Player 2 continues their deep dive into Bioware's latest with a report on the first 25 hours of gameplay.
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.
Am 2.5 hours and think I have seen all the variety it has to offer already.
He summarizes by saying he's enjoying his time playing the game so far though it can stand to use improvements while adding more to the gameplay. I'm a few hours in & I've been enjoying it so far.
I have played over 30 hours. I am taking the time to listen to characters (like you would in mass effect), reading emails (like you would in mass effect), and finding items for more information.
Where the game hurts is how fractured the gameplay and majority of the story are. Mass Effect and Dragon Age wove story into action beautifully. We lose that at the expense of multiplayer most likely.
The 10 hr trial had people mashing through the story, and rushing to get into the gameplay. Which could be why some people are confused.
The shame of the story is that the first 12-16 hours are boring, after that it gets interesting.
Is it perfect? No. It has been a pleasure to play though. For me: it’s currentky a 7/10 because I expect more from a BioWare story. The March story update Needs to deliver.