Bleeding Edge Review Thread

[SuikerBrood]

Welcome to the Bleeding Edge review thread. As a multiplayer game, we're expecting reviews to drop in slowly this week. With a couple of reviews-in-progress too. I'll try and update this thread throughout the week.

Launch trailer


Bleeding Edge is available on Xbox One, Windows 10, Steam and Xbox Game Pass.

Oh and don't forget to check out the ResetEra Bleeding Edge OT: https://www.resetera.com/threads/bleeding-edge-ot-hack-and-slash-chaos.176398/page-3#post-30185693

Video Reviews:




Reviews:
Destructoid - 6.5/10

There's a decent multiplayer action game concept buried in here, absolutely. Some of these characters deserve to live on in future projects. At the same time, it feels like there are only so many team dynamics to experience. It's all too fleeting. Once you've hit that point of no return, there's no real motivation to continue. I'd like to pick this back up one day, but realistically, I don't see that happening.

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Stevivor Review-in-progress - Score coming

While objectives are straightforward, it's teamwork that generally lets a team down. From my playthroughs, you can almost immediately identify a team that will work at a unit – or, ideally, in a handful of coordinated ones – compared to teams with individuals that will rush to an objective with a strategy in mind. Games where individuals are blindly rushing at a group of bad guys are frustrating beyond belief, and sadly, they're happening often at this point.

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XboxEra - 7.5/10

The foundation of this game feels very solid and makes me optimistic for the post-launch support of the game. New characters, new maps and new modes will definitely keep this game alive. That being said, I think it's fairly obvious that the game won't reach the same heights as something like Overwatch. The game is specifically focused on a very niche audience that is interested in both melee-focused action games and multiplayer PvP-experiences.

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Eurogamer - No score

Bleeding Edge could be on to something with meaningful updates, but at launch it's Xbox Game Pass filler at best.

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Metro.co.uk 7/10

It often feels a little undercooked but the emphasis on teamplay and some very unusual characters offers an enjoyable alternative to other online multiplayer games.

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IGN - 7/10

While tinkering with character builds and clashing swords amidst exciting team fights is fun, Bleeding Edge left me wanting more as the hours piled up. Matches frequently devolve into unbalanced, frustrating messes thanks to no role queue, and ranged combat is devoid of all the bits that make team fights enjoyable. Every issue I had with the initial beta is here in the final release, only exacerbated further as my patience for its problems was whittled away to nothingness. At its best, Bleeding Edge is a glorious back-and-forth contest of fisticuffs, but these lingering faults keep me from wanting to stick with it.

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PCGamer - 5.8/10

The bright side of Bleeding Edge's simplicity is accessibility. New players might have a hard time playing a squishy support that can't fight back, but anyone with a hero game under their belt can read a fighter's description and quickly recognize the role. I just have a hard time imagining Bleeding Edge becoming anyone's 'main' game when there are lots of games that are more fun, engaging, and already have millions of invested players. Things might be different if Bleeding Edge were free-to-play, but it's $30 on Steam if you're not an Xbox Game Pass subscriber. It was easy to find matches during launch week, but that could change as the weeks go on.

It's clear that Ninja Theory has plans to stick with Bleeding Edge: The official website already lists a new fighter (a dolphin in a mechanized water tank named Mekko) and art for an additional map. I'll be keeping an eye on Bleeding Edge to see what other bizarre character designs they cook up, but it'd take a huge overhaul of the combat to get me back on board. Barring that, I'm not hopeful for its future.

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ComicBook.com - 6/10

In its current state, Bleeding Edge isn't nearly enough to set the multiplayer world on fire, but there is absolutely room for things to grow. The character designs are largely delightful, and the gameplay becomes more promising once you get the hang of it. Sure, the game almost feels like a parody of similar titles, but after you put more time into it, you begin to gradually see its own potential. There's definitely a good foundation in place with Bleeding Edge, but it might be worth waiting for a few updates to see if it really finds its footing.

