{"id":40227,"date":"2023-12-08T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-finals-review-in-progress\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:01:56","slug":"the-finals-review-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/the-finals-review-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finals Review in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p>If there\u2019s one genre that lends itself to boom or bust, it&#8217;s the online shooter. For every success like Call of Duty, Halo, or Apex Legends, it seems like there are at least a dozen other games that have come and gone with barely a spark before they fizzle. With so many good competitive shooters in play, what makes one stand out? What makes it worth diverting your time to in versus another? After my first night of matches in The Finals, I think I\u2019m starting to get a picture for how it answers those questions. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\"><\/section>\n<\/p>\n<p>If The Running Man<em> <\/em>were about 3v3v3 gun battles, it would\u2019ve resembled The Finals. The vibrant color palette combines with a pair of live sports-style play-by-play announcers to give it that over-the-top, American Gladiators feel that people in the \u201880s thought was going to be the future of sports. It strikes a great balance of not taking itself too seriously without making it a joke or becoming obnoxious. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"the-finals-review-screenshots\" data-value=\"the-finals-review-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\"><\/section>\n<p>There are two core \u201cmodes\u201d to start with. Quick Cash has each team vying to collect a vault of coins and deposit it at a designated point on the map, which tends to result in a convergence of all of the three-person squads at those points. This is really effective for keeping the action moving, and because taking over the deposit doesn\u2019t reset its progress, rounds move at a steady pace and avoid momentum-killing stalemates altogether. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"quoteBox\">This is really effective for keeping the action moving.<\/section>\n<p>Bank It focuses a bit more on direct PvP battles, but they tend to be more scattered. Here, each player carries coins in their virtual pockets, coming from vaults around the map or eliminating enemies. The on-the-fly strategizing of going for kills one second to needing to deposit before it all goes to waste is exciting, and it\u2019s pretty fun to eliminate someone at the bank and deposit all their coins yourself. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"poll\" data-id=\"55fde199-6952-48fa-8889-2234489eaf32\"><\/section>\n<p>You can choose from three different weight classes for your character, and they all play very differently from each other. The Light build, for example, focuses on mobility, trading stopping power for a grappling hook to quickly get to high or far places. The Heavy, meanwhile, could have been taken straight from Rainbow Six: Siege, as it alternates between controlling the battlefield with heavy weapons and smashing through walls like the Juggernaut. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"quoteBox\">That destructibility is the real star of The Finals.<\/section>\n<p>That destructibility is the real star of The Finals, from what I\u2019ve played so far. Sure, you can enter a room from the door or window. But taking the less obvious path of crashing right through the ceiling is a thrilling way to get the drop on unsuspecting teams, and you haven\u2019t really played The Finals until you\u2019ve stolen the vault by blowing a hole in the ceiling and have it drop right in front of you. By the end of tense matches the battlefield is littered with debris from entire buildings beginning to collapse. <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"user-list\" data-id=\"97164\" data-slug=\"justins-favorite-multiplayer-shooters\" data-nickname=\"koreis\"><\/section>\n<p>Matchmaking as a solo player is quick and easy, but it does have one glaring weakness. In matches where I either didn\u2019t match into a full three-person team, or we lost someone, no one was ever pulled into our team to refill our ranks. It\u2019s very disheartening to be in a match by yourself, knowing you have no shot to win and no reason to hold out hope that help is going to arrive. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One night in, I\u2019m intrigued. The game show-meets-squad shooter vibe is working well for me, and the pace of the action is exciting. The way flying through the battlefield on a grappling hook or hulk-smashing through buildings mixes with the strict objective based gameplay feels novel, though how long that lasts with just two game types remains to be seen. What I do know is that I\u2019m eager to keep playing, which is all I can ask for this early on. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for the full review after I\u2019ve put in some more hours, and if you\u2019re playing let us know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-finals-review\">Go to Source (IGN.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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