Stevivor - "And this is why I’m in two minds about Evolve.
"For what little it offers in terms of variety, Evolve is damn good… under the right circumstances. Four other friends. A stable internet connection. The stars aligning so that Xbox One’s Party chat works without stuffing around. If some of those conditions are not met – especially in single-player – the game becomes repetitive and shallow, quite quickly."
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."
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.
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.
About what I expected with this game. Gamefly it is.
I have to say after playing the beta I totally went off this game. It just didn't do it for me.
They should've struck a deal with Valve and just made another Left 4 Dead. This game looks very "shallow" as the author put it.