Anthem’s rich storytelling and engaging combat lays the foundation for Bioware’s newest adventure. While there are plenty of quality of life improvements to be made, Anthem’s ambitious approach to the looter-shooter genre is encouraging given the development team’s steadfast community engagement. With a roadmap stretching far into the horizon, we’ll be flying around the world of Anthem for a long time to come.
Wearing armor and fighting like the Iron Man is really amazing, but this game at this time is also full of flaws. The story is dull. The gameplay is repetitive and boring. What's worse, there are too many bugs and network issues. Maybe it will be a great game when its DLCs come out.
i wrote a positive review but i am getting the 403 error when i want to post it.
just give this game a try yourself, dont listen to the negative reviews that are made because of the bad launch. the game itself is awesome especially the multiplayer.
Anthem is a constant emotional see-saw. There is a lot of fun from flying, shooting and admiring this beautiful world, and almost as much frustration due to a surprising amount of bad ideas and issues. Some won't be bothered by them and keep flying, and others will go somewhere else. Anthem is a game to both love and to hate at the same time.
Too many elementary mistakes were simply made here: the mission design is too monotonous, the story is poorly told, the technology an impertinence. To make matters worse, the makers neglected the endgame. Thus, the former RPG specialists here have finally lost the trust of many fans.
Anthem is a strange flawed adventure with glimpses of greatness buried behind an abundance of obtuse design decisions. What so many players love about Bioware is here, but fragmented in such a way that it becomes unrecognisable...The core of Anthem – being its fearsome gunplay and angelic flight mechanics – are stellar, yet they’re held back by the mission structure that dictates them. Things could certainly improve with the introduction of deeper dungeons and endgame content, but right now Anthem is sadly underwhelming; a victim to the template it’s trying so hard to emulate.
Anthem offers near unlimited potential, with certain features, taken separately, representing a marvel in design. Combined together and it proves to have a lot of style but very little substance.
Even where it is strongest, Anthem rarely stretches beyond the derivative. The combat, while well-designed, is little more than Gears of War with jetpacks, and narratively it veers between inconsequential and downright irritating. This anthem is, sadly, a tedious and conservative dirge that we’ve all heard before
I've played both Destiny 2 and Warframe and I would rather play this game than either of those two games. The story is good enough for establishing a setting. The characters are well made and I have enjoyed getting to know the characters in between missions. I love the abilities that the different suits (javelins) have, and I especially like how they can all fly. Graphics are amazing and I enjoy the sound and soundtrack. I'm sad that this game had such a poor launch. I think if it had done just a little bit better, Bioware could have continued to work on it and write a redemption story similar to No Man's Sky or Diablo 3.
This is prime example of wasted potential. It took them one year to just fix the game (but not everything was fixed), and then it died. But I got to say, what is in there, is still fun and playable. Missions are fine, freeplay is even better, story is acceptable but character are annoying, almost everyone is smartass. There are good rpg elements, some nice builds to discover, so overall it's a fine game, but it could have been so much better. Graphics and overall presentation is really good.
Finished the game at last, the impressions were twofold. On the one hand, the locations are very beautiful, on the other hand, in fact, one map, over time, everything turns into one green mess that you don’t pay attention to, especially considering that the movement is by air.
The plot seems to be not badly framed, the cinematics are good, the characters are well drawn and animated, but on the other hand they say some kind of nonsense.
The missions are interesting to complete, but they are all like twins, in the middle of the story there is a feeling that you are doing daily missions).
It was a little tense that the pieces of the endgame were put into a company, in my opinion this is superfluous, it only caused irritation, since you have to climb into the guides and see where what is being done.
Really cool flying mechanic and beatiful enviroment but unfortunately everything else falls aparts. This game doesnt appreciate player and his time. Makes him do tedious quests just to get not a very rewarding reward. I am sad to see such a HUGE potential to waste in this live service game.
Summing up fun flashy combat & visuals with interesting enough story. Held back by unconvincing characters with cringe delivery & dialogue. Ok it looks nice with cool sci-fi techy stuff. Game does not do a good job of setting up the world building. Early on I had no idea what the Anthem/Cenotaph is/was. Combat is fast & flashy with a Mass Effect Andromeda feel & some Iron Man flight thrown in. Seems a simple grind wave shooter fetch quester most of the time with enemies cheaply & lazily teleporting in. Playing normal & solo and doable enough, but early days yet. Fairly recent purchase. Enviroment bugs getting stuck in/under the map. Can't hardly connect to server anymore. No not a local issue as all other online gaming is fine on console & pc on multiple clients. Game is making it hard for me to like it, but I want to like it 17 hours in. The peril of always online games. Unable to contect to server for many days now so a DNF. The 8080 Port Forwarding helps. Anthem only times out 50% of the time now, oh well. Really can't be fussed to continue due to the time outs, DNF.
SummaryAnthem is a shared-world action-RPG in which players delve into a vast world teeming with amazing technology and forgotten treasures. The world is also filled with savage beasts and ruthless marauders where Freelancers are called to defeat the forces plotting to conquer humanity. In Anthem, up to 4 friends unravel the world’s mysteries a...