CrossfireX

CrossfireX was initially planned to be a 2020 release, so has Smilegate Entertainment used that extra year and a half to add more content into the multiplayer? That could only be answered by a resounding ‘No’. Not counting the awkward menu setup necessary to get into the two halves of Remedy’s single-player campaign, players are limited to either Modern or Classic modes for CrossfireX. There are t...

First, there was Counter-Strike, the wildly popular multiplayer shooter. Then, there was Crossfire, developer Smilegate’s homage to Counter-Strike, with millions of players in the Asian market. Now there’s CrossfireX, bringing things full circle and to the Xbox. But how does CrossfireX fare in a console market packed with games like Call of Duty, Battlefield and Halo? If you read the header, you’v...

Crossfire X is a game truly of two halves and while neither is going to blow you away, it’s a shame that two decent single player campaigns are completely let down by a lacklustre Multiplayer offering.

We all know that Microsoft likes to over-hype their exclusives. Whenever a brand new game is bound to be released exclusively for the Xbox family of consoles, they make sure to remind us with almost an entire month worth of ads, presentations and previews. That has happened even to some of their more mediocre outings, such as the 1.0 release of Sea of Thieves and Crackdown 3. Hell, they even make ...

You might want to play CrossfireX to understand what’s so popular around the world or have a dash of mindless fun in the campaign, but there’s little else here.

There's really no redeeming quality for the teams behind CrossfireX to look at and say, "We can build off of that". It's a bland shooter that doesn't do anything special, and now that I'm done reviewing it I have no plans to ever touch it again. Maybe if they drop another campaign piece I'll try it, but if I'm Remedy I'd get as far away from this one as possible.

There is just too much wrong with it at the moment, that despite it being free-to-play, I just can’t recommend anyone putting their time into this. There are better offerings out there for shooters. It saddens me a bit, because on underneath all the grime and junk I can see a shooter that has great potential. Maybe in a year’s time and after multiple patches it’ll be good, but that’s asking a lot,...

CrossfireX is hard to recommend to just about anyone thanks to a painfully generic single player component and a baffling multiplayer offering.

Smilegate itself has admitted that CrossfireX has major problems and seems committed to improving the game moving forward. The matchmaking has worked quite well in our time with the game so far, but the content, controls, and pretty much everything else needs a major facelift. As for the campaign, anyone that sees the Remedy Entertainment logo and thinks that is a testament to the quality of the s...