Anthem
Anthem Reviews Summary
Summary: Flying in Anthem's beautiful world is an exhilarating experience. Unfortunately, that's about all there is to it. Between repetitive gameplay, unsatisfying endgame, and a dull narrative, Anthem fails to deliver what "looter shooter" fans have come to expect.
Rating Summary
Based on 151 critic reviews
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Beautiful, broken, with flashes of brilliance, Anthem is a disorganised mess in search of a reason to be.
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Anthem has energetic combat but it saves too much of what precious little content it has for the endgame, making playing through its mismatched story a tediously repetitive grind.
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Anthem's disjointed story, boring loot, repetitive missions, and shallow endgame are all disappointing. At least it's pretty.
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Anthem is ultimately severely flawed, and very unfinished. There's half a good game in there, but it doesn't do enough to diminish the overall feeling of emptiness and repetition.
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There are flashes of brilliance, especially when it comes to the flying, but confused storytelling, boring loot, and unsatisfying missions don't justify the game's massive time investment.
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Anthem tries to be too many things, and ends up losing focus in all aspects of the experience
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BioWare's Anthem has good ideas, but most of those ideas don't end up working well together.
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Anthem trips over itself trying to blend two genres into one
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BioWare joins the ranks of developers who have learned the hard way how difficult it is to make a good loot game.
