Top Critic Average
Critics Recommend
Repetitive Gameplay
Boring Loot and Endgame
Dull Narrative
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.
Anthem Launch Trailer
This Is Anthem | Gameplay Series, Part 2: Endgame
This Is Anthem | Gameplay Series, Part 1: Story, Progression, and Customization
Beautiful, broken, with flashes of brilliance, Anthem is a disorganised mess in search of a reason to be.
Anthem's disjointed story, boring loot, repetitive missions, and shallow endgame are all disappointing. At least it's pretty.
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.
Anthem is an excellent Iron Man simulator bogged down with poor mission design set in a fascinating world with a lack-luster story. Coupled with a critical lack of end-game content, this is by far the weakest offering from BioWare. Enjoyment of this game will fully rest on how much you enjoy the combat.
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.
Anthem tries to be too many things, and ends up losing focus in all aspects of the experience
BioWare's Anthem has good ideas, but most of those ideas don't end up working well together.
BioWare joins the ranks of developers who have learned the hard way how difficult it is to make a good loot game.
A producer who has previously worked on the development of Anthem wants to reboot BioWare's controversial multiplayer action role-playing game.
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It's been another hectic week in the world of gaming, with news on E3 2021, the future of BioWare's Anthem, cyberattacks at CD Projekt and more highlighting this week's show.
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BioWare's much-rumored Anthem overhaul is real and it starts now, the studio revealed in a lengthy blog post.
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Reports have surfaced stating that developer BioWare is looking to reboot Anthem
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