Recent reviews by piper318

If there is only one thing you get out of this review, it is that this game is a complete rip-off for $60. The sad thing is that this game could have been such a success and such an excellent game; but unfortunately, Ubisoft screwed it up. When you first play the game, it is very fun and entertaining. The graphics are great, has an interesting combat system, lots of customization, and so on. However, after a week or so of playing you will start to notice that this game has more issues than your crazy ex-girlfriend. What are these issues you ask? Well, lets list them:

1). The characters, combat system, and general gameplay is horribly bugged and broken. The combat system, although an excellent concept and is fun when it works or is not abused, was implemented terribly by ubisoft. Again, the sad thing is, if done properly, this game could have been a gem. The Combat system is bugged and things such as blocking does not work half the time. It is too common for strikes not to register as well. Your characters "unblockable" attacks are able to be blocked by those who are able to abuse the bugs while other characters normal attacks seem to be unblockable while they are being spammed. It is bugs like this that make the game extremely frustrating.

2). Another major issue is that the characters are horribly unbalanced. Mix Over-Powered characters with a buggy combat system and you now have a game that is based on who can abuse their characters exploits and general exploits of the game most. Many characters have combos that are virtually unblockable, and can be spammed to eternity. The only real way to combat this is to learn the exploits of your character and abuse them. In essence you have to fight BS with BS and unfortunately, some characters have more BS than others.

3). The match-making system in this game is atrocious. Honsetly, whoever designed For Honor's match making needs to be publicly executed. When you get into a match there is a 50% chance you are going to be thrown into a game already in progress and typically it is just a massacre. If you happen to get into a new game, there is high probability that you will get kicked from the game for some stupid "error" or "anti-cheat error". While playing a match, the game is constantly being paused to (which always seems to happen in a duel that you are winning). These server issues are extremely obnoxious. Also, match-making balancing is virtually non-existent. It is rare that you get into a game that the 2 teams are evenly balanced. There always seems to be a stacked team.

4). Revenge: A mode your character can enter in when you take enough damage and/or block enough attacks. Revenge gives you a health boost, damage boost, and defense boost. This is complete BS. It is very aggravating when you get your oppenent down to a sliver of health and then all of a sudden they go into revenge mode and seem to go into a PCP induced rage giving a huge health boost, and doubles their damage and defense. There is virtually nothing you can do about it. Worst of all, it is stackable. It also seems like with some characters if you so even look in their general direction they get this mode.

5). If you are wondering about the solo campaign, here is a quick overview. It is entertaining and graphic (which is very nice) however, the story really makes no sense, and is VERY corny. Also, you can literally be disconnected from a solo campaign game for server issues (seriously)?

6) Want to know what should never be in a $60+ game? MICROTRANSACTIONS. You pay $60 for a game and the first thing that comes up when you start the game is a sales pitch for you to buy in-game currency or a ridiculous "season pass" which costs $30 or $40. The season pass allows you to play brand new characters (which are absurdly OP) and will also allow you to skip the "grind" of leveling up characters and gaining new equipment. Paying an intial $60 and buying a $30 season pass and/or other microtransactions puts you close to $100 in the hole for a broken game. It's nothing short of a scam.

7). The worst problem this game has is the refusal of Ubisoft to fix these obvious issues with their game. These issues have been around since the game first released and they have yet to fix them as we are approaching a year since its release. With all these issues that this game has, you would think that they would work to fix them. Instead, they would rather create new characters that are absurdly OP that you can only gain access to after purchasing a $30 season pass. Funny how that works huh? Create a few new Obviously OP characters to entice you to spend more money in the store, and if you don't buy this pass to have access to these characters, you are at a major disadvantage. This is BS.

I wish I could recommend this game, but unfortunately it is not nearly worth the $60 price tag. It's not even worth half that price in its broken state. If they have not fixed these issues as of yet, then I doubt that they will ever fix them in the future.

Do yourselves a favor and spend your hard earned money elsewhere.


UPDATE: *** Re-installed this game for sh!ts and giggles and to see if anything had changed. NOPE! They've added more new OP characters so people will buy their $30 season pass, they "updated" revenge so now it is even worse than before, fighting mechanics are still broken and able to be abused, etc... etc.... it would make a descent FREE game.

Great game where you can have much fun with multiple different gamemodes. Some pretty friendly folk though, of course, some not-so-friendly. But none-the-less that does not stop you from having a good bit of fun in Team Fortress 2. Give it a try if you havn't already!