A Capcom game where you travel back in time in a mech suit to fight dinosaurs who are traveling forwards in time so an evil AI can harvest their blood and use it to power rich people's houses.
It's a stupid, wacky, over-the-top amazingly fun time. I don't often like multiplayer games, and I especially don't often like hero shooters. Capcom manages to avoids the many many pitfalls of games of this ilk by prioritizing fun over everything else. Microtransactions are there, but they are inobtrusive and wholly unnecessary. Most importantly, every single suit - every Assault, every Tank, and every Support - is fun as hell to play. They all feel unique and satisfying as hell, both in PvP and PvE. Most brilliantly of all, it's quick and easy to swap suits mid-match to fit the current scenario, and there's no better feeling than realizing how to handle a tricky encounter, swapping over, and leveling the playing field.
It took me 60 matches and 25 hours on the dot to finish Exoprimal's campaign. I played a few hours with friends who were behind me, without that I would've finished in closer to 50 matches and 20 hours probably. But I didn't mind a single one of them. After a slow early game the variety spiked tenfold, and the vast majority of matches I played were unique and had really fun arrangements of enemies and hazards. Very rarely was I not having a good time.
To top it all off, Exoprimal has a few 10 player cooperative Raids. These Raids are the most fun I've had with a video game all year, full stop. They are chaotic, they are difficult, and they are incredibly cool. Every system sings beautifully in these moments, and they always feel special when they come up.
There's been a lot of shit slung around this game, and it's not hard to see why. From a distance it looks like the kind of awful, soulless market drivel that the Capcom that made Resident Evil 6 would put out in hopes of earning the Call of Duty audience or something. But play the game, stick with it, and you've got the most fun and rewarding multiplayer game since the initial launch version of Overwatch. It's well worth your time, and with it being on Gamepass you've got nothing to lose.
Strongest 4/5 game I've played in years.
It's a stupid, wacky, over-the-top amazingly fun time. I don't often like multiplayer games, and I especially don't often like hero shooters. Capcom manages to avoids the many many pitfalls of games of this ilk by prioritizing fun over everything else. Microtransactions are there, but they are inobtrusive and wholly unnecessary. Most importantly, every single suit - every Assault, every Tank, and every Support - is fun as hell to play. They all feel unique and satisfying as hell, both in PvP and PvE. Most brilliantly of all, it's quick and easy to swap suits mid-match to fit the current scenario, and there's no better feeling than realizing how to handle a tricky encounter, swapping over, and leveling the playing field.
It took me 60 matches and 25 hours on the dot to finish Exoprimal's campaign. I played a few hours with friends who were behind me, without that I would've finished in closer to 50 matches and 20 hours probably. But I didn't mind a single one of them. After a slow early game the variety spiked tenfold, and the vast majority of matches I played were unique and had really fun arrangements of enemies and hazards. Very rarely was I not having a good time.
To top it all off, Exoprimal has a few 10 player cooperative Raids. These Raids are the most fun I've had with a video game all year, full stop. They are chaotic, they are difficult, and they are incredibly cool. Every system sings beautifully in these moments, and they always feel special when they come up.
There's been a lot of shit slung around this game, and it's not hard to see why. From a distance it looks like the kind of awful, soulless market drivel that the Capcom that made Resident Evil 6 would put out in hopes of earning the Call of Duty audience or something. But play the game, stick with it, and you've got the most fun and rewarding multiplayer game since the initial launch version of Overwatch. It's well worth your time, and with it being on Gamepass you've got nothing to lose.
Strongest 4/5 game I've played in years.