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5 Reasons Why Evolve is the Game you Need in 2015
5 Reasons Why Evolve is the Game you Need in 2015
Evolve is on everyone’s lips at the moment, and for good reason. Alex tells us why
we 100% need the upcoming game in our lives. Spoiler - you should buy it.
By Alex Hamilton
I
f you missed out on Evolve’s
“Big Alpha” test a few months
ago, you might be scouring
the web looking for previews
and gameplay of Turtle Rock’s
new co-op game and wondering:
“do I want this game?”
No, you don’t. You NEED
this game. Here are
five reasons why.
5. A breath of
fresh air
into a very different style of
death match from the latter.
Much like the developers’
previous hit Left 4 Dead, the
game thrives on cooperation.
If you stray from your teammates, you’ll almost certainly
die. As the monster the
feeling of trying to outwit
four other players is nothing
you’ve experienced before.
Imagine being the alien from
Predator, except 20-feet tall.
That comes close. Evolve thinks
outside the box in an industry
that needs shaking up.
4. Choices,
choices, choices
Though the four classes in
Evolve might seem familiar
at first, there is a deceptive
amount of depth to them. Each
You might be thinking “looks
just like every other FPS” but
it is the central concept of
Evolve – its 4v1 gameplay –
that sets it apart from other
shooters. Co-Op these days
is often played out over
hours of story (a la Destiny
or Borderlands) or frantic
death matches (Call of Duty
or Battlefield). Evolve mashes
the teamwork of the former
Issue 64 • February 2015
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