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Hobby Consolas (Spanish) - 7.2/10

GOTgame 7.5/10

AltChar - 7/10

IGN Brasil (Portugese) - 7.5/10

Laptopmag - 7/10

Gameliner.NL (Dutch) - 6/10

IGN Italia (Italian) - 7.5/10

Spaziogames (Italian) - 7.3/10

TrueAchievements - 7/10

IGN España (Spanish) - 7/10

IGN Portugal (Portugese) - 7/10

Twinfinite - 6/10

Eurogamer Italy (Italian) - 7/10

Tuttotek (Italian) 7/10

ThisGenGaming 7.5/10

Attack of the Fanboy 6/10

GamingBolt 7/10

Gamereactor Español (Spanish) 7/10

NaviGames (Spanish) - 8.5/10

Gamerheadquarters 6.7/10

TheGamesMachine (Italian) 6.8/10

Game Revolution 6/10

NerdBunker (Portugese) - No score

Vandal (Spanish) 7.5/10

TheXboxHub - 9/10

Cheat Code Central 5/10

inthegame.nl (Dutch) 9/10

CriticalHits (Portugese) - 7.5/10

GamersGlobal (German) 7/10

GameKult (French) - 7/10

Gamereactor.EU - 7/10

AreaJugones (Spanish) - 7.3/10

KeenGamer 7/10

JeuxActu (French) - 6.5/10

PixelArts (Persian) 7/10

XboxMag (French) 6/10

Game-experience.it (Italian) 6.5/10

Leak (Portugese) - 8/10

GamingGuardian (Spanish) - 6/10

Somos Xbox (Spanish) - 7.7/10

Xbox Dynasty (German) 6.8/10

TheEnemy (Portugese) - 6/10

The Effect - 7/10

Well-Played.com.au - 7/10

mkaugaming - 7/10

Gamermag (Russian) 6/10

TheSixthAxis - 7/10

NewGameNetwork - 6.7/10

TheGamer.com 6/10

PCGames.de (German) 6/10

Den Of Geek 6/10

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MetaCritic (Xbox One) 69
MetaCritic (PC) 63
OpenCritic: 66

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

Wow. Before this post I completely forgot this was even a thing. Let alone that it was releasing soon.
Was this publicized much after E3?

 

[defaltoption]

Had a good time in the beta, will check it out on gamepass since I'm not someone who sticks around multiplayer games long.

 

[Proven]

This game will get mid 70's I think.

 

[Lant_War]

Wow. Before this post I completely forgot this was even a thing. Let alone that it was releasing soon.
Was this publicized much after E3?

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With Game Pass you don't really need marketing

 

[UnluckyKate]

Wow. Before this post I completely forgot this was even a thing. Let alone that it was releasing soon.
Was this publicized much after E3?

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a bit when it got its beta

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

What I played was pretty fun. I'll hop in for a few matches here and there

 

[SuikerBrood]

IGN did a Bleeding Edge review-in-progress a few weeks ago. They gave it a 7.

 

[JigglesBunny]

I'd imagine 70 average and little in the way of success, unfortunately. Seems like there's no chatter about this at all and with the current crop of big releases, this is getting swallowed up.

 

[darthpaxton]

How has someone already reviewed the game with servers going live today? Horrible, horrible practice by that first website listed. Also, can you really say a game is bad when people don't play as a team? The reviews for this game will be really interesting.

IGN did a Bleeding Edge review-in-progress a few weeks ago. They gave it a 7.

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Without the game being out? IGN continues to show why it should no longer be taken seriously.

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

With Game Pass you don't really need marketing

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Maybe, maybe not. When Netflix doesn't promote their own shows they tend to die :/
I hope this is more of a case of Microsoft waiting for it to be out before doing a marketing blitz.

 

[NinjaScooter]

With Game Pass you don't really need marketing

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sure you do. Consumer time is as finite as their money. You still have to convince them to spend it on your game rather than any of the other dozens of games they could just as easily download and play.

 

[SuikerBrood]

How has someone already reviewed the game with servers going live today? Horrible, horrible practice by that first website listed. Also, can you really say a game is bad when people don't play as a team? The reviews for this game will be really interesting.

Without the game being out? IGN continues to show why it should no longer be taken seriously.

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To be honest, the betas and the full game don't differ that much. So people could've played for plenty of hours already.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Does your data carry over from Xbox to the Steam version, and vice versa?

 

[RestEerie]

The artstyle is.... something.

I'm not saying it is good (or bad).

Just "something".

 

[Hasney]

I can measure my hype level as - I only remembered it was coming out when I saw Samurai Showdown was on EGS yesterday morning and I looked up 2020 in video games, then when I finished Half Life for the day, was trying to remember what game was coming out on the 24th only hours later.

