What Arc Raiders Gets Right (and Wrong) – Hands-On Gameplay Preview
13Arc Raiders makes surviving and extracting an increasingly tense affair. But there's a lot of work to do to make it appealing to the multiplayer masses.
The PvP multiplayer shooter space is crowded right now. Fortnite continues to dominate, leaving others like Apex Legends and Destiny 2 to fend over its scraps, while any new, budding live-service title merely hopes to avoid the same result as Sony’s ill-fated Concord by carving out its own niche.
Unfortunately for developer Embark Studios, Arc Raiders is a sci-fi extraction shooter that falls into the latter camp, starting from scratch by setting players off in a desolate world full of rival players and enemy robot NPCs and tasking them to survive. Fortunately for Embark Studios, though, it seems like it's leveraging the experience gained by working on The Finals to hopefully make it a success, even if Arc Raiders feels a tad light on variety judging by the three hours I recently played.
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