There Is Finally a Good Game

With new games coming out as almost carbon copies, new concepts and innovations are always welcomed.
There has been an amazing new game company in recent years to release two major games, called “Embark”. And let me tell you, they are awesome. Specifically the first of the two. “The Finals”
The Finals is a team-based, objective-oriented game, set inside of a virtual game show. It sounds like a lot, and it is… at first.
The gameplay loop is creative, and unique from game to game. The environment alone is worth a whole article to explain and break down, but I’ll go over some cliffnotes. There is a reason I’m bringing this point up first.
It is the base of the game.
Everything from where the objectives are, to how teams maneuver around the map, it all comes down to The Finals revolutionary destructible environment.
“Its destructability of the map and objects is unlike any other game, making it unique to any other game,” Craig Burruss said.
In most places you can collapse a whole building down onto itself, and the game will not lag or buffer an instant. Which is huge.
Past game developers from Battlefield, another popular game with map destruction, got hired onto Embark, making up a large portion of their staff, and it shows in the amazing quality of the refined map.
The new gamemode, however, is what most people seem attracted to. Because it is new.
It’s called “Cash Out” aptly named because you unlock a “vault”, which is a yellow cube, and you take it to a little pillar called a “cashout station”, and you wait for the timer to tick down. If the timer finishes while your team is in control of the cashout station, you win $10,000. The first team to win $20,000 wins the game.
It is a team of three, pinned against two other teams. Making this game fast paced, and extremely fun.
“It was so fun for the time, but I wouldn’t play it all the time. And I wouldn’t play it alone, I’d play it with friends,” Brayden Carrel said.
This game is multiplayer for a reason. It is made for a team, and honestly leans more towards communication, rather than just queuing with randoms. Not that it is not fun with random teammates, but it shines when you have convinced your friends to install this free game.
That’s right. This game is free. All this content is free, with regular updates, and frequent new items.
The only things you need to buy in this game are cosmetics. Which aren’t that expensive, and when you do buy these quirky and super fun cosmetics, you feel good about your purchase because you are supporting a smaller game company fighting back against the AAA game developers that are greedy for consumer money.
And the use of AI is tasteful. Utilizing it to make commentators, similar to sports games, actively keep up with your current game and deliver live commentary.
In these past few weeks, I have been grinding this season trying to advance the battlepass, which I gladly bought for this amazingly innovative game that is full of constantly evolving content, and lots of different situations to get into with your friends.