Played the demo, wasnt awful and I thought this could be fine and kept my pre order. Little did I know that that was all there was to the game. Go here, shoot that, go there, shoot this. Which you can kinda say about a lot of games, but this is one is just so bland. The javlins are fun at first, but theres no real progression with them, just numbers go up. The story and characters are all shit. Theres no way to pretty it up, its all nonsense. Then you get to the end and you get a feckton of foreshadowing about a new enemy on the horizon for when you will no doubt get hit with a lot of dlc nonsense. I have EA premier and so got to play the game from the vault, and I very quickly cancelled my xbox pre order. Its just so meh.
I also found myself saying "that looks a lot like..." far too much. The evil dude has more than a passing resemblance to shredder of ninja turtle fame. The little loading icon looks like it was lifted and modified from the division. A type of enemy is called a "scar destroyer". The obvious iron man look of the starter javlin. Just so many little things.
@One Night Only Yes, the end game is just redo everything you already did but set up a little different in some cases. Theres a check list of things to redo to get some title of legend or something. Not a great reason to play the same boring missions over and over again and against more and more annoying bullet sponges. Think destiny, but worse. And I thought destiny got a lot of things wrong, anthem makes destiny look like a masterpiece.
Bring on the division 2, anthem can suck it. Wont ever be going back to that pos.