Welcome to the Arcade. While the game has satisfying horseback riding and shooting (that feels clunky sometimes due to the endless lag spikes from games), Highguard has made a disappointing choice to lock this game as a 3v3 with only 8 heroes. The game needed more time to take into consideration that the open world is huge to explore, with limited things to do other than mining, opening chests, and looking for Excalibur sword; it falls short in the “hype” that Geoff praised this as the never-before-seen next-generation game that will top everything else in the market in his game awards of 2025. I tried to like this game, some of the characters looked cool compared to Concord. Although I forgot their names since the game didn’t offer any lore or care for the story you are put into.
Just destroy a base and win, and another generic hero shooter…great? However, even for its free price, the world felt so empty and soulless, with no characters interacting with each other to give any meaning and not even any music to bring in any emotion or triumph to win compared to the masterpiece I just finished last week, which I highly recommend and you probably already know the name, Expedition 33.
This game needs to be put back in the oven for another year and think about what redefining a genre we are so used to that is over-bloated at this point, it’s not even a joke. Redefining makes your game the next big title that sets the standards for how your game innovated many to follow as inspiration, such as jumping from FF7 to Expedition 33, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) to MW (2019), Mega Man to Hollow Knight, and Onimusha: Warlords and Tenchu: Stealth Assassins to Ghost of Tsushima. For Highguard, their only motivation seems to be Concord’s failure, and that’s a lack of understanding of what the players moved on to while the devs think it’s 2016, the age of hero shooters.
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