Firefall Review

There are shooter games that will gear you up with their stellar aiming system and others that will feature beautiful world or competitive scene. In Firefall’s situation, shooting, mmo elements and pretty graphics are merged into one, with fast paced gameplay centered on killing swarms of bugs.

There are 5 main classes in Firefall, called Battleframes: Assault, Biotech, Dreadnaught, Engineer and Recon. You can choose one to start but you can change anytime you enter your Battleframe Garage in town. As you play, you level up the specific battleframe you wear, so if you want to level up all classes you will have to spend a lot of time doing quests to maxed all their skills out.

After choosing your starting class, you start off in Copacabana with one purpose: to eliminate swarms of enemies running you down. Quests in Firefall are pretty linear, with kill-escort-collect objectives being selected at most times. Worst thing is that you can only have one game selected at each time, so don’t expect to get through quests easily. This practically means that when you are outside of battle, Firefall is a bit boring, not offering many things to do besides spraying bullets at enemies.

Gameplay-wise, Firefall has a stellar fast-paced battle system that makes all other bad things about this game forgettable. Shooting feels natural, dodging is easy and you don’t have to worry about health kai ammo packs since they drop from enemies.

Needlesly, Firefall’s world is extremely big and empty. You have to walk and walk between places to deliver quests without much to do in the meantime. With such beautiful graphics, running around should feel easy and a soothing experience but instead it starts tearing your nerves apart after some levels.

After you hit max level with all of your battleframes you’ll realise that there are no things to do in the game anymore. You just grind, level up, repeat. Yes, it’s a cool process to get there but there’s no sense of achievement since the game lacks any form of sensible story.

To sum up, Firefall is a cool FPS MMORPG with cool gameplay and different aesthetics than we are used to. However, in things that the game should exceed, like conversations or questing, it is considered problematic. If you don’t mind reaching end-game without real reason and purpose and you just want to endlessly kill alien-bugs then Firefly is you next favorite game.