Just a personal opinion on the Evolve alpha, listing the good things, bad things, and the massive amount of content that Turtle Rock gives us!
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.
Images of a toilet come to mind.
Going to try again this morning. Played two games yesterday, one as hunter one as monster and both were over in 2-3 minutes. I was hoping for a more epic experience, so will try a few more games in search of that.
It's well made.
The only thing that could let this down is the actual concept.
I tried two matches. I had absolutely no idea what to do. There was a giant dome around us the first match. I couldn't figure out how to find the monster. Second match I played as a monster. I could only hit even though I thought you could throw rocks and breath fire. It ended when a dome appeared that trapped me between the edge of a cliff an the dome and I couldn't move. I was really looking forward to this game but not anymore.
I think the only thing that could hold this back is if you get someone playing the monster that is not very good and just dies too fast.
Here is a cool 60fps video showing a game that lasts about 10 mins, although they do spend a lot of time running around looking for it...
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