2. Evolve
I compared the recent Rainbow Six Siege quite unfavourably to Evolve in that it’s a gimmick of a game that quickly becomes very tiresome. You’re tasked with either playing as a monster or hunter in deceivingly small arenas and must kill the other, and that’s about it. After about the fifth round of inconsistent online matches, it becomes obvious that there is just not that much to it other than being a skeleton of a game that needs to be dressed up with DLC to unlock its full value; a quite frankly fucking irritating trend from this year.
There’s no solo campaign to speak of, meaning you’re going to have to find some capable teammates if you’re going to want to survive online. There’s no real sense of progression or purpose to anything in Evolve, disappointing considering it looked like an interesting proposition in early previews. Players have moved on to bigger and better games from this year and you can hardly blame them.
1. Star Wars Battlefront
Undoubtedly the biggest disappointment in gaming from 2015, Star Wars Battlefront capitalised on nostalgia to become something that isn’t even a shadow of its predecessors and more of a glorified excuse to shill season passes to fanboys. Being a Star Wars fanboy myself, expectations were high for this game, but they were quickly tempered when I realised just how hollow, backwards and cash-grabbing it actually turned out to be.
It’s not hard to pinpoint exactly where the series lost the spirit that made its two prequels so loved: EA’s obsession with fleecing customers for as much as they can. The “base” game lacks variety and any kind of charm, coming across as a watered down version of every shooter you have played and quickly forgotten in the past ten years. If you look past the sumptuous visuals and authentic score, Battlefront has almost nothing. Collecting tokens to use vehicles and special characters, modes clearly being more fleshed out than others and a sense of corporate greed permeating throughout the whole experience as you’re touted DLC at every possible opportunity makes this year’s Battlefront the perfect example of how AAA gaming has lost its way since Battlefront II was released ten years ago.
I would usually suggest picking up disappointing games when they’re at a lower price, but don’t bother with this one. It isn’t worth your time or your money.
*#fuckonami
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