Whether it’s the endless world war 2 shooters we were bombarded with in the PS2 era, or last generation’s obsession with contemporary war zones – it’s pretty fair to say that the FPS genre finds a formula and sticks with it. As the current generation is starting to find its feet, huge anticipation for titles like Destiny and Titanfall shows that people are yearning for something different – and that’s where Evolve comes in.
Evolve brings something to the online FPS space that the genre has been severely lacking in recently – originality. Doing away with the increasingly large teams competing in deathmatches, Evolve opts to scale it down to a game of murderous 4 on 1 hide and seek – and that team of one just so happens to be an alien monster.
Created by the Left 4 Dead team, strands of Valve’s’s cooperative DNA are obviously present here, but what surprised me about Evolve is how refreshingly different from L4D it really is.
It has been recently revealed by an artist that a sequel to the 2015 title Evolve was in the works. However, this project wouldn't last long.
Was this game ahead of its time? A few years later games like Dead By Daylight, Friday the 13th and other asymmetrical games exploded onto the scene.
if lm not mistaken it started the asymmetrical pvp matches. Evolves logo was a nod to their concept.
Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.
From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.
Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."
Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.
I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.
The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.
