Matija Mandic wrote: "As if we didn’t have enough sub-par free online first-person shooters with graphics that date to early 2000′s and greatly award inexplicably overly-obsessed 24/7 players that are willing to invest all the real cash they stole from their mom’s wallet (which she may or may not be using to fund the existence of her son that lives in her basement for 20 years), now we have a take on the genre by Zombie Studios, people responsible for the unplayable mess that was Blacklight: Tango Down, and published by Perfect World Entertainment, people who are way more skilled than EA in the terms of milking money, so much that no one even cares about them. If you actually bothered to read that sentence, Blacklight is not actually a bad game, go figure. In fact, it’s one of the best online FPS games I have ever played, at least in the terms of being fair towards non-playing players. And yeah, the gameplay is good too, but we’ll get to that later, no one cares about the gameplay anyway. What do you mean, “people actually do want to hear about the gameplay”? This aren’t the nineties, pretty graphics and the business model are the only things people want to see in a game now! And explosions, things exploding everywhere! WOOOO!"
Blacklight Retribution PS4 operations will continue without official support but the game's PC version has been shut down.
Shut the servers down but let people host their own and keep these games active for those who want to play. Its bullshit when they kill a game completely when they could easy patch it for hosting / creating online content
Hardsuit Labs has mentioned that the Blacklight Retribution servers are shutting down on March 11 for PC, though PS4 version will continue as is. All items in the PC store are now free.
Remember playing this when I first got a ps4. Never good news to see games shut down I guess one day online only games can bite the dust
This is why buying into these sort of games are a bad idea.
That's like saying buying cod at 60 is bad..cause you know a new version is coming and you won't play last years
Not even slightly the same. I can still play Modern Warfare 2 because, guess what, it still works online AND it has offline modes. This applies to I think every Call of Duty game.
With Blacklight, everything you've ever purchased is gone forever after the servers are gone, and you can never play the game again.
Is there no other f2p games.....Apex legends just came out..play the new version
See this is why online mp only games effing sucks and definitely will never support them. ;)
Depending how much of a cult following it has, it could be revived by some mod team in the distant future. Similar cases have happened with games like 2142 and Star Wars Galaxies.
Blacklight Retribution review with screenshots and videos.
I got this game when it was released on steam, and I think your review is pretty much spot on.
For free to play, it's great, you can jump in and have some fun. I'd say while it's more generic (crysis multiplayer) than Tribes Ascend however the gameplay is spot on and it's great to play all round.
plus its not Pay2win..which is probably the best thing in a f2p fps