the most creative, most innovative, most exciting shooter to come out since apex back in 2019. the sight/sounds of gunshots, explosions, coins, and crowds cheering, while buildings crumble around you and the commentators shout out the objective status or player killstreaks make the funny brain chemicals go crazy. many developers have tried to do the "virtual sport/gameshow" aesthetic before and i believe embark has done it the best by far.

As far as gripes go; balance can be a little shaky. light flip flops between "wow i die when someone looks at me" and "how did i kill that guy so fast". imho it took them too long to remove nukes. however the devs are very active and look like they actually care, which is a breath of fresh air after playing apex for so long. I also want a world where we have an anticheat powerful enough to send cheaters to the shadow realm for eternity.

but these are issues present in every fps and theyre small compared to what this game brings to the genre. we had a drop in players after the initial launch but tbf apex did too and it grew to one of the most played games. this has the foundations to rise to those hights and i want to see it do so.

based game, very alive, go play it.