It was a moral dilemma Evolve was one of my most anticipated games in recent memory, but it was also one that had adopted the kind of money-grubbing tactics that I did not want to advocate.
One character is worth more than a quarter of the entire game’s asking price? Turtle Rock and 2K were doing an awful job at attempting to pull the wool over our eyes, and they were rightly called out for attempting to do so by both the media and gamers alike.ĭespite my naysaying, though, I decided to lock my self-respect away for an afternoon and pick up a copy of Evolve, despite acknowledging that, in any other scenario, this was entirely the kind of game I didn’t want to show my active support for.
Then there was the issue of downloadable content, with Turtle Rock going out on record to state that they valued an individual monster character as being worth $14.99 and a Hunter at $7.49, a ludicrous claim that has no basis in reality. While this doesn’t exactly present a balancing issue given that the characters aren’t tiered, it does mean that the game was handed to these players more-or-less already completed. Those who pre-ordered the game would get the “bonus” of having every character and monster immediately unlocked right out of the starting gate. The amount of bundles announced for the game was, and still is, an irritating indicator of how the industry, namely publishers, shamelessly search through every nook and cranny of game to see which aspects they can wring more money out of, and given Evolve‘s emphasis upon multiplayer gameplay it proved to be too much of an easy task for them to do just that.
#I CANT PRUCHASE LEFT 4 DEAD BUNDLE AS A GIFT SKIN#
The announced DLC for the game prior to its release was in heavy abundance, with various different content packages, skin packs, monster packs and hunter packs all combining together to form a confusing, ludicrously expensive mess that proved off-putting to even the game’s staunchest of supporters, i.e. It released during a time when console first-person shooters were becoming increasingly militaristic, too bogged down in kill-death ratios for me to really sink my teeth into them and simply have fun. When Evolve was announced it swiftly moved atop my mental list of games I was most looking forward to, but then Turtle Rock and publishers 2K Games seemingly went out of their way to make it as unappealing a purchase as possible. I’m a big fan of Turtle Rock Studios’ Left 4 Dead series, with Left 4 Dead 2 ranking as one of my most frequently played games of the past decade.
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