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T3 Arena

8.7

ActionStrategyCasualTactical ShooterMultiplayerShooterEditors' Choice

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Score: 7.5/10

Did I enjoy it? yes, it was nice to get back into a game like Overwatch. I spent countless hours playing it and it helped me feel some of the same feeling that I had in the early days of OW1.

Would I come back to it? Honestly, yes. The tone of the review is a bit critical but it is because of the way they have their monetization set up and how that ruins competitive integrity. If you can play this as a hyper causal game then it is pretty great.

Personal Playtime: ~5 hours

T3 Arena is what I would expect if Overwatch were translated to mobile. a high level of polish in addition to character designs and abilities that fit their personalities. Great and responsive controls, and not a connectivity issue to be found in my roughly 5 hours of gameplay. It has a real ranking system where your score is based on wins and losses in addition to individual performance consisting of payload and capture of the objective maps. But being a completely mobile game comes with its own unique caveats.

For starters, you don't have every character, or, in fact, even the majority of characters, available to you from the beginning. You have to work your way through a battle pass system to unlock several of them, but for those that aren't included in the system, you will have to roll them in loot boxes. If you happen to roll a character that you've already unlocked, congratulations! You are now in a different system, upgrading each character individually to make them competitively viable. Granted, at low ranks, this won't be too much of an issue because, for the most part, everyone will have base-level characters. However, if you plan on making this a game that you want to climb the ladder with, then you will have to devote a significant amount of time and get incredibly lucky in order to reach max level with any given character. Within my play time: I only leveled up the same character twice, given the loot boxes that I was awarded.

Overall, I think that the game is pretty solid, and it could have been something greater had the business model not been what it was. If you can go into it knowing that you will have to put it down eventually, then it may be worth checking out. If you're as competitive as I am or just want to see everything that the game has to offer, by which I mean characters, then you may want to overlook this title.

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