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Evolve Review - Polygon

Evolve occasionally brushes against a real breakthrough for Turtle Rock, with its distinctive take on a different kind of multiplayer shooter.

equal_youth3389d ago

I am still fighting with myself over buying it or just let it be.

Stapleface3389d ago

Do you not have a way to rent games? IDK what I would do without Gamefly. Every gamer should have access to a service like that.

Bansai3389d ago

don't buy this DLC fest

ABizzel13389d ago

My advice rent it, or buy it later.

We can't let developers and publishers keep pushing the boundaries on how they can nickel and dime more money out of gamers each year. On top of that their prior games (L4D) always dropped down to $40 literally a couple weeks after launch.

higgins783389d ago

Not me. In a gen crowded with multi-player shooters, this doesn't (by most accounts) sounds nearly brilliant or different enough to warrant much attention. Solid, slight variation, but so are SO many others in a crowded fps market.

antz11043389d ago

Wow, they really didn't make the gameplay seem appealing, yet they scored it an 8? How does that add up?

HammadTheBeast3389d ago (Edited 3389d ago )

Just wait until their BS $60 day one DLC goes down to some complete edition in a few months.

All I'm saying to potential buyers is, you'd better save up now because, as the DEVS THEMSELVES have said, this game is DLC city. They decribed it as "modular" so that they could potentially have DLC for new monsters, classes, maps, etc, and going by current pricing, damn this is gonna hurt the wallet.

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WizzroSupreme3389d ago

Looks fantastic to me. Might want to rent this asap.

daBUSHwhaka3389d ago

Loving it.Missed the BETA so was a little bit sceptical but i really am having fun with it.

Ricegum3389d ago

Polygon review scores are trash.

higgins783389d ago

This is another reason Eurogamer have done what is right...do away with 'scores' completely and avoid unnecessary trolling.

HammadTheBeast3389d ago

They have a history of being criticized on N4G because of some click-bait-worthy reviews, and questionable origins (got started by a $300 000 paycheck from MS).

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Evolve or Die: The final days of the follow-up to Left 4 Dead

Back in 2016, Turtle Rock announced that support for its 4v1 monster-hunting shooter Evolve would end but fans wouldn't let it die.

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‘Evolve: Stage 2’ is back from the dead as peer-to-peer servers come back online

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."

MIDGETonSTILTS17664d ago

^^this, I have so many awesome skins on Xbox that I’d rather not lose

Germaximus664d ago

Yes so far because it's just the servers alone coming on and the console version never had the free-to-play update.

I imagine if they find people playing the PC version and enough players are enjoying it then they'd probably reconsider opening console as well but I wouldn't count on it.

The game was epic as a monster. Hunters were really boring to play as to me.

LordoftheCritics664d ago

I used to play this a bit.

Was kinda fun.

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Evolve or Die

Evolve is an asymmetrical multiplayer experience born at the tail-end of the wrong era, in the multiplayer world.

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Highrevz1133d ago

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.

Livingthedream1133d ago

Shadow Run was fantastic! Would probably do alot better now.

DaveZero1133d ago

Is this a new evolve game??