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It was\u00a0the 90s! Spice Girls! Nude darts! Playstations! Obviously only\u00a0the latter interested me, and amongst all the gaming triumphs on\u00a0Sony’s behemoth the port of Mechwarrior 2 really caught my\u00a0attention. One particular mission really stood out. Tasked with infiltrating an enemy base, I was disappointed when I found out\u00a0that in practice this turned out to simply mean wandering around\u00a0a courtyard without being attacked by the usual baddie mechs.\u00a0\u201cHow cool,\u201d I thought, \u201cwould it be if you actually had to do\u00a0something at the base as a pilot, climbing out to see your giant stomping cyber death machine towering imposingly over you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast\u00a0forward 20 years (Little Mix! Fidget spinners! Socially\u00a0acceptable neo-Nazism!), Respawn Entertainment\u2019s Titanfall\u00a0series instantly justified its place on FatNicK’s hard drive of\u00a0awesomeness. Not only had they managed to turn my earlier wish\u00a0into a reality, but they went far beyond it. In Titanfall not\u00a0only can the player choose whether or not they want to fight on\u00a0foot or in a giant stomping cyber death machine, but those who\u00a0chose the former still have a fair chance to take down the latter without causing the mechs to feel weak or underpowered.\u00a0It\u2019s a balancing act that amounts to digital alchemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thankfully, Respawn spared us the tedium of playing as a giant flame-wielding robot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Consequently\u00a0I wasn\u2019t too upset to learn that Respawn were working on a\u00a0battle royale. It was a bit rubbish that the \u2018rumours\u2019 suggested that there would be no Titans, granted, but I hoped if anyone\u00a0could fix the flaws in battle royale and move the genre in a new\u00a0and much more exciting direction, it would be Respawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, what upset me is that Apex Legends is quite clearly one of the most cynical releases of recent times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps\u00a0the first and most irritating aspect of of Apex Legends is that\u00a0it isn\u2019t a terrible game. By inheriting Titanfall\u2019s basic\u00a0movement controls (if not its more advanced and entertaining\u00a0parkour-related features), the basic act of moving through the\u00a0game world and targeting\/shooting opponents is still incredibly\u00a0polished and enjoyable \u2013 more so than some of the other battle\u00a0royales out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However beyond that everything feels like a bit of a mess. Considering that Respawn singlehandedly created a new standard for placing giant mechs into first person shooters while quietly creating a parkour system which is up there with the likes of Mirror\u2019s Edge, it seems massively disappointing that standard battle royale mechanics \u2013 complete with their inherent flaws \u2013 have been transplanted from PUBG and its imitators. Do you arrive via the air and skydive to any location under the carrier\u2019s flight plan? Absolutely. Will you have to raid dozens of useless item drops because most of them will only supply you with a pistol and 15 different rifle stocks? Yes you will! Hiking for 15 mins of tedium before being shot in the back by a morbidly obese shut-in? Cowabunga!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed,\u00a0the only real attempts at \u2018innovation\u2019 seem to be elements that\u00a0are quite transparently lifted from other games. These transplants, like my own attempts at amateur surgery, come with\u00a0mixed success. As the game currently only supports team play the spotting system brought over from disappointing atrocity\u00a0simulator Battlefield V is polished and works as intended. By\u00a0way of contrast, the heroes themselves \u2013 conceptually pretty\u00a0much stolen from Overwatch \u2013 don\u2019t work quite as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Sorry, I’ve already uninstalled the game so stock imagery it is!