But hey, it's on Gamepass and I'm not going anywhere, so I'll give it a shot at some point

 

[Einbroch]

70 for an online only game in a niche genre sadly means this game is likely dead on arrival.

Would love to be proven wrong.

 

[SuikerBrood]

Does your data carry over from Xbox to the Steam version, and vice versa?

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More of an OT question, but yes. There is cross progression and cross play. Even cross achievements with Steam I believe.

And your beta progress transfers over to the full release.

 

[sinny]

I played the beta and a little today , it's an okay game but we will have to wait till people learn to play to know if it'll have legs.
Today is a mess and i really can't see much people investing the time to learn it.
The sad thing is that i love the artstyle

 

[janusff]

did review codes go out for the game prior to launch?

 

[Cosmic Voyager]

this game has mediocre written all over it. Low 70s aggregate incoming

 

[darthpaxton]

To be honest, the betas and the full game don't differ that much. So people could've played for plenty of hours already.

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Hard disagree. Judging and reviewing a game based on a beta means that we will stop getting betas and more games will launch broken. It's a horrible practice.

 

[SuikerBrood]

did review codes go out for the game prior to launch?

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Only a few hours before launch. And I'm not sure if reviewers were able to play before launch.

 

[SunBroDave]

They're sending it out to die, unfortunately. Best of luck NT. At the very least, this hopefully means a lot of talent at the studio will soon be freed up to move onto other, more exciting projects.

 

[gogojira]

When I played it like a month ago, I really wasn't impressed at all. Here's to hoping for the best, but unless something drastically changed I don't see this lighting up the charts.

 

[DidactBRHU3]

I will have my fun with it just like Crackdown 3, had a good time with the beta.

 

[Lant_War]

sure you do. Consumer time is as finite as their money. You still have to convince them to spend it on your game rather than any of the other dozens of games they could just as easily download and play.

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Sure, but I don't think a big promotional campaign will convince people to play this particular game. It's better to just do what they did (trailers at E3 and the main channel) and then let the game speak for itself.

 

[SuikerBrood]

Hard disagree. Judging and reviewing a game based on a beta means that we will stop getting betas and more games will launch broken. It's a horrible practice.

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Look, I think reviewing betas is stupid. But if you've played many hours in the beta and after, let's say, 5-6 hours in the official release you see that there haven't been enormous changes.. I think it's fine to write your review.

It's not like the game has a beginning and an end. After 10 hours of playing you can have a decent opinion about it.

 

[Mórríoghain]

Sooo what are we thinking? 2 or 4 months until no one cares about this game like the other arena shooters? Because this got mediocrity written all over it.

 

[Ada]

That art style is ugly gonna have the same negative effect as Lawbreakers.

 

[IIFloodyII]

With Game Pass you don't really need marketing

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Eh, there might be the occasional game that get's away with that (maybe this will be that) and explodes in popularity (Rocket League is probably the best example of that working), but it's far from a good strategy, especially when you can afford to market it decently.

 

[DrScruffleton]

I have to take a second and applaud them for this games achievement list. Everything looks like it can be gotten by just playing the game. Nothing for changing your playstyle or ruining matches. You can play however you want and unlock everything. Very rare for an all multiplayer game. Meanwhile in games like overwatch, you had people purposely sitting back trying to create specific situations to get achievements.

I've seen a ton of people on achievement sites who said they had no interest in the game say they are going to play it now.

 

[Kolbe1894]

Sooo what are we thinking? 2 or 4 months until no one cares about this game like the other arena shooters? Because this got mediocrity written all over it.

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I always think if it's old Microsoft, the first thing they do after acquired Nonja Theory would be telling them stop developing this game lol.

 

[SuikerBrood]

I always think if it's old Microsoft, the first thing they do after acquired Nonja Theory would be telling them stop developing this game lol.

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With only 15 people working on it, I can see why MS would be fine with this releasing.

 

[Strittles]

I'm expecting it to sit around the low 70s. I love the game but the lack of content will hurt it.

 

[NinjaScooter]

Eh, there might be the occasional game that get's away with that (maybe this will be that) and explodes in popularity (Rocket League is probably the best example of that working), but it's far from a good strategy, especially when you can afford to market it decently.

