Anthem Reviews

Anthem is ranked in the 19th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Eurogamer
Top Critic
No Recommendation / Blank
Feb 26, 2019

Beautiful, broken, with flashes of brilliance, Anthem is a disorganised mess in search of a reason to be.

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IGN
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Feb 21, 2019

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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55 / 100
Feb 21, 2019

Anthem's disjointed story, boring loot, repetitive missions, and shallow endgame are all disappointing. At least it's pretty.

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Feb 22, 2019

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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7 / 10.0
Feb 26, 2019

Anthem tries to be too many things, and ends up losing focus in all aspects of the experience

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6 / 10
Feb 22, 2019

BioWare's Anthem has good ideas, but most of those ideas don't end up working well together.

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Unscored
Feb 20, 2019

Anthem trips over itself trying to blend two genres into one

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Mar 1, 2019

BioWare joins the ranks of developers who have learned the hard way how difficult it is to make a good loot game.

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Unscored
Feb 19, 2019

Wait until EA finishes the game, if that ever happens.

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2.5 / 5.0
Mar 11, 2019

Anthem is a game based on a fantastic idea.

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3 / 5 stars
Feb 25, 2019

Bioware's latest sci-fi epic fails to stick the landing in an already crowded loot shooter genre.

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6 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2019
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Unscored
Feb 25, 2019

I want to want to spend more time with it, because there are bits of it I really enjoy. But it needs more than the world map to change a bit, or have seasons, or better social interaction. It needs changes to how it actually works, which is a lot to ask. But the biggest fight I’ve had with Anthem so far is against Anthem.

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6 / 10.0
Feb 26, 2019

Despite some new ideas and a core gameplay loop that does its best to carry the experience, Anthem is ultimately a bit of a disappointment from BioWare

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VideoGamer
Mike Harradence
Top Critic
5 / 10
Mar 1, 2019

Anthem is gorgeous to look at and can be fun in places, but for now it feels decidedly half-baked.

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Paul Tassi
Top Critic
7.3 / 10.0
Mar 4, 2019

Anthem may thrive. Anthem may fail. It has the bones to be something great but I am tired of saying that about so many games in this genre and five years after Destiny 1, I can’t believe we’re here yet again. Get it right the first time, because everyone is losing patience.

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IGN Middle East
Haya Borham
Top Critic
7.5 / 10.0
Mar 3, 2019

Anthem is an entertaining game, but not for a long time because of its refined playing style. Offering stunning graphics with many visual details and a wide world, we encountered several problems. As the Javelins are the focus of the game, Anthem deserves the experience because of them, especially if the game price is less than $ 60.

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5.5 / 10.0
Mar 1, 2019

BioWare's Anthem is as disappointing as it is boring, with the game's biggest fault being that it just gets in the way of its own self.

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7.5 / 10.0
Feb 18, 2019

We prefer to highlight the playable elements that make Anthem fun to play at times. Everything else that surrounds the Bioware game has yet to improve and add more content to mitigate the feeling of repetitiveness, because the history and the world of Bastion has a huge potential that at the date of its release still seems untapped.

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Digital Trends
Top Critic
Jan 25, 2019

Anthem is a blast at times, but its best moments are separated by too much grind and an inconsistent story.

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