ANTHEM's Full E3 2018 Gameplay Demo Does Massive Damage

That's a good comparison, i hadn't thought about it but yeah it does resemble the Acti Transformers games, i absolutely loved them, Anthem is like a mix of them and Dark Void, which on paper sounds awesome but something just isn't grabbing people's attention about it like you'd expect, it just all looks a bit....mundane.

Hopefully the full game will be good, it's really hard to tell at this point.

Already got gravity rush 2 for my "flying in the game" fix

The more I see of Anthem, the more I like. The Facial animations are certainly a LOT better and we still have ~8 months before launch. I love the look of the world, all the wildlife and the Javelin adds a lot to the movement and verticality too - the scale of the world looks so much better than games like the Division and Destiny which seem very 'flat' by comparison - especially the Division. Gun-play seems solid too and at least you can understand a 'giant Spider thing' having a LOT of health compared to a 'human' that can take 'explosions' and many bullets to the head (Division).

I can see myself spending a LOT of time in this world, exploring and admiring the landscapes and unusual wildlife that inhabits it. Looks like it will be a lot of fun with friends too. February 22nd is going to be very expensive!

Not my sort of game from what I have seen but if the story is strong and reviews good, I have nothing against it.

Im gonna be the odd ball here and say im looking forward to this.

This seems like one of those games that I'll ignore until I pick it up in a sale for under a tenner and end up enjoying it. I've done that a lot lately.

Looks quite good. Reminds me of Destiny and a bit of The division with a hint of Mass Effect. Lets just hope they make it a good one with no loot box's that cost lots of money.

It looks amazing.do your thing bioware.word up son

what happened at bioware? the cutscene at the start is just tragic, and the in-game dialogue throughout is just bad.. almost destiny bad. the visuals are pretty impressive, but since it's made with frostbite, you'd expect that.. movement looks terribly clunky to me. still has that feel to me that it's been designed by bulletpoints, as if the blueprint was just to mash up several other games and see what came out.

I made it to 4 minutes before I got bored and came back to post this comment. I'll pass.

I don't know what it is, given that they're from different developers, but every character in every EA game looks like a waxwork - FIFA, Battlefield, and now this. They all need to really improve their skin texturing.

Hmm..."gods" who left the world but left some "mysterious" technology behind, relentless invaders who crave that "ancient power", an AI partner who tells you what to do...sounds familiar?

Looks awesome, can't wait for it!

It’s certainly beautiful to behold, and I like the sci-fi genre. I know Anthem will be always online but it can be tackled as single player, so this may be a purchase for me 🤔

@jacobia I understand that the always-online part is because the game world supposedly changes intermittently (by "The Shapers"), which is fine by me. Like you, I'm also planning on playing it solo (hard enough for me to convince friends to buy it, let alone on the same platform, and let alone play together for more than a handful of hours per week)...that is, if I end up playing it at all (probably gonna do the paid trail on PC first).

I just hope you can block yourself off from other players so it's less like an MMO. I'd rather not have people constantly running by and gesturing, or look back at a hard-fought battle I just won only to see that the enemies have all respawned, ready for the next group of players to come by!

@Lurker There is no AI partner.

I loved the gameplay of Destiny but the lack of content and meh story kept me from coming back. If ANTHEM can have fun combat with an improved story and more content I'm all in.

so basically your never ever ever going to see or run into other players out in the world completing their own quests etc .. when are we going to get a shared world shooter like ESO with something like a megaserver

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there is a free play mode where you can meet people

still looks fun i guess, but atm im placing my bets of DIV2 for 2019's shared MP hit

Sammy is such a gaming hipster

Its crazy how much negativity there is for Anthem on this page.

I feel like I am the only one who loved the above video, although I would have rather seen Ranger/Storm gameplay with more mobility. Colossus is obviously just simply slow and stationary.

Looking forward to it. I get the feeling that EA has learnt from it mistakes (however temporarily) with its monetisation model. With their financial grunt and Bioware's pretty good track record I am hoping for something special. Agree the theme is played out a little, but the gameplay looks quite neat.

From all reports, the structure is much more 'Monster Hunter' than Destiny/Division. There is no 'social' space as such and the 'tower' is a Single Player part - where you pick up missions, customise your load out etc. Going out into the world seems like it will be 'Solo' unless you invite or match-make others but some things are going to be very tough or even impossible to do Solo. The Stronghold mission we see here is a 4-player mission - seems a bit like the 'strikes'. Basically you’ll follow the story of the game through single-player interactions in Fort Tarsis and on your Strider, then play and roam with a team in the shared world outside.

The always online aspect ties in with the story and allows the devs to 'reshape' the world, open up new areas, the same day/night cycle, events etc all on dedicated servers too - at least that's what the are saying...

I guess if you don't like 3rd Person Sci-fi shooters where you are almost 'Iron Man' and not limited to 'ground' level, then maybe it is not for you. It may have 'similarities' to games like Destiny, Division or Monster Hunter but I haven't seen many games that have that movement to get around the world, that freedom.

All reports say that it plays well and that the mechanics are great - whether its the seemless transition into flying and the flying mechanic, to the combat. Story is obviously difficult to assess and we probably won't find out how good/bad that is until its reviewed and in peoples hands, don't know how well it will develop and grow until months, maybe even years later, how much value it offers until EA/Bioware move on from it - after all any post-launch game-play content will be free and the world is expected to change, evolve etc over-time...

The game could well turn out great but EA seem to have little idea how to show it off best. Every video I've watched on it is just plain boring and I find it laughable it received the best action game award when for the most part they just appear to glide past battles or down very pretty corridors doing absolutely nothing.

I can't say it's one I'm looking forward to but maybe it'll surprise me further down the line

Looks good. I'm not anticipating it like the second coming or anything like that but I guess it'll turn out pretty good. All the online/multiplayer stuff is still a pain in the butt but it's not up to me how people in general like their games. Some day proper single player campaigns will probably be extinct but right now there are still games where I don't have to listen to some awkward teenager calling my wife a prostitute.