However, EA have flat out said the demo economy was re-balanced for the demo, so we have no idea on the speed of progression or how bad the grind will be to unlock things. The only microtransactions on show are for cosmetics to customize your character. Unlike Battlefront 2, there is nothing in this demo that sets off any alarm bells. Their track-record with outright abusive microtransactions speaks for itself. Lastly, let’s address the one thing that has been a hot topic, microtransactions. You can’t talk about an EA game these days without this specter rising up from the abyss, and with good reason. I mean really, I can’t just customize to Medium or High? The Elephant in the Room For example, the custom graphic settings being past Ultra, so everything is set to Ultra by default. There is also quite a lot of problems when it comes to the the menus, especially in the settings area. This is the one thing from the demo that I believe they really need to fix, and fast. The mouse acceleration I found completely absurd, which doesn’t do the flight controls any favors. No really, the flight experience was so miserable I almost uninstalled the game right then and there. Would you believe I can’t click on any of those sliders? Well I can’t.įlight controls with mouse and keyboard on PC sucks, fix it. The game did not like this, it used what I felt was a rather dirty UI trick on me, trying to force me with other people, asking me to press Enter to “Set to Public”, and Esc to “Keep as Private”. I understand this is not a single player game focusing more on multiplayer, but for the first mission I didn’t want to play with other people because I wanted to get a feel for the controls. It also irked me greatly about how pushy the game was about playing with other people. There wasn’t a real variation when it came to the experience. Go press F over here, now go press F over that, OK great that’s done now defend this point for a second. It seemed very samey in terms of gameplay. That’s not keeping it public, that’s changing it to public! And ESC to keep my original setting? Not cool. For now though, a quick highlight reel of what really stood out in this demo. When I go to do a full review on Anthem I have no doubt most of my issues will still be fresh in my mind for me to wax poetic on. It was a good start in terms of storyline and has got me more interested in the world that was before the demo, I really look forward to learning more and getting a more of an in-depth backstory. ![]() The scripting was good, voice acting played well with the narrative, and no tired faces when it came to character visuals. I did like what little story that I was able to experience. That being said, the mission design that you got to test was at best….OK I guess? Really? Defend the point while you decrypt something? I did have some crazy graphical glitches that made things hard to deal with on occasion but nothing game-breaking.Ĭombat is frantic as you are constantly on the move, constantly firing off abilities, reloading, dodging, jumping, oh *bleep* my shields are down quick hide behind the rock, you just never stop. Oh hey that’s a nice looking cliff The Goodįor the most part I had fun, especially after I adjusted to the high-movement nature of the game play. So what exactly can we gain from this peek into Anthem? Let’s get into the good, the bad and the plain ugly of this Anthem Demo. While I wouldn’t call Anthem a highly anticipated title, there are a lot of eyeballs on this one, with many holding the view that this is BioWare’s last chance, given the history EA has with companies that under-perform. To prepare for it’s release, EA launched an Anthem VIP demo for pre-orders and Origin Access. Scheduled to come out at the end of February, this is the game the main BioWare team has been working on for the last few years. Any link that goes outside of Fextralife are owned by their respective authors. The following post is this author’s opinion and does not reflect the thoughts and feelings of Fextralife as a whole nor the individual content creators associated with the site. Pillars of Eternity 2 Guides Pillars of Eternity 2 Guides. ![]()
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