Player 2 reports back on their first ten hours with Bioware and EA's ambitious new title, Anthem.
BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
I'd be fine just playing it as a localhost and dumb as rocks AI bots. Just give me the choice.
BioWare and EA had previously said the game would be accessible to those who owned it until it shuts down on January 12.
Time flies (like a Javelin suit): there are only 10 days left to play BioWare's ill-fated multiplayer game Anthem before the servers are switched off, presumably forever.
In my opinion, Anthem was a good IP that was worthy of a no man's sky or cyberpunk 2077 treatment.
To this day, their sub reddit is active and I was able to get into a game quickly a few weeks ago when I booted it up.
It is a shame EA and Bioware didn't want to give the game the overhaul it needed to turn it into a competent looter shooter.
I wholeheartedly agree. If ANY game deserved to get the rework/relaunch it deserved it was this one. More than literally any other. Even over FFXIV, No Mans Sky etc.
I just finished this up a couple days ago. Although it's a bit repetitive and the story is meh, the game feels great to play. Even if you can only hop on the game for a couple hours before it shuts down, I think it's worth it.
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They can spend billions to buy or get bought but they can’t spend a fraction of that to fix or overhaul a game that could have been truly special, smh.
It all sounds pretty "seen it, played it" before and very much meh to me...
Load time....ugh. During the demo they were AWFUL. Why has this not been addressed?
Games is a 6.4/10
Yea I agree with pretty much most of what people are reporting. The mechanics are fine, the technical issues have mostly been ironed out, but the game just feels very uninspired, cookie cutter and bland.
Which is sad because Bioware used to make some of the most immersive games of all time. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
I shat all over the demo because it was so boring. A buddy of mine convinced me try it. Now that the real game has opened up with all that there is to do and because the story makes sense now, I'm actually liking it. I blew through the 10 hour trial already since Friday. I retract all of my statements previous to this one. The load time is horrendous even on an SSD.