 Hello, hello, hello ladies and gentlemen. Today I have one simple message for you. Do not buy Square Enix's Marvel's The Avengers, the money grab. The new Avengers game developed by Crystal Dynamics, makers of the latest Tomb Raider. Trilogy is not a good game. Its technical problems go beyond mediocre into the downright and playable, so series of the FPS drops I experienced one moment in the opening bridge level in which I simply couldn't progress until I did all things to my graphics settings, and I wasn't the only one suffering this issue far from it. After an opening few minutes which initially left me off with a pleasant experience or rather a pleasant impression, I got into the first Captain America section in the game. And surprise surprise, suddenly the FPS dropped twice over the consistent 55 and into the low 20s. Annoying as in those short few seconds when I got to play the good old Captain at 30 FPS or around that anyway, throwing him provided a satisfactory power fantasy. My computer's graphics processor is no joke either, and Nvidia RTX 2060 is as high mid-end as it gets. Or is it mid-high end? Now I could keep the two straight, I even overclocked my GPU, at which time the beta refused to run, crashing time and again whenever I attempted to boot it up. This game is severely undercooked, to the point that I couldn't pass through a part of the prologue because of how bad the FPS drops were, during a short introductory fight between Black Widow and the game's prologue boss, Taskmaster. Don't trust me, look at this video. And what of the loot system? The gear you gain is beyond boring. It's only function to exchange one power number for another with the addition of some minor bonuses. If you thought they might do something interesting, and by they I mean the folks at Crystal Dynamics, not the Marvel superheroes. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but alas they don't. But I'll let my good friend explain to you just what the problem of the system is. I was thinking about this and they really want to emulate the loot game, but they don't know how. I have a specific reason why the loot sucks. The loot is abysmally terrible. The point of these games, like this is essentially Warframe, with the way the structure works, right? The difference being that Warframe, you do the missions, because one, the gameplay is awesome, but two, because there's a feedback loop in place which nets you rewards once you complete the levels. Here you don't get rewards, because all the gear sucks. Because it's all the same, you would with bigger numbers. Which is not good. Yes, exactly. That's the prototype. It's a pity too, whenever the game was playable, I found myself having an enjoyable time. Even a drun time on a few occasions. Especially playing with Black Widow, with Miss Marvel as well. What little time I got with Tor, who strikes with Milnia had proper oomph behind them. You know, the right weight you want your god-like weapon to feel like. There are good gameplay systems at the core of this. An enjoyable gameplay loop with an IP that I have loved since I was 12. Over half my life now. But it's butchered, and for an obvious reason, and one you should take offence over. At the end of the day, this game is a live service. Which is to say, a video game designed to suck dry the credit cards of its players to sell you on costumes and all manner of season pass nonsense to propagate a business model which has failed time and time again. To prove this failure, you only need to look at last year's Bioware masterpiece and term. You're not buying a finished product when you pay those 60 dollars, or euro, or pounds for the September 4th release copy of the game. You're buying into a buggy mess that performs in a way best described as nightmarish. This game needs another year of development in six months of the very least, just for polish. So many of the missions available to try out in the beta were spent doing different objectives in a scenario map that was, necessarily, recycled to the point that I kept thinking I'd chosen the same mission over and over and over again. And while this might have been an in-world explanation in blunt terms such as corporate synergy over its advanced idea mechanics, it makes for lazy development and left in me the impression of extreme laziness on the part of the level designers. I haven't even touched on the controversy around simply holding a playable Spider-Man as a hostage accessible only to PlayStation players. I haven't touched on all the characters' datamined idols, certain to be offered the prize of what, 10, 15, 20 dollars? I can do indignancy quite well. If you want to play as your favourites, such signature characters as Mar-Vell, Doctor Strange and... whoop! And many others. You will have to pay, you will have to dig deep in your pockets and scrunch up the cash. I'm pissed. I'm bloody angry. You can tell the foundation of this game is solid. The rising isn't half bad, the banter is entertaining. And I suspect that when you unlock the immediate skills every character has, you might well end up with a very good third person action game. Again, in terms of gameplay, it's best you get what's under cover, the promise of that Marvel power fantasy all yours to play with. It's impressive and it shows that plenty of the folks behind this Avengers game put effort, but... admiring. It's a shame that what we'll get in a little over a week is a rushed, broken mess. This might very well dig the final inch in Crystal Dynamics' SQUIRENIX GRAVE. The publisher, Square, can be a phenomenal developer, but this is not the first or even the third Dreadful release they have on their belt as publisher. Maybe it's worldwide to take a step back and consider. If someone is eyeing short-term profits at the cost of the long-term stability of Square and its daughter studios in terms of its influence... This title is likely to be a runaway success. I'll be honest about that. Especially now with folks desperate for a superhero experience. In terms of sales, anyway. But I want to reiterate the core message of this video. Do not buy SQUIRENIX's Avengers game. Not until all its mere technical issues are improved upon to the point that this title is, at the very least, playable. I know what I want. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please like and share it. Subscribe to my channel. Leave me a comment. Did you try out the beta? What were your impressions? Are you buying the game? Fessa for you cheeky rogue you. Anyway, I'll see you next time. Bye.