Anthem review

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by Kane Smith

The epitome of wasted potential.

Boring

I had the 10 hours on EA access so I thought I’d give it a shot because honestly it looked so cool. Visually this game looks great, you can’t knock it for the graphics or art design. Flying around and shooting enemies was pretty fun for the first 3 hours or so... But that joy wears off pretty quick and you start to see how boring the quest structure is. Also a ton of quality of life things in this game. It takes too long to make changes to your class and to get from one mission to another. Too many load screens. Overall by hour 5 or 6 I was done with it. I thought there was no way I wouldn’t at least finish the 10 hour trial, but I didn’t.

Final Score: B

After nearly a year since the premiere, I think this is a fun game to play for a while. It has some nice mechanics, flying is awesome, the soundtrack is beautiful and has some great ideas, and the game can be fun. It's definitely not going to kill Destiny and it has flaws - it's a 6/10 in my opinion. 

Needs to fix a bunch of things before attempt to be a really good game.