As a result, my playtime had me fight through the short instanced tutorial. MMOs take a few hours to get through the basics, and here we mostly spent time hitting things, with a lot of the game’s systems not yet coming into play. We had an afternoon with the game, but this was mostly spent getting to grips with the game. I’ll own it: I was wrong, New World is excellent. The beard is optional and doesn’t impact your combat potential.
Each weapon feels significantly different, too: while rolling around with a sword and shield has a touch of Dark Souls to it, twirling a Warhammer around and smacking it into some poor bloke’s head made me feel like a hulking warrior, and the ice gauntlet lets you shoot monsters with spheres of ice at range, making you feel like a fantasy Iron Man with a bright purple beard. Combat in New World is so good that I haven’t stopped thinking about it since my hands-on. Credit: Amazon Game Studios, Double Helix Games Why would I be, when the path to get here has been so arduous and arrhythmic? What could possibly make me fall in love with this game after so many broken promises? New World, then, is Amazon Games’ first real attempt to make a properly successful game, and I wasn’t expecting to be particularly inspired. Whether it’s hiring Clint Hocking or Kim Swift at the top of their game and doing nothing with them, or releasing the underrated – but genuinely fun as hell – Crucible, before delaying the already-released game and then cancelling it, Amazon lacks clout as a publisher. It’s a little uncharitable to be unenthused about a game ahead of playing it, but Amazon has had a chequered past in the gaming space. READ MORE: Valve throws down the handheld gauntlet with the Steam Deck.Amazon’s massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) drops players into a fantasy land modelled on 1600s colonial America. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much from New World.
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