Predecessor - Two Minute Critiques!
0Predecessor is a 5v5 Multiplayer online battle arena, featuring the traditional 3-lane map with a jungle, mobs, roles and objectives you expect to see in the genre, but played from a third person perspective. It’s a revival of Paragon, a game that was shut down in 2018, and aims to recreate it’s core gameplay and aesthetics, while also adding new features and improvements. The game will be going free-to-play once it leaves early access.
The game is still in development, but it has shown steady progress and huge potential. While it fails to revolutionise the genre, the third-person perspective feels like a modern take rather than a gimmick. Gameplay is responsive and satisfying, quickly becoming addictive. The characters are diverse with impactful abilities, but the developers have done a decent job of avoiding any being essential pick. The base game has 10 heroes, but others in the regularly growing roster can be unlocked through playtime.
Most of the issues with the game come from the player base. It really suffers from a lack of concurrent players, leading to long queue times and completely unbalanced matchmaking, where rounds can snowball quickly. Matchmaking issues are exacerbated by the high learning curve and skill ceilings. Additionally, even by MOBA standards, the community has strong toxic elements that the developers seem unwilling to deal with.
In summary, despite the core game being great with even more potential, the business model needs to build and maintain a consistent player base, in a highly competitive genre where ironically, its own predecessor has already failed. Going free to play will hopefully abate matchmaking issues, but other community issues and questionable development decisions make me a little sceptical right now.
In short, it's a game I fully recommend trying when it's free, but I can't recommend paying any money into it right now.
Despite this, as a free game, I give it 80%
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You and four allies join arms in battle as you fight for glory on the battlefield against enemy heroes on a traditional 3 lane map featuring an interactive jungle, epic monsters and more! In a match 10 players are divided into two teams with each player controlling their chosen hero. No two heroes are the same. Each hero has their own unique abilities and design, meaning there's a hero to match everyone's style of play. Heroes complete objectives to collect gold like killing minions, towers or enemy heroes. As a hero collects more gold they can buy items from the shop that influence their heroes in interesting ways - allowing them to teleport to new locations, go invisible, freeze time and more. Items also allow a hero to get more powerful by giving their hero better attributes such as power, attack speed, health and various other stats. Unlike most MOBAs, Predecessor puts you into the heart of the action. The Third-Person perspective fully immerses you into the game as enemies appear from shadow walls, over ledges or from behind you
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