09-12-2020, 10:57 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-54058061
Thor spins his hammer Mjolnir, and smashes a robot from outer space to smithereens.
He's defending planet earth, a job he's been doing for nearly 50 years in comics, on TV and - most notably recently - in films.
But this time, the Thor on screen looks and sounds a bit different. And he'll behave differently depending on who's playing.
Because this isn't the movies. It's a new game featuring the Avengers.
But according to the actor bringing Thor to life for it, this isn't just a poor imitation of the hugely successful Marvel blockbusters.
Looking at the Metacritic reviews for this thing, they're not great: it has a score of 67/100 from critics, and 5.3/10 from users. Interestingly, there are lots of mixed reviews from critics, whereas the user reviews from users are basically a 50/50 split of positive and negative, with relatively few mixed scores (I guess because people with strong opinions about the game are much more likely to submit a review to begin with
).
The positive reviews seem to be a bit of a muddle: some are praising the story (while others are not); some are saying the gameplay is addictive (while others find it repetitive); and overall it raises more questions than answers. However, when I read the negative reviews, there's one word that comes up quite frequently... and that word is 'microtransactions'. A pity, because the concept of this game seems cool
.
So, does anybody have this game - and, if so, what do you think of it?
Thor spins his hammer Mjolnir, and smashes a robot from outer space to smithereens.
He's defending planet earth, a job he's been doing for nearly 50 years in comics, on TV and - most notably recently - in films.
But this time, the Thor on screen looks and sounds a bit different. And he'll behave differently depending on who's playing.
Because this isn't the movies. It's a new game featuring the Avengers.
But according to the actor bringing Thor to life for it, this isn't just a poor imitation of the hugely successful Marvel blockbusters.
Looking at the Metacritic reviews for this thing, they're not great: it has a score of 67/100 from critics, and 5.3/10 from users. Interestingly, there are lots of mixed reviews from critics, whereas the user reviews from users are basically a 50/50 split of positive and negative, with relatively few mixed scores (I guess because people with strong opinions about the game are much more likely to submit a review to begin with
). The positive reviews seem to be a bit of a muddle: some are praising the story (while others are not); some are saying the gameplay is addictive (while others find it repetitive); and overall it raises more questions than answers. However, when I read the negative reviews, there's one word that comes up quite frequently... and that word is 'microtransactions'. A pity, because the concept of this game seems cool
. So, does anybody have this game - and, if so, what do you think of it?
