PS4, Xbox One, PC / stuff.tv/Anthem
You may have seen the term ‘designed by committee’ thrown at any number of Games as a Service (GaaS) offerings before. They tend to enrage and enthral gamers in equal measure… and never has the term so perfectly applied to a single title.
In its desperate bid to be all things to all people, magpie-ing ideas, mechanics and systems from a plethora of games, Anthem is a beautiful but empty thing. That doesn’t mean it’s terrible or even dull to play – connection wobbles aside, it offers a satisfying story with a couple of fantastic twists – but it seems to go out of its way to hide that story from you, tucking intriguing notes and flavour-text away on a distant sub-menu.