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While\u00a0in Overwatch the special abilities of the heroes are tempered by\u00a0the fixed arsenal each character has access to, in Apex Legends\u00a0any character is free to use any weapon they find. Consequently\u00a0this means that, though robotic scout Pathfinder\u2019s abilities are\u00a0centered around the ability to rappel to high places, this may\u00a0not be of much use to a player if the only weapons they can find\u00a0before being sniped by a Mountain Dew-addicted 12-year old are\u00a0pistols or shotguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a\u00a0consequence, Apex Legends is a disappointingly average game. As\u00a0battle royale games go it is polished and the basic play mechanics perform well enough. However it becomes clear pretty\u00a0quickly that this is a game primarily designed to poach players\u00a0from other battle royale titles, with every other mechanic\u00a0having to be cynically structured around this overriding\u00a0objective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now in\u00a0all of the articles Apex Legends is presented as some sort of plucky\u00a0underdog, but it\u2019s clear that this title has the full financial\u00a0backing from one of the biggest and most crooked publishers on\u00a0the planet. On the non-traditional front, about half of the\u00a0sponsored tweets on my feed this week have been about Apex Legends, while the (not so shocking) revelations about the\u00a0sexuality of some of the characters has kept the ‘organic’\u00a0Twitter chat ticking over. On Twitch it\u2019s clear that a number of\u00a0influential streamers were brought on board early at the very\u00a0least (if not actually ‘sponsored’) to ensure the game had\u00a0visibility on the streaming scene. On the traditional side, the\u00a0main journalistic gaming outlets had suspiciously similar\u00a0articles ready for the game\u2019s launch, followed by a constant\u00a0drip of revelations throughout the week (‘Bloodhound identifies\u00a0as non binary!’ ‘Here\u2019s why Apex has no Titans!’)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Must..not…mention…Titans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\u00a0loath to be overly irritated by a marketing team doing a good\u00a0job. Indeed, I think we should laud them for it. They found a\u00a0gap in the schedule, kept the game under wraps for months and\u00a0used every channel they could to gain maximum exposure. Watch\u00a0and learn, folks. Watch and learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One\u00a0aspect that did irritate me however is the gaslighting.\u00a0Considering that Respawn managed to get pilot-on-mech combat\u00a0working inside relatively small urban arenas, it seems a little\u00a0far fetched that it was impossible\u00a0<\/em>for them to work their titans into much larger maps which contain both wide open spaces and more enclosed and cover-filled areas that would make for perfect Titan ambush points.<\/a>\u00a0It seems awfully convenient that \u2013\u00a0out of all their experiments \u2013 the core mechanics that provedthe most entertaining just happened to be the ones that a\u00a0Fortnite or PUBG player could leap into with only minimal\u00a0adjustment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equally, despite the articles dedicated to the contrary,<\/a> I find it difficult to believe that a publisher like EA had no hand in steering a game that quite clearly has the full weight of its marketing department behind it. Indeed,unless there\u2019s been a particularly fractious split, is it really normal for studios to take to the media to denounce their publishers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0wasted potential is also something that annoys me. There are\u00a0some developers who are really good at latching onto an existing genre and simply doing it really well. There are other\u00a0developers who are better at creating the mechanics that lead to\u00a0those new genres. The fact is there are several other games that\u00a0play more or less like Apex Legends but only Titanfall really\u00a0plays like Titanfall. If the mech series absolutely had to be\u00a0retired, I\u2019d have much rather have seen Respawn work on something new they could genuinely call their own instead of a\u00a0title that is so clumsily built on top of the work of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the time of writing, Respawn are yet to confirm whether “Wraith” can summon demons from dental cavities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally:\u00a0you \u2018orrible lot! Considering how the apparent depravity of EA\u00a0is a\u00a0consistent\u00a0<\/a>(if slightly overegged)\u00a0gaming opinion, I find it strange that you\u2019ve all given a free\u00a0pass to a title that fulfills the dictionary definition of average (let\u2019s not forget that Apex Legends isn\u2019t even the first\u00a0battle royale to include heroes) Even obvious ‘pinkwashing’,\u00a0which certainly caused me to raise my eyebrow when considering\u00a0Overwatch\u2019s immense LGBTQ following, seems to have been given a\u00a0thumbs up. It\u2019s funny, these days I\u2019d generally argue that we\u00a0could all do with being a little less cynical. In Apex Legends’\u00a0case, I think we should probably be a little more so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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