que precisa urgentemente mudar a receita.… Expand
  18. Geopall100
    May 15, 2023
    6
    This game has a lot of charm to it and some genuinely fun boss battles. But the puzzles can sometimes be difficult because of the clunkiness of moving around objects and the stupid connectors in which I never solved the Puzzle of Athena, where you have to move a box around accordingly or it'll get smashed. I tried this puzzle for hours to no avail.
    I do want to like this game but the    This game has a lot of charm to it and some genuinely fun boss battles. But the puzzles can sometimes be difficult because of the clunkiness of moving around objects and the stupid connectors in which I never solved the Puzzle of Athena, where you have to move a box around accordingly or it'll get smashed. I tried this puzzle for hours to no avail.
    I do want to like this game but the heavy emphasis on puzzles killed it for me.    … Expand

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#8 Best Xbox Series X Game of 2020
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#3 Most Discussed Xbox Series X Game of 2020

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81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 53 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 53
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 53
  3. Negative: 1 out of 53
  1. WellPlayed
    Feb 11, 2021
    90
    Immortals is more than just a fun open-world with slick combat and massive Breath of the Wild vibes, it's also a superbly written and legitimately funny take on Greek mythology. This is one of Ubisoft's best games in years.
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  2. Edge Magazine
    Dec 31, 2020
    60
    It's just and old-fashioned videogame in contemporary trappings that wants you to enjoy yourself. Play it with a forgiving eye, and you probably will. [Issue#354, p.106]
  3. New York Daily News
    Dec 30, 2020
    75
    This game isn’t a miss. Zelda this is not, but it’s plenty of fun.
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