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Rocket League was a PS Plus game back when the market was starved and it did wonders for them. That's marketing. Marketing is more than just commercials and magazine ads. You have to think of new and creative ways to market when you are talking about subscription services like GamePass, but at the end of the day you still have to convince people to give you their time and attention.

 

[Megatron]

They're sending it out to die, unfortunately. Best of luck NT. At the very least, this hopefully means a lot of talent at the studio will soon be freed up to move onto other, more exciting projects.

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It's a tiny project meant to be put on Gamepass. It's not being 'sent out to die' it just doesn't have AAA expectations.

 

[Theorry]

The amount of details in movement, graphics effects in animations, voice lines. Is almost up there with Blizzard really. Wich is insane from 15 people team.

 

[Proven]

They're sending it out to die, unfortunately. Best of luck NT. At the very least, this hopefully means a lot of talent at the studio will soon be freed up to move onto other, more exciting projects.

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This game was made by about 12 + people and is a side project. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's being "sent to die".

 

[Tyaren]

The amount of details in movement, graphics effects in animations, voice lines. Is almost up there with Blizzard really. Wich is insane from 15 people team.

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Only 15 people made this game? Wow.

This game was made by less than 12 people and is a side project. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's being "sent to die".

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Even less than 12?

 

[Dyashen]

Really liking the game so far. Definitely going to be something that I'll play on a weekly basis. I definitely expect it to land in the low 70's which honestly doesn't really bother me. Curious to see what new maps and characters they got up their sleeve :)

 

[astro]

They're sending it out to die, unfortunately. Best of luck NT. At the very least, this hopefully means a lot of talent at the studio will soon be freed up to move onto other, more exciting projects.

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Na...

Hopefully they will support the game and allow it to grow. It's pretty good, and more people should give it a shot.

 

[Dyashen]

Only 15 people made this game? Wow.



Even less than 12?

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Yep. It's made by quite a small team. Can't find any numbers but IIRC it started out with less than five and then got upped to ~14 when the MS acquisition happened.

 

[Soap]

From what I played in the beta a 7 is a fair score.

 

[Theorry]

Only 15 people made this game? Wow.



Even less than 12?

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Most time it was arround 15. Offcourse closer to launch they probably increased it abit. But mostly it started small and got arround 15 people for the majority of the time.

 

[Proven]

Only 15 people made this game? Wow.



Even less than 12?

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I don't know the exact number I just knows it is around a dozen or so people

 

[noyram23]

Looks a low 70ish game alright, thankfully Ori is right there to pick up MS quality because it's been rough the whole gen.

 

[SunBroDave]

It's a tiny project meant to be put on Gamepass. It's not being 'sent out to die' it just doesn't have AAA expectations.

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This game was made by less than 12 people and is a side project. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's being "sent to die".

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Na...

Hopefully they will support the game and allow it to grow. It's pretty good, and more people should give it a shot.

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It is being "sent to die". Everyone and their mother is playing Animal Crossing or Doom 2, or COD: Warzone, or Ori 2 which just came out 2 weeks ago, or will be playing Resident Evil 3 next week or FFVII the week after that. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse time to release a game like this (multiplayer only but not F2P), especially considering the lack of marketing/lack of good word of mouth/lack of good review scores

 

[astro]

It's give it an 8/10 based on the beta. Iti had a fantastic time. The main issue is the fact it only truly shines when both teams are working together, and a lot of the time that doesn't happen.

I'm hoping it will even out.

It is being "sent to die". Everyone and their mother is playing Animal Crossing or Doom 2, or COD: Warzone, or Ori 2 which just came out 2 weeks ago, or will be playing Resident Evil 3 next week or FFVII the week after that. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse time to release a game like this (multiplayer only but not F2P), especially considering the lack of marketing/lack of good word of mouth/lack of good review scores

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Just no...

 

[Proven]

It is being "sent to die". Everyone and their mother is playing Animal Crossing or Doom 2, or COD: Warzone, or Ori 2 which just came out 2 weeks ago, or will be playing Resident Evil 3 next week or FFVII the week after that. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse time to release a game like this (multiplayer only but not F2P), especially considering the lack of marketing/lack of good word of mouth/lack of good review scores

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This is an incredibly small game that isn't going to get a large marketing budget and is meant to launch and then slowly grow. It really doesn't matter when it releases at all.