Jennifer Taylor: "When it comes to four-player co-op, Turtle Rock Studios know their stuff. From the team that brought us Left for Dead, which we all know is a masterpiece in its genre, we now have Evolve – a four person team with a range of skills hunting down a monster; the fifth player.
But who makes up your hunting squad? Each of the four characters have their own unique abilities, and all must work together to create a harmonious team to rival the giant that is the opposing monster. You have your traditional assault soldier, Markov, who deals the most amount of damage to the monster. He wields a mighty, close-range lightning gun, an assault rifle, and the ability to drop mines which are so helpful within the mobile arena… a huge bubble that traps the monster for a set amount of time, dropped by your trapper member of the team – Griffin. The arena isn’t his only ability – he can also harpoon the monster to slow him down, and lay sound spikes to help you locate your prey."
Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.
From NME: "Evolve: Stage 2 had its multiplayer servers shut down back in 2018, but today players are once again able to matchmake and join peer-to-peer multiplayer games.
Several months ago, peer-to-peer functionality was lost for Evolve Legacy, which was the only way fans of the series could play with friends. Upon a multitude of players reaching out to publisher 2K, the issue was eventually fixed earlier in July. It seems 2K have gone a step further now, and reinstated peer-to-peer and matchmaking functionality for Evolve: Stage 2 after four years."
Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer experience born at the tail-end of the wrong era, in the multiplayer world.
Great idea but poorly executed and destined to fail from the begging. Only thing I’m grateful towards this game is that it’s the one that convinced me to never buy a game blind again.
Shadowrun for the Xbox 360/PC would of been a better example of a great online game that launched At the wrong time.