5 reviews
Anarchy Reigns
Anarchy Reigns is an online multiplayer brawler, from the makers of Bayonetta and Vanquish, PlatinumGames. Set in the post-apocalyptic future, this is an over-the-top close combat fighting game, set in a massively open and fantastical world. Pick from an imaginative mix of human and cyborg characters and set out on a multiplayer challenge where an...
Details
- Released
- July 4, 2012
- Developer
- PlatinumGames
- Genres
- Fighting · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
- Publisher
- Sega
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By no means is Anarchy Reigns a bad or "broken" game, it just comes across as a title where aspiration and execution never quite meet. Ultimately, there's enough here that fans of brawlers or Platinum Games' previous work will find Anarchy Reigns to be a moderately enjoyable, but not all that memorable, experience.
Rarely does the solo action do anything to challenge Anarchy Reigns’ subtle combat mechanics. The mindless enemy encounters in the empty open world aren’t why you want to play this, but it’s almost necessary to make the most of the multiplayer’s exciting madness and unpredictability. Online matches can be irritating for those who haven’t taken the time to learn the ins and outs of their characters, certainly, but the novelty of slaughtering each other in football arenas or fighting over flags makes the multiplayer a worthwhile use of time. Even if you only enjoy half of Anarchy Reigns, at lea...
With a forced blend of single player action and multiplayer carnage, Sega and Platinum Games give us their arena brawler Anarchy Reigns. Undoubtedly the focus of this title is the 16 player absolute chaos that is the multiplayer, but the game forces you to slog through one of the most uninspired single player campaigns I’ve ever come across in order to unlock items, skills and characters that you’ll need to reign supreme in the arena. While the audience that Anarchy Reigns is trying to reach is surely a broad one, the number of gamers who will actually latch on to and continue to play the game...
Be warned: Anarchy Reigns possesses none of the grace and elegance of Platinum Games' Bayonetta. Nor is it as compulsive and effortlessly gratifying. What it does have is a range of brawlers tearing strips off one another, pounding heads into the ground, stomping and grinding their faces into the asphalt. Anarchy Reigns is about as subtle and nuanced as Platinum's MadWorld was on Wii, and with that game's lead protagonist, Jack Cayman once again taking a pivotal role, it's hardly surprising.