Let’s Play Evolve Big Alpha – Goliath Monster Gameplay Near Win

EB's Matt Heywood writes, "This particular video showcases a match where I played the Goliath monster against four other humans. I started out strong, using my knowledge of the game from PAX to eat animal life and evolve the monster, and I thought I had the humans in my clutches, but alas, they banded together and took me down with only a few millimeters of power cell health to spare."

[HAMM3RofBUDDHA]

Really digging playing as the monster over the humans.

[FrogSpork]

The monster looks so bad ass, I can see Evolve being MASSIVE.

[Kingdomcome247]

I'm really enjoying the alpha. It's been really balanced thus far.

[gangsta_red]

As much as this game looks cool, I really wish we would have gotten a new L4D instead.

[Feralkitsune]

Just so you know, this isnt a valve game....

[LAWSON72]

Just so you know these devs made L4D

[Feralkitsune]

But they dont work for Valve anymore so how would they make a new L4D? So these guys working on their own has nothing to do with a L4D agt all. For all we know, L4D 3 is in dev already.

[Plagasx]

Don't worry, L4D 3 will come as soon as HL3 does :)

[Cobberwebb]

The only thing bothering me about this game is, I hope there is enough content. Just how many modes can you possibly have with the 4 v 1 model? Don't get me wrong, I want it to be great, I want to play it (and will be on the 31st), but it might get boring fast. Please prove me wrong.

[Ashunderfire86]

I am playing it on the X1 right now, and I wonder the same too. Its a good game, but I hope they add more monsters and more levels to justify $60 bucks. Right now I will give it a rental to be on the safe side, they just need to example if we are getting even more content on release day.

[Draven1234]

I think the games great too, but albeit somewhat repetitive, constantly just running around trying to find and kill the monster however, I'm sure there will be more variety come launch. I think it's a game that is very much rinse and repeat so, the replay value'll be fun and endless; It's a game I can see somebody enjoying for a couple weeks then maybe get bored, but then be able to sink their teeth right in a few days after.

[matt139]

This game is so bad. It's an incredibly tedious experience to say the least...

[feedthereaper]

The game is great as it is with the variety.... but there are a few issues with it.
Firstly.... I dunno about anyone else but getting a stable game is a nightmare. I know its an Alpha so I can forgive any bugs and problems with the game itself, but the basics of having a stable connection with the game without it stumbling to start or dropping out is paramount. Its like saying "Here is a brand new car, there may be rough edges and a few tweaks needed but give it a try!" and then having flat tyres and a broken engine!
The fact is that multiplayer gaming has been around for far beyond a decade now, they are working with console experts and they can't get a game to connect and stay stable enough to run for longer than a few minutes half the time. Bugs and glitches can be fixed but to base a multiplayer only game on a platform that is so unstable the Alpha can't even cope, makes me wonder if they spent too long on the map sizes and features and forgot to give it a reliable base to play it.

Secondly, the variety of characters are great but there needs to be lots of characters to choose, because once this goes Gold and people play it in their ten's of thousands at a time, is it going to be a scramble for the 2 best characters and the monster every time? Is it going to be a frustrating and disappointing experience when you fail to get to be the Monster for the 10th game in a row? What if you enjoy being the Support character but someone else keeps beating you to it for 5 games in a row.
With L4D the only difference in characters was cosmetic, the gameplay was identical whoever you played as, but this game has each character having different abilities and weapons and play styles and not everyone will enjoy all of the characters. What happens for the player that gets lumbered with a Medic they hate for 2 games, do they keep playing and make the most of it, or do they drop out or worse, turn off the game and move on to the next game like Call Of Duty. Its one thing to balance the game, but its another to balance the enjoyment of all players so they get to be what they want to be as much as possible. THAT is something they are going to struggle with.

The game itself, what limited amount I have sampled, is pretty good and one of those games that will come into its own the more you play it and the more you learn new strategies and techniques and I think they have done a great job of the actual gameplay. But please. please please extend the Alpha until the connecting to games is robust enough that it works at putting you into a game 95% of the time, otherwise the results of the Alpha are just going to be frustratingly